Announcement ***POTCO Closing***

[Platinum Pirate]

Originally Posted by Davy_Mcwrecker

I doubt the forums will close, but I hope the closing of the game will give us players something to hope for. Perhaps Disney will open a new POTCO, buy all the same, all my time spent on my pirate will be gone. I'm hoping to master him before they close the game. So I will try to play as much as possible, but they decided to close right as school started. So I can't be on as much.

It would be nice to think that they would at least keep our Pirate Accounts stored for a better version of the game. By that I mean, the pirates we created are simply stored some place safe. All that information remains intact. When the time comes, they will determine if that info remains 'as is' or simply reset our pirates to Notoriety 1 so we can start over on their new version with the same body types [or close to it]. Kinda how they let us keep our old body types when they created the new ones. The new version of the game will have newer bodies fit for that game. I'm sure the graphics will be awesome. Better stuff all around.

You would think, if they have a heart, they did consider and intend to do something along those lines. Then imagine the big surprise we would receive in our emails to come back to a brand new Caribbean. If you were a tester, you obviously would be the first to get wind of this. These forums would light up fast as news would spread forth far and wide. I know I would be among those knowing I'll have my pirates back who would be willing to subscribe once again. Those who never cared of course, same ones who are clueless that this game is shutting down now, their pirate files will be deleted at that point in time. Perhaps 90 days after the new game debuts on October 31st.

Clever marketing to be sure. The kind of Disney I'd like to believe it to be. They had to and they're banking on us that we will return with a greater appreciation for what they had given us originally. If that were so, I would estimate that it would happen between the 5th and 6th sequels of Pirates of the Caribbean. 2015/2016 isn't that far away when you think about it.

And even if that cutthroat boss of theirs has no intention of doing that, at least there would be some bit of mutiny among his crew. Someone would save those files believing that they will develop a better Caribbean someday. Shouldn't take that much space on a flash drive to liberate in broad daylight if not in the [Un]dead of night, right?

A nice thought or two I raise here for you, me Hearties.

[CYblade]

It would be indeed nice to know that the pirates that we all worked hard leveling/questing throughout the years would be saved somewhere instead of being trashed or forever deleted. I would love the idea that we can resurrect them down the road like Platinum stated. This game has soo much more potential if only they'd listen to us and our pirate community rallied together as one.

We are pirates indeed However, our swords won't be any use in this instance. The pen is mightier than the sword.

But Cy, couldn't we just send them emails?

Flooding an e-mailbox would be useless specially when someone can just trash those too. Send them actual letters. Take at least 5 minutes of your time and drop a note to Corporate Disney. Let them know how POTCO is truly one of the best pirates game for the family for all ages. Tell them how much you've enjoyed your pirating experience and ask them to please bring it back so others can enjoy it.


The Walt Disney Company
c/o Pirates Online
500 S. Buena Vista St.
Burbank, CA 91521-769


We've all spent a lot of our $ to play this game. What's another $.46 for postage specially if it means getting the attention of Disney executives and perhaps new life for POTCO?