POTCO's failures compared to other games

[lerzba]

Yes, they did mention something about trading which will make everyone play more.

But, they might not do it. Some people could pay a friend or someone real life money for virtual items (as I said same problem on runescape) so they removed/fixed trading on that game.

[Ice_Storm]

Originally Posted by lerzba

Yes, they did mention something about trading which will make everyone play more.

But, they might not do it. Some people could pay a friend or someone real life money for virtual items (as I said same problem on runescape) so they removed/fixed trading on that game.

That would probably not happen because:

1) Pirates Online is a giant community project.

2) Rarely suffers from an "attack" in disruption of game-play (Mass player cheatings)

3) They don't advertise. They are not as known.

4) Selling virtual items found in Pirates Online for real money is a joke. There is nothing special about any of the weapons for them to have real world value.


See, if it were a FPS or a well-known adventure exploration game (like WoW and others), then it has a higher chance of it's virtual trading to be abused and mass player cheatings would occur.

They see FPS as important to ruin for others. They see that millions upon millions player WoW, so they decide "We could run a market and make money for these fake items, and the game company wouldn't do anything about it.".

Pirates Online isn't any of those games. It has a much safer community that doesn't worry about "malicious actions" to the game. Rather, they always play it how it is.

[Pirate Guy]

Originally Posted by lerzba

Yes, they did mention something about trading which will make everyone play more.

But, they might not do it. Some people could pay a friend or someone real life money for virtual items (as I said same problem on runescape) so they removed/fixed trading on that game.

Disney said that in that video, the Admis just used codes get clothes, weapons, etc. They said they weren't even thinking about trading.

[Ice_Storm]

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Although, the Admins could just be saying that so players assume that they don't want their feedback e-mail to be flooded with "Release Trading in Pirates Online!" topics.

They want us to send feedback about something else for the time being. And besides, they are also probably saying that because they are developing a very, very early stage of trading, so they don't want to get our hopes up so early right now.

We'd complain a lot more toward them if they announced that trading was coming soon and a year and several months later it still hasn't landed on the Test or Live servers. They did that mistake with the Kraken story chapter. Now, they don't even bring it up anymore in their blog posts.

So, they are thinking about it, believe me, this just their way of saying "We don't want to make any promises now, so it'll come much, much later on in the coming years." But they don't tell us that.

Don't fall for these tricks they do with their comments.