[Captain]

It just sort of seems cheap to keep reverting back to the same old dynamic to keep people playing; "dude if you like spend 20 hours leveling this weapon and stuff you'll like get super pro and be able to do stuff and have mad respect and most of all, you'll have spent 20 hours playing our game!"
I mean, all you do is level weapons so you can do more quests, most of which aren't really that engaging.

What I want is a huge overarching story that I can affect perhaps with my actions in some small way, or that at the very least I will have at the back of my mind almost as I play the game. In POTCO it seems like you're a pirate, but you don't really do anything really piratey unless you go miles find somebody to tell you to get your butt to plunderin'. It doesn't feel like you're a pirate living in this great world where you're an awesome pirate and you can go out pillaging and maybe that starts up a sequence of events where you're on the run from some crazy bad guys or whatever. You can't even shoot at other players unless you're in PVP, which I find really stupid and boring. You should be able to be like "hey man i don't like you so we're gonna start up a new plot story mode thing in which we don't like each other and we're rival pirates and if you decide to not come on for like 10 years it'll still pick back up where we left off and it will be fun and not a nuisance and very integrated, etc."

uh basically i guess I wanted a pirate's life for me from this game and i'm not really sure what I got. maybe the stuff im saying is too advanced, technologically for a small mmo like this to handle but still there's so much they could have done and could still do but i don't know why they don't do it.

also another side note the social dynamic is stupid as it stands; just like any other mmo. its a caste system: you've got the insane people who spend 20 hours a day on the game who have these guilds they won't let you into, and then you have these boring new kids who will quit within the week because the game sucks unless you fork over the moneys (a fact that i have no problem with; i just wish that what i was paying for was what i wanted, which is why i quit) and then a bunch of untalkative non-guild-member people. i mean you can say "hi wats up dawg" and they will reply "nawt much" but i find that you can't really build real lasting friendships or relationships in the game that aren't based on going out and kicking some navy butt or shooting at crabs until you level your weapon

just saying, i guess