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<generator>Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/</generator><item><title><![CDATA[Pirates of the Burning Sea is movin' on up]]></title><link>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/10/24/pirates-of-the-burning-sea-is-movin-on-up/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/10/24/pirates-of-the-burning-sea-is-movin-on-up/</guid><comments>http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/10/24/pirates-of-the-burning-sea-is-movin-on-up/#comments</comments><description><![CDATA[<p>Filed under: <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/historical/" rel="tag">Historical</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/pirates-of-the-burning-sea/" rel="tag">Pirates of the Burning Sea</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/business-models/" rel="tag">Business models</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/game-mechanics/" rel="tag">Game mechanics</a>, <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/category/mmo-industry/" rel="tag">MMO industry</a></p><div align="center"><a href="http://www.burningsea.com/page/media/screenshots"><img hspace="4" vspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/massively.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/photo_477ec74621f9b-sms-1008.jpg"  alt="" /></a><br /></div>
In <a href="http://www.burningsea.com/page/news/article&amp;article_id=11016">the newest dev diary</a> for <a href="http://www.burningsea.com"><em>Pirates of the Burning Sea</em></a>, we get quite an update regarding the state of the game as well as what the future may hold. There's word of the <em><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/tag/potbs">PotBS</a></em> team's recent studio upgrade in Seattle, which will directly influence productivity in the game's development. There's also the addition of new employees and of course the revamp to the avatar combat system <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/10/15/pirates-of-the-burning-sea-to-get-revamped-avatar-combat/">that we mentioned last week</a>.<br /><br />This revamp is the <a href="http://www.flyinglab.com/about.html">Flying Labs</a> team's largest concern right now, as they say they've been planning to go back and re-examine the sword fighting from day one. Since ship combat got it's own rebuild, the avatar system will go through a similar re-balance to account for the new system. After this revamp is complete, they will focus on new features such as the in-progress skirmish and player-governed ports. This has inspired them to take on a whole new enthusiasm for an aggressive advertising campaign, so you can expect to see much more from <em>PotBS</em> in the near future.<p style="padding:5px;background:#ffffcc;border:1px solid #ffff99;clear:both;"><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com"><img src="http://massively.joystiq.com/media/feedlogo.gif" alt="Massively" style="float:left;padding:0 5px 5px 0;" /></a><a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/10/24/pirates-of-the-burning-sea-is-movin-on-up/">Pirates of the Burning Sea is movin' on up</a> originally appeared on <a href="http://massively.joystiq.com">Massively</a> on Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EST.  Please see our <a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/">terms for use of feeds</a>.<br style="clear:both;"></p><h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"></h6><a href=http://www.burningsea.com/page/news/article&amp;article_id=11016>Read</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/10/24/pirates-of-the-burning-sea-is-movin-on-up/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry">Permalink</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/forward/1352089/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email">Email this</a>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<a href="http://massively.joystiq.com/2008/10/24/pirates-of-the-burning-sea-is-movin-on-up/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry">Comments</a>]]></description><category>advertising</category><category>avatar-combat</category><category>flying-labs</category><category>pirates-of-the-burning-sea</category><category>potbs</category><category>relocating</category><category>seattle</category><category>soe</category><dc:creator><![CDATA[Shawn Schuster]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 18:00:00 EST</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
