PotCO is in a bad shape...

[Pirate Guy]

[QUOTE=xdj1nn;287283]Hello to ya all...

I came here just to express my disappointment with the game, specially with Disney to allow such a thing to happen...

I used to play PotCO on limited access during the Beta due to Disney's policy to only allow, at that time, the North American users to pay (completely ridiculous if ya ask me)

The game was awesome, if I am not wrong it had wind influence on the ships at some point, we had pets, we had that awesome Shipwreck Isle, we had tons of clothing, the only part that was quite limited were ships and weapons.

Ok this part first. I played POTCO since about a month after it came out ( have the loyalty bandanna to prove it :P ) I do not remember pets at all. I took a break from the game and I don't know if there were pets and they took them out but from what I hear that never happened. as for Shipwreck Isle, I never saw that either.

The game is fun, but the quests are insanely repetitive and they take hours and hours to be finished, some skills like Take Cover from Sail, are really bad positioned, I mean, those are unbalanced and can give you lots of headache until you can get those essential skills for each skill-tree. Why the hell would I need the tacking speed before Take Cover?

I'll admit some quests can get boring but usually I never get bored while working on Black Pearl quest. also you need to calm down Tacking speed, I believe , increases the turning speed while take cover protects your ship. I don't see at all how those two are related but whatever works.

What we have got from this: Either you are making up Pets and Shipwreck Isle or I missed them. Also you are very frustrated at two skills that are similar in no way, shape, or form. And that quests are fun but sometimes tedious.



EDIT: Also I did like the old days because I liked ship hopping and gold glitches. I played in the old days and I had plenty of fun. I am also having fun now though. But it does seem now all you see is level 50's with 3 weapons mastered who only play the game to get loot. I'm not saying anything is wrong with that no, I'm just saying the point of the game is to take the Black Pearl and level up to level 50.

[Captain NightWolf]

The game does need to be thoroughly looked into by Disney...for a few reasons...

1) needs a graphics overhaul...desperately...

2) the servers need to be updated with better machines to handle the traffic more efficiently to lessen the lag/latency...

3) new content


Getting clothes, swords & stuff is fine and all...but the game needs to be as we all remember it from the first time we played it...heck I remember just going up to the fort on PR and feeling the adrenaline rush from being chased by the EITC guys...every place we went was a NEW ADVENTURE...

Pirates took their time to explore and actually do all the quests, leveling up while making new friends along the way...nowadays we have players jumping around trying to fast track their levels without going through what we did...

Even for us, things aren't as exciting as back then...sure we got some new stuff and a new island to explore...but how long did the excitement really last?

When you look at other MMO's, they have a huge world in which to explore...and when they do get updates, they get major updates full of quests and exploration to last them 6 months to another year or so...

Updating the islands was ok, even though I kinda miss the look of certain islands, but what Big D should've done was overhaul them all at once while tossing at us the fishing, Raven's Cove, etc...not in little increments because that's where the problem lies...we finish the new stuff rather quickly and then what's left?

Yes this is a fun game...it's also a nice social game upon which many true friendships are made...but it does need more, plenty more to substain it...not little its & bits here and there...it needs a grandiose push forward...

How hard would it be, let's just say, to add an entire new area with a dozen or so new islands to explore and quest on?

It could be like in World's End, where one would have to sail out past an island and hold course for 5-10 minutes or so before they found themselves in artic waters...then traverse a chasm through a huge ice wall and come out to discover all these new places...how cool would that be?

I will keep playing this game because I do believe in it's future...if enough people want it, we should get it because the last thing a developer wants to do is ruin relations with the ones that support their product...

And I hope they read this as much as we read all of their stuff...they need to read these posts/threads of ours because it's the best insight to what's good and what isn't...