Was anybody surprised this was just going to be another "Ubisoft: the game". They're all the same because it's the same 6 people who define was makes a good game, and what features are needed in each.

Oooh, I had been interested in this lightly due to wanting more pirate shenanigans other than just Sea of Thieves, but this sounds pretty bad.

Tldr old man yells at clouds for an ideal personalized pirate game

I want a game that's a cross between "Sid Meiers' Pirates! Live the Life" and the pirate portions of Assassin's Creed Black Flag. With graphics like Black Flag.

I want to be able to choose and customize my own ship, not be stuck with a Brig like ac4 and I also want to be captaining from the deck, not floating above the action like Pirates! does it.

I also like the damage model from Sea or Thieves. It's not a "1hp you're floating and shooting at 100% and at 0% you explode/immediately sink" it's a "you've been hit, you're almost definitely taking on water so get to damage control or even if you win you could still lose"

If ever there was a game that could have utilized the voice control features some consoles tried, it's a game where you're captaining a ship and calling out orders.

Imagine you're in the middle of a fight against a sloop, and they get off a lucky hit, so you have to call out orders (or hit the corresponding button menus) to get some of your crew on patching the holes, getting your top deck to load up chain shot to take out the sloops sails so you can board and capture it for a nice scouting vessel. And if you want more immersive realism like how some driving games go all out with clutches all the way up to tire/ambient road temperatures you can fiddle with settings to make sure you need to call out all orders or face debuffs in combat. Forgot to call out your orders leading up to firing? Ooh sorry now you need to wait an extra 3 seconds to shoot a full salvo.

It's a niche game though, it'd never be able to make the money back that would need to go into it to get all the features running smoothly with each other.

Probably one of the most boring games I’ve played in a while. I spent three irl days trying to get someone to pvp me but was only able to join a pvp event twice because they’re so rare. The events make you sign up and during the events if someone’s not signed up you can’t attack them. The events also only allow 6 people so I never saw anyone I could fight in either events

Sea of Thieves is still around. Was just playing it this weekend.

I liked the division 2 for a few hours and it got super repetitive super fast

I play a game called Arkane Odyssee, which is a really amazing pirate game. I’m not going to mention what platform it’s on as it’s a bit embarrassing but for pirate pvp, and pve it’s got a great story and gameplay.