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ZippyDodah 12/21/06 1:33:58 PM
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At first I was very excited for this game but as time has passed I've lost interest. The same can be said fro some friends I know who've tried beta and don't liek the direction this game is headed in. I don't think PotBS will have wind in it's sails when it's released and will sink soon after, it's going after such a small market with a limited budget, I don't know how they stay afloat.
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free2play 12/21/06 2:10:31 PM
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Joined: 10/13/05 |
I have every intention of trying this game. I also have no intentions of getting excited. It had an original release date for over a year ago and it's still not on the market. I see a column with another sea exploration based game in the works, so PotBS may want to get thier duff moving or thier ship will sail without them. This game can be great. There is no way to know though untill they release it. |
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isildur 12/21/06 5:20:05 PM
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Lead Designer, PotBS
Joined: 2/26/05 |
"PotBS may want to get thier duff moving or thier ship will sail without them."
Because you just know that we're sitting around goofing off, not releasing because... I dunno, because we hate money or something. I guess we could just release it tomorrow. Wait, no. That would be a terrible idea. You can't have it both ways; it's either games that release early and are buggy and broken, or games that release after a lot of QA time, but take longer to come to market. |
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JackDonkey 12/21/06 5:48:38 PM
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Joined: 4/21/04 |
I think people will like the customization of sails and flags....
except the people too introverted to get that stuff approved.
Elitism might come into play with flag/sail design. What else is
there to upgrade in the game, your ship and skills? I think you
need to have item based upgrade potential for the game to do
well. All the games I know have items or "stables" to upgrade, in
eve if you have 9 ships worth 200 million each in stations somewhere
that's how you upgrade, in those other games it's your many slots of
armor. If pirates has something where you never lose your ship
and can only have so many in port there will be no room to
upgrade. Can you buy better guns/cannons? can you get your own
sail design approved even if it's a bit off kilter, like a tye dye
sail? So far to me it looks 9 or so ships, maybe a choice of
avatar weapon (cutlass or rapier), and a choice of sails/flags that are
all made by 2 or 3 guys that know how to use photoshop.
i'm eagerly awaiting my beta approval though... and I have been for like 2.5 years |
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ManicJedi 12/22/06 12:01:12 AM
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"Remember there is always a bigger fish." |
You tell him. hehehehe. Manic (aka Methos420 from the PotBS Forum)  |
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free2play 12/22/06 10:18:31 AM
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No, what I am saying is there are gross delays or a very premature initial release date was leaked. Everything I have seen suggests this is a QA about target market and if the PotBS crew are second guessing thier target market, the longer they go the more splintered the opinions on what the game should be, will become. If this is really about unforseen code problems, the Dev team need to accept that they set peoples anticipation up far too early. Games are like women in a certain way. No matter what one you want, you end up with the one that's available. |
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Molarean 12/22/06 11:59:33 AM
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Putting off the release date for such a long time really did kill the interest of a lot of indivduals and a number of communities, I wonder if the delay will be worth it or if the addition of the avatar combat will have killed the game before release.
If they had released the game when they were originally expected to it probably would have done very well during that dead period for MMORPGs when people were whining across the boards for a decent game to be released. The new release date is going to put them in direct compitition with some very anticipated major studio releases. |
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csquaredftb 12/23/06 6:20:35 PM
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 oh boy.. everyone's so heartbroken about the "original release date" being put off... well if everyone's talking about that whole "december 31st" thing that was posted on mmorpg.com... that WAS NOT the original release date... actually.. there was no original release date to begin with. People saw the game, got all excited.. saw that mmorpg.com posted it as to be released in Dec. 31, 2005, and when it didn't, everyone got all pissy. So what's the dealio? Flying Lab Software has been very careful not to give the community false hope. In interviews they may say what their goals are, but they don't promise anything they know they can't handle. So what happened? In an interview during the summer of 2005, somewhere it was stated that they'd want to shoot for the end of the year, but like i said, no promises. What happens after that? "realese date: December 31st, 2005".. doesn't that seem strange to you? that it's the last day of the year? plus, if you're going to release in decemeber, it'd be bad marketing not to shoot before x-mas. Since then, mmorpg.com has removed that release date and i've never seen any specifics on when the game was going to come out until recently. Anyway.. people should just calm the hell down. Perhaps it would've been easier if PotBS had said nothing at all, and no one even knew about the game until they were ready to release it. That way people wouldn't have been so heartbroken about it... and make threats to "rebound" with other games that are coming out, that are obviously a rip, and don't look anywhere near the quality of PotBS. Here's a tip.. stop anticipating and waiting. Just go about your life, and if you walk buy EBGames or something and see PotBS on the shelf.. THEN decide if you wanna play it or not. ps- this isn't a rant over the original poster... this is just to all the people that have been complaining over and over and over about the same thing.  |
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aubry 12/29/06 1:28:32 AM
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Originally posted by csquaredftb Please, if you think people are only upset about a December release date you havn't been around here very long. I remember when they first announced signups for beta testing. That was back when World of Warcraft was just going into beta. I signed up and waited to hear from POTBS and in the meantime WoW went though multiple beta phases, then open beta, then 2 years of live, and now about to release a huge expansion.....and where is POTBS? Still in limited beta!!! Even 2+ years ago when they announced the beta signups it was at the point where many people were very ti | |||
