playing first person can be difficult for many

Playing third person would take away from the games built core. “You are the pirate” not some specter who controls them.

@callmebackdraft understand, worked great in swbf2 and other games though. I can see it left out of hourglass for competitive sake, silly not to have the option outside of that considering the amount of players it would draw in.

@eld571 in original development both third person and first person where considered and tested.

In the end first person was chosen since it worked the best with how the game should be perceived.

To add a new perspective it would open a whole can of worms on multiple aspects of the game like balancing, confined spaces etc.

This has been requested more then once over the years but imho it wont be added nor should it be.