Savvy Swashbucklers - April 09, 2010

[Cannonfury]

Originally Posted by Zilly

I think I see the confusion. POF rules were written by POF admins. Not Disney.

ohh I see, ty....lol pof's rules are better than disneys rules

[Bubba Bunny x]

All I have to say is that there is WAAAAAAAY too many people that play this game and not everybody knows everyone. And I agree that this is not a fair thing to do.

[The Skirata Clan]

Vote TSC!!

Do we get to campaign for this? Vote TSC. What is the point? Vote TSC. Why would Disney have an event like this? Vote TSC.

Seriously though. Vote TSC.

[Sven Osymthe]

Lol Skirata. I don't really like the popularity contest, but i'll still vote for someone.. if I feel like it.

Individual votes don't really matter.. as others stated

[Midhav]

Originally Posted by BlackBeard101

Lame lame lame! I can't believe POTCO staff has been working on this " popularity " contest, instead of working on getting the new updates on the live server. This is really pushing the limits.

Oh yea, so you're saying that they should not post any other news to keep Pirates on live excited, while they work on the updates on test? They obviously have to fuel some excitement in the game, instead of use seeing 'Calling All Testers' for like 4 days? I think you believe that all of them get off the computers that they're working on for the new updates, and move to one large comp where they all post the current news of some useless but fun contest ?

[Captain Del]

The guild and I came up with a pretty good idea - just elect somebody we know, or make a level 1 basic pirate and send all our votes towards him - LOL.

But in all honesty, I'm voting for somebody that I know deserves more recognition than he gets (and no, I'm not voting for myself, although it is a tempting offer )

[Dan_OB]

I tried to think off one person to vote for and my brain short circuited. Everyone in my guild deserves my vote as do all my friends and then there are a lot of people here who are deserving. Can't I just vote for them all? XD

[Kat Five Knives]

Originally Posted by The Evil Will Mcbain

Well, I'm voting for myself. Seems like the piratey thing to do.

LOL mate! I haven't decided if I will vote or not. I know people who I would vote for but they have multiple pirates.. so which one to pick???? IDK

So many deserve this honor..

[Sven Osymthe]

Originally Posted by Captain Del

The guild and I came up with a pretty good idea - just elect somebody we know, or make a level 1 basic pirate and send all our votes towards him - LOL.

Hey I thought that was MY idea!

[muffin pirate]

LOL Sven......

[Dog Firestack]

Honestly, I think this whole thing is a bad idea. It could cause people to fight for whoever to vote for and it will only help people who actually make a name for themselves. How about the people who are awesome but don't go to abassa to announce it to everyone eh? We don't know every pirate in the caribbean so that's why I'm probably not going to vote. So I choose everybody on pirates online for a vote savvy?

[Raikel]

Nothing but a filler from what I can tell. They are just trying to keep live away from the updates until they are completely flawless... Sadly enough, this seems to be even crappier than them old GM event where they told us we would have more weapons quest for level 25 weapons. I don't even think that they knew what we were getting. Because it looks as if they skipped over talking about those quests again to making an entirely new inventory system. So this is bound to be another load of crud, and to that, I be a pirate and drink me rum!!

[Basil Dreadflint]

If I may:

This popularity contest has absolutely nothing to do with the devs or the release of updates. It has no connection whatsoever.

This supposed 'contest' is being run by a totally different part of the Disney organization. It doesn't even have any interface to the game.

Voting is by email or PM. Nothing in the game is being used as an interface.
The Devs are software people. This is bean counting. A promotion such as this is going to be handed off to the most junior summer interns to either just sit and count the votes as they come in, or to actually read them and then "chose" a winner either by voting for the one ballot they liked best, or more realistically, they are going to chose one at random.

More than likely, this is being done by the Public Relations, or Communication, or some other department. It has absolutely nothing to do with the developers.

Should I say it again? This has nothing to do with the developers or the release of any updates.

I give Disney credit that they try things like this. Since they broke DxD last September, and haven't fixed it yet, they can't do anything like the "Best Pirating Contest" So, this at least gives them an 'event' to say that they ran one.

I just wish that they didn't do a popularity contest. Clicks and gangs are no way to run the game or a site.

I do like the idea of someone making a level 1 basic, and everyone voting for that pirate. It would be hilarious if Disney published that as the BEST pirate in the game. (But, then again, I love sarcasm.)

[Dockwrecker The Privateer]

Originally Posted by Basil Dreadflint

I give Disney credit that they try things like this. Since they broke DxD last September, and haven't fixed it yet, they can't do anything like the "Best Pirating Contest" So, this at least gives them an 'event' to say that they ran one.

I'm not sure if everything is good to go yet but I logged on and the Player's Page DxD seems to be working now as far as who is on which guild,newly made pirates ect...The leaderboards there should be working unless I'm mistaken,although I still think the Enemies Defeted may still be glitched but I would have to check,the Player's Page for the most part is functional once again.

[isnear]

I think Disney is using this poll to favor who gets the Sword of Patron. For a while now, Disney coders have been trying to CONTROL their user base, that is, to stop any negative feedback from reaching their superiors. They have been doing that via a rumor mill promoted by guilds, Disney employees pretending they're just players like anyone else, and now directly through awarding those who "bow down to" Disney. i.e. The Sword of Patron.

Anyhow, we'll soon know if I am right about the gift theory.