Pirates of the Burning Sea gets major website revamp
by Samuel Axon 
Sep 12th 2008 at 1:00PM
Filed under: Historical, Pirates of the Burning Sea, News items
Team members at Flying Lab Software have launched a totally new Pirates of the Burning Sea website. The changes are not merely aesthetic; there are substantial additions in terms of functionality. They include a game guide, featured forum posts, and other standards. The site was designed not only by your usual web development folks, but also by the game's UI designer and its art director.
There are also some more clever changes and community features, like widgets. The widgets aren't enabled yet, though. Still, it's an excellent set of changes (which have been listed and explained in a lengthy news post on the site) that represents another step in Flying Lab's attempts to strengthen and grow the community of a game whose sales performed below expectations.
There are also some more clever changes and community features, like widgets. The widgets aren't enabled yet, though. Still, it's an excellent set of changes (which have been listed and explained in a lengthy news post on the site) that represents another step in Flying Lab's attempts to strengthen and grow the community of a game whose sales performed below expectations.
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Leper said on 2:33PM 9-12-2008
"...another step in Flying Lab's attempts to strengthen and grow the community..."
Yeah. I remember some of their first steps. Ignoring a underpopulation problem, purposefully obfuscating the problem from its customers by constantly changing and limiting ways in which server pops were displayed, outright lying to their customers about it and when proof was handed to them they basically said "oops. uh... we didn't know. yeah. that's it. yeah."
When it was apparent that no amount of fudging the numbers was going to keep 75% of the servers from showing "light" population across the board the resorted to shutting down servers, smushing people together, throwing disruptive "hardcore" (read: griefing-centric) groups into what was supposed to be an RP server.
Oooo! Or implementing a "new and improved harassment policy" that was supposed to be retroactively enforced... only it never was, as long as you interspersed your bad behavior with textually fellating FLS staff.
Perks for being and FLS fanboi include:
* Ability to use bugs, exploits and actual modifications to the game with no repercussions, even after multiple "official warnings."
* Ability to use racial slurs in public channels as well as on the public forums repeatedly with no repercussions, even after multiple "official warnings."
* Ability to engage in numerous behaviors defined by FLS staff itself as "improper use" and "greifing" with no repercussions, even after multiple "official warnings."
* A funny taste in your mouth that mouthwash just won't get rid of... and $15 less a month in your wallet.
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