Pirates of the Burning Sea

Originally posted by Elikal

A game is dead when no one posts in the forums, when no one cares enough even to rant. I watched the PotBS forums here daily, and given the relatively few postings here the game is only on artificial coma now, closer to death than life. I say, SOE really has a good hand to ally with winners, havent they now?

*hand wave* Nothing to see here, this isnt the MMO you were looking for. Move along.

Exactly. Any game that uses SOE for publishing is in trouble before it launches.

Originally posted by Elikal

A game is dead when no one posts in the forums, when no one cares enough even to rant. I watched the PotBS forums here daily, and given the relatively few postings here the game is only on artificial coma now, closer to death than life. I say, SOE really has a good hand to ally with winners, havent they now?

*hand wave* Nothing to see here, this isnt the MMO you were looking for. Move along.

I think that is a good summary of the situation, the game will continue as a husk with a miniscule population on station pass life support.

Mind you, it will be interesting to see how many players will stay around once transfer is finished, many seems to be opting to quit instead. Hardly suprising having in mind that AoC and WAR are comming and are bound draw PvP crowd (what is left of it) from POTBS.

SOE will probably get the game within a year or so and add it to its stable of mediocre titles. Business wise it makes sense, pay one monthly fee to SOE and play all of the MMO's you want. They lack quality but there is a large quantity of them.

For me SOE, and its associates, are quantity over quality and I don't like that.

Yes bad games make money, if they didnt they wouldnt exist. Makes you wonder why the fanbois of these crappy games always treat the devs as if they were in need of charity meanwhile the devs havent lost 1 penny with their crap game infact they have a job becuse of their turdpile and will make money off it until the very end which at that point they'll fold walk away and start a new crap game for the suckers to donate their money to.

SirBruce is a guy who owns Excel and likes MMOs.

Unless he uses the same numbers we all see when they're publicly released, he simply guesses and then makes it look official.  He even admits as much in his FAQ.

Nothing to see here, move along.