Received the game as a gift and it's brilliant. PVP and PVE is very polished and fun.
Barely any bugs however my ping is always high. Beautiful graphics and a good atmosphere. Very successful pirate game and arguably the best game to play with friends!

UPDATE: I have been playing the game for a long time now and here is what I make of it: you must play with friends otherwise it isn't as enjoyable (I wouldn't be able to spend 175 hours on it alone). Once you reach pirate legend the only reasonable way to get large amounts of money is through grinding events or FOTD whilst sailing with a grade 5 reapers (or any emissary) otherwise you will end up spending 4x the time trying to buy the new cosmetics such as the Dark Adventurer set which costs a total of 78 million gold!! The only progress is through cosmetics and there isn't really an "end game" as most things are accessible to you early on. I fixed the ping issue but the game is full of bugs (they happen too often)... bosses glitching into unreachable areas making them invincible, items and skeleton ships despawning randomly even after recent interaction, falling through terrain in some parts of the map etc. Apart from that I still enjoy playing it with my friends regularly. Oh and prepare to grind A LOT! at least for the new cosmetics.

Received the game as a gift and it's brilliant. [i]PVP and PVE is very polished and fun.[/i] [strike]Barely any bugs however my ping is always high[/strike]. Beautiful graphics and a good atmosphere. Very successful pirate game and arguably the best game to play with friends! UPDATE: I have been playing the game for a long time now and here is what I make of it: you must play with friends otherwise it isn't as enjoyable (I wouldn't be able to spend 175 hours on it alone). Once you reach pirate legend the only reasonable way to get large amounts of money is through grinding events or FOTD whilst sailing with a grade 5 reapers (or any emissary) otherwise you will end up spending 4x the time trying to buy the new cosmetics such as the Dark Adventurer set which costs a total of 78 million gold!! The only progress is through cosmetics and there isn't really an "end game" as most things are accessible to you early on. I fixed the ping issue but the game is full of bugs (they happen too often)... bosses glitching into unreachable areas making them invincible, items and skeleton ships despawning randomly even after recent interaction, falling through terrain in some parts of the map etc. Apart from that I still enjoy playing it with my friends regularly. Oh and prepare to grind A LOT! at least for the new cosmetics.