As many of you will have seen, the Early Access title Pixel Piracy is in the Steam Flash Sale currently. As someone who has put a fair few hours into the title, I just wanted to warn you all: Early Access means Early Access in this case.
Pixel Piracy is, in theory, essentially FTL on the high-seas with a bit of Terraria thrown into the mix. In theory, it's great. It has the potential to be great. It looks on track to be great. Currently, however, it is not great.
Pixel Piracy is broken as all fuck right now. The mechanics show enormous promise, as does the game as a whole, but the interface is often broken and sometimes nigh-on unusable, there are a myriad of ways in which this screws you over, and in general, the game is frustrating to play because of it.
Fortunately, the devs have come out on multiple occasions in /r/indiegames to make it clear that they are in for the long haul. They've promised that they're not going to pull a Towns, and they'll keep working on it until it's done.
So, bear in mind. If Pixel Piracy sounds like 100% your thing, no question, feel free to purchase it, but, to be clear, this is not a beta, it is not close to release, it is an early alpha, and it has a long, long way to go. Treat it accordingly.
Hi there everyone! Alex Poysky, the producer of Pixel Piracy here.
First off, I wanted to thank you all for all of the comments, both positive and negative. We try our hardest to achieve and we NEED criticism to keep steeribg in the right direction.
Release date will be the FIFTH of july, with CONTINUED SUPPORT AND BI-WEEKLY UPDATES applied for A MINIMUM of 8 months. Compare mount and blade 1.0 to 1.76 for example. Sure, both are finished but 1.76 came out a year later and hosted an incredible amount of content. This is what we want for Pixel Piracy.
Is it worth it? I can't answer that as I would be BIASED. But please download UTORRENT and go to the pirate bay, download the copy I uploaded last week. And play to your hearts content. IF YOU ENJOY IT buy the game or tell someone who will! If not? At least it was free!
Your opinions truly matter, if they didnt I wouldnt be here posting at 4 am after a full day working and celebrating the flash sale.
My twitter is @alexpoysky and I am VERY approachable nif I ever become an entitled jerk shoot me please.