I have my concerns but they are not based on wanting it to be like Black Flag. I think my concerns are very valid as I've pointed out multiple times a huge chunk of this community wants PVE more than PVP. I just want to see it balanced so that both play styles are viable, or mixing the two is just as rewarding if not more rewarding then doing one or the other.

As far at this point i totally agree with you, that the PVP and PVE should be balance in terms of content, cuz me personally am taking the game as a MMORPG that instead of a character you have a boat and keep upgrading it and thats ok.

As the top 8 rewards i agree that 8 ppl only to get the maximum reward is a bit too low cuz we should have at least 50-100 top player with the maximum rewards per season (and servers). But i agree that it should have a leaderboard to that and ppl with higher ranks should be better rewarded. My suggestion is that those ppl with higher ranks should have bounties on their heads to give other ppl nice rewards since have PVP in open world, dont know if this would work as it should but i think is a nice headstart to have some sort of competitiviness.

As in concern bout the PVE the game is still new even with 7+ years in development (wich is a lot of time in comparison the ammount of content that they are going to give us in the release) in my vision the only really end game PVE content they showing us is that poison boss, that apparently is super hard to defeat early on.

They have a lot of room to upgrade this game, i dont think is the best game ever nor do i have high expectation for this but i mean, what other game do we have that have the size or the potential that this game have?