What do YOU think?

[Basil Dreadflint]

2 years, 5 months and a number of days from the instant I post this, the next story chapter will be released on the THIRD anniversary of the game.

It will be a MASSIVE update that takes over 3 hours to download, if you have a T-1 or faster connection. Longer for all the rest.

IT will contain a story line that includes the Kraken, the EITC, Jolly Roger and Davy Jones. The Notoriety levels will be raised to level 80, and the progression to each level will follow the non-linear progression that is already in effect. To get from level 79 to 80, you will need 102,600 rep. Level caps will be raised on all existing weapons, new versions of those weapons will be achieved by questing, and two new weapons will be introduced. (I think rifle and blunderbuss. But Blunderbuss may just be a skill of rifle, so I'm not sure.)

The day all this is released, there will be 3 level 40 pirates sailing on Abassa server in a light sloop. They will be the entire population of POTCO, because everyone else will have finally given up on the game. They are in a light sloop, because even they are only basic access. They are together on Abassa because only one of them thought to sell his war Frigate when he let is account go to basic, so he is the only one with a ship to sail.

Disney will start a massive ad campaign to try to make the game popular again, but all those of us who are gone will still remember the bad taste Disney put in our mouths for over 2 and a half years, and will not come back.

Approximately 2 weeks later, the same three pirates will be sailing in the same light sloop, when Disney finally realizes that they screwed up the game during it's early first year and a half of development, and that no one has any interest in being sucked in to the fiasco again. They, Disney, will pull the plug and the oceans will drain. The 3 pirates will then be able to walk around the ocean floor, from island to island, picking up those hundreds of thousands of ROYAL chests that we have all lost because our ships were sunk before we could get to shore.

The problem is that Disney forgot to raise the gold caps and they are still maxed at 65K in gold, and have nothing to spend it on anyway.

(OK, I'm being facetious here, but how far off is this, really?)