Pirates of the Burning Sea: Power & Prestige Interview

MMORPG.com is offering up an article-style interview with Flying Lab Software CEO Rusty Williams and associate producer Janice Von Itter about their recently announced Pirates of the Burning Sea: Power & Prestige expansion pack.

Another form of prestige is in-game NPC factions. They exist at the moment, but many of them are quite barebones. Of course, players can be Pirates, French, English or Spanish, but there are all sorts of groups out there that are really under-developed.

(There’s a number of different factions within each nation in Pirates,) said Von Itter. (Until now you could progress to celebrated status with each of these, but there wasn’t a cohesive system involved with that where you got really good rewards.)

Williams told us that he wants players to be able to explore those stories and content more fully and to support this they’re expanding these factions to include more of their own missions and rewards. Players will be able to see more of a benefit to getting in good with one group or another.

For example, if players are getting along well with the Sons of Cortez that might limit their options with another faction.