POTCO's failures compared to other games

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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.