The Pirates of the Burning Sea folks are … not reporting that they are shipping next month. But! They are going to be dramatically increasing the number of folks in the Beta by the end of June. Rusty’s blog entry describes the point they’re at right now; sounds like business negotiations are holding things up at this point and they’re using this as an excuse to keep polishing the game in advance of lots of entrants.

However, we will be expanding the beta dramatically at the end of June. This coincides with us finally having the original version of the game that we expected to ship for R1. It’s a massive improvement over what’s in the beta now, with a lot of moving pieces all finally coming together. We’ll introduce it to our current beta folks, and assuming that goes well, we’ll start the process of inviting people in. Lots of people.