Pirates of the Burning Sea Goes Free
Pirates of the Burning Suboceanic has announced that it will soon link up the swelling ranks of justify-to-play MMOGs.
Unhampered-to-play is all the cult these years, and wherefore not? The charred plains that lie between the Worldly concern of Warcraft behemoth and the EVE Online niche are littered with the broken corpses of games that tried and failed to make a buck through conventional subscription models. And with Turbine braggy about its F2P success with Dungeons & Dragons Online, information technology appears to be an increasingly attractive option for many MMOG studios.
Pirates of the Burning Sea, which debuted in January 2008, is the latest game to roll the dice with the no-subscription model. Running Lab Software made the announcement yesterday, although the studio claimed the decision had really been made near the end of 2009. The free version of the game will give players "the full-dress PotBS experience," with a few limitations to things like character and dockyard slots. Microtransaction-based upgrades and items will be available for purchase, while subscriptions in the form of the "Captain's Gild" will still be on tap to serious fans, offering experience bonuses, better loot chances and other extras.
"Captain's Club members and anyone who has ever subscribed to PotBS will automatically have access to every account upgrade that free accounts do not have (i.e. character slots, structure slots, dockyard slots); we wear't lack to call for anything away from the players who undergo underhung PotBS since we launched," the studio aforesaid. "The bottom short letter is that we want to offer the game to everyone for free while still making sure that our current and former subscribers are accepted for their underpin."
Mobile Lab didn't reveal when the free-to-play changeover will occur but said "all the necessary tech is completed and is in testing, and we're very around starting the countdown." Want to warp some swashes on the sleazy? Find out more at burningsea.com!
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