Congrats Flying Lab. Despite the naysayers I still think they have one of the best MMORPGs out there.

Originally posted by Szark

Pirates of the Burning Sea is celebrating its one year anniversary since the game launched. To mark the occasion, players will receive a special anniversary coat and can take part in the Black Sails event.

Flying Lab Software are proud to be celebrating the one-year anniversary of Pirates of the Burning Sea!

The game originally launched on January 22nd 2008, and since then we’ve had 11 feature and content updates, which have included a major overhaul to our Avatar Combat system, new epic group missions for high level players, new Pirate careers, numerous art and UI updates and much, much, more. We are committed to continue bringing you regular updates throughout 2009!

To celebrate our anniversary, we will be giving all of our players access to a new Anniversary Coat, which will be available in the tailor shop. Each nation’s coat is different!

Read more here.

Within a year POTBS also dropped from dozen or so servers to four, lost over 3/4 of its playerbase and I think separate Australian server was also put to death in the meantime. The RvR balance issues were not addressed, crafting was left semi cooked and the designers focused on minor tweaks without addressing the big problems.

The question is would POTBS survive a year without SOE station pass support, I highly doubt it.

I don't think it will make it to 2010.