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Pirates of the Burning Sea News - Life After the Server Merge
Posted by Jon Wood on May 07, 2008 | 30 comments in our forums
MMORPG.com's Carolyn Koh speaks with the folks from Flying Lab Software in this progress update that brings us information not only on the recent server merge but on the game's past issues and its future.
“What server merge?” Russell Williams, CEO of Flying Lab Software deadpanned, comfortably seated in his office on top of Queen Anne hill in Seattle, WA. “Didn’t you read the follow up announcement? Our web servers were hacked. Ha! Gotcha!”
Russell really wasn’t trying to pull one over me, but was simply joking, this sunny morning in the Pacific Northwest that I was visiting to talk to the team. Take a temperature reading, find out the whys and wherefores of the server merge in Pirates of the Burning Sea and what they had planned for the future. One thing I know about Russell, having interviewed him several times previously, is that he is candidly honest and would provide a wealth of information. I lusted surreptitiously at the model of the Yamato (among other toys) he has in his office, pondering once again how I could tuck that under my coat when I left, then urged him to “tell all.” He did. Starting with what went wrong.
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