Direct from the Pirates of the Burning Sea web site, Flying Lab Software has announced a publishing partnership for their giant online pirate party with none other than Sony Online Entertainment of Everquest, Planetside, and....Vanguard fame.
Pirates with be published in partnership with SOE's Platform Publishing, which allows Flying Lab to keep control over development, the community, support (thank god) and server operations, while SOE handles billing, the game launcher, retail distribution, localization and marketing. I could have just cut and paste that lot from the Pirates community site, but you know I love typing for you people.
Basically it comes down to this. Flying Lab keeps creative control of the game, period. They don't need SOE to approve their content. Once again, thank God.
For SOE this means they'll have a game worth playing on their hands, which hasn't happened for awhile.
For those of you interested in the Pirates of the Burning Sea beta, they're going to start running the brand new build through its paces in the next twenty-four hours, and after a few weeks testing they will literally open the floodgates, so if you haven't yet, now would be a great time to sign up for beta.
There'll be officially stuffy press releases tomorrow, but for now, head over to the PotBS community pages and read more. Michael Fahey
Time for an update!! [Pirates of the Burning Sea]
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