Those Akella boys are a riot and constantly making jokes. Most of it gets missed in the English translations, but every so often it slips through.
Anyways, I was very eager for Sea Dogs 2, then it was canned in favor of PotC (Which sucked) Then, they called this game Corsairs 2, and I had played the first Corsairs game (it wasn't that good or bad).
What they have described now, though, is reminding me more of the game Cutthroats. Now that was an open ended game! You could conquer any city if you wanted by defeating its garrison and making one of your officers the governor. Or you could just keep it very weak and revisit it every few months to take everything they owned. Very open ended, you could take mission from Governors and things like that, but there really was no over arching story you had to keep track of. Just the position of the Spanish Treasure fleet and the price of Rum in Tortuga.
Anyways, I am looking forward to this one, although I'm sure it will be buggy as hell. (Akella tradition)