POTCO's failures compared to other games

[Captain Jorden]

Almost everyone who has played computer games knows the game runescape, a large successful game company that started with little money. Now look at them, they don't need money but to pay everyone in bussinness, they need the money.

Also look at Wizard101, that game started with a few people, i think it was a family, but its successful(its even a childrens game!), then look at poor pirates, toontown, club...

ToonTown and club Peignun is more successful then pirates, I'm not saying I don't like pirates either, I like to sail ships and sink navy ships. So stop acting like you got nothing to do on pirates, other then to stand on tortuga abassa and say "I hate this game..."

If you don't like the game then go to other games, just don't be rude to other people(especially low lvs) cause then its gonna pass from this generation of pirates and go on forever. Now to me I was never runescape fan but Everyone can live without a social game.

[HammyTheSquirrel]

Originally Posted by jorden98

ToonTown and club Peignun is more successful then pirates,

It also seems that POTCO is the newest of them... (is it not?). And maybe we should wait and see how well POTCO grows and improves in the next year or so. I really think customization saved half of the game since it is a key feature needed for in-depth, more interesting sailing. IJS...

[Ice_Storm]

Originally Posted by HammyTheSquirrel

It also seems that POTCO is the newest of them... (is it not?). And maybe we should wait and see how well POTCO grows and improves in the next year or so. I really think customization saved half of the game since it is a key feature needed for in-depth, more interesting sailing. IJS...

Toontown is more successful than Pirates Online for obvious reasons:

1) It appeals to the audience they are trying to attract (mainly children, all cartoon graphic friendly)

2) It has replay-ability for maxed out content.

Ex. Sellbot HQ Suit, Mr. Hollywood lv. 50; You can still do SBHQ VP boss and still get useful rewards like toon-up and gag-up cards that are still used even by the veteran players with maxed laff.

Pirates Online has no challenge-like enemies whatsoever. Half of the time, you are OP.

3) The RPG-style game-play seems to work really good for Toontown.

4) New content is never maxed out in a day/week/month.

Ex. 1: Bossbot HQ; Do you know how many stock options they make you collect for each level you go up in your suit? Sometimes more than 6000+ for some suits. Also, the places where you get these "stock options" can range from 30 minutes to an hour long to complete, only obtaining 2.3k per run.

Ex. 2: Goofy Speedway; same thing here. It doesn't take one day to get all trophies for kart racing in Toontown. To get all of them, you will be expected to do more than 400+ races and 30+ tournaments on Mondays only, and that's 3 races each tournament round. There's ton of replay-ability to get these achievements, and the content stays strong longer than a week. Believe it.
Pirates has no content on this game that has replay-ability for grinding purposes on new content. Always "Hey, I'm going to max this and that's it, I'm done.".

Toontown, the rewards are so useful, even if your suit is maxed out. Maxed laff toons still benefit from that stuff, that's why they keep going back. Content that maintains a purpose to keep players seeing a reason to do those activities.


I could continue to list more positives of how TT is more successful than POTCO, but you should get my idea with just those 4 and some examples I listed.