Pirates of the Burning Sea

By James Egan Filed under: Fantasy, Historical, Pirates of the Burning Sea, MMO industry, News items Via Gamers Daily News]Flying Lab offers 6 months of Pirates of the Burning Sea to military personnel originally appeared on Massively on Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of fe...

By Eliot Lefebvre Pirates of the Burning Sea will also be getting expanded factions, a few new subdivisions of the game's skill trees, and promises of some new visual polish to help spice up the gameplay. The expanded political options suggest that it might be time to put down the cutlasses for a bit and start...

By Krystalle Voecks Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day ye scalawags! We couldn't resist marking the date for all the landlubbers out there, as any day involving booty and rum is right up there in our books. We'd also note that if you hurry up, you can pick up a copy of LucasArts & Telltale Games' Tales of Monkey Islan...

By kaozz77 Happy Pirates' Day! Pirates! Yaaaaaaaaaar! I thought today would be extra cool for the two pirate mmorpgs’ out there. Pirates of the Burning Sea looks to be having a bit of a celebration today. Also Pirates of the Caribbean is hosting Talk Like A Pirate Week!

By Colin Brennan Filed under: Historical, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Business models, Expansions, Game mechanics, MMO industry, News items The guys from Flying Lab Software are busier than ever, as they have announced that they will be creating their very first expansion to Pirates of the Burning Sea...

By Tipa EVE Online: A noob in New Eden I’m in a sort of MMO rut these days, and...Okay, let’s re-design Star Trek Online. We know very little about Star Trek Online, but what...A Glance at Pirates of the Burning Sea When I got home last night, my son was... Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts...

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By James Egan Pirates are always the underdogs in MMOs, aren't they? That seems to be the case in Pirates of the Burning Sea, where the Pirate nation has been at a disadvantage with the game's Conquest system. While their ports can't be controlled (permanently) by another nation, they're likewise unab...

 CA You see, while we were building Pirates of the Burning Sea we had a similar dynamic to our team. World of Warcraft came out two years after we started, so nobody had played it. Instead we had one designer who figured that the MMO genre started with ...

By Tipa In 2007, you could have surprised absolutely nobody by predicting that 2008, last year, would be the biggest, best year ever for MMOs. Triple A titles abounded — Age of Conan and Warhammer Online were both just going to tear WoW a new one, but heck, even WoW was coming out with its second expan...

By William Dobson Filed under: Historical, Podcasts, Pirates of the Burning SeaFlying Lab Software's CEO Russell "Rusty" Williams has been fairly vocal about his company's game Pirates of the Burning Sea in the past, doing the rounds with media outlets and spreading the word. His latest project has just...

By Kyle Horner It's been a whole year since Pirates of the Burning Sea left its dry dock and sailed out into the vast and sometimes-choppy waters of the ocean of MMOs. While it hasn't been a relatively safe year for adventurous new titles, Flying Lab Software's still got a lot to be happy with: Their game is s...

By Cody Bye Over at the official Pirates of the Burning Sea website, the developers have posted up their new skill tunes and tweaks for players to discuss and churn over. In general, it looks like Buccaneers and Privateers are seeing the most change. Here's a breakdown: 1.12 contains a variety of change...

 New Zealand - So is this an arcade Sid Meier's Pirates! or a simplified Pirates of the Burning Sea? It's really neither - on the one hand you have an extremely ...

By Wilhelm2451 And, of course, tune in tomorrow for my predictions for 2009.  I’d better start working on them! Posted in Blizzard, Diablo III, DS, entertainment, EVE Online, EverQuest, EverQuest II, Lord of the Rings Online, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Sony Online Entertainment, Warhammer Online, W...

Combat would be ship vs. ship combat, and I'd borrow a lot of good ideas there from Pirates of the Burning Sea. As the ships are Victorian, broadsides in space would be very cool, and give combat a tactical maneuvering component. There could also be planetside avatar combat on the fantastic wo...

By Tim Y. Over at the official Pirates of the Burning Sea site, Taelorn of the Flying Lab Software dev team sat down with a new log discussing the MMORPG's patch 1.6. This patch aims to be a big change from the game's previous updates, ...

By Shawn Sines via Pirates of the Burning Sea ---Related Articles at Gaming Today:Pirates of the Burning Sea First Server Victories ReportPirates of the Burning Sea Patch v. 1.2.67.0 LivePotBS Character Transfers now AvailablePirates of the Burning Sea Underdog Tools DevlogEVE Online New World to Exp...

By Shawn Sines potbs-mar24.jpg. Flying Lab Software has sent out a notice that patch 1.4 for Pirates of the Burning Sea has been delayed. Along with apologies, the company sends word that the patch will be deployed Thursday May 29. players can expect ...

By Shawn Sines via Pirates of the Burning Sea ---Related Articles at Gaming Today:Pirates of the Burning Sea: Buddy Key SystemNew Screens for Pirates of the Burning SeaPirates of the Burning Sea: Duels and Skirmishes DevlogNew Pirates of the Burning Sea ScreenshotsPirates of the Burning Sea Devlog...

By Shawn Sines Flying Lab Software has released a patch introduction devlog for version 1.5 of Pirates of the Burning Sea. While previous updates have concentrated on adding features to the game, this patch will contain a myriad of small fixes and ...

By Earnest Cavalli Pirates of the Burning Sea producer Joe Ludwig would love to launch an MMO on one of the three big consoles, but "there are many barriers to building a console MMO that don't exist on the PC," he reveals in... Image courtesy Flying Lab Software

By Andrew Russo Filed under: Historical, Pirates of the Burning Sea, Game mechanicsOk buccaneers, it is now time for us to offer our own new and improved Caribbean flavor to Pirates of the Burning Sea! User Content 2.0, the new review and submission process, officially became seaworthy on the 15th of May....

By Suzie Ford As you've probably seen in Taelorn's recent devlogs, patch 1.4 has a lot of important changes to careers, especially for Pirates. Now that this patch is ready for testing, my job is to be sure you're going to like it. We need players like you to play with these new changes and give us feedback bef...

By Morvelaira As you’ve probably seen in Taelorn’s recent devlogs, patch 1.4 has a lot of important changes to careers, especially for Pirates. Now that this patch is ready for testing, my job is to be sure you’re going to like it. We need players like you to play with these new changes and give us feedback bef...

By Shawn Sines The latest devlogs from Pirates of the Burning Seas cover skill changes taking effect in the 1.4 build for the Freetrader and the new Buccaneer class. The latest devlogs from Pirates of the Burning Seas cover skill changes taking effect in the 1.4 build for the Freetrader and the new Buccanee...

Flying Lab Software outlines new changes in patch 1.4 of PotBS  - Apr 29, 2008 Aside from that, everyone will start with an inherent four dockyards (five ships including their current one), and it won’t be possible to increase that ...

By Tim Y. Still wondering where's a good server to move to for better pillagin' and plunderin' opportunities in the Pirates of the Burning Sea MMORPG? If you are, then you may want to hear out Flying Lab Software's recent update for the game's ...

By Suzie Ford Ten Ton Hammer editors sat down with the Pirates of the Burning Sea development team for a post mortem discussion of the latest patch and the future of PotBS: 1.4 also has a lot of improvements for everyone. We have the first revamp of how avatar combat works, we have the new supernatural epic m...

By Ethec After receiving a laudable 89% in the usually MMORPG-averse PC Gamer's May issue, we thought it might be smooth sailing for the Age of Sail themed MMORPG Pirates of the Burning Sea, released in January. Eurogamer, however, took issue with the game's instancing and avatar combat before si...

MPOGD.com reviews Pirates of the Burning Sea with a score of 3/5:Pirates of the Burning Sea is a mixed bag of a MMO, as it features some really nice concepts that are done pretty well, and it’s nice to see a MMO that doesn’t fit into your standard fantasy and sci-fi genres....

Pirates of the Burning Sea - Review (PC) MPOGD.com, IL - Unlike other MMOs where your character choice greatly defines your play style, there isn’t so much of that with POTBS. There are elements of those class ...

By David T. Flying Lab Software, it seems, is one of those developers. Producer Joe Ludwig recently took the time to give Pirates of the Burning Sea (PotBS) players a quick look at Patch 1.3 changes. According to Ludwig, these are some of the new ...

By Charles D. With the recent release of the latest patch of Flying Lab Software's Pirates of the Burning Sea, some players have been experiencing problems fully downloading the new content for the game. Fortunately, PotBS Community Envoy Aether has ...

By David T. Design your own ship in Pirates of the Burning Sea - Image 1 It's one thing to be interested in developing user-generated content for an MMORPG, and it's quite another thing to actually do it. It need not be intimidating, though. ...

By Kalia 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...

Pirates of the Burning Sea (PC) Flying Labs offers up a wonderful alternative to the standard MMO but is it too complex?

By Kalia 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...

By Ceasar S. According to the latest update from Flying Lab Software, Pirates of the Burning Sea's patch version 1.1 has just hit the developers' testbed servers. If all goes well, Pirates of the Burning Sea is likely go live over the servers next ...

By Ceasar S. According to the latest update from Flying Lab Software, Pirates of the Burning Sea's patch version 1.1 has just hit the developers' testbed servers. If all goes well, Pirates of the Burning Sea is likely go live over the servers next ...

Pirates of the Burning Sea Review UGO, NY - Feb 6, 2008 Pirates of the Burning Sea, or PotBS, grows more interesting as you move along, despite the suspect graphics and normal hiccups of an MMO launch. ...

By p@tsh@t After quite a bit of hand wringing, I decided not to renew my subscription to Pirates of the Burning Sea when my initial 30-day subscription runs out. I mentioned in an earlier post that the best that we bloggers can do when giving impressions of a game is to answer the question “Am I willing to...

The folks at GameSpy have released their review of Pirates of the Burning Sea, and we've garnered 4 out of 5 stars! Here's a snippet of the review: "Having the biggest ship doesn't guarantee victory: smaller ships taking advantage of ...

Split between the classic MMO style melee combat and ship-to-ship battles, Pirates of the Burning Sea is an interesting attempt to marry two very different styles of gaming into one experience.

By Keen I want to talk about the PvP a little bit more; infact I want to include some PvE mechanics in this too. This isn’t a game without risk like some of you might be used to. In PotBS your ship can sink if you’re defeated in PvP AND PvE. When your ship sinks, depending on the ship, it may be lost forever. Shi...

By Zonk 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 fl...

By Glen D. Pirates of the Burning Sea has gotten props for deviating from the tried and true MMORPG paradigm based on endless grinds and item collection. By not focusing solely on those two elements, the game has made room for more innovative areas.

By Karl B. Today we've got a mix of good and bad news for followers of Flying Lab Software's upcoming MMORPG Pirates of the Burning Sea. In his latest developer blog, Flying Lab's Russell Williams revealed that they will not be able to meet their shipping schedule and won't be shipping Pirates of the B...

By Enrico S. Sinking ships seems to be more fun but more risky. The unrest points gained are based on the level of the ship sunk. It's been said that 10 points are granted for level two ships while you can get a whopping 105 points for a level 50 ship. You only get half the given points for NPC ships, so player-co...

By Mabie A. The beta test for Flying Lab's Pirates of the Burning Sea is ongoing, and we've got some new feedback from its testers. Last night, they were up lugging it out with each other in The Battle of Port of Spain. Generally, the testers did seem to enjoy themselves immensely. But of course, as is the ob...