In researching the PotBS game I read that the online installer was better (more up to date) than the off the shelf CD, so I opted to download the game; it’s 7 gigabytes and took me the better part of a day to get downloaded and installed.
There are two servers left. According to wikipedia the servers have been getting merged, probably as the player base shrinks. That makes me a little nervous that the game may go away, but Sony Online Entertainment has kept Galaxies and EQ around for a long time so I’m hopeful that PotBS will remain playable for a while longer. One of the two has EU-EN after its name. My guess is that is for Europeans who speak english. I was a bit concerned when I signed on to the Antigua server and saw a great deal of french in the chat channel, but all the logs, interface and NPCs are in english.
The character customization screen is busy, lots of character features and clothing to select from and several items can be custom colored. It took some time to scroll through all the options and get just the right shade of blues for my French naval officer character.
The PotBS wiki has some good info about what each of the classes do and I read through them all to get a feel for what would be a good starting character. My play style is DPS in almost all MMOs that I play, so I figured start with what I know 🙂
After i got my guy built and dressed appropriately I was off to the noob valley for Frenchies…
