Pirates of the Carribean, to be released in May?
 

If you want to cut to the chase read the quote at the very bottom of the thread from the New York times
Yes folks, we finally know the month that POTCO will be released!
This sudden revelation was exposed to me earlier today when I was sitting down in my comfy chair and reading the New York Times, (It's a great habit to read the NY Times by the way as a teen/child, it give you a great idea of what's really going on in the world and protects you from the common-held ignorance that most well-off people under 18) and a little article called "It’s Not a Sequel, but It Might Seem Like One After the Ads" about the upcoming Pixar movie, Ratatouille(I may be too old for it, but when I saw the preview for it, I was definitely impressed. I'm actually probably going to see it), and Pixar's attempt at making fresh original sequels. It seemed interesting enough, so I took a glance at it, and as the article went on to discuss Disney's yearn for sequels and add-ons to movie, when I saw a paragraph about our own POTCO. After giving a basic description of the game, they mentioned that it would come out next month , meaning that we can now be certain that it won't come out in June or April, but May.
Here's the little section about POTCO,
"In addition, the entertainment conglomerates that now own studios may only bring their full resources to bear on the second or third in a series of films. Next month, for instance, Disney will unveil a “massive multiplayer” online game keyed to its three “Pirates of the Caribbean” movies. This potentially lucrative enterprise took three years to develop, and would be far more difficult to build around a one-time success like “The Incredibles.”"

well i we shall see how the 2 stress tests go they havent even given us fullscreeen back and the tool bar still only has 4 slots instaed of 12 and there are bunchs of other things still not in the game.. so dont hold your breath... look they even moved the movie back 2 weeks.. but I am sure when its ready we will be ther first to know :-)

Errrm. I already had thought of this. I'm guessing May 4, actually, so that they can try to steal people away from the Spidey 3 opening (Like that'll happen -rolls eyes-). ZOMG How can you say you're too old for Ratatouille?? (Yes, you did spell it wrong.)

They really will have to pull a miracle to get this ready in time for May. Lots of bugs abound!

Not surprising, since they've already said that the game would be out before the 3rd "Pirates" movie opens in theaters.

well i we shall see how the 2 stress tests go they havent even given us fullscreeen back and the tool bar still only has 4 slots instaed of 12 and there are bunchs of other things still not in the game.. so dont hold your breath... look they even moved the movie back 2 weeks.. but I am sure when its ready we will be ther first to know :-)-wildtaz999
You made some good points there mate, and normally I'd agree with you, but you don't hand out a release date/month to the New York Times unless your going to keep it. We're talking about the(in my opinion, and I do believe it's the most sold) biggest newspaper in the country! Disney does not want millions and millions of people to read about a false date, no matter how subtle a role the game may play in this article. Also, I'm sure Disney has a scheduled release date scheduled they haven't told us about, they may want to release this one as a big suprise.
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Errrm. I already had thought of this. I'm guessing May 4, actually, so that they can try to steal people away from the Spidey 3 opening (Like that'll happen -rolls eyes-). ZOMG How can you say you're too old for Ratatouille?? (Yes, you did spell it wrong.)-Captain
Well mate, you made have come up with a likely release date, yet now we have cold, hard proof that it will come in May. Also, I highly doubt they can make May 4th, considering the numerous bugs on beta and the long list of fixed/additions they have to make to the game before it's ready to go!
Also, perhaps your right Captain. Pixar is perhaps the only company out there(besides Dream Cast, well, at least with Shrek) that dishes out movies meant for the younger kids that the whole family, from a 5-year old all the way to older(60+) adults, will actually enjoy, and Ratatouille appears to be no exception(thanks for pointing out the spelling mistake, gotta fix that right away!).
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They really will have to pull a miracle to get this ready in time for May. Lots of bugs abound!-Pirate Funnymush
Once again mate, you don't give a date to a big time newspaper like the Times unless your serious about it.
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Not surprising, since they've already said that the game would be out before the 3rd "Pirates" movie opens in theaters.-Vandelay
Really, I never knew that. I assumed it would be open right after or on the date of the movie.

Yeah, I really don't think it will be ready BY May probably at the least the middle of May probably the end of it lol. But to make a game great, it takes time im not in any hurry lol.

~Cpt.Sea

This game took three years to develop?
That's incredible, they must be planning something really big.

Keep in mind we, as beta testers, may be playing versions much farther behind then what they have developed.

Im not suprised.

On the website, it says COMING SPRING 2007, and May is a part of spring.

This only confirms our suspicions. POTCO will be out this month (WOOHOO!)

also may is the last month of spring

yea good point. In some ways i hope that we are... A better version awaiting us

Yeah, theres TONS of lag atm.

It works for me with 512mb RAM and a 64mb graphics card :D

Anymore valid info on the official release date? and are we testing the full version ( paid ) game or the free version? thanks

free version at least i am

To answer your first question, I heard from a reliable source that it would be released May 14th, but another one said the 16th. Chances are one of those is right, which would be good because that's real soon.

And also, we know from Disney itself that the game will be released in Spring 2007. May is the last month of Spring, so that helps confirm the above release date.

To your second question, my guess is it's the full one. If it wasn't, they wouldn't have testers for the pay only features, and that would be a bad idea.

-War

I'd bet the farm on the fact that the game won't be out on the 14th or 16th of May. There is a still a LOT of work to do on this game. My best guess of when it will be out is the 31st of May. :D

It was reported that the game would be released along with the movie. The movie is slated to be released on the 24th of May in the US. http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/pirates/

how many times do i have to tell ppl it comes out the 25th of may

the movie is the 25th yes but the game i'm hearing anywhere from the 14th to the 22nd or later so......

Well, as we can see it's not out yet, and it is the 14th. Now that I think about it, I did think it was a little odd that they would release the game before the third movie was out. XD Probably will be the 25th or so after all.

Hopefully I'll get my beta key before that, though. ^.^

-War

No, June is, untill, I believe, June 25th.

Is the game out yet? No? Ok, I'll wait some more. :D

so.. what day?

No specific release date yet, but my suspicion is that it will be released sometime from the 25th to the 31st.

That's just my guess though. It would seem like that would be the perfect time to release it, though at the same time, the game has a lot of work left. Not sure if it can be pulled off before then. Guess we'll just have to trust the POTCO Crew and hope it gets finished by then.

-War

The game is not looking too good... If you think about how they have been selling it for the last 2 years, and last year is when I signed up for Beta (only was able to get on last week of the 4 or so testing started)...

It's running 24hrs (sort of), like Toon Town, and they update a lot, but some of the basic stuff dosen't seem to be getting fixed- like tasks you need to advance in the game.

That might be to slow us down, and fixing it would mess with all the accounts, but what they have (on the servers we use) could be finished in 2 weeks of game play.

More than 1/2 the shops are empty, I've been to islands that have buildings, but not a single person. And some of the game crashes are so intense, it makes me think I'm going to fry my mother board any second (try logging off as your ship is going down)...

Let's just hope the real game is on another server... even with that, to make game play last a full year, I get the feeling they will drag out tasks, and make it seem more like a job, than a game- Just like Toon Town (I quit after they fixed all the glitches)...

Or, POTC could end up a "Chat Game" like VMK, with out the ultra cool "drag & drop" grhphics...

POTC is a little more fun than Toon Town (Toon Town may offer more game type attacks). You get a gun, a sward, and a connon... Oh and a vodo doll to make the sward, and gun work better... Sorry, I just don't see paying, like $80.00 a year, for a game you don't even get to keep, when you could out right own 3, or 4 really cool games that work all the time .

well, movie opened yesterday and we are still "near release" - forget who said May was last month of Spring but they are totally off - June 20 or 21 is first official day of summer so we may be looking at close to a month before it does open - and frankly, as a beta tester, I'll be surprised if it does happen due to the numerous bug issues -- but I'll keep my fingers crossed because it's so cool! (except for the bugs)

I'm asuming you did not read any of my first post and only the title Ms Moofers. You will find proof from the New York Times itself that it's coming in May. Plus, I too find it annoying how so many people are confused with the end of Summer. Then again, several years a go when I was eight(the age of a decent amount on these forums), I too did think the Summer started on June 1st.

nothing personal but I don't believe most of what I read in any newspaper - and yes, I did read your post - all of the posts on this topic

The newspaper won't be telling the truth, look what I just found skimming through Pirates Online reviews:
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FiringSquad: What is the current status of the game's progress and when will it be released?


Mike Goslin: We’re currently in beta and have been for several months now and expect to launch this summer
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Summer eh........Really not smart for him to say that there, when on the site it says Spring......

Sr.Penguin

Well, 5 more days left for May... Laggggg in the game is so bad I can't stand to be in the game for more than 15 minutes some times... If the rest of the game was any better, it might be worth bypassing my router.... Ships are still sailing right through town, (now they even run you over)... My graphics (with a nvidla graphics card, not Intel anyway) still end 1/2 way into a town sceen...

Umm... when I went to make dinner with the login screen open (after a crash). And I came back to check the forum, IE7 was all messed up... No pages would load, just a bunch of incripted code.

2 months 'till the end of summer.... won't be playing any games on the PC if I have to get new parts.

I'm sorry for my rude response, it was definetly not warrented, eve if I was right and you hadn't read the first post. Though this surely does not warrent it either, I was very stressed when I wrote my last post, and I apologise.
Anyway, while I don't believe that all newspapers/news sources(FOX!) are not reliable, I do believe many including, I feel, the New York Times are usually very well-written, true, and have very little bias(though not compleatly free of it). However, when dealing with issues and statisitics that are not related to politics, religion, or anything controversal in the news, you can be pretty sure that it's not made up.
In my experince, through the many newspapers/news sources I looked at, the New York Times was on of the few that was almost always true/rarely biased, and a newspaper if there ever was one that you can trust.

I to am sorry im home school and i live in england little different for the summer and spring months u see in england they have March,April and May for spring June July and August for summer and September October and November for fall
and December January and February for winter

Hi Cow - hope you are right and I am wrong - BTW, like your name :) Ms_MOOfers :D

yeah, but it doesn't look like it will be out this month lol

~Cpt.Sea

According to a May 29th article in the Hollywood Reporter, the game will have a "summer launch", and "no launch date has been set". Here's a link to the article:

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/vgames/...esmmo0529.html

As I replied to your post in another thread, it's the reporters assumption. Don't you see how silly it is, that he writes it has a summer launch then said no launch date has been set? So if you don't know when they game is coming out, how can you write it is launching in the summer? lol

Disney will announce the launch date on the site: www.PiratesOnline.com
Keep your eyes out for it. :)

cool thanks i can finally play the game at may hopefully

Since the reporter did talk to the "Big Wigs" at Disney Online (Paul Yanover and Mike Goslin), I can only guess that he got them to commit to "summer" but nothing more specific than that. Seems plausible, anyway.

Really? I had no idea. I apoligise, you were right, sorry.
Vandelay, I feel there are a few reasons why the article is probably wrong. First and Foremost, the source which is probably the most reliable is the website which says the game will come out in the Spring, so anytime up to June 21st. Furthermore, The New York Times is usually more reliable then most sources, including, most likely, the Holly Wood Reporter. Anyway, the New York Times is much more widely read, and it would be a bigger deal to make a mistake in the NY Times and warrent a correction, which has not been made.

I disagree but I won't argue the point . We'll see what happens, won't we? :)

I tip my hat to you mate. It takes a lot to resist an argument, something that I don't always possess. We'll whatever happens, let's hope that I'm right lol. If the games turns out all right in public play, then the sooner the better.

I know how solve this argument. Let our swords do the talking! Hardy har har!! :D

Well, it is the last day of may, so not in may, maybe tomorrow because it is the 1st day of the month and it is a friday, so with a little patience, hopefully we'll see. but june is the moth of summer and the website says "Coming spring 2007".

It won't be tomorrow I can guarentee that mate. I don't think PotCO will come out for a few more weeks, I doubt it will come out in June. The way the things are going in beta, I don't see it coming in June.

Sr.Penguin

I know it seems too far fetched to think Disney could have enough fore sight to know botching the beta program would sell more home game platform (Play Station) versions of the game... But, oh well, what can I say.... it worked on me.

The game videos on the web page (for POTC) are not anything like what we are testing... Much more like the Play Station version... Play Station is mostly sward fighting... But, if you buy the game before July... something, you get a free ticket to the movie (and way better sward fighting).

As far as On Line is going.... I log on all the time, and have only felt good about logging off verry verry few times (like 2, or 3).... and crashed, or forced to close more times than I could count. Sorry... But it just might have been planed that way.

Good ol' reliable PotC Online has done it again... :rolleyes:

Well, this never happened sadly.

:skull: OK this may be old news, but i went to pirates online and watched the second trailer. It said the adventure(potco) starts this fall. prepare to wait for a couple more months.
:degen:

Captain B man, we figured this since it didn't come out in "Spring 2007". They also mentioned that it would come out in the fall in the news yesterday.

Sr.Penguin

sorry then, but now it seems we have alot of down time until potco goes public..