A good idea for a mmo that just sounds great on paper but when you get into the game. Its not as good as you would think
The Good:
-Ship combat is addictive and fun.
-Some ports have great graphics and were made with great detail.
The Bad:
-Everything is instanced. From ports, to ship combat, to boarding combat. Nothing is fun about being in an intense ship battle and then when boarding an enemy being teleported into a ship instance. When you board an enemy ship, you are teleported into an instance of a ship where you and your 6 guys stand on the stern of the ship and your opposing captain and his 6 guys on the bow. Then you charge and stand in a big mob just swinging your sword once every few seconds. Its especially fun when all of the enemies simply decide to attack you and run past all of your other crew. The ports are clickable instances that sit at the edge of the water and don't even reach the non-sand part of the land.
-Many of the ports in the game are copy/pasted! Literally the exact same port with a different name. And the ones that don't, just have a different layout of the exact same NPCs.
-There is simply barely any exploration. You cannot explore any of the land on the map and the open sea gets boring. Every island looks the same, every beach.
-Graphics are lackluster.
-In the higher population servers (the others are empty and boring) it seems every port is always up for contention. Pretty much every where becomes PvP.
-Quests are all the same, over and over again. Multiple land quests use the same instance.
-You can't jump. CMON! Each area, port, instance, etc. has invisible walls. You can't step off a porch on a building in a port if its higher than half a foot tall. You get to the water in a port and cannot step in or swim. You walk too far one way and hit an invisible wall.
-Character customization leaves everyone looking the same. Its not as complex as you think.
-The economy has a very steep learning curve. Some people get it, many people don't.
-There really is nothing to this game. You don't work your way up working as a crew member on a different ship, you don't actually swing onto the other ship when boarding, using a pistol enemies can dodge your bullets when you are standing a foot away from them, the interface takes up a lot of space and does not help you at all (group quests don't say who in the group has it, just a number, no quest arrows, etc.).
-The game proves to be laggy for many players (including myself), especially in big ports.
I could go on and on I'm sorry to say because I had such high expectations for such a rigorously advertised game. Any questions about it, PM me. The only reason why I have hope is because the DEV team seems hard working and it seems like they care. Maybe in a couple years they will have changed a lot making it much better. Until then, R.I.P. 50 bux.