Flying Labs cracks down on RMT

Massively reports that Flying Labs Software, the folks behind the Pirate themed MMO “Pirates of the Burning Sea” which is due out in the next couple weeks, already need to take disciplinary action against accounts involved in selling gold in the game. I think this underlines how lucrative the market for virtual items has become. I mean we aren’t talking World of Warcraft here. PotBS is a niche market MMO but still, the business with in-game items and currency (which is a bannable offense), commences even before the game goes live. Makes you wonder what we are in for the bigger MMORPG launches later this year.

Quote from the official website for PotBS, “we will [be] following up with the appropriate disciplinary actions, which could include confiscation of the resources in question, and ultimately banning accounts that sell or buy these illicit resources.”

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Tags: Flying Labs Software, Gold Selling, Pirates of the Burning Sea, RMT

PotBS: 1.0.44.0 Patch notes

Flying Labs has released the first patch for their MMO “Pirates of the Burning Sea”. Here’s the Lowdown:

Highlights:

• Stability: This patch includes several client graphics fixes that will improve performance, remove glitches for some ATI video cards, and stop crashes. We also fixed a crash in the sound manager and several server crashes.
• Sound Fixes: We fixed a client bug many of you encountered where your framerate in towns would slow down temporarily while music was playing. This is now gone. If you turned your Music volume slider down to avoid this problem, turn it back up again!
• Low-level mission revamp: The Open Beta taught us that there were too many missions in the low-level towns and that they were even lower level than they should be. We have made many changes here so that the number and level of missions better matches your leveling rate. This change means you will have missions closer to your level more often. That means the missions will be less boring (fewer “minor” ships!) and will also give better XP and doubloon rewards because they’ll be higher level. Details are below.
• Black Point: We also fixed the problem with ship deed turn-in at Black Point.

Known Issues:

• We’re still working on the problem where folks can get stuck on an infinite Loading screen when trying to port to a different ship via the Harbor Master.
• Black Heart, Black Powder: Often your NPC ally will refuse to follow you after you interact. This breaks the mission. You may want to hold off on taking this mission for now.

You can read the full patch notes here.

Tags: Patch, Patch Notes, Pirates of the Burning Sea

Pirates of the Burning Sea Beta

Did you ever want to be like Jack Sparrow? If the answer is Yes!, then Pirates of the Burning Sea (POTBS) might be something for you. The Pirate MMORPG is set in the Carribean in 1720 and combines tactical ship and swashbuckling combat with an immersive player-driven economy.

Conveniently, the open beta for non fileplanet-subscribers has just kicked off and Eurogamer is serving a batch of free Beta keys to everyone on a first-come, first-served basis. The client must be downloaded from Fileplanet which turns out a bit complicated for non-subscribers. It seems as a non-subscriber you have to download the client in parts.

Here’s the official teaser trailer to wet your appetite.

Tags: Beta, Pirates of the Burning Sea