Not sure where the vitriol comes from.
- I'm an adult.
- I enjoy complex RPGs and combat simulations (Google up Starfleet Battles).
- I don't enjoy complex MMOs. I prefer an MMO where interaction between players happens on an almost purely social level. That's fine. It's when you start getting inter-player commerce and all the min-maxing (I want boots that give a +3 X, a +16 Y, and only have a -3 Z, but all I can find is a +2, +15, -1!) that goes on in stuff like WoW that I almost instantly lose interest. I've done the munchkin min-maxing. It bores me. And having to try and buy or sell stuff in-game would have me buying a real-world gun and shooting real world people.
As to the "way more updates". I've been on about two months now and if I'm not mis-remembering things, POTCO has gone through about 14-18 updates. And yes, many of them were the "bugfix" type. So what?
For a moderate MMO, heck ANY software, that's a hell of a good patch schedule.
If you're griping about "not much new content", again, POTCO is due for it's first expansion in the June-July timeframe.
Note: I'm NOT saying POTCO is the greatest thing since pillage and plunder. It isn't. However, it's a perfectly acceptable
fantasy pirate game.
Comparing it to a sim like POTBS merely does a disservice to BOTH products.