I just check the official site and the rates seem to be the same as they always have been.

I just looked and didn't see any rate increases.

$4.95 first month $9.95 per month thereafter
$49.95 for 6 months
$79.95 for a year

I may be wrong, but I think these are the same rates from when I started 16 months ago.

Rates...
 

They are. Ella, where did you see the price was changing?

Ella,
that just make me think of something,
Those that get suspended or banned will just make a basic pirate and go in that way so they can do the same stuff that got them in that mess anyways. Only difference is now they will show as a different pirate name (or not) and they will be a basic member and most of the paid members just assume those are kids playing and ignore it.

I just want to be able to have more than one of my 4 on at the same time. Most people in the game know that I have been doing 2 at once for awhile now and it wasn't until a couple months ago when I did 3 at once and a couple times I even tried 4, it was pretty much a screen shot moment. I can only handle 2 at once and usually do that. That is one pirate per hand.

I need to play double as I get too bored doing just one.

Honestly, id rather them raise the rates by a dollar or two, then try to hit families up for paying for additional accounts. That would at least be more straight up with the community as far as the dollars and cents go. Not yank our chains as it seems they are doing to me.

There are a few better ways of handling this as a "security" issue than shutting everyone (linked account usage) down like did. Besides if this was a security issue, its been ongoing for quite awhile, and I fail to see the effectiveness of turning it off out of the blue without having taken other actions towards the issue at hand.

Solution #1 - Make banned accounts inaccessible in all ways. A linked account not being able to access it would solve this problem.
Solution #2 - Change the system to allow multiple logins on the same account (up to 4 per account).

EDIT: Solution #1 is better, as kids playing on family accounts could easily delete pirates on the main account if using option #2, whereas linked accounts cannot delete pirates on another account.

There are probably more approachs, but these 2 seem quite obvious. And something they could have worked on without shutting everyone down, because as I said, if this was a security issue, its been ongoing now for quite awhile, and did not warrant a sudden shut down of the feature.

The one and only time I got banned from the game, their customer service manager actually TOLD me to create an additional account to circumvent the ban. Thats Disney wisdom for you.

Got this reply this AM, after my follow up email:

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Pirates of the Caribbean Online.

We appreciate your feedback and suggestions regarding the issue of
linked accounts for families. All of your comments will be shared with
the appropriate parties. In the meantime, rest assured: we are working
on a solution that will directly address your concerns.

We hope to see you in the Caribbean soon.

Thank you,

John

I remember that Zep. Innane.

I hope you sent them what you just posted. I may take some liberties with it myself and up their inbox volume today.

That's the first semi-encouraging response I've seen.

Follow these instructions and your grog blog comments go straight to the game manager not actually to the grog blog, and it does work so lets flood his in box

As the Community Manager, it's my job to make sure the messages that you're sending us reach the right ears. You can send me feedback through the Grog Blog, just make sure you put "Attention: Community Manager" in the first line of the message. My job is also to make sure you know where we're heading, for that you'll see more updates like this in the future.

My only concern:

Community Manager = Public Relations

They are deverting us to a "public relations" person because after two days of trying to manage incoming bombardment they are now putting a "front person" in place to intercept...

So send to both :D He can get some - and the general box can get some also ;)

Looks like the resistance is starting already for most of the evening or pretty much all evening one sole pirate is in Tortuga on Abassa ocean chanting over and over again the following,

"BRING BACK ACCOUNT LINKS I WILL NOT BE SILENCED! VIVA LA RESISTANCE!"

Thank you pirate for doing this, we all hope you get heard by the right people and those right people actually respond by giving back and not giving you the ban.

He is certainly getting attention but unfortunately some people are smart enough to turn on ignore.

I just want to have more than one of my 4 on at once again.