How Long Did You Have Basic Access?
 

Just out of curiosity, how long were you Basic before you switched to Unlimited?

I'm pretty sure it took me less than a week to do all the basic quests and such, and that's when I upgraded. :)

It was actually the first day I tried it. I was looking up some info on allakhazam's for Everquest . . and there was a banner on the side for free POTCO download and play. I clicked, made a pirate, later on I reached a weapon cap, so I decided to pay. The rest has been history.

2-3 hours here. I just loved sailing and the fact that the game ran decent on my laptop.

I saw the TV commercial where it said PLAY FOR FREE.

It took me awhile to get my wife to let me upgrade. We used to be pretty heavy EQ players, and wound up spending three years in that game, and she was not wanting a repeat of that. But she started playing herself, and that was all it took.

A friend recommended POTCO on a Friday evening. By Saturday afternoon I had two 1 year subscription accounts (one for me, one for my kids).

I got bored of runescape one night and started to watch TV waiting for Deathnote to come on when I saw the commercial. I maxxed everything out for Basic by 00:00. Then I got Unlimited a week and a day or two later.

I found a giftcard sitting on my desk about 45 minutes after the game prompted me to 'upgrade', and well... Thanks whoever it was that sent me that gift card.

Zeppers Lvl40
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I am also currious how everyone first started playing. It took me a few hours to get to Tia for the Doll quest, only to find out I could not get it. That is when I upgraded. TV lured me in too. Had I known ahead of time that the blasted game was coming out, I would have gotten into beta. Keep up the response. :)

Loot Hard!

I finally got around to watchin the 3rd on DVD, checked the extras at the end and saw a game about hte movie. As much as I love the movie, I had to jump in on it. Clicked to basic, played a day until I maxed everything and was hooked. Been paying ever since!

I finished the quests available to you, and got to level 10, and then decided to pay, since VMK was closing. This process took 2 weeks.

I had it for about an hour... I'm one of those people that needs to spend money because they hate being normal *roll eyes*

I think I got it the first day I started playing, which was....oh...yesterday. I went to Tia Dalma for the voodoo training quest (for some strange reason I thought it was part of the Black Pearl Quest,) and it said I had to upgrade to do it. I was so frustrated with it I just said, What the heck?, and upgraded. And yes, I am a very impatient person.

The reason I started playing was because of one of my friends. I hadn't talked to him in forever, because he kinda disappeared. So when I saw that he played POTCO, I joined in hopes we could be friends again. Not mentioning any names *cough*DCS*cough*

Jade

I downloaded it through an AIM advertisement and on the next day, when I reached Tia for my doll, I started paying. What can I say, I like dolls. :)

I think I had basic access for about 3 days and then I thought it was a nice game so I paid for it. XD