I was listening to the radio and they had the actors who played Pintel and Ragetti on to talk up the game. I was playing Club Penguin with my son from time to time, and decided to give it a try. My son moved on to WOW and here I am.

Happened upon it by accident. I occassionally look on the Disney Jobs website for Steam Engineer's positions, just for kicks.
Then I saw some link that said Games and saw the POTC link. I downloaded it and was blown away.
I never play games and had no idea anything like this even exsisted.
I try to not to get sucked into the game like the first couple of Months I discovered the it.
I would spend hours and hours in one sitting.

I saw an ad on TV, the one with the pirates and skeletons battling. Looked fun so I gave it a try and immediately liked it. Still a little dissapointed that there has never been an actualy event like that.

I saw a commercial for it. So I told my mom that it looked fun and was free. she said yes and I played. My sister saw me play and started to play too. I googled pirate of the carribean fansite ,and found this. however my dad and other sister think its stupid. However with my guild on a low point and real life pulling me away, I am likely to leave soon. :(

Well, my niece saw the ad on TV and begged her mom (my sis Redfury) if she could try it out. Sis told her yeah, and Iron started playing. She played as far as she could on basic and begged sis to get her a pay account. Before Red got her the pay account, she made her own pirate to see what all the "fuss" was about. She got hooked on the game (as did my nephew Squidward).

I hit a ruff spot in my life and my loving sis and niece wanted sum thing to bring me out of it. Red keep talking to me to give it a try (at first the game didnt appeal to me at all). So I finally caved (just to shut them up....lolz sry sis). Started out as a basic player and in 5 minutes of playing, I was hooked. Went through about 4 guilds b4 I found the Krewe and never looked back.

Joining the Krewe and getting to get to know me Krewe mates and other friends saved me. They all pulled me from the dark and now I am a very happy pirate.

how I became a pirate
 

Loved the movies....saw the ad on tv and thought, "hey this might be neat...hadn't gamed in a long time..." Signed up and got hooked.

Between the movie and the movies, when my husband and I recently celebrated our 10 year wedding anniversary...we learned how to fight w/ cutlasses and renewed our wedding vows pirate style....made poet shirts, wore a period type wedding gown, a ship's wheel was our centerpiece on the platform, and we used all the POTC music from the movies. Instead of walking down the aisle, we sword fought down the aisle....much to even the pastor's surprise - no one knew we were planning on doing it.

So, yea, I guess I'm a pirate....

Ember Heartless

There's an old thread (You Might Be A Pirate If...) in the activity section (possibly the archives). That might qualify.

Believe it or not I'm a toon gone pirate. I was on the free trial for TT and I guess my trial period was up. So I looked for something to "fill the void". I went on the disney site to see other online games and here I am. Right now I think I'm reverting back to a toon.

My story is similar to some I've read. I too got an email, but it was for Pixie hollow, back in November 08. So I made fairies for me and my daughters, so we could play. I have a son as well and saw that there was a pirate game, so I figured I'd make a pirate for the boy. I found Pirate to be too hard to play with a four year old (sure he liked shooting skeletons, but we didn't do much else). Then I met a Fairy on PH who told me about the PHF. I joined and when I heard all my fairy friends were now pirates, well I had to open her back up. Things sure had changed, but with my new Pirate and my Pixie Pals I gained a new respect for the game. Pillagin' and Plunderin' the seas away!

I became a Pirate a couple days after watching one of those commercials from (2?)years ago with content that has yet to be released. Disappointed in their failure to actually put more than 3 fun bits in the game, I planned to quit, but my real life friend got me to stay longer, and somewhere along the line, I got hooked. :|

Back, before we even knew it was going to close, I was on VMK and a friend told me there was going to be a disney pirate game. He said he would probably play it more than he did VMK and thought I should join as well. This was before beta was open, so we made accounts that day and I forgot about it entirely. During summer last year, one of my other friends told me he was playing POTCO and I got on my long-lost account, and was hooked. I stopped playing during the school year, but now I'm back.