with the breakdown of responsibilities thus:Pirates of the Burning Sea will be published in partnership with Sony Online Entertainment’s Platform Publishing. This is an important deal for Flying Lab Software and we know how passionate our community is about this issue. So before you start posting your thoughts on our forums, let me share how this particular arrangement differs from publishing deals you may have read about in the past.
Full anouncment can be found at the official PotBS website - http://www.burningsea.com/pages/page.ph ... e_id=10349Here is the breakdown:
Flying Lab Software
• Game Development
• Community
• Customer Support
• Server Operations
Sony Online Entertainment
• Billing
• Launcher
• Retail Distribution
• Localization
• Marketing
It makes sense that a smaller development company utilizes the services of a mega-corp like SOE to deal with billing, marketing, sales etc and keep the technology and development in-house. Lets hope it works out better than it did for Sigil