When you look at existing mmorp games then you can see that they work on your imagination very much. This is possible because themes of these games are futuristic. I don’t know how this will work when you take as a story line something that already happened in our history. Will Pirates Of The Burning Sea be a complex mmorpg?
I think I can see where you were going with this and I don’t think that you have made some wrong conclusions. I agree that it is much harder to imagine what they will do with pirates when you look at the opposite. There you have star wars soldiers and you can do what ever you want with them, but this doesn’t go for the pirates as well. We all know what pirates were like and what they did for living and it is a bit constricting on your imagination. But I am sure that developers of this game have something in store for us.