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Pirates of the Burning Sea Producer, John Scott Tynes, answers out questions about Sony Online Entertainment, beta, distribution and more!

MMORPG.com:

Your letter to your community announcing the deal with SOE mentioned that it was to be "platform published", making it different from SOE's internally developed games. The last title that SOE published in this way resulted in SOE's acquisition of that company (Sigil) as well as the game (Vanguard). What can you say to fans who fear the same fate for Flying Lab?

John Scott Tynes:

Sigil's troubles with Vanguard have been very publicly documented by Brad McQuaid himself and they had nothing to do with SOE. People who blame SOE for what happened to Sigil are either grossly misinformed or willfully blind for the sake of hating.

This is a hard industry for an independent developer. Sigil is in no way an exception - indie studios close all the time. If you look at console games, you'll see a long record of studios shipping a title and then firing everyone because they don't have their next project financed. That's the business. It sucks but it happens all the time.

Flying Lab is self-financed. We're not running out of money. We are definitely eager to stop spending our money and start making some, but we're launching the game because it's ready, not because we can't make payroll. That's the biggest difference between where we're at where Sigil was at when they were finishing Vanguard.

Some of us had friends at Sigil and what happened there is really sad. They definitely had a vision for what they wanted to achieve but making (and financing) an MMO is a gigantic challenge. SOE is going to keep Vanguard alive and will gradually address its major problems. It'll have a home there for as long as fans want to keep playing it.

Read the whole interview here.

SOE ??????

No thx.

Omg, this game was in my waiting list.... will be no more!

Christ, you haters are all over these threads like flies on a turd, aren't you? Fine, we know you're not gonna touch it due to SOE, despite your ignorance. Great, now piss off and go play what you do like. FLS don't appear to need your business.

Back on topic, the piece about questing was a good read. Sounds real piratey :) Very much looking forward to this. Reckon I might be able to find a good RP home.

On that note, if any devs are watching this thread, how's the game going to be for roleplayers?

Cheers!

I am quite excited to have another game on the Acesses pass, makes the price that much more appealing.

From my perspective as a Star Wars: Galaxies player and having a lot of insight into SOE as a game company I must say that SOE gets a lot of the blame that should be directed at LucasArts.  Everyone blames SOE for the debacle that SWG has been yet SOE can only do what LA tells them to do, and the buzz is that SOE often resisted many of the appalling decisions that LA forced upon the game.

Not that I'll be buying PotBS anyway.  The developer has already made a bunch of decisions that make me not want to touch this game with a ten-foot pole.  Fantasy pirates?  No thanks.

Wow, I've been waiting to get into the beta for that long? I remember participating in the forums when this game wasn't even a blip on the radar yet.

Guess I will have to wait for the reviews before I make my purchase.

Originally posted by korvass

Christ, you haters are all over these threads like flies on a turd, aren't you? Fine, we know you're not gonna touch it due to SOE, despite your ignorance. Great, now piss off and go play what you do like. FLS don't appear to need your business.

Don't you love freedom of speech?  Your exercising your right to free expression while attempting to silence a differing view...  lol  The irony.  It's funny to see people like you get so upset over someone else's view.  If you don't like my posts... block me.  Put me on "ignore" if you will.

Originally posted by korvass

Back on topic, the piece about questing was a good read. Sounds real piratey :) Very much looking forward to this. Reckon I might be able to find a good RP home.

Actually... going with SOE is sort of like piracy too...  so I suppose we were already on topic, eh?  

Originally posted by Beery

From my perspective as a Star Wars: Galaxies player and having a lot of insight into SOE as a game company I must say that SOE gets a lot of the blame that should be directed at LucasArts.  Everyone blames SOE for the debacle that SWG has been yet SOE can only do what LA tells them to do, and the buzz is that SOE often resisted many of the appalling decisions that LA forced upon the game.

The blame I am assigning to SOE is based on my experiences with their business practices, dishonesty with their player base, and EQ2.  While I played SWG for a few weeks, I never really thought it captured the essence of the movies well at all, so I never really got into it.

Actually, I'm not stepping on your freedom of speech at all. I'm just telling you to go play something you like, because constantly pitching in on these threads with your hatred of SOE isn't doing anyone any good.

You're right though, good tip. I'll just block you.