14 DAY TRIAL // Yo, Ho, Ho! Grab a big, red parrot, a barrel of rum and bring your wooden leg, since Pirates of the Burning Sea is available for purchase from game shops across the globe, or via digital download through station.com and direct2drive.com. This really anticipated Sony Online release has a suggested retail price of $49.99 and a monthly subscription fee of $14.99. Pirates don't leave a cheap life, savvy?
However, if being a pirate doesn't seem like the ultimate goal in your (virtual) life, you can join the French, Spanish or English fleet as a naval officer, free-trader or privateer and blow enemy ships out on water or engage others in crazy sword fights, on land.
"After years of hard work by our top-notch crew, we are thrilled to announce players can now conquer the virtual Caribbean, circa 1720, in Pirates of the Burning Sea," said Russell Williams, CEO of Flying Lab Software in Seattle. "Working together with SOE's Platform Publishing, we are able to launch this game simultaneously in the U.S. and Europe and release localized versions in English, French, Spanish and German, allowing players from all over to captain a ship in this world full of swashbuckling and high-seas adventure."
I don't know why, but all this "Carribean" dumbo-jumbo seems a little bit overreacted: why do "modern" pirates have to fight in the Carribean and the Carribean only? At least, if you are not bothered by this aspect which, by the way, can't turn a good game into a bad one just because, you should know that 'Pirates of the Burning Sea' comes with an unique economy system. Here, players can become captains of industry, running mines, lumber mills, shipyards and other large-scale operations. In other words, it will be the players who supply others with materials to create their own ships (yes, read "design your own"!) and, ultimately, to conquer port after port.
So if you are fond of this kind of stuff, this MMORPG could be exactly what you need, since you'll have more than one thousand missions per nation, a vast world and the entire ocean just for you... if you kill them all, that is.