Originally planned a small-scale boat-based MMO (not too, too different from Sid Meyer's Pirates!), the project quickly escalated into a full-scale "OMG, we need a bigger development team" MMO.
It wasn't so much that the game looked bad as much as the development team realized that they might've bitten off more than they could chew.
The first delay led to rumors of vaporware and the next nearly cost them a publisher (talk about being dead in the water). The reasons why you should play it are many, but if need just one, here it is: EFFIN' PIRATES!Ĭaptained by Flying Lab Software (the guys that brought us Rails Across America way back in 2001), PotBS saw a lot of drama en-route to Gold status. The game has been in development since 2002 and after a few false starts, it'll be hitting shelves January of this year (after a Beta delay that knocked it out of October). Here's the bare bones of what you need to know: Pirates of the Burning Sea has players picking a faction/country (France, Spain, England, or Brethren of the Coast ) and a Career (Officer, Privateer, etc.), and then setting off in one of their 3 custom ships to do whatever it is they want to do (fight pirates, capture ports, sell goods, etc.). Tack on superb character customization options and a well-thought-out rewards system, and we just might have a solid argument for why pirates are better than ninjas (so far as MMOs are concerned). But there's a lot more here to be excited about than living out closet (or not so closet) obsessions with swashbuckling PotBS marks a shift in attitude towards in-game combat that many other MMOs (cough, World of Warcraft, cough) have struggled with. Ninjas MMO that ever uber-nerd has been dreaming of since they first laid eyes on the internet. When Pirates of the Burning Sea finally goes live this January, we'll be halfway to the Pirates vs.
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