Destructoid: "A few days ago, at Gen Con, I was invited to talk to Russel Williams, CEO of Flying Lab. Flying Lab's booth on the show floor was all about Pirates of the Burning Sea. The company's main focus was to establish that the MMO was still kicking out new content and fixing problems that players indicate are issues with the game. At the end of the interview, I felt that it was a great privilege to speak to Williams. He's obviously passionate about his company, but even more passionate about MMOs. Throughout the course of the interview, it never really dawned on me that Russel Williams was an executive of a successful developer. I saw him as an enthusiast who saw the problems with the industry quite clearly.
Our conversation began with his desire to speak towards the changes of his game. Then, our talk spiraled to the state of MMOs in general. He spoke about competing with the forever-popular World of Warcraft, user reception, saturation of fantasy games in the market, and the price of developing an MMO for a console. Our conversation came to a close with the nature of credit card fraud and eventually his love of the game.
Hit the break for the full interview."
Top 5 sailing MMOs and MMORPGs for your inner explorer.
In a new roadmap confessional, Pirates of the Burning Sea devs promised solutions to long-standing localization problems.
The next interim update for the pirate themed free to play mmo will troubleshoot the localization system and tweaks to ships and consumables.
Bigredbarrel.com - "MMOs are the abusive gaming genre that I just can’t get away from. MMOs are Ike Turner and I’m Tina Turner. They’re Bobby Brown and I’m Whitne…vermind. Since I played my first MMO in 1999, I’ve loved the genre. Leveling up, sense of community, sticking with one character and making them more powerful. It’s all good and fun. But with the success of World of Warcraft, most MMOs that come out fit into the same mold."
Guild Wars 2
Tera Online
Eve Online
Vindictus
Dragon Nest
End of nations
and a few others have already reinvented themselves with many many many next Gen MMO's in the making.
My MMO days are over. I have bought and played 95% of all P2P MMOs and found myself lacking in the accomplishment department. I am enjoying the story in SWTOR, so I hope this one will be the last. I might try Secret World since I am a fan of that type of story and gaming.