Current News September 10, '09

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by John Silverhawk

When I read Pirates Online Staff members making promotional or accolade comments, they refer to themselves as a Team, not divisions.
How do you know that the developers do not come into the game and interact with us? We know the fact that it is "Staff members" behind GM's in operation, but why can't it be a developer, a engineer, a artist or any Cast member who is with the Pirates Online Staff?
For all we know, Bob Iger is Captain Walter and Tom Staggs is GM Xavier Hench, who can say for sure?? (two top Disney executives names used with the utmost respect - btw.) - sounds a bit like your aiming blindfolded my friend when you say such.

As far as "Disney being smart enough to keep their developers working on the game and not taking a break and interact with the guests", I would say, Mate, this is what the game is all about, interacting and redirecting to better meet the needs of the goal. It would appear a developer spends 98% of their time working on installing codes and the brief moment of interacting with RL people is probably a very welcome and deserved moment wouldn't you say?

We can't prove the developers actually go in, and we can't disprove. Unless there's footage of one of the developers playing as Captain Walter during an event, we'll never know. Odds are, we never will know. All we can do is make the educated guess and say Disney is smart enough to put other staff members on the job and let the developers work on the game.

I don't want the developers coming in the game anyways. Do you? Wouldn't it be better to have staff members go in the game to see what players want and then tell the developers?

Most other games don't have interactive "staff members" because they don't need to be. Frankly, if this is the only game with in game events, I'm glad. I've been playing the game since beta 2 and all I've gotten from them is a handful of half eaten candy bars with an I.O.U. I'm sure some of us long term members are upset, and if Disney would rather have their developers play the game than work on it, I should stop wasting my money.

The developers should be working on the game while other staff members go run around in the game hosting events. I don't want to pay for a game when I know the developers aren't working.(I don't consider hosting events working either)