Disney Trash's Servers...

[Captain Del]

Mac, you seem to ignore what Disney has been doing the past few months.

The difference between Disney's old style of releasing out content, and how they do it now, is amazingly quicker. They've been pumping out more content than the plugged well in gulf pumped out oil. If they manage to keep the content flowing, I find it pretty hard to think they aren't "studying" up. Hell, in my personal opinion, they've aced every test I've given them since the Inventory update.

A simple cut back in the servers is NOT downgrading the game. Disney saw the amount of servers they had a waste of space - and honestly, it's true. If you took the old ratio of Ideal, to Quiet, it had to have been 1:10, at least. Cutting back on the servers is just saving more time on Disney's hands, so that they don't have to upkeep servers that barely a few people use each day. Not every cutback necessarily means dooms day approaches.

You all need to realize, the only reason you see the Quiet servers so "crowded," is because Disney has just recently released some MAJOR content. As such, populationand activity spikes are expected. So hold your horses, everything should be back to normal in a week or two, when people get back in to the normal cycle of release, play, and complain. After all, we aren't the only ones on this planet who play POTCO, now are we?

And another thing. I think most of you all are caught in the concept that corporate Disney pays for the finances of POTCO. Well, your wrong.

POTCO is left to scrap up whatever money it can, for itself. Between amusement parks, hotels, television stations, and all that stuff, corporate won't exactly be focusing on their gaming industry (especially with Christmas on the way, and families booking their trips to WDW as we speak.) POTCO pays for itself, and doesn't, nor can it rely on the Mouse himself to pay for it. When POTCO tanks, corporate isn't going to do a thing. They'll simply sit back and say "Good, now we can put those guys to work somewhere else!"

Of course, POTCO is not in a tanking state, nor do I see it going that way any time soon. Players I haven't seen in one, even two years are making comebacks. A majority of my basic members are renewing their subscriptions, as well as a lot of mates here on POF. POTCO is entering a boom state, and once they get in to the groove (although I think they already have,) don't expect them to let the opportunity pass them by.

Honestly, this is not the time to say Disney has failed this game. Aside from the bugs that have come with this update, (which the majority seem to fix themselves with a simple log off/on) Disney has done a mighty job at bringing this game back to gusto over the past few months.

Kudos, Mickey!

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by Captain Del

Mac, you seem to ignore what Disney has been doing the past few months.

The difference between Disney's old style of releasing out content, and how they do it now, is amazingly quicker. They've been pumping out more content than the plugged well in gulf pumped out oil. If they manage to keep the content flowing, I find it pretty hard to think they aren't "studying" up. Hell, in my personal opinion, they've aced every test I've given them since the Inventory update.

No, you fail to see through it all, and I'm assuming it's because you haven't been playing online games for 10+ years.

Disney, right now, is in a stage where they spent a good six months to a year on developing content, and then they started releasing it, one right after the other.

Do you think anything else bigger than Raven's Cove is going to come out in less than six months? Probably not. Unless they've been working on ship customization for three years, then I'm not happy. Unless they're reading to throw the Kraken into the game in three months, I'm not happy.

With toontown, you'll be at a dry period where there's no content for about three months during the year, and they'll throw in a bunch of contests, etc... That's all good, because they offer good rewards, like in game shirts so you can brag to your friends. During our dry period, we have lame GM events. Unless they have something big planned, then all we've been experiencing is luck.

They worked on potions, fishing, ship repairing, and the Raven's Cove quest, along with some cool new weapons for the past year, and then they release it. Unlesss they've been working on other big things at the same time, we're not going to see anything good any time soon.