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Ubisoft to Publish Puzzle Pirates

Posted by Zonk on from the yohoho-and-a-bottle-of-arrrrr! dept.

Ubisoft announced this morning that they have come to an agreement with 3 Rings Design to publish Puzzle Pirates in retail stores. This exciting news couldn't come for a better game, winner of the IGF 2004 Technical Excellence and Audience Awards for Online games. From the Puzzle Pirates site: "Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is an online game in which you play a Pirate character in an ocean world. Hundreds of your fellow player Pirates swarm these Isles and Sea-lanes. For Pirates who love acronyms, Puzzle Pirates is an massively multi-player online roleplaying game, or mmoarrrrpg." Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates is available for Demo on PC/Mac/Linux.

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  1. Re:10 dollars a month by shaka999 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Not the way I see it.

    I usually have one online game that I pay for at a time. The ~$15 I pay is by far cheaper than other types of entertainment.

    Been to the movies lately? Played a round of golf? Bowling? A bar?

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    One should not theorize before one has data. -Sherlock Holmes-
  2. Puzzle Pirates Community by Ted+V · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been a player for a year and a half, and the community is actually the most diverse I've ever seen in an online game. Most of the players are between 15 and 35, but there are a fair number of families that play too-- kids as young as 6 years (with parental permission of course) and parents as old as 50.

    Because the game is so socially focused, you find that the most socially and politically adept people become the Captains, Kings, and Governors of the game. It's not at all like a traditional MMORPG where your guildmaster is the guy who logs in the most often and has the items with the highest numbers. Teamwork and community are the foundation of the game, so it naturally attracts those people most interested in those things.