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Pirates of the Burning Sea on WarCry
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Monday, Feb 18
PotBS: International Subscriptions, Australia's Launch etc.
RW: No. In Australia, purchase of the game is entirely covered by BigPond and is free for the customer. The thing we're seeing in the United States is the very strong retailers like GameStop and EB Games, and their business model is really based on reselling used console games, so we're seein...
Thursday, Feb 14
Flying Labs' CEO Gives the Lowdown on PotBS
IGN's Australian news bureau has posted an article in which Flying Labs' CEO, Russell Williams, gives readers a short "primer" about Pirates of the Burning Sea: There's a lot more in the article including discussions of gameplay, nations & classes and development mistakes. Head ov...
Pirates of the Burning Sea Interview at Gamespot
RW: No, we've actually played the Pirates of the Caribbean online game. Their target market is much, much younger. This is a game where you can't chat without getting your parents' approval. They're really going after a completely different demographic. We really haven't had anyone who has...
Wednesday, Feb 13
PotBS Review at Game Shark
Pirates of the Burning Sea fundamentally gets it right--a great balance between economic and action that involves you in every aspect of the game without uncomfortably cramming it down your throat. The lack of innovation isn't what causes the game to suffer; instead, it's a bunch of mino...
Tuesday, Feb 12
Pirates of the Burning Sea Review at PCIGN
Pirates of the Burning Sea is the perfect antidote to the proliferation of traditional MMOs. If you've already grown sick of elves and hot bars, Pirates will definitely offer up something you haven't quite seen before. It's highly original and it takes a lot of chances that pay off handsome...
PotBS: Patch Notes for Build 1.1.54.0
Unrest supply bundles finally work. We've added the turn-in missions for these so you can produce them and hand them in to generate unrest on an enemy port. Read this other devlog from Rev on Conquest and PvP improvements. Rare pirate gang spawns are now twice as frequent as before, so those bo...
Monday, Feb 11
PotBS Q&A #2
RPG Vault is featuring a second Q&A session with the developers of Pirates of the Burning Sea. Focusing on the development of naval combat, here's a peek at some of what they said: Jonric: What are some aspects of the naval element in Pirates of the Burning Sea that you find especially in...
