Recently, Flying Lab Software decided to lift the NDA that surrounded Pirates of the Burning Sea#DY#s (PotBS from here on out) closed beta, and with good reason too; the game is launching next month. After a long and lengthy development cycle it looks like this piratey-escapeed is finally going to get released to the public. Although, anybody who has done any sort of research on this game, or been a part of any forum discussion on it has probably come across the resemblence it shares with EVE Online, albiet in pirate form as opposed to space.
The comparison isn#DY#t particularly unwelcome, EVE is a highly successful MMORPG that continues to grow today, but is this a correct comparison? Is PotBS really all that similar to EVE Online? Well, the answer gets a bit muddied up here. It shares some of the broader similarites that aren#DY#t really found in any other MMORPG other than these two games, but it also differ#DY#s in a lot of these same areas. For example, both of the games, generally, have you playing as the ship (as opposed to a person), however, where EVE Online does not allow you to actually have a character avatar, PoTBS does. In PotBS you actually do get to walk around a port and go on land missions.
Bottomline, the two games are similar. In fact, the are probably similar enough that they will generally be targeting the same crowd of MMO-gamers. However, they each bring their own unique twist to the party that they don#DY#t ever really step on the other#DY#s toes, if that makes any sense whatsoever. In the end, let#DY#s just be glad that Flying Labs didn#DY#t decide to make a pirate clone of WoW. Lord knows we don#DY#t need another one of those MMORPGs.
[Editor:wakaka]
