POTCO's failures compared to other games

[Captain Del]

The main problem with the points you brought up are:

1. POTCO is a pirate game caught in the middle between reality and fantasy. It really doesn't have much it can do in terms of creating these big, dramatic areas or these huge, extravagant bosses without going pretty far off kilter, because in the Pirates of the Caribbean Universe there are still substantial amounts of realistic elements that would prevent it from going all-out.
2. POTCO has barely any money compared to World of Warcraft or Runescape. It isn't as big of a commercialized game, and thusly it doesn't really have any major funds it can dip in to to get weekly bug fixes done while at the same time working on new content.

Either way there will always be bigger and better ways to do things. The dev team just needs to find that magic touch.