What do you think will happen with the Kraken?

[Commodore Larence]

What do all other pirates think will be the result of the Kraken?

ME:

I have personally went back to basic access, and have done nothing really related to the game other then pop on now and then to chat with old friends. I have a level 40 pirate who just lacks a couple of weapons levels to be fully mastered. I want a new chapter 2 story quest released and new level caps before I begin paying again ( I have nothing substantial or entertaining to do at this point). Are any others feeling a bit un-easy about the upcoming Kraken to the game? I know we have been let down quite a few times on "events" and "updates" to the game, that really add nothing for higher level pirates. I am personally afraid that the Kraken will be nothing more than a random event much like Jolly Roger's curse. While at sea, your ship will some how be randomly destroyed and include a generic Kraken cut-scene. I have no inside knowledge of this, but I am skeptical of what it will be. What are other pirates thoughts on this? If there is another huge let down, will you go back to basic? I am just curious on what other players think may be around the bend, and what they would like to see.

Larence Tuppington

[Captain Del]

Well, personally, the Kraken, if released as an ACTUAL enemy that you can ACTUALLY fight at ANY time, would be great fun to fight. Of course, we all know Disney is capable of taking something with great potential and making it a complete let down.

On the oter hand, if the Kraken was something like you mentioned, i.e. a small event that involves your ship being randomly sunk, and thats it, well, IMO, that would be one thing only. FAIL.

What would I personally like to see? I want an enemy that actually takes a crew to take down, and even with a crew, it would still be hard. I want a sea monster that is about level 45-60 (yes, 60, I want a challenge,) which can be found with relative ease, yet some difficulty (by that, I would like to see it probably far out in Uncharted Waters, about south of Isla Tormenta or Outcast.) Face it people. For level 40s these days, there really is very little to no challenges out there (with the exception of the Assassin bosses and Boss Batlles, which at some times, even THOSE are easy.) Remember when you were one your first, lvl 15 pirate, when there were so many new challenges and quests for you? Well, that feeling is basically gone for those who have been playing this game for months, even years as a level 40 pirate. Even if your leveling a second pirate, its still not the same. What I want, is something, new, fresh, entertaining, fun, and challenging. Thats what I want to see in the Kraken.

As for your last question, if this is another huge let down, will I go back to basic? Honestly, I haven't put much thought into that. I mean, this game has ALOT of potential behind it. Even if this is a huge let down, I guess I'll just stick around and see what Disney has in store. Because face it. If I had no faith what-so-ever left in Disney, would I still be playing this game. Answer: No.

[swashbuckler II]

Yeah, if its just an event, which i doubt, I will scream on the top of my lungs
I think it is an enemy tho, because Captain walter said that before the kraken arrives, we need more experience, better weapons.

[akamystic]

I'll have to say Big D has been making improvements to the game. Unfortunately (IMO) they have been more focused on making over towns and adding other minor options rather than adding quests and new enemies. This main issue as you stated is lack of content and this seems to be taking the most time.

You can look at it from another point of view....the fact that you can't just drop the Kraken into the game and expect everything to work flawless. I'm certain (as with all releases) there will be bugs. I certainly don't know what is going on behind the curtains, but we do know they have been trying to plug memory holes, fix graphic and performance issues. These current issues obviously should be corrected prior to rolling out more content into the game so we don't end up with a POTC Online that is severely blemished.

Some of the upgrades have been a nice addition....such as the updated friends list, viewing other characters stats and reallocating skills. The level 20 weapons honestly didn't do much for me. Lately I spend more time chatting, helping guild members and reporting bugs as I find them (Test and Open). I patiently await many updates as most of us are.....and stick with a game that I really do enjoy playing. Yes we all get bored from time to time.....and it doesn't hurt to take a break. Some have switched to basic or quit all together. I'm hanging in there with high hopes of major updates to roll out over the next several months.

Once a Pirate, always a Pirate......

[Juliana Maria]

I personally am hoping the Kraken IS a new story quest. Here is what I think about all the recent updates in relation to the Kraken. I am hoping that all of these mini events and minor updates are just little temporary distractions. I be hoping that they are really working on a massive update and have put all of these little events in to keep us occupied for the time being.

You can look at it one of two ways. One, if they updated consistently that would make regular players happy yes, but If they added one big major update every year they could advertise for a whole new wave of pirates, bring back the one's that were impatient, and Make many loyal players happy with a huge update. It's like do you eat small little portions throughout the day or eat one big meal to last you.. (sorry lol.. poor comparison but you get the idea)

So back to what I was saying, my hope is that they are planning a MASSIVE update hopefully including: (KRAKEN) New Chapter, Cap raises, New weapons, Ship Customization, New Enemies, Maybe even a new island; all within a close time span. This massive update would give them the chance to once again, advertise the game like crazy once again. Get in a whole group of pirates and set up the regular with content to last them over for awhile.

Whether this be true or not one can only dream. As for the Kraken, whichever way they put it in the game is fine with me... as long as they put it in. Yes I would prefer it as a Story Chapter... but either way it would be new content. POTCO has definitely been going through it's ups and downs but I guess we will just have to ride it out and see where it takes us. This be for sure though.. I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. I've got faith in good ol' POTCO... I just hope my faith makes em' hurry up LOL

[Commodore Larence]

I want to make sure people dont think the above is what I want to see happen.... just my personal prediction of what will.

What I want to see:

I want to see the Kraken be a Boss Battle just like with the Black Pearl in chapter one. Having to excel in quests, to a final point of a crew battle against the Kraken. The battle would be much more crew important this time. You would need people with dolls especially trained to use the chains to hold the Kraken's individual tentacles statoinary while others attack it. Each tentacle would be like an enemy, and they must be defeated one at a time, and have their own health bar...Then coordinate with a health bar for the total life bar of the Kraken. Like each tentacle could be a level 30-40 enemy boss.... But the story quest would include some thing to do with Jack Sparrow again... Like you have set sail with Jack to do some thing on the Pearl, while completing that part of the Boss Battle, the Kraken attacks you and must be defeated...( defeating the Kraken in your journal would also result in a special prize, a leadership skill for some weapon, or a special very unique clothing item). Then that segways some how into a Chapter 3 story quest that relates to repairing the Pearl, giving the developers time to come up with another substantial story quest for Chapter 4, with Davey Jones, and maybe the Locker.

With the coming of this new Chapter 2 story quest I would like to see included a new island, with higher level enemies on it that take a new style of fighting to defeat. Possibly the Orient some how like in the movies. This would result in higher level caps, and the ability to reach higher levels by defeating much harder enemies. The new island could include new side quests for clothing, tats, and jewelry...

As of now, the new updates to me really are not that big of a deal. The new islands are just new eye candy. It is not that big of a deal to create new buildings, and landscapes. They are just dressing up things, then placing the same stuff we had before into the islands, same shops, bars, etc... It is not that hard to do what they are doing. I am a drafter-designer, and have messed with alot of 3-d modeling, all they are doing is making new models... It really isn't much different to things I do. The hard part comes with designing the new thing, PLUS adding the code to make players interact with them (fight, control the ships, splash water etc...). It probably takes them a week or 2 to come up with a new islands layout, then they just copy the old islands door openings (various interactions), and shops from the old one into the new one. You can see on many of the islands jails they forgot to do that this last time by all the "statue like" guards who dont move or breath while sleeping. I will admit though, all is not bad, I like the new set up for crewing, and friends. I like the added map sections in the compass, and the map that you can make appear on your screen.

Larence Tuppington

[skullduggery bones]

If you went to the celebrations at the Rowdy Rooster last weekend you would have caught Captain Walter talking about the Kraken coming, being a 'fierce and terrible' sea creature and needing much STRONGER ships, STRONGER weapons (he spoke of a new flaming sword??) and a LARGE crew. So personally I think this won't be a small event but something more along the lines of a Boss Battle. And it's coming soon.
As for stopping paying until then, I don't think I could ever stop. I have 2 unlinited accounts (one founder status) and a test account so I always have plenty to do. And to be honest I dont think a pound (UK) a week is much to pay for a game you can play 24 hours a day.

[Bonnylass64]

I hope the Kraken is something that anyone can experience not just large crews. I can fight with other players at my side, I just for the most part go my own way. But I would still like to see the Kraken now and again

[The Skirata Clan]

Maybe just maybe, its just hype... I would love to fight the Kraken, however it seems like such enemy is to the game standards (right now and in the next months) just too much. the game will need to grow a whole lot more. at least triple from what it is (including the new Padres) perhaps one day the game might be ready... when the caps are in 80 and the chapter 3 or 4 already in place. It is an enemy that is from a practical standpoint undoable. Even in the film it was chaotic and hard to fight. Besides, what are we going to fight... tentacles? Maybe in the next few chapters we'd be in The Pearl as part of the crew helping in the fight.

[Nack]

it would be interesting to see myself going into that locker when I get eaten by the kraken or something. But I think you bored the kraken fight the tentacles then it spits out davy jones crew that it ate last week....

[Radulf_Stormfury]

Ha.

Probably nothing of value. I'm expecting it to be yet another of those classic POTCO epic fails we've all come to know and love. xP

[Jack Sunskull]

I am hoping for a long story quest, bigger ships like the Black Pearl or Goliath. New weapons would be nice or some new voodoo spells. Higher notriety and weapon skill levels and maybe a high level of gold.