POF in Massive Gamer

[Nick]

Our humble forums, Pirates Online Forums has been mentioned in an interview by Massive Gamer with Mike Goslin Vice President of Disney’s VR Studio.

Massive Gamer: What’s your relationship with the site http://www.piratesonlineforums.com/? It’s the fifth Google result when you do a search on PotC.

Goslin: We appreciate that they’re out there. They are serving adult players, with different needs than kids will have. And they cover all that. The PR company [360 Public Relations] reaches out to them.

Massive Gamer: What do you wish your fansites would do?

Goslin: We’re just happy that they’re there. We have no particular goals for our fansites. We recognize that this is a community, and that they own the product. Anything that helps people connect with each other is great – and we’re grateful someone is out there providing what we can’t.

Search Google for Massive Gamer Magazine to find out more.

[Sven Osymthe]

nice find Nick.

[Rackat]

I'm sure it will help the site and get quite a few new members. Have you seen an increase in traffic and membership since the article was published?

[CrimsonRabbit]

and we’re grateful someone is out there providing what we can’t.

LOL...cause you know Big-D doesn't have the money or bandwidth to support a forum. Wait a second...is this an adult oriented forum? Maybe that's why I like it so much. That's awesome that the interviewer noticed that this forum is the 5th link on google and asked the guy about it.


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[Dr. Zeppers]

Cool stuff... the word seems to be getting around!

Although im not sure where they get the "adult" part, I guess the kids dont need a forum/fansite.. lol

Cmon folks.. we're family friendly.. bring the kids too!

[League]

Hey, googling is how I found this site.

[ukebec]

Is it true that D's PR company "reaches out" to this site?

[Dr. Zeppers]

Originally Posted by ukebec

Is it true that D's PR company "reaches out" to this site?

The recent GM's about in the game have confirmed a few times that they at least do check/read the forums here on occasion.

[CrimsonRabbit]

The recent GM's about in the game have confirmed a few times that they at least do check/read the forums here on occasion

Man, I know if I was in charge of a huge MMORPG that has known issues, that I would be on at least the top ranking forum for the game almost every day. How could they not be interested in checking what people are saying on a daily basis? So many good ideas get thrown around in here and if you're just checking "on occasion" you'll miss a lot of stuff.

Oh well, I'm sure Disney knows how to run their company better than I, so I'll let them....though I did just cancel my unlimited

[Dr. Zeppers]

Good point Crimson, considering the GM's have always answered in riddles, etc. They may very well keep a very close eye on our boards here. Either way they never seem to like to play thier hand... always secretive hehe.

[dddj]

Wow- This Is cool! our

Humble

Forums being mentoined in a magazine maybe some more people will come....

[Chris]

Awesome i knew POF was world class! Go POF!

[MacIronhawk]

Massive Gamer: I don’t suppose you want to tell me how many subscribers you’ve got, but can you tell me the proportion of users who subscribe, versus that of users content to play the free game?

Goslin: We give quite a bit of the game for free. The exact figures depend on the promotions we’re running at the time, but generally, around 10% is paying. We use the velvet rope model.

If that's true then nine out of ten people I see aren't paying members.
Or did I miss read it?

[Poison elf]

Maybe that is the problem, they never get on and see most the players are unlimited.

I am just trying to remember if I saw any basic while the taverns were full with the gm's. Guess there were a few canceled accounts running around.

[Nick]

Originally Posted by ukebec

Is it true that D's PR company "reaches out" to this site?

Yes, they emailed us, but when I emailed back they didn't respond,

Originally Posted by CrimsonRabbit

LOL...cause you know Big-D doesn't have the money or bandwidth to support a forum. Wait a second...is this an adult oriented forum? Maybe that's why I like it so much. That's awesome that the interviewer noticed that this forum is the 5th link on google and asked the guy about it.


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It's because they are not allowed to have an open discussion and dont have the resources to allocate to a full time team to moderator the threads. It would be a nightmare for them because of the legal issues.