Well I know that a lot of people will disagree with me, but you asked us to voice our opinions of the new updates, so here goes mine.
First off I am glad the glitches are gone. Having them only made people go solo on everything. And I think that part of the fun of playing pirates ( at least for me ) was working together with friends to complete the quests. I think the friendships that I have made here are a lot more important than seeing how fast I can level everything. For me it is a game and not a career, so I dont want it to be to easy and I like the challenge of it being more difficult to complete the quests. Afterall you never saw real pirates sailing on their ships alone or fighting the navy all by themselves. They were always part of a crew. They worked together to get things done. And when it is more difficult to accomplish, you have a sense of satisfaction of having completed it.
As for the new quests I sort of agree with you there. They dont really help out the higher level pirates much. My pirates are level 40 and I dont get any rep from the quests, but I have still had a lot of fun completing them. You know for the last few months I have heard a lot of people complain that they never added anything new to the game. Well now they have and people are still not happy. I agree they they are still working on them and a few things could use a little improvement , but they are still something new, and that is what people wanted them to do. But as I said earlier I play mostly to past the time and to hang out with some pretty neat people. And I still get to do that, so I guess I am pretty happy with the game
