Shining some light on the POTC Maintenance

[Sam Sunskull]

Originally Posted by Catherine Ironcutter

There's hundreds of lines of program just for Blackjack tables. Now think of all the rest of the stuff they have to do: keep track of loot drops, chat, clothing, potions, notoriety, quests, weapons, fishing, treasure... all of this and more for each and every pirate. And I'm guessing there's at least 200,000 pirates. It's the equivalent of probably 2 million lines of coding, because you have to keep track of a certain thing at the exact same time as 20 other things. Disney works hard, and if a line or 2 of bad coding slips in somewhere, they have to go through most of that coding until they find it, fix the error, see if the game is working properly, if it messed something else up, they have to take it back down, find that error, and make sure the game is running then.

I know most of you play games with less bugs than this, but Disney is doing their best to make this a fun game for us all.

Yea i know from experience in school, it takes forever to get a code to do what you want and then if it is huge like one of these it will take longer to fix, unless they have something like what we used to tell them where they messed up and even with that it still doesnt all ways help, the code where it is messed up can be anywhere... But by the looks of it they are determined to fix it!

[Ofury/ Tom]

Originally Posted by phishy2na

I played WoW from the time it was released until a few months after Wrath, and in all of those years of playing it, I have never seen any problems such as the ones we are seeing here on POTCO.. Which leads me to believe that Disney is seriously under staffing its development and programming team.

no i meant if you owned one that you created. If you don't then you shouldn't have any reason to be bashing them.

[phishy2na]

Originally Posted by Ofury/ Tom

no i meant if you owned one that you created. If you don't then you shouldn't have any reason to be bashing them.

Aye, but we are the people paying hard earned money for a product they have offered. We the consumers, reserve the right to critique. And we also have the right to be upset if what we are paying for is not functional. And my point was to the fact that the reason Blizzard is so successful is that they allocate a proper portion of the game players investments to make sure that they do not have problems such as this.

[Tyler The Tyrant]

Originally Posted by Ofury/ Tom

no i meant if you owned one that you created. If you don't then you shouldn't have any reason to be bashing them.

So by your logic we shouldn't bash presidents or politicians if we have never been one ourselves. That is faulty at best. Paying customers have every right to bash or criticize.

FWIW, I've defended the programmers at Disney quite a bit. I understand how frustrating it is to work with code. In fact I am a few weeks away from taking my certification test in C++.

I hope they can put the kybosh on the nasty bug pretty soon. Nobody wants to see a full-scale mutiny.

[leo]

Originally Posted by phishy2na

I played WoW from the time it was released until a few months after Wrath, and in all of those years of playing it, I have never seen any problems such as the ones we are seeing here on POTCO.. Which leads me to believe that Disney is seriously under staffing its development and programming team.

Blizzard is a Game company ONLY where Disney is a multi billion dollar company having games, TV channel, shows, Walt Disney picture, etc. Out of all of these, pirates online with any other game are the least profitable for them so they do not "care" as much. Blizzard is 24/7 on game editing and production. This gives wow the advantage over pirates but its not smart to compare Disney with Blizzard as Disney could buy blizzard if they wanted

[phishy2na]

Well, Leo you are agreeing with me then, that was pretty much my point. But, hopefully Disney decides that its game revenue from pirates could become even greater if they put more of the resources forth to ensure better experiences for its customers.

[Swash]

Originally Posted by leo

Blizzard is a Game company ONLY where Disney is a multi billion dollar company having games, TV channel, shows, Walt Disney picture, etc. Out of all of these, pirates online with any other game are the least profitable for them so they do not "care" as much. Blizzard is 24/7 on game editing and production. This gives wow the advantage over pirates but its not smart to compare Disney with Blizzard as Disney could buy blizzard if they wanted

Blizzard also manages several different games, not just WoW. Disney has billions, so they have the money to hire thousands of Game developers and not even put a dent in that amount. And Disney has the money to buy Blizzard but it will never happen. If anyone's going to buy Blizzard it's going to be Microsoft or Activision.

[ruisen2000]

Originally Posted by leo

Disney could buy blizzard if they wanted

They should..... From the WOW vids, many POTCO things are based on WOW stuff (since wow was released first), but jsut not as epic. I really want WOW designers to give POTCO a hand to make it better.
You guys are lucky.. I want to play wow too... But it's so expensive...

[Swash]

Originally Posted by ruisen2000

They should..... From the WOW vids, many POTCO things are based on WOW stuff (since wow was released first), but jsut not as epic. I really want WOW designers to give POTCO a hand to make it better.
You guys are lucky.. I want to play wow too... But it's so expensive...

If Disney bought WoW then, WoW would be destroyed.

[Olgarlenn]

Originally Posted by phishy2na

I played WoW from the time it was released until a few months after Wrath, and in all of those years of playing it, I have never seen any problems such as the ones we are seeing here on POTCO.. Which leads me to believe that Disney is seriously under staffing its development and programming team.

WoW is a better prepared and more in depth game and it shows in its numbers of people that play the game. 12 Million players is something that is insane. I like that game very much. I think more fun

[ruisen2000]

I hope I dont lose my scared pistol I found 2 weeks ago, it's my fav famed so far

[weather3472]

Originally Posted by ruisen2000

I hope I dont lose my scared pistol I found 2 weeks ago, it's my fav famed so far

You shouldn't youll only lose the weapons/gold/ships/loot you found within the last 1 or 2 days

[The Stealthy Pirate]

I need to get back to my quests...

[Stephen O'Malley]

Thanks for the info, weather3472.

Personally, I don't mind them doing maintenance, since I understand that it is just to better the game - the only thing I don't like is how they chose the weekend to do it.. Then again, I don't know if this was intentional or not.

[The Stealthy Pirate]

I dont think it was intentional... if it was they wouldn't have done it on the weekends...