Pirates of the Burning Sea Signs With SOE For Publishing

Flying Lab Software has been keeping its upcoming piratical Massively Multiplayer Game, Pirates of the Burning Sea, somewhat close to the chest. There's a Beta running, but outside of the forums and official website information has been thin on the ground. That changed last week with a flurry of posting to the Flying Lab Software site about a number of topics. This week there is big news: the game finally has a publisher. Flying Labs has partnered with SOE's Platform Publishing brand to put out Pirates of the Burning Sea. To clarify, if you're unfamiliar with Platform Publishing, Sony Online Entertainment will only be publishing the game; they will have nothing to do with development. "We had two other paths to launching this fall: going it alone and working with another independent outfit we've been spending time with. Both of these were good options in general (especially the partnership approach, as we really like those guys). But for either of those approaches to work for a fall launch, everything would have to go right the first time and we'd still need some luck. By working with SOE we know it'll just happen."

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Not going to be a repeat of SW:G or Vanguard

[Anonymous Coward]

Want to quickly head off some of the more reactionary comments that are sure to appear here.

First, Flying Labs (the devs) maintain complete creative control. SOE is literally just publishing it. This won't be a SW:G repeat.

Second, Flying Labs is self financed. They have plenty of cash, and aren't going to have the problems Vanguard did.

SOE has a really bad -- and justly earned -- reputation these days, but it seems like Flying Labs got the deal they needed from them, so I'm thrilled. I've been following this game for like four years now, and they've always been adament about maintaining complete control of their game, and I was starting to get nervous they couldn't find any publisher who'd let them do that.

Re:We all know how this is going to end

[thelexx]

Apparently, neither you or the person who modded you up could even be bothered to read the entire summary:

"Sony Online Entertainment will only be publishing the game; they will have nothing to do with development."

Nothing to do with development. As in, no hand in what or when things get patched or upgraded.