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Pirates of the Burning Sea Patch a Step in the Right Direction?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the no-one-checking-their-rear-view-mirrors-just-yet dept.

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."

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  1. Breaking news by chalkyj · · Score: 2, Funny

    MMO releases patch that adds some features. In other news, things still fall downwards.

    1. Re:Breaking news by peragrin · · Score: 3, Funny

      If a game issues an update, but no one installs it does it still make a sound?

      --
      i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
  2. This would be news... by Bieeanda · · Score: 2, Insightful
    If Slashdot were a POTBS fansite. Wake me up when subscription rates toilet and they sell out to SOE, who puts the game on life support. I mean, Christ. City of Heroes/Villains is adding two new branching classes, a huge number of new combinations for existing class types, and adding anti-spam functions, but where's its top-billed thread?

    No. The only way that POTBS is newsworthy, is if they got off their asses and added ninjas and robots to the mix.

    1. Re:This would be news... by XanC · · Score: 3, Funny

      The only way that POTBS is newsworthy, is if they got off their asses and added ninjas and robots to the mix. And blackjack and hookers. In fact, forget the pirates, ninjas, and robots.
  3. Re:!news by Fast+Thick+Pants · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  4. Disappointment. by Fallingcow · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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.

  5. Re:!news by SBacks · · Score: 2, Funny

    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.

  6. Re:Weird by Joe+U · · Score: 2, Informative

    Damn you and your something.

  7. Played it, has potential, but sucks by Shihar · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.