Why pay full price for this game? I mean really.

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Originally Posted by MacIronhawk

Personally, when I look at online games, I see them as pay to play, no matter what.

Games that aren't pay to play need to survive off of ads, which can happen if there are enough companies which will profit because of the game but POTCO doesn't look like a game you'd play for free.

To be honest, I'm disappointed at the lack of updates just as much as you. When I look at Toontown and POTCO I see huge potential. And I mean HUGE potential. These are Disney run games, games which SHOULD prosper and be the basis that other online games shoot for.

Disney is a billion dollar company and should invest in this game. The problem is the amount of content they push out isn't enough to keep us entertained for years. We get bored within months of releases and then we have to wait more months for more content to come out. If Disney would just hire some more developers and put more money into this game, it would be great. I fear they look at these games as side attractions so the company can claim to be big in online gaming. Truth is, these two games are very creative and have great potential but Disney doesn't care enough about them.

POTCO and Toontown both should be pay to play, but I agree that they just don't get updated enough to be pay to play. this game is a few years old and we still haven't seen things like the Kraken(promised by developers to come out near the end of 2009!)

I don't think these games will be around much longer if Disney continues on this lazy track. The only way they're going to make millions off of these games is if they invest millions into it. We'll see what happens over the next decade, though.

I honestly don't know how many times this has had to be explained.

The game isn't necessarily RUN by Disney as much as it is OWNED by Disney. The Pirates developer team is its own separate thing. I'm pretty sure they can't just go ask Disney for money. Disney has SO many other things going on. Don't you think they would much rather gather money from the box office than from people subscribed to a game? Movies are the basis of Disney. Movies are what makes Disney so successful. Yes, the smart thing would be to invest in this game, as it could possibly generate as much revenue as films. But then what would happen to their films? They would flatten out, and people would lose interest. Movies have a wider audience than games. Think about it, a single movie probably makes more money than this game does in a year, let alone a franchise like the POTC films.

What I'm trying to get at is that the POTCO team can't just hire more developers and be throwing out the updates. Finding someone that can make the game the way it has been isn't as easy as plucking them from a crowd. And even if they did start pumping the updates out, they would eventually have nothing else to give to us. They'd be fresh out of ideas and then the game would collapse. Sooner than if they take their time like they are now.

Updates take money, so they have to collect the money they've earned from paying players to do these sort of things. When they hit a really big update is when more money usually starts coming in, and they can either use this to hire more developers, or have another big update. More developers = faster updates, but not necessarily big updates every time. More big updates = more cash flow and even more big updates.

Basically it's whatever road they choose. If I missed anything, I'm sure someone will point it out.