After playing for some hours, I was like, is this all? Its just a sea map with some very tiny islands thrown in. Thats all!
The quests are all the same. Just fetch quests. Go get some chests, get some skulls, etc. Earn a bit of gold, and then repeat for a long time until you have enough gold to buy some overpriced cosmetics for your ship. These type of quests you see mostly in mmo games!
You hardly see any enemy players on the sea. The world feels dead especially with those skeletons who run away when you hit them a few times with your sword. When you do encounter other players you dont know what their intentions are, friendly or enemy? Usually enemy yes, but it would have been better to let the ships have some flag raised with 2 different type of flags, one for friendly like a white flag with a peace sign, and if you want combat or unfriendly then some red flag with a sword or something. Make it up.
Talking about ships... [Mod Edited] only 2 type of ships!!?? What were they thinking. Were are all the different type of ships, or customization of ships, like easy building your own ship. All ships just look the same. Its c**p. People want to be unique, with their own type of ships, let them decide the color of their ship, the shape, the size, chambers, let them be able to close or open doors on the ships which you cant even do now, etc. Things like that. The sloops are useless.
The man to man combat is really really awfull for this type of game, of combat.
What I really only like about this game is the handling of the ships, the team work on the galleon, and the sea is very well made but thats it.
This game is too limited in what you can do, on the ships, on the tiny islands, on sea, etc. This game gets boring really fast.
Also one of the worst features of this game is to be able vote someone in the brig. I mean what the hell. So your playing and suddenly you get a loading screen and are being stuck in a cage without being able to escape?
If players want another player to be put in a brig, atleast do some effort! Not some cheap a*s loading screen. Maybe something like hand to hand combat with your fists to knock out the player, then tie him up, and take him to the brig, that you can open and close with a big key which you cant put in your inventory but be able to take it or drop it, and give the player who is locked in the brig another chance by for example, some type of lockpicking minigame or brute force or something else, but it should be difficult, not too easy. Make something up! Using a method like a I descriped, the player who is being attacked by other players with the fists perhaps unfair, he can atleast escape the ship, and leave the crew and find other crew to join, because now if you want to join other crew, you need to leave the freaking server / game and do the whole process again of loading screens, finding players, loading the world, etc.
If you want to vote someone, then just kick him out of the server, but not a loading screen and then being locked in a brig. Its stupid and abused.
About the price...this game is 60 dollars!!! This game feels more like some demo or some type of unfinished beta free to play game. And I remember that the fanboys on this website were saying: "oh no the beta is just maybe 30% of the fullgame, you will see! on the releasedate! Stop hating! This is going to be the greatest game ever!"
This game has the same problems as No Mans Sky, before and after release date... unfinished, unpolished, overhyped, etc.