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Pirates of the Burning Sea Patch a Step in the Right Direction?
The director of development for the disappointing "Pirates of the Burning Sea" recently sat down to share a few of the tidbits in the upcoming patch that is promising a host of improvements. "There were a number of changes in 1.4, but the buccaneer was definitely the big one, because with a new class you have to do new missions, career appearance items, and that sort of thing. That's all taken a lot of effort from a lot of the team. In addition to that, we have set up a lot of trial account restrictions so we can better control the abuse of trial and buddy accounts by gold spammers. We have implemented a number of things, on the back end, to help with customer support. That's an ongoing theme, because as we see more support requests, we provide more tools to make the GMs lives easier."
MMO releases patch that adds some features. In other news, things still fall downwards.
No. The only way that POTBS is newsworthy, is if they got off their asses and added ninjas and robots to the mix.
Because it's easy to misread the headline as an awkward anti-pirate joke?
Q: What do call a Patch of Burning Sea Pirates?
A: A Step in the Right Direction!
. . . but did anyone not know this game was gonna suck?
It all makes me think of the lead-up to the "Coupon: The Movie" skit on Mr. Show. (Scroll down to the "Greenlight Gang" section). I can totally see that exact same meeting happening in some Sony conference room.
Am I the only one who was super-excited upon seeing a screenshot or video of this game, only to be crushed moments later by the discovery that it was another damned MMO?
Sid Meier's Pirates! was cool, but the single-player pirate experience could be done much better. Stupid MMO, getting my hopes up for all of 5 seconds.
Ah, this is good news. I had no idea what the hell this game was and was worried I am no longer "with it". I'm glad to know this is just some crappy unpopular game I can comfortably ignore.
Sorry, I initially read this as a patch to "Step in the Right Direction" by the "Pirates of the Burning Sea." As in, Pirates changed the Right Direction.
Then I realized I was wrong and read further to see what it was all about.
Then I read some comments and decided I was closer the first time.
What trial accounts? The only trial I ever found was on the Australian servers only. I'm shopping for a new MMO and am installing all the trials I can find.
Does anyone know what they're talking about? Because, I wouldn't mind giving this one a few hours...
As a matter of fact, I have. And I don't even play FF11. However, your complaint is a bit odd, because "Pirates of the Burning Sea" is the name of the game. I'm not sure how that's any worse than saying "Final Fantasy XI" or "City of Heroes".
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
Cause he tried to make a funny.. and well not being funny.. he failed.
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You kids get off of my lawn!
-- Sig under construction...
Damn you and your something.
Pirates of the Burning Sea reminds me a lot of Eve. It has a massive amount of potential. You can almost see how awesome the game could have been. You can almost grasp the edges of an interesting economy and combat system. You can almost see wide spread coordination and politics... but in the end, the honest truth is that the economy is crap, the combat tedious, and the politics barren. It has a great deal of potential, but it doesn't live up to any of it.
It seems that this patch add the missing substance that it lacks.
Let's play the UID comparison game... oh hey, look at that!
What day is it? Could you please tell me?
OK, you did see the word "kid" in my UID, right?
guppy06 has a UID in the low 400k range.
mine is over a million.
this makes the "get off my lawn" joke less funny how?
-- Sig under construction...
...sharks with frickin' laser beams attached to their heads, attacking pirates' boats.
It could really enhance this game, isn't it ?
-- Rastignac was here.
Did the Pirates of the Burning Sea patch a step in the right direction? And how does one patch a step? Why is the Sea Patch burning? Maybe they misspelled "see" as "sea". Pirates of the Burning see patch...but wait, how could a pirate see his own patch? Is that patch a lie? Does it hide a perfectly good eye? An eye which sees the patch?
120 characters for a sig? That's bloody useless.
Sony did not produce POTBS. It was produced independently from Flying Lab Software who then approached Sony for help with the platform.
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