This game was only finished and released because they owed the Singaporean government a product, and a soulless product is precisely what this is.
This is a ship simulator not a pirate simulator, you can battle ships, with inferior combat compared to Black Flag. Ship customization is good, but that's about it.
To loot stuff, instead of exploring and gathering on actual islands, you stay on your ship and play a QTE like this is some F2P mobile game, this costs SEVENTY dollars people.
There's NO ground combat, there's NO exploration neither on the sea nor on land. There is just ships. Ships and playing mini games to build up the ships to do more stuff with the ships.
All these fools had to do was make Black Flag but MP and no AC related story. They couldn't even manage that.
I really don't understand what's so difficult about MP pirate games, no developer seems to be able to do it right. Sea of Thieves has ZERO purpose to its bs being essentially nothing but a place to RP with your friends and gank so you can collect meaningless cosmetics in a first person game... Skull and Bones has more purpose with your ship but then no exploration or PvE/PvP on the ground.
This is an awful awful game. I understand that some people could like it, but it's not good and it's nowhere close to what it should or could have been. Don't waste your money on this, wait for it to hit the bargain bin for 10 bucks. Let's be real though, this pos will be lucky to last 6 months before they close the servers.