The focus at FlyingLab is finishing Pirates of the Burning Sea and getting it to market. When will that be? That depends on how much they want to incorporate into the initial release, according to Williams.

Avatar combat is the feature in question. If they decide to incorporate it for launch then it will definitely push launch back. If they chose to go without it, the game could be out much sooner.

The features that they’ve not yet coded into the game were planned for and Williams does not foresee them impacting other systems too heavily. This does not apply to avatar combat.

“We want to do swashbuckling,” explained Williams. They want to do it right, but it is a system that has the potential to have a major impact on all aspects of the game. It is also the only major system that they have not yet fully designed.