Pirates of the Burning Sea officially sets sail today, however the game has been delayed getting out of port by at least an hour:

Our launch is delayed until at least 10 a.m. Pacific time due to an issue with SOE's LaunchPad. Our friends at SOE are debugging an issue they discovered during final testing and they expect to have it resolved, tested, and live within the hour.

We're really sorry for this delay but are at least pleased that the issue was discovered internally before all of you hit it instead!

I'm sure this makes my crew happy since they get to sleep in an extra hour after taking the night off to drink rum.