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You may also want to keep in mind that ToonTown launched in 2003 (coming up on their 6 year anniversary two weeks from now). There has been quite a bit of time for Disney to release a lot of things to do on ToonTown. If you want to compare how long it took major new content to be released on ToonTown, they were on the same track that POTCO is on right now. It took Disney 20 months from the time TT went Live to release the 2nd Cog headquarters (Cashbot HQ), another 14 months after that to release Lawbot HQ, and 23 more months to release Bossbot HQ.
There is a lot of things to do on ToonTown, yes. However in order to progress in regards to completing the various awards, trophies, etc. it can become very repetitive. When maxing a cog suit, you have to do the battles (VP, CFO, CJ, CEO) numerous times. I actually became disinterested in playing ToonTown because of the repetition in finishing the various mini-games (e.g. gardening, racing, golfing) just so I could get a laff boost.
Anyway, back to how it all relates to POTCO. The quests themselves in POTCO are indeed repetitious. Go defeat X number of Navy. Go sink X number of EITC ships. Go search barrels. Go to this person across the island who will then tell you to go back to the first person multiple times *shakes fist vigorously at June*. Just about every game get repetitious after awhile.
Honestly, Pirates Online hasn't even been out for 18 months yet. Everyone still seems to think the developers are lazy and not putting out the next chapter fast enough. If you take past performance into account, then they're actually on time. People will disagree there. They say that they're bored and need more to do in the game. I just wonder how long it will be after the next chapter is released that people will finish that (and re-master their pirates rep/notoriety in a hurry) and ask, "Well, done with that! What now!? New content, Disney! C'mon you slackers!"
If people are bored with POTCO, eh, nothing but patience will really help that but you really can't compare it with ToonTown which is an established MMO while Pirates is still new in this space.
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