Comparrison

[The Count]

I did a Comparrison with Toontown and Pirates and I found why after awhile piratesonline gets reppitive

Toontown: Other than fighting cogs theres alot a player can do like go fishing play trolley games and talk and constant events weekly

Pirates Online: It got reppitive because the only thing you couldnt do that was not battle involved was blackjack and poker that is what made it so reppitive

Thats my opinon

[Sven Niscadae]

You may also want to keep in mind that ToonTown launched in 2003 (coming up on their 6 year anniversary two weeks from now). There has been quite a bit of time for Disney to release a lot of things to do on ToonTown. If you want to compare how long it took major new content to be released on ToonTown, they were on the same track that POTCO is on right now. It took Disney 20 months from the time TT went Live to release the 2nd Cog headquarters (Cashbot HQ), another 14 months after that to release Lawbot HQ, and 23 more months to release Bossbot HQ.

There is a lot of things to do on ToonTown, yes. However in order to progress in regards to completing the various awards, trophies, etc. it can become very repetitive. When maxing a cog suit, you have to do the battles (VP, CFO, CJ, CEO) numerous times. I actually became disinterested in playing ToonTown because of the repetition in finishing the various mini-games (e.g. gardening, racing, golfing) just so I could get a laff boost.

Anyway, back to how it all relates to POTCO. The quests themselves in POTCO are indeed repetitious. Go defeat X number of Navy. Go sink X number of EITC ships. Go search barrels. Go to this person across the island who will then tell you to go back to the first person multiple times *shakes fist vigorously at June*. Just about every game get repetitious after awhile.

Honestly, Pirates Online hasn't even been out for 18 months yet. Everyone still seems to think the developers are lazy and not putting out the next chapter fast enough. If you take past performance into account, then they're actually on time. People will disagree there. They say that they're bored and need more to do in the game. I just wonder how long it will be after the next chapter is released that people will finish that (and re-master their pirates rep/notoriety in a hurry) and ask, "Well, done with that! What now!? New content, Disney! C'mon you slackers!"

If people are bored with POTCO, eh, nothing but patience will really help that but you really can't compare it with ToonTown which is an established MMO while Pirates is still new in this space.

[Shnoodell]

Weel put sven! play both toontown and pirates and go back and forth. With your timeline does that mean that sewers should come out on toontown this summer? xD i still havent maxed and rarely get bored with it but it would be nice to see different senery...llike transfer new padres, tuga, and pr over into toonown and im happy! lol

[The Count]

Good but you have to remeber toontown did already have the mini games when it was first released

[Sarah]

Toontown is a whole other genre though. They did have some mini games out in 2003, sure. But do you want to see your pirate taking a trolly ride or racing a go-cart? If you think about it, you could consider poker and blackjack mini games, as well as SvS and PvP.

Nice post Sven.

[MacIronhawk]

Originally Posted by Sven Niscadae

There is a lot of things to do on ToonTown, yes. However in order to progress in regards to completing the various awards, trophies, etc. it can become very repetitive. When maxing a cog suit, you have to do the battles (VP, CFO, CJ, CEO) numerous times. I actually became disinterested in playing ToonTown because of the repetition in finishing the various mini-games (e.g. gardening, racing, golfing) just so I could get a laff boost.

Yes, Toontown does get repetitive but...

You need teamwork to win. You literally have to have other people with you to win the battle. In my opinion if you can maxx a toon on toontown you can go through any online game.

Toontown takes much longer to finish, not only because it's older but because of the teamwork that's involved. It's not like you can go finish all the "quests" by yourself. It takes a lot of patience.(and a few months of breaks.)

POTCO does get repetitive, too. There are more activities than I think people are leading me to believe. There's defeating enemies, quests, ship battles, PVP, Black Jack and Poker, boss battles, etc...
There's a lot of'similar' things that you can do in POTCO is what I think most people mean.

Toontown has about the same variety. There's golfing, racing, fishing, boss battles, toontasks, fighting cogs, riding the trolley, etc... Toontown's activities are just really different from each other.