Talk Like a Pirate Day GM Event

[Crazypirate]

Um we are approaching the second anniverary with no new story chapter yet, and yes I mastered 4 pirates and had my 5th at 37, before the update, so I finished the quests and yes last year during the first GM event they talked of a war coming and Jolly Roger becoming more powerful so we would need the new weapons that were heading to the carribean! I enjoyed the zombie dance and the all out PvP and have no issue with it coming back. Its just that I along with alot of players out there want a new story line more than anything else. Enough talking in circles Walter and give us an honest answer is it coming soon or not its not difficult to do. And also as a PAYING customer I reserve the right to complain all I want if I am getting poor service!

[JM Ohara]

Well said mate! Indeed, those of us who do pay for it have a perfect right to expect to get something out of our memberships. As a small business owner I would never run my business the way D runs Pirates. I could go into a whole lot, but the bottom line is what matters. The bottom line is if you don't stay fresh and update, you will loose your customers. That's what we are. We are customers of D, and as paying customers should be able to expect to see D using the money we pay to do something actually new, more often than every two years.

People say frequently $10 doesn't buy anything. Maybe, but my 10, your 10, and so on add up fast. Just 10 paying members makes $100, and we all know there are thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of paying members. No, the games aren't the biggest D draw. Fine, but you can not tell me that they aren't making enough to make that money we pay worth it.

It's down to the bottom line. D will either update Pirates, or they will continue to loose players. Seems to me they are making their choice loud and clear.

[Captain Sureshot]

I agree with the OP. As far as I can tell, the role-playing event was only setting up the upcoming Muertos Moon, a repeat of last year. Of the four Host GMs I had a chance to talk to, none of them gave any indication of anything else while specifically talking of "the curse." If I'm not mistaken, the new sword had already been alluded to on a Developer's Diary and in past utterings by the Marceline Guild. I have no problem with having an event repeated annually.

I do not feel I can say that the wait for any future updates is or is not worthwhile until after the update is released. They usually have not been worth the wait for me. For instance, in the most recent updates the new cave environments were not worth the wait. I like the new look of the caves, but it added little to my actual game play experience. Plus where the heck are the apparitions of Jolly Roger? (Recently I've been playing on a laptop with lower than maximum graphic settings, so maybe it is filtered and I am simply missing it.)

As a long time player, I do appreciate most changes that have been made. POTCO changed three main islands and lowered polygon count in the player models as part of a push to downgrade the game enough so it plays better on low end computers. The game has also made many changes to the beginning play experience, including making that easier. And I think that is all great.

But, as we approach the second anniversary, an addition of a new story chapter or other substantial new content is, in my opinion, long overdue. I would much rather give up "enhancements" to existing parts of the game if it meant receiving actual additions to the game.