Most of the work is done and they are aiming to release next year, at this point I'd be surprised if it doesn't get done.
In any case, this is a project that a lot of people have been working on, for free, for over a decade, I wouldn't tell them it will look like crap even if I really thought so.
I'd argue that the best part of the game is the pirate questline. You get to pick between being a double agent, gathering evidence and sabotaging their plans, or an evil pirate that fights the law and only cares about themselves.
I think the issue is that they still have their developers write their own quests rather than hiring a team of dedicated writers like other studios do nowadays.
The games will never be narratively coherent when everyone is pulling in a different direction.
The end result sucked so hard that I'm not sure it would have been good even as a standalone game.
That horrible trailer from gamescon was the first I heard of it. How did a 100M game from Sony have such bad marketing?
Reception for the game is not even that bad, it was just handled so poorly that nobody wanted to play it.
You need to complete the entire story to get to the bottom left of the map, the rest opens up during act 2.
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