Hoist the sails! Pirates of the Burning Sea is live
by Christopher Grant 
on Jan 22nd 2008 10:45PM
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 12:59PM (Unverified) said
I cant believe how many MMOs are out there now. I remember when it was just Ultima Online. God, I loved that game.
Poisoned Al is correct. They need some ninja fighting in here!
Also, this picture reminds me of how awesome breasts are.
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Poisoned Al is correct. They need some ninja fighting in here!
Also, this picture reminds me of how awesome breasts are.
Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 5:33PM (Unverified) said
Well, if you really need a Pirate MMO fix, why not just install the Disney Pirates of the Caribbean. I don't know how it fairs against this particular game, but it is free. (They have a "Premium" pay level that lets you have higher levels, more weapons and better ships)
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 5:39PM (Unverified) said
Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 6:20PM (Unverified) said
I had the chance to see this game in person at CES (went to the Sony Online Entertainment suite in the MGM Grand) and the graphics weren't quite where I was hoping they would be. The gameplay does sound interesting and the MMO aspects seem to be well implemented. If you want a free copy, feel free to enter the contest I have on my blog:
http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/01/17/contest-who-wants-a-free-video-game/
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http://btr.michaelkwan.com/2008/01/17/contest-who-wants-a-free-video-game/
Posted: Jan 22nd 2008 10:51PM xThePunisherx said
FIRST!!!
jk, but i rly wana no how this game turns out. it looked interesting, albeit not $50 + $15 a month interesting. anyone that has it, thoughts?
graphics card: radeon hd 2600 xt (sry, i got it today im excited)
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jk, but i rly wana no how this game turns out. it looked interesting, albeit not $50 + $15 a month interesting. anyone that has it, thoughts?
graphics card: radeon hd 2600 xt (sry, i got it today im excited)
Posted: Jan 22nd 2008 10:51PM (Unverified) said
i'm just looking at the screens, but are all mmo's this low in graphical quality?
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2008 11:28PM MrHashbrown said
Usually MMOs decide to sacrifice graphic quality for less lag so, in my opinion, it doesn't really matter.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 12:03AM (Unverified) said
Graphics have nothing to do with lag. They're not piping polygons and textures over the wire. They pipe compressed data, like "bob is wearing shirt #7 using texture #12 and carrying item #124", then your computer interprets all that, loading textures and models locally. Graphical quality has nothing to do with lag, you could have 10 billion polygons and 1 gig textures and have no lag over a 28.8 modem if your local machine could handle it. At least in games like WoW, lag is almost purely server based, where so many people are interacting with the same physical server machine that the machine bogs down from sending messages about what everyone is doing to everyone else.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 12:36AM (Unverified) said
It's like this. If a game strives for graphical realism on something like their, their customization options become limited, development time increases dramatically, etc. And for what? No matter how realistic your game is, one is coming out in six months to beat it. So MMOs trend towards simplified art styles to accomidate new content easily and to have a look which doesn't lose appeal in a few months.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 1:30AM (Unverified) said
There is network lag and then there is graphics lag. Companies have to factor in the number of players that can exist in a particular enviroment at anyone one time.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 2:38AM ThornedVenom said
Everyone has said that lower graphics is unrelated to lower lag, but the reason for lower graphics is to broaden the marketed demographic: lower specs mean more potential players.
And MMOs need lots of players to work.
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And MMOs need lots of players to work.
Posted: Jan 22nd 2008 10:54PM (Unverified) said
Is the NDA up so i can talk about how boring this game was to me?
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2008 11:31PM (Unverified) said
Yar har, fiddle de dee
Being a pirate is alright to be!
Do what you want, cause a pirate is free
You are a pirate!
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Being a pirate is alright to be!
Do what you want, cause a pirate is free
You are a pirate!
Posted: Jan 22nd 2008 11:54PM (Unverified) said
It's a piece of cake to bake a tasty cake.
But never use a messy recipe, or the cake will end up crazy!
Oh pirates...umm..yarr!?
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But never use a messy recipe, or the cake will end up crazy!
Oh pirates...umm..yarr!?
Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 12:27AM thethirdmoose said
I sat her... assuming "her" refers to your mother
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Posted: Jan 22nd 2008 11:57PM Anticrawl said
What? Like how outragiously clean they are? Seriously people back then didn't bathe and the few that did only did so once every other week or so. They were afraid of removing precious oils our bodies made that they believed were vital to good health and survival in a sense.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 12:33AM (Unverified) said
And since we're on about historical accuracy, where was all the shit in assassin's creed?
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 1:21AM (Unverified) said
At least Assassin's creed didn't make New Orleans a french founded settlement. *still annoyed by that*
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 10:20AM (Unverified) said
Don't be annoyed. New Orleans was a French-founded settlement --
La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded in 1718 by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of France at the time; his title came from the French city of Orléans.
It was later ceded to the Spanish, then back to the French, then sold to the Americans. History FTW!
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La Nouvelle-Orléans (New Orleans) was founded in 1718 by the French Mississippi Company, under the direction of Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville. It was named for Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, who was Regent of France at the time; his title came from the French city of Orléans.
It was later ceded to the Spanish, then back to the French, then sold to the Americans. History FTW!
Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 12:36AM severian00 said
Am I the only one that thinks that title sounds like a porn movie? Just whe exactly is the sea burning and will a shot of penicilan take care of that problem?
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 6:57AM (Unverified) said
Funny you mention...
There is a porno called "Pirates", and the captain looks pretty much the same.
I am very weirded out.
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There is a porno called "Pirates", and the captain looks pretty much the same.
I am very weirded out.
Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 12:50AM Anticrawl said
The woman on the left doesn't look so mean, more of a confident sexy "I'm going to whip you" look heh.
The guy on the right however is doing his best to look and act like Robert DeNiro.
Guy in the middle reminds me of a more hairy version of the poster fighter for Virtua Fighter 5.
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The guy on the right however is doing his best to look and act like Robert DeNiro.
Guy in the middle reminds me of a more hairy version of the poster fighter for Virtua Fighter 5.
Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 12:49AM (Unverified) said
I'll give it a week until somebody hacks a ninja class into this game.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 1:25AM (Unverified) said
by the time i had received the invite for the beta of this, they had stopped doing the beta... dunno whether to blame sony, file planet, or yahoo. maybe i should just blame myself.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 2:39AM ThornedVenom said
I doubt that this MMO would hit mainstream, but I thought that I'd heard about interesting ship-attacking mechanics.
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Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 4:06AM (Unverified) said
Really amazing about this
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http://www.best-v-i-p.6x.to
Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 6:58AM (Unverified) said
there is another point about MMO graphic:
basically they don't know how many people (avatars) could interact
in the same area or istance (of course there is a server limit for
each portion).
now consider for our hardware how could be stressfull loading 100
avatars in high-def-textures, high-number-polys, plus environment,
plus physic, plus monsters, plus npcs, plus special effects, plus
framework-database interactions, plus otherthings...
and maybe you may coinsider that keeping a simplified graphic could
help, just for avoid a 0 framerate even on high-end hardware in some
circustance.
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basically they don't know how many people (avatars) could interact
in the same area or istance (of course there is a server limit for
each portion).
now consider for our hardware how could be stressfull loading 100
avatars in high-def-textures, high-number-polys, plus environment,
plus physic, plus monsters, plus npcs, plus special effects, plus
framework-database interactions, plus otherthings...
and maybe you may coinsider that keeping a simplified graphic could
help, just for avoid a 0 framerate even on high-end hardware in some
circustance.
Posted: Jan 23rd 2008 7:06AM PoisonedAl said
Pirates are awesome, but not $15 a month awesome. If you get to fight ninjas I might consider it, but until then they can keep it.
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