Pirates of Burning Sea dated News • News • Eurogamer.net

News PC MMO

Sets sail in January.

Flying Lab has said its Pirates of the Burning Sea MMOG will launch on 22nd January next year.

If you just can't wait, you can pre-order the game and get it two days early. You might be able to get some new shoes or a boat before your friends even start playing. Just imagine.

The pre-order box will also include exclusive in-game weapons and an in-game parrot, as well as a soundtrack CD that, er, you can play at work to remind you of what you will be playing later.

Currently only US land-lubbers have a pre-order date, set for 23rd October, with us Europeans still waiting on calendar confirmation.

Pirates of the Burning Sea has been in development since 2002, and in beta testing as far back as 2005. Originally Flying Labs was understated with its goals and was not even sure if it would let you play as your own avatar - a far cry from the "big fat slab of a game" they're describing it as now.

These days it has its own player-driven economy, ship-to-ship combat, swashbuckling sword fighting, around a 1000 missions, 80 towns, a conquerable world and parrots.

So enticing does the game sound, in fact, that we picked it out as one to watch in our MMOG round-up.

Flying Lab has plans to do a much larger and public beta closer to launch, at which point the NDA silencers will disappear and we will be able to give you our thoughts on the game.

Until then you can find videos and screenshots in our Pirates of the Burning Sea gamepage, or much more information on the official website.

About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

Read more articles from Robert by visiting the Robert Purchese archive page.

Comments (6) Latest comment 4 years ago

Comments threads automatically close after 30 days, but please feel free to continue chatting on the forum!

Order
- Oldest
- Newest
- Best
- Worst
Score
- -25
- -10
- -1
- 0
- +1
- +10
- +25

Gurgeh #1 4 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
It looks like it could be fun but always be wary of a MMOG that stays under NDA right up until release...
- Log in or register to reply
- 0 - +
SleepyMagpie #2 4 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Really, REALLY anxious to get ingame. January 7th is marked off on calendar as the day desperate pre-ordering pirates and privateers get back on the Spanish Main.

I could say more, but then they'd keelhaul me.
- Log in or register to reply
- 0 - +
SleepyMagpie #3 4 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
Btw. Rob Purchese writes that preorders get to play the game TWO DAYS before launch. Surely this should be TWO WEEKS?

FLS have confirmed January 22/08 as launch date, with preorders getting into the game January 07/08:

[link url=http://ww w.burningsea.com/page/news/article&article_id=10435
]http://ww w.burningsea.com/page/news/arti...[/link]

Hurried day, EG?
- Log in or register to reply
- 0 - +
Sl1pstream #4 4 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
"It looks like it could be fun but always be wary of a MMOG that stays under NDA right up until release... "

This was actually playable at PAX. It was fun too. Very different from WoW and friends.
- Log in or register to reply
- 0 - +
Gurgeh #5 4 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
"This was actually playable at PAX. It was fun too. Very different from WoW and friends."

An NDA doesn't mean you cannot play it, it means you can't talk about how good (or bad) it is.
- Log in or register to reply
- 0 - +
Orange #6 4 years ago

Comment below viewing threshold Show
I thought you can say if it's good or bad, you just can't given any details as to the content or why.
- Log in or register to reply
- 0 - +