Too QUIET!

[Benjamin Dreadgull]

Originally Posted by Eliza Creststeel

maria,

dude, too. So, no harm no foul!

So, about this POTCO UK, will only citizens of the United Kingdom be able to play? I mean if it is going to be soooo much better - would we be able to defect?

http://www2.disney.co.uk/piratesonline/

Just looked at the site... Man, oh man if this is any indication - we in the States are being HOSED!

No its our game updated and introduced into the UK we should be recieving the same game and be playing on the same servers as the UK pirates.

New to them Update for us.

[Eliza Creststeel]

Ben,

Hope that's true. If so, I just breathed a bit of a relief...

Sounds silly maybe, but after building guild sites, organizing pirates, making dear friends, plundering, and even contributing to encyclopedias on this game - I'm just not ready to give it up...

[Maximvs]

I cant believe that web site is still using the same early 2007 commercial cutscene.... do they not realise that UK players have probably seen the game here?

[Juliana Maria]

I agree. The silence is concerning. But I do have faith they are working on something.... When I joined POTCO a little over a year ago, their webpage was updated weekly or close to it! Now we are lucky if its even monthly! And I don't count crew with the GM and those promotions for the in-game events either. I just wish they gave us some sort of hint as to when we might get the update, that way we can at least know how long we are waiting instead of going day by day. Even another "What's On the Horizon" would reassure me that they DO remember....

[edwardburnskull]

Originally Posted by Maximvs

I cant believe that web site is still using the same early 2007 commercial cutscene.... do they not realise that UK players have probably seen the game here?

No I saw a decently new one

[Davy Keelhawk]

Originally Posted by The Count

First rule in waiting for new contenet. DONT BELIEVE ANYTHING ON A COMMERCIAL!

Those are desighed to draw you in not that there is going to be a new update.

Anyway, POTCO has had a good enough time to give us what we want but instead they waste vauble time on usless updates and talking about things we already know.

but hey if they put it in a commercial, they had designed it, which MEANS, theyre going to put it online right? :j

[Kaionai]

They just want your money and your time, Game has gotten rather boring.....nothing new...and then when the game does come out with something new it can be completed in less then a day..this is your casual gamer MMORPG that i have finally come to realize yet another game with much potential gone to waste...*sigh*

[MacIronhawk]

There are a lot of reasons why there hasn't been a "big update" yet. The economy could be a reason. For all we know their hours have been cut back severely.

This long period of wait is normal. On toontown there was(is) a cycle where Cog HQs come out with smaller updates in between cog HQs updates. It took two years for bossbot HQ to come out and we made it. It hasn't even been two years yet and people have said that the game is "dead". I don't know why there were almost no impatient threads/posts on TTC when Bossbot HQ was in the works but now there are countless threads/posts here about how the game is "dying".

The game is certainly not dying. We're just in between big updates. I guarentee that we'll see exactly the same cycle once the next big update comes out. There will be excitement and then after four months people will get bored and want more. I want to ask everyone here this question. Is it so hard to stop playing the game and tell yourself to be patient?

The developers are people too. In the developer bios I think there are probably nineteen developers. They can only do so much. Sixteen hours if you want to be specific since the brain needs eight hours of sleep.

If you've played toontown you'll also know that the UK players play with the US players. We all play on the same servers. The only difference is the websites.

[Maximvs]

Originally Posted by edwardburnskull

No I saw a decently new one

Ok... donno where - cause on that site those screens are SO OLD that it even shows the old Padres - the pre-beta ships - even that old Kraken Cutscreen which everyone drools over everytime someone finds it every six months or so (which is OLD... )

Originally Posted by Mac

We're just in between big updates.

Mac, I admire your steadfast hope, I think many of us do. Many of us also hope for more at some point - but its really about the facts.

First - theres no between - theres never been any updates.

The additions of SvS (last years "big update") was added only bcause it was cut out before release because of timelines - and even its so buggy not many play it.

The game designs are also different - the Cog HQ's and its play allow for repeating with actually accomplishing more (hence - replay value!) ... but getting to re-do the Pearl over and over? Znooze!

It would of been different if there was a storyline that made "a circle" of adventure - instead of do A, go to B, kill C, repeat.... - at the end of the line, theres nothing left.

If Disney plans to release only once every 18-24 months - they better do some serious planning on a "revolving" storyline where the adventure never ends.

Much more could be posted, but its all been posted before. Many have made suggestions, many have provided feedback to fix issues, many continue to try to hang on... but Disney only continues to hamper peoples efforts (accounts, fix useless bugs while major ones go on ignored), throw up useless updates (new towns), and add quests no one needs (like that L5 weapons are any good to a mastered pirate... just wasted REP and time).

People have a legit reason to be upset, because when the players can make more of a game out of it (by planning games and quests and adventures of their own) better than the game makers - its very sad.

[Cannonfury]

They may also be waiting, so they can fix any bug in the updates before releasing them. Unless they cannot do that if it's not on test yet, since that's what I assume test servers are for.

[Stephen O'Malley]

Originally Posted by Aaron McEagle

Wow. I looked at the screen shots and they pretty good. But why are they working on the UK game if there other game is going down hill?

Maybe because they're losing so much money, that they NEED to expand across the pond for more potential consumers.

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by Maximvs

Mac, I admire your steadfast hope, I think many of us do. Many of us also hope for more at some point - but its really about the facts.

The game designs are also different - the Cog HQ's and its play allow for repeating with actually accomplishing more (hence - replay value!) ... but getting to re-do the Pearl over and over? Znooze!

If Disney plans to release only once every 18-24 months - they better do some serious planning on a "revolving" storyline where the adventure never ends.

I'm just used to the whole cog HQ, little updates, cycle. I'm thinking POTCOs cycle might be, story quests, smaller updates, etc... It really is too bad POTCO can't create replay value like with the Cog HQs in toontown. I think they could come up with something really great. The devs are "disney imagineers".(Maybe...) There's about a story quests and a half(or more) put into every toontown cog HQ. That means we'll need about eight story quests(or more) before we can get the same value as toontowns content.(but toontown did come out before POTCO so it shouldn't take more than six years) I hope.

Also, sorry if I'm calling anyone impatient. I've just had less time on the computer because of a health class taking up my time. We all have different situations and I can understand why someone would be impatient if they had a lot of time on their hands.

Too bad the dev staff isn't bigger. I'm sure we'd see a lot more updates if they could double the staff.

[BigJohn]

Originally Posted by Aaron McEagle

Wow. I looked at the screen shots and they pretty good. But why are they working on the UK game if there other game is going down hill?

Ahem! I've been playing pirates and I'm from the UK and have done so for the past year and half! As unlimited user. Be-wildered at why there is seemingly a UK version???
Anyway, not sure what's been advertised here, looks great even the bit where it says 'use authentic weaponary'.
So Lightning bolt from a cannon, fury!? What about Voodoo magic, I'm sure that is authentic. Also another amazing thing is that with all the sailing and fighting pirates, the undead, the EITC and Navy - I've never died (just go to jail!), never had Scurvy, rickets, Pox, blood infections from battle, my leg sawn off due to a bad cut and gone sceptic. Aye Disney, Aye - authenticity and become a Legend....

[Eliza Creststeel]

On the replay thing...

Why can't they set up a mini-boss battle situation where the EITC is trying to set up a major outpost on various islands and the pirates have to take it out like with the Cogs...

You pop on to one server and Beckett has a force of guys trying to take over Cuba or built some new fort on Rumrunners... a collection of pirates gather and go take it down. And that could be different on each server.

Would it be that hard?

[Richard Ironskull]

The recent silence could be many things, but I choose to believe they are busy with the UK version, which will roll out in a way that they simultaneously massively update the US version. That kind of project would explain why they are releasing such easy to program updates now, and have gotten quiet as of late.