Does that earring mean you're a pirate?

Yes, it's Saturday and we're blogging. But we get to play and write about games for a living, so it's never really like work anyway and we don't mind so much.

But we digress. Let's begin, shall we? Ahem...

Ever since Sid Meier first taught us to plunder the Spanish Main with Pirates!, we've been fans of privateer/pirate/war on the high-seas/avast ye matey genre of games. Why? Because it's fun. Duh.

So we were quite happy to see that Pirates of the Burning Sea is getting closer and closer. What a great idea, an MMORPG based not on the mythical worlds of Tolkien-esque magic and monsters. Having just completed their Stress Test (a beta-test stage), the makers of POBS have added some really great features to their new game world, like the ability for players to affect the world in which they play. In POBS, players will be able to change the nature of the game by conquering ports and cities. Instead of merely fighting and plundering, players can have a real impact on the game in ways we haven't seen before. Though we aren't sure how this will play out and how effective it will be, this reason alone makes us want to play the game. It is akin to forming a raiding party in WoW, and instead of raiding Ironforge, you can raid it and then fight a battle to determine who controls it. How fun would that be?