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Originally Posted by Sven Osymthe

That is just a personal opinion, but many people do feel that way. Content is actually anything new added to the game, good or bad.

Another personal opinion. What do you, Dear Reader, think? Is putting a tunnel, albeit a lovely tunnel, where a cave used to be content? Are the invasions content? What if you now avoid them? Feel free to discus it with us.

Personally, to me, there is not much of a difference between leveling, and questing. Going by "leveling is just mindless button mashing", is questing not just mindlessly following what the game tells us to do?

In a way this is true but it also assumes that leveling is the only point of the game. To me, finishing the chapter is the point of the game. Following a quest, no matter how linear it may be, is purposeful button-mashing. A means to an end where the end is something other than a number which merely indicates how many times you mashed a button. Notoriety = Mouse mashing. It has to be.

My main pirates on Open are still at level 40. I watched folks make a mad rush to re-master their pirates just to be the first. Some even cheated to do it. But what are they going to do if our good friends at Disney decide to drop a big, fat, brand-spanking-new story on us tomorrow? Why do the new chapter if all of your weapons and pirates are mastered? Do anything you want but just don't complain I guess...

Don't get me wrong, I would like a new story as much as the next person, but the discussion about new content is wrong. We have been given new content, just not in the form that we ourselves want.

Here we truly part ways. I look at it this way. Content is scripted, playable and on-going. Think of your favorite TV show. This year they try this...

The show comes on. Best episode ever. You LOVE it. Fast forward a week and tune in. It is the very same show as last week with one exception. The room your favorite character sleeps in has been painted a different color. Fast forward another week. Again, the same script, the same show except this time the kitchen has a new fridge and some wallpaper. Is this content? By your definition it is.

Remember, content is actually anything new added to the game (or TV show), good or bad.

We got the invasions. They were fun for a while. I count those as content. But after nearly two years, two once and future Mastered Pirates, a lost guild and monthly cash payments, I want more. You see, I pay for this. No one is giving it to me. Once upon a time it was an A+ experience. An E-Ticket for you Disney Lore Lovers. Then I finished the game. Finished it. But it was still a solid B. Still had my mates though. But they got bored and left and it was, quite frankly, Disney's fault. Dropped to a C-.

Then the silliness of "Here if comes, no it doesn't" that marked much of this year. And the straw that broke the pirate's back for me? Call Of The Kraken. Can you hear it? Its calling from 2006. I really think some guys are sitting back and coming up with new ways to mess with people. I guess I am just tired of having someone whiz on my leg and tell me its raining.

Now. If a new story comes out tonight? A+ Bay-Beeeee!. It is how much I like the game.