As always Bas, you continue to express the things many of us are thinking.
Just a few thoughts of my own:
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I would also like to address the redesign of the islands. The old Port Royal, Tortuga and Padres were just as functional as these new ones, and in some ways were even better. The facelift the islands were given was interesting, but they did nothing to enhance or improve game play.
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Odd choice of the word "facelift," as it truely does remind me of a facelift. A facelift removes some of the wrinkles, but can make the subject look plastic-like and stiff. The graphics for me are lifeless now. All of the islands used to have swaying palm trees. Now they are stiff blobs of green. The game used to look much prettier before the updates.
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Capt Whale
4. The new level increase and the invasions are bringing a lot of pirates back to the game. I have seen many old friends back in the last couple months. I do not believe pirates are leaving the game in droves. My guild is 6 months old and we now have 450+ members. 250 were gained in the last 3 months time. The fact is pirates come and go all the time and neither you or I have access to those numbers. Anything we say is simply speculation and personal observation.
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ex8404
The game is still fun but my guild is dead and I miss some of them. I just might join them in the role call of the missing in action.
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Yes, the experience of accounting for friends who have left the game is still largely anecdotal. But,I still have a massive friend list on my original pirate. The friends that I had made back in Dec 07/Jan 08 have not returned to the game. Some of these friends, I haven't seen in game since Oct 08. Many of the friends that I have made since then, are now getting discouraged because they don't believe the game is interesting any more.
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ex8404
CONTENT. We have been given a lot of frosting but almost no cake. Leveling is fine but I am kind of a weird gamer. I want my leveling to come with a purpose. I get bored just grinding away, undead raider after undead raider... Content is what goes in your Journal. If it doesn't end up there, it isn't content.
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Well said.
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Sven Niscadae
They can put in a new story chapter but where will we go for the quests? Who will we fight? The same old places we've been? The same old enemies we've fought before? Is this the entire Caribbean that we know? Will they be able to expand our "universe"? Lack of planning? That might just be the case. Goodness knows I've seen plenty of it the past few years from upper management where I work.
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Disney limited the pirating universe by making up a geographic freak of nature known as the Disney version of the geographical Caribbean. If they had designed the game with a more geographically accurate depiction of the Caribbean, we would have the whole Caribbean to explore. Just think of the storylines that could be developed if we had to deal with the native populations and the Spanish, Dutch, and French governments.