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Originally Posted by gingeeann
 The reason why it is being done is probably economics. A few interns with a script are cheap compared with getting Johnny Depp, Orlando Bloom and Kiera Knightly to do the voices for the cut scenes. |
Disney wouldn't have to pay Depp, Bloom or Knightley anything in order to use the characters in the GM events. There are no voices, and it is Disney who owns the characters, not the actors. It doesn't matter WHO is doing the typing of the script during an event.
The entire GM event thing used to be previews of things to come, hints of how to play the game, discussions about new releases, and sometimes crewing up to go sail.
Now, the GM events are almost an entire different game than the original POTCO. They have grown into their own lore, story lines, and characters. They have absolutely no relationship to 'being' a pirate.
It's almost as if there are 2 different groups of developers at Disney, and each of them has totally different ideas of where the future of the game is going. One group wants it to be an MMORPG, "BE a pirate, sink the enemy ships, plunder the Caribbean."
The other group wants it to be a dinner mystery theater. (Here's the clues, solve the mystery. Tongiht's episode, "Who killed Captain Walter?" Next week, "Which of the shrouded islands does the Muertos Guild use as a hideout?")
I'm more of a pirate. Others are more into the mystery part. But you CAN be one without being involved in the other.