How Did You Become a Pirate?
 

Lizzy was sitting here thinkin about when she was first introduced to POTCO. She met a pirate on another site that she frequented. Didn't know at the time that he was a pirate! Probably for the best...Pirates are frightening beings for those that aren't acquainted...lol But after chatting back & forth for awhile, Lizzy decided to give POTCO a try. She was very timid, at first, and awkward. Well, she is still at bit awkward, but a lot stronger at this point. Anyways, that was a little over a year ago, and Lizzy is at home in the pirate community now...Thanks to Bart who guilded her, her Krewe mates, and her friends on both POTCO & the Forum. Was just wondering...how did the rest of you become "Pirates of the Caribbean"? :piratewheelgo2:

I saw a cool commercial long ago. I signed up and with a slow computer it was boring. But i play for a year limited and decided to give unlimited a try when i got a new computer! So now im a happily ever after pirate!:piratear:

Nice idea for a thread Lizzy! Lets see my friend came over we had NOTHING to do. So we just started playing my 360, we got bored so we turned it off. Right when we turned the channel back there was a commercial. It was at the ending of the commercial all I heard was Pirates Of The Caribbean Online so it looked cool. It was time for my friend to go home. Once he left I checked it out and here I am. :)

Always been a big fan of POTC, the amusement park ride had always been a favorite of my families. Then the movies came out, and they are all great films, love watching them all over and over. Around Superbowl time last year I saw the ad on TV, and had to give it a shot. Swore I would never 'pay' a monthly fee to play a game. I enjoyed myself in free play, but quickly came to the point I had to subscribe to continue. Still vowing not to pay I justified trying to use a gift card i'd gotten for christmas, and it worked! I was able to play for 2 months on that card, and when that ran out.. well I was hooked. Im on an annual subscription now. :)

Avast me hearties!!! Tis a great game.. More please Disney!

I heard about POTCO coming out in beta when I was playing TT and a bit more active on the TTC site. The day it went live, I started playing. I think I was a basic member for all of 45 minutes before I signed up for the annual subscription. Two Open and Two Test accounts later, I'm still piratin' ;)

Got an e-mail from Disney a week before going to WDW (I get two newsletters a month from them on stuff) and one was to try out the game... I was looking for a new game to ry out - so I signed up - and crashed when I went to sail.

I was stuck in Port Royal for a few days until I switched my video card back to an older model after I couldn't find an answer to my issue here (this was before the ATI fixes were posted here... and that's when I discovered POF as well ;). Once I sailed... I was TOTALLY hooked, and payed up. :D

I had been playing Pixie Hollow for about 4 months & saw the Pirates logo onthe Disney Games page. I checked it out & made a Pirate but decided it was way too complicated for me. I tried again about 5 months later when others on Pixie Hollow Forums talked about it. I made a new Pirate & "Lightened up my screen" lo & behold I could see!! I have been playing ever since (about a month now) So I have my Pixie Pals to thank especially Li & Molly! Now I have 7 Pirates to go along with my 8 Fairies :) I knewe about POF because I am on PHF & the sites share many admins & mods so I feel right at home here too of course!!

well i saw a commercial about a year ago and i wasnt all into the idea. but then my dad said (yes im under 18) i should try it out so i did on a laptop and it took me 15 minutes to get into port royal, but when i tried back home (i was on vacation in the CARABBEIN :laughks2:) on the big computer and i was liking it

I clicked a little link, ended up registering... and then here I am, a year, 3 months, and 10 days later (at least since becoming unlimited :D)

Well in February 2007 I was watching tv and I saw this ad for POTCO. I disregarded it as some child's game. The commercial keep airing and airing, kinda got annoying. Then I thought, why not look into it. I had never played a online game before. So in March I signed up. I remember in the begging I keep getting killed by crabs... AAhhhh crabs!!!!!!!

When I 1st played, when I saw AFK players I thought they were players who had gone offline.... and when they logged on, their pirate is there where they left it.

As the son of a son of a sailor, I went out on the sea for adventure. Matt and I saw the commercial for POTCO over a year ago and we tried it as basic access players. Didn't take long for ME to be the one who got hooked and started paying.

I saw a commercial when it first came out and remember thinking, oh that looks cool but never wrote down the info. Between that time my POTC craze really kicked in. Finally I caught the commercial again and that's what brought me here! Was hooked the second Jack helped me out of jail lol.. :)

I saw a commercial. I'm a sucker for an ad of a fun-producing product: I've joined another game recently because of an ad (not pirate-related, much cheaper) and am currently singing the song for the Turbo-Fill Blaster (you can blast faster...) all the time. I also intend to get the last item listed.

Believe it or not, I did research before the game came out.

I looked up pirate games during 2006 and found out that there would be a Disney's Pirates Online. After playing toontown, nothing was going to stop me from playing this game. I then signed up for beta 2 after months of looking at the video insiders on the pirate site. I made it, played during beta 2, and have been hooked ever since.

I don't mind wasting $80 a year on a game that I enjoy, even if content hasn't come out for quite a while. I played console games a lot before online games. I'm so used to not having more content I'm perfectly fine with it. (I do admit that new content is fun, though.)

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.