Thoughts on the private server subs in early 2026

I think a lot of stuff is going to happen in custom servers, but I think safer seas fleets will take more people off the seas than anything else. Even with limited rep progression, there will still be 100% gold, and there are so many exploits that will be possible in safer seas now that you can have 2 boats. People will use kingly exploit to cheese billions of gold and doubloons. I'm gonna check out custom servers for content and testing purposes, but I think it's not likely to be something I play much in, given there will be no gold earned or progression.

Will mostly be streamers and communities using it. Has been confirmed no progress (thank goodness). Will be interesting to see what game modes people come up with.

Aren't they paid for services?
So wont bother me, and only Streamers or Big Community players will use it to host stuff.
It wont change, but...There gonna be A LOT of players complaining why it isn't Offline and Progress disabled.