World of Pirates, harrr!

[AlteredOne]

No, not Puzzle Pirates.   It's "World of Pirates", a low-budget German MMO with no monthly fee.  19.90 Euro and it's yours.

http://worldofpirates.4players.de/wop/main_en.html

Looks like a niche indy title with old-school graphics.  But hey, it's got pirates!

[schild]

Isn't this the remake of Pirates! (the original) in MMOG form that we were hammering the servers on during an open beta back in November?

[AlteredOne]

Isn't this the remake of Pirates! (the original) in MMOG form that we were hammering the servers on during an open beta back in November?

I remember a discussion around November of a remake of Sid Meier's Pirates, but I don't think it was related to this.  I thought that was the old single-player game, with a graphical revamp.  The screen shots of "World of Pirates" do look suspiciously like "Pirates" in the fonts and 2-D graphics, along with the emphasis on swordfighting.  I'd be curious how this MMO version plays.  It seems to support PvP, but it involves accumulation of ships and resources.  With such a model, I wonder whether it will require periodic resets, or how they intend to prevent uber catassers from hording everything in the game. 

[SirBruce]

Also not to be confused with Pirates of the Burning Sea.  Pirates are hot right now!

Bruce

[schild]

Just looked up some emails, World of Pirates is indeed an MMOG version of the original Pirates! and here's a link to the discussion from last year.

[AlteredOne]

Also not to be confused with Pirates of the Burning Sea.  Pirates are hot right now!

Wow, that one's in 3D!  Alas, we seem blessed with a motley crew of low-budget pirate game developers.  It just seems a little odd that everybody's so fascinated with making sterile computer simulations of ships floating around, when everybody knows that piracy was all about rum, sodomy, and the lash.  I'll pass on the latter two, and I can always get drunk without turning on my computer.

[Signe]

Pirates are always hot.