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Stradden Managing Editor Joined: 7/08/05 Posts: 6729	10/26/07 10:22:27 AM#1 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Rick Saada from Flying Lab Software took some time out of his development schedule to take part in this developer profile Q&A. In it, he talks about Pirates of the Burning Sea, some of the history behind the game and why you should play it. MMORPG.com: Let’s start off with the obvious. Can you tell us a little bit about what you do on Pirates of the Burning Sea? Rick Saada: I wear quite a few hats. I’m the tools dev, so I make the tools that our content crew uses to make all the missions, NPC’s and suchlike, and that our design crew uses to make all the loot. I wrote the editor for laying out automated tests for the test team, utilities for the art team, plus a zillion other little tools. I’m also one of the founders at FLS, which means I appear at the top as well as the bottom of the org chart (it’s circular, really). Oh, and I’m in charge of banana bread. Some here would argue that’s my most important job. Read the whole interview here. Cheers, Jon Wood Managing Editor MMORPG.com
Mark701 Apprentice Member Joined: 9/09/04 Posts: 110	10/26/07 11:20:35 AM#2 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) ...so the game is being released when??
bezado Novice Member Joined: 1/21/04 Posts: 1006 WARNING Objects in mirror are closer to Trolls than they appear.	10/26/07 12:02:16 PM#3 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) LMAO Rick is so cool. Great interview. And the last part about the carebears PVP LOL!!!! The expected release was for early next year. If a carebear PVP game ever came out I would be grumpy bear.
bachanam Novice Member Joined: 9/27/06 Posts: 338 True Love Never Dies	10/26/07 12:02:25 PM#4 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Release Date: January 22, 2008 "Sometimes, things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. People are basically good. Honor, courage, virtue mean everything. Power and money, money and power mean nothing. Good always triumphs over evil. Love, True Love Never Dies." Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
isildur Lead Designer, PotBS Joined: 2/26/05 Posts: 84	10/27/07 4:35:14 AM#5 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by bezado If a carebear PVP game ever came out I would be grumpy bear. I just feel like, if I was going to make a truly abusive, hardcore, pvp-full-loot-everywhere game, I'd totally want to do it with the Carebear license. Conversely, if I were to somehow be given the Carebear license with no strings attached, I'd want to make the hardest hardcore game ever. Just to redefine the term 'Carebear'. If you called someone a carebear on that game's forums, it would be a mark of respect. 'Dude, you OWN. You're a TOTAL CAREBEAR.'
Vhaln Elite Member Joined: 7/07/05 Posts: 2181 Love the genre, just not how slowly it's growing out of its formulaic infancy.	10/27/07 6:17:12 AM#6 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by isildur I just feel like, if I was going to make a truly abusive, hardcore, pvp-full-loot-everywhere game, I'd totally want to do it with the Carebear license. LOL, that would be so awesome A fan of games I like, not the other way round.
Flummoxed Apprentice Member Joined: 2/24/07 Posts: 592 Make a WORLD, Not a Game.	10/27/07 11:35:40 AM#7 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) being a subscription game we’ve got a more level playing field than the “lose for free, pay to win” model. LOL never heard 'Free To Play' described that way before.
Grifin Novice Member Joined: 1/09/04 Posts: 91	10/27/07 4:29:50 PM#8 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Hmmm,Banana Bread.
cbas Novice Member Joined: 2/03/07 Posts: 112 "You are a twatwaffle"	10/28/07 12:52:07 AM#9 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) 100% player economy... I am now intrigued enough to keep an eye on this one.
RickSaada Senior Developer, POTBS Joined: 12/23/05 Posts: 200	10/28/07 9:54:32 PM#10 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by Flummoxed being a subscription game we’ve got a more level playing field than the “lose for free, pay to win” model. LOL never heard 'Free To Play' described that way before. True though, isn't it? Our CEO is threatening to swipe it and claim the comment for his own. I'd best trademark it quick! Rick Saada - FLS Dev & EPFBM
UnSub Apprentice Member Joined: 10/16/04 Posts: 250	10/29/07 2:31:11 AM#11 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) You wrote Castle of the Winds, Rick? That was a great game - my friend and I played the free version for ages and eventually even ponied up to buy the second part! I'm actually a bit more interested in PotBS having learned that fact. ;-)
snake50312 Novice Member Joined: 2/01/07 Posts: 31	10/29/07 10:54:24 AM#12 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by RickSaada Originally posted by Flummoxed being a subscription game we’ve got a more level playing field than the “lose for free, pay to win” model. LOL never heard 'Free To Play' described that way before. True though, isn't it? Our CEO is threatening to swipe it and claim the comment for his own. I'd best trademark it quick! Ah ha ha it is true. Ive tried VC and I feel like slaming my head against my computer. I only play it because I am waiting for PoTBS to FINALLY come out.... So I sit here and wait. BTW I always read the interveiws you guys do and as always I enjoyed reading it.
RickSaada Senior Developer, POTBS Joined: 12/23/05 Posts: 200	10/29/07 3:19:42 PM#13 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Yep. Long ago now (nearly 20 years :) It's fun that people still play CotW. I get fan mail fairly regularly from people around the world, and I'm into my third generation of players! Paul Canniff, one of the other FLS founders, did some of the town art, too, back in the day when programmers could do good enough art to max out the abilities of the system. Nowadays programmer art just has to be ugly enough to get the art department to replace it quickly! Rick Saada - FLS Dev & EPFBM
RickSaada Senior Developer, POTBS Joined: 12/23/05 Posts: 200	10/29/07 3:22:37 PM#14 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by snake50312 BTW I always read the interveiws you guys do and as always I enjoyed reading it. That would be because we're small enough to not have lawyers and marketers censoring our posts Of course that means you also get raw and unvarnished developer-speak, so you get the bad with the good. Rick Saada - FLS Dev & EPFBM
snake50312 Novice Member Joined: 2/01/07 Posts: 31	10/30/07 2:43:06 AM#15 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) Originally posted by RickSaada Originally posted by snake50312 BTW I always read the interveiws you guys do and as always I enjoyed reading it. That would be because we're small enough to not have lawyers and marketers censoring our posts Of course that means you also get raw and unvarnished developer-speak, so you get the bad with the good. That is bad? Hey as long as you know wtf you are talking about I could care less if you were the most charismatic person or not. I like when dev's tell us what is going on, at least you all know what is going on with the game and can relate to the average gamer( well you should be able to right your writing a game for us ). Its much better then a PR guy who doesn't know what they are talking about. P.S. If they have a emote where is my pirate one? lol
Bluefish Apprentice Member Joined: 5/24/02 Posts: 49	10/30/07 8:41:49 AM#16 Report this post Explain why you are reporting this post: (750 characters max.) This game is going to be the surprise hit of 2008, mark my words!