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Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: Furball on December 19, 2007, 12:32:53 PM
http://gamers.eurogamer.net/giveaways.php?id=11


Downloading now - so cant say how good it is yet.  It has pirates in it, so i am guessing good.
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: Curval on December 19, 2007, 12:46:48 PM
Ohhh...I signed up for a key.  Just what I was looking for to play over Christmas.  Thanks.
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: Mojava on December 19, 2007, 12:49:15 PM
Played the beta, didn't care much for the game.  Avatar combat may be the worst ever made.  Ship battles are instanced.  Ok game  but no Aces High.
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: kilz on December 19, 2007, 12:56:00 PM
i am no eruogamer HAHAHAHA i have no account cant check it out. ba if furball is playing it he would vulch me anyways
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: SunKing on December 19, 2007, 01:41:05 PM
Anyone that likes the Korean Game  Navy Field will like Pirates.

It's too repetitive for me.
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: Curval on December 19, 2007, 01:59:55 PM
GROAN...5 gb download to start with, then you have to patch.

I'll wait until they release this.
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: SunKing on December 19, 2007, 02:22:31 PM
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Originally posted by Curval
GROAN...5 gb download to start with, then you have to patch.

I'll wait until they release this.



That's the norm now. EQ2 was a 7 gig download at one time. I think that games at 10 or 11 now.
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: B@tfinkV on December 19, 2007, 02:38:59 PM
leaving it to d/l over night....
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: Ack-Ack on December 19, 2007, 03:04:19 PM
Since it's only a beta and things are always changing but so far the game isn't all that good, especially for one that has such a long development time.  The land based combat sucks and really needs drastic improvement and really offers nothing new.  Click on target, spam abilities, rinse and repeat.

Ship combat though is a little better but has been drastically altered since the game went into beta.  But that was a game play concession to make it a little more accessible for players that don't know how to sail (in the original design, ship combat is pretty much like a sailing simulator).  Though it hasn't been dumbed down to the point like land combat and still requires good tactical maneuvering.

Graphics...even on a high end system, it's nothing to write home about but again, that is a game play concession though the water looks really nice.

I don't think it will tank like Gods and Hero's and will actually see the light of day but it's not going to set the world on fire as the "WoW killer" or even come close.  It's very similiar in terms of game play to the old Sea Dogs game.

ack-ack
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: SunKing on December 19, 2007, 03:33:13 PM
This game will be dead in a year, like their first MMOG Auto Assualt. There's no variety , couple hours and you've done everything.
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: Ack-Ack on December 19, 2007, 03:43:08 PM
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Originally posted by SunKing
This game will be dead in a year, like their first MMOG Auto Assualt. There's no variety , couple hours and you've done everything.


Pirates of the Burning Seas is not a NCSoft game nor did the developers.  It's part of the SOE Platform Publishing line of MMO games.

Flying Lab Software is developing Pirates of the Burning Seas while NetDevil developed Auto Assault for NCSoft.


ack-ack
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: Tac on December 19, 2007, 03:46:42 PM
NetDevil also developed JUMPGATE


another MMO vaporware.
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: Sandman on January 27, 2008, 09:15:22 AM
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Originally posted by Tac
NetDevil also developed JUMPGATE


another MMO vaporware.


Hmmm... AFAIK, the term "vaporware" means it was never released.

JumpGate was released. Hell, I had subscription to it for close to a year.
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: Dowding on January 27, 2008, 09:25:52 AM
I played the closed beta. It was ok, but didn't make me want to spend alot of time on it.
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: Sandman on January 27, 2008, 09:27:45 AM
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Originally posted by Dowding
I played the closed beta. It was ok, but didn't make me want to spend alot of time on it.


It was kinda fun. Like the old space game, Elite.
Title: Pirates of the Burning Sea open beta
Post by: john9001 on January 27, 2008, 12:23:30 PM
oh man, i spent hours playing Elite.