PotCO is in a bad shape...

Hello to ya all...

I came here just to express my disappointment with the game, specially with Disney to allow such a thing to happen...

I used to play PotCO on limited access during the Beta due to Disney's policy to only allow, at that time, the North American users to pay (completely ridiculous if ya ask me)

The game was awesome, if I am not wrong it had wind influence on the ships at some point, we had pets, we had that awesome Shipwreck Isle, we had tons of clothing, the only part that was quite limited were ships and weapons.

Ships are still the same, with no customization at all, except for the names, which can be repeated over and over, so we got like 100 Crimson Wolf ships...

Lag problems got worse then they were in beta, with my rig that I can run Age of Conan (the most heavy MMORPG) smoothly on it, I get bizarre lags on PotCO, why? Bad programming with a mediocre engine... Memory leaks are the biggest players on these laggy moments...

On scale from 1 to 10 I would give the game potential a grade of 10. But on the quality of it on it's current state I give a 3.

The game is fun, but the quests are insanely repetitive and they take hours and hours to be finished, some skills like Take Cover from Sail, are really bad positioned, I mean, those are unbalanced and can give you lots of headache until you can get those essential skills for each skill-tree. Why the hell would I need the tacking speed before Take Cover?

Ive also noticed many glitches with the fighting system, like the Blade Storm, or whatever it is called, my attacks should give around 700 dmg based on the numbers coming up from the dmg counter, but the health bar on enemies drops the same amount as I had given 400 dmg, I mean, wth?

But aside from technical issues, the game itself, on years of "existence", went on the wrong way of evolution, instead of adding and getting better, it only got worse and worse, the game is as bad as an alpha game project... No, not an alpha, I have exaggerated, but it is only a beta build of some sort, there are too many bugs and too less content then it should have...

I like the idea of the game, I am a fun of the movies, but I am also an experienced MMO player, and as a game, for real, PotCO is a shame... I will keep playing, but I doubt I will be able to do that for more then 1 or 2 months...

[SEAKING23]

I think its going to get better in 2011... look how great it got in 2010.

[Captain Lightflame]

well we live in the real world and we are not on star treck we dont have very adanced technology so until games on computers get real like hologrames we just have play the way it is or not that is the players choice.

[Isaiah Ropeswine]

I agree with lightflame... The point is the game HAS gotten a lot better. Aside from the random chat filters and the many bugs and glitches it has, would you really like to travel 3 years back with the lvl cap 40, you get 6 basic weapons with no special attacks. No amazing clothing such as brights, dark blacks, magentas and lavenders. Ships hold crappy cargo with just gold, no bosses, no fishing or potions, no ravens cove. I mean the list goes on mate... My point is that this is a game and we're here to have fun, I'm paying to have fun, with like thousands of others! That basically proves that if THAT many people are paying to play, I'm leaning towards the fact that their on the same boat as me. But again, it's just my opinion.

[SEAKING23]

I think the game is really good, but it could be WAY better, and its run by a lame company.

[Edward Edgemenace]

Originally Posted by Isaiah Ropeswine

...would you really like to travel 3 years back with the lvl cap 40...no special attacks...no amazing clothing...just gold, no bosses, no fishing or potions, no ravens cove...

HECK YEAH! The damage tables made a lot more sense back then, the quests had a point, the graphics were a thousand times better, the system requirements were nil, the lag was sub-second (as opposed to 30 second freezes now.)

I would LOVE to romp around on the original version, again. No directx overhead, no compass distortion, no weapon intentional misfires, no broadside MIS-aiming, no skating through the boss battle in 3 min, NO MINIGAMES.

Sounds like heaven.

[Captain luke]

Man, if the POTCO idea were taken up by some other company other than disney, it would be way better....... now i understand that the Pirates of the Caribbean was made and is claimed by Disney. And your right, this game has sooooooo much more potential than what they are giving us. Disney hasnt given us much, they lie and tell us stories of the kraken, trading, ship customization all coming soon, but 2 years later, they still havent given it to us. And there is no sign of any of that coming any time soon.

Another thing, Disney is letting all of its current features DIE OUT. Does anyone really remember the last major update that came to something that has already been released, like pvp, svs, any of the minigames, the boss battle? Pvp has been the same for years now, people get bored of the same old pvp that they do over and over again. Disney hasnt even come out with a simple new place to pvp, just the same 3 maps. Cannon defense was fun...... for the first 2 weeks, then it got boring. because disney hasnt UPDATED it yet.

Now lets say if the idea of POTCO got picked up by another company, like turbine(Creators of LOTRO) Lotro was released the same year as potc(2007) and lotro is just alot better than potc. Disney has ALOT of more money and resources than Turbine. So why does Disney, one of the most famous and wealthiest companies in the world, so why is turbine capable of creating a bigger and better than disney? Because Turbine isnt just in it for the paycheck. The people of Turbine are in it because they want to make the best game that they are humanly possible of doing. But the people at disney on the other hand, is only doing the very MINUMUM of what they can do just to keep their job.

Now thats just my very opinion of whats happening over there at disney. I could be wrong, and I could be right. Please just dont go ranting on my comment that i am posting, its just an opinion.

[Angel Daggerfury]

Originally Posted by Isaiah Ropeswine

No amazing clothing such as brights, dark blacks, magentas and lavenders.

omg isaiah, u must've forgotten, unless u lied about being the same isaiah that was ronin vengence with me eons ago... disney is clearly recycling previous ideas.
if u remember a LONG time ago, we could buy bright colored clothes, the old items just don't have the color of the cloths in the title when u hover over the item in the inventory. All I know is that my old brightly colored clothes is like the same exact shade as the new Bright colored looted clothes & so r my lavender clothes that used to be able to be brought in stores that are now only lootable. And blacks, lolol if anyone remembers, back when clothing merchants/tailors were first added to POTCO back in like spring 2008, if anybody brought clothes during that tiny gap window, we could BUY BLACK CLOTHES IN STORES (how is it that only I remember this???), this was around the time they gave out that first free bandanda. black clothes is not a new thing, for some silly reason they removed black clothes from stores & made only black clothes available during CreateAPirate, & then all the sudden our Starting Outfit's inventory choices got majorly decreased & made black items not available now, only lootable, totally lame.
Same thing goes with the Royal Chest Corset, I got that corset in a variety of colors (including black) for my various pirates' starting outfit, the only way you could get that colored was from the CreateAPirate screen which they have now removed, so impossible to get now.
Seems like Disney is secretly encouraging ppl to sell their "abandoned" pirates that own clothes that is unattainable nowadays.

Originally Posted by xdj1nn

The game was awesome, if I am not wrong it had wind influence on the ships at some point, we had pets, we had that awesome Shipwreck Isle

Pets?? i dont remember that, if that did exist already, what is up with Disney recycling their own ideas, geez. & Idk what Shipwreck Isle is lol

Lag problems got worse then they were in beta, with my rig that I can run Age of Conan (the most heavy MMORPG) smoothly on it, I get bizarre lags on PotCO, why? Bad programming with a mediocre engine... Memory leaks are the biggest players on these laggy moments...

Disney is making itself look bad for hiring average game programmers/developers lol. Ya 1 game I play is way more graphically intense than POTCO & the game loads SO much more faster on loading screens than POTCO & not as much lag either.

The game is fun, but the quests are insanely repetitive and they take hours and hours to be finished, some skills like Take Cover from Sail, are really bad positioned, I mean, those are unbalanced and can give you lots of headache until you can get those essential skills for each skill-tree. Why the hell would I need the tacking speed before Take Cover?

lol ok, i think Take Cover is overrated & unless ur under fire of like 20 ships at the same time coz silly people on ur ship don't know when to stop attracting attention from ships, then its not that useful, i mean its useful if u love driving right up next to enemy ships & kiss them hoping u got a good crew to sink the enemy ship before u take too much damage (idk why like 99% of random ppl i encounter sail this way??? makes no sense to me), then u prolly spam Take Cover a lot & think its the bestest thing in the world. i don't think it's used that much (other than previous said ppl) & disney prolly planned it being some sort of an "award" for lvling sailing that high, kinda like how mastered pirates don't get groggy anymore. I looooove tacking, if u knew how to utilize that skill, u could dodge so many cannonballs being fired at ur ship coz u can spin ur ship so much faster, but if u only have like 1 pt on it, its pretty useless.

Ive also noticed many glitches with the fighting system, like the Blade Storm, or whatever it is called, my attacks should give around 700 dmg based on the numbers coming up from the dmg counter, but the health bar on enemies drops the same amount as I had given 400 dmg, I mean, wth?

base damage is just an average number, & that average only works for enemies the same lvl as u, higher lvl enemies have higher amount of hit points. sure 50% of their bar goes down but their total hit points/health points whatever probably were way different. 1 prolly had 1600 total hp, the other prolly only had 1200 hp?

[skullduggery bones]

Originally Posted by xdj1nn

Hello to ya all...


I used to play PotCO on limited access during the Beta due to Disney's policy to only allow, at that time, the North American users to pay (completely ridiculous if ya ask me)


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I live in the UK and have played this game unlimited since Beta days. I've always been able to pay.

[oathkeeper]

heres what i think of the game. when i heard the game come out i was excited and happy casue they said you could board ships while they are docked and all but when i got on you couldnt. they took all the stuff dumped it then restarted the game all over they came out with new quests new stuff but they stayed like that for a while. then they "pretend" like the EITC blew up Port Royal but it could be other reasons. then they change the islands, the music , every thing. then they came out with more quests more stuff put more names out for ships and updated them to make them a lot more better at sailing. then the next year they talk about El Patron and his sword "coming soon" and then boom pirates online became fun. but, when they came out first on test every time you fired the muskets and bayonets they would crash your computer and stuff so you would have to yell at some won and say dont fire! but then they do and it crashes. then it comes out on live then people annoy the heck out of you by shooting the guns every were and jumping around stabbing pirates. then they have that quest for the weapons from Ezekiel Rott. after that the next year guess what would come out. Rvens Cove and fishing. this is the part that gets me mad. they dont come out with it for the next idk 5 months. then it finally lets us in and only level 30 and over can do the quest. after that it came out on test and it got me really mad. NEW pirates. man they got me mad and wasted all my tonics! they jump out in front of the ghost and die. ( i just let them sit there and die they really shouldnt be there in the first place ) and after than next year clothing comes out and what next???? idk maybe trading i hope and also hopping for ships i hope they can be for a quest.......

[titanic95594]

Well I miss holes in sails grr why did they take it out!

[Isaiah Ropeswine]

omg isaiah, u must've forgotten, unless u lied about being the same isaiah that was ronin vengence with me eons ago

sadly that Isaiah Ropeswine quit and game all his pirates and his guild to his first mate, me. Sorry!

[Tiberius Fireskull]

Sigh.

The game has dug itself in a trench right now. That is true. Founders used to be abundant, but now its rare that I see just one. Lots of people have quit the game because, as you said, it gets repetitive. However, ever since invasions were created, I noticed something. Since then, we have gotten AT LEAST one major update a month. Perhaps you may argue that they could be better. "OH! We need the Kraken! And ship customization! And yabadyblabla!" Mates, maybe they will never come, but do you think that just because those won't be added, that the game fails? No. There are an almost infinite number of updates that they can add. People say that there is nothing in this game. Let me tell you some things that they added in the last year or so.

Invasions. People still do these with their guilds. Perhaps they do get repetitive, but not if you are clever. You can do a one man challenge, with just one person per barricade. Heck, do the invasion ALONE. That will give you a challenge, and a goal to reach. The minigames. Sure, maybe they are kiddish, but there are ways to have fun and challenge yourself. Potion making. Sure, making it can be boring, but what is fun about making them is trying to find out some secret "formula" to making one ingredient in simply one combo. Try making three souls. Ok, I will admit that ship repair is kind of... pointless, so I won't bother there. Cannon Defense. If you go high enough, you can get some pretty nice cannon rams. Also, you can go try to beat your previous wave record. I know some people who have gone into the hundreds. Solo it! See how far you can go! Fishing, can you catch all the legendary fish? Try that!

Then we have the inventory expansion. This gives players something to do. Go out and loot. It will take some patience, but in the end it will pay off with a famed or even legendary weapon. The cursed blades that were added helped even more! Now we have EXTRA powerful weapons that are even MORE rare. If you want something to do, go spend a few hours looting and see what you turn up. Maybe you will have a few days where the loot bank is dry, but other times you may just get something nice. Now think about Raven's Cove. If you say that POTCO doesn't do anything for us, look at Raven's Cove. An ENTIRE new island. This island is nothing like the others. It has an elevator in it (not much, but hey! Its something new...) A whole new story quest was introduced, with a bunch of new, more interactive quests. Rage Ghosts are the first enemy that can KO anyone in one hit. They are extremely challenging, and are definitely something new. Then there is FOULBERTO SMASHO. Need something to do? Go fight him for a while and try to get a few good knives.

Then there is the one thing in Pirates Online that can never get old, no matter what you argue. Socialization. Even if you have soloed anything there is to be soloed, collected all the legendary weapons, have a full pouch of potions, and have soloed Cannon Defense to wave 100, socialization is always something new. This game is different from all others because the socialization that you do in this game, the friendships that you make, your guild, are all so unique. Saying that socializing in game gets old is like saying talking with your friends at school or work gets old. There is always something new, and who doesn't like just sitting back from a stressful day and chatting with those buddies of yours? I won't elaborate much more.

Perhaps POTCO dug itself into a hole, but it is climbing out. I can see it. I won't tell you to give it more time, because I know my reply will be "WE'VE GIVEN THEM THREE YEARS!" But I will just say that slowly they are rising from the hole, and then the game will shine.

Oh, and to your technical issues such as lag, I won't argue with that. They could up their engines a bit so that the game is better. But I think most people would be okay to suffer lag a little longer if they knew that there was some great new content coming, which is coming, I am certain.

[Captain Sharktooth]

Ok, I have said it several times. While being true that lack of content has forced some to quit, and many will be quitting soon, remember, everyone will get bored with the new updates that come out. I mean fishing? Ok, I mastered that, so now I don't fish. RC Quest... Completed it. Yes, the Kraken should come out, but then people will just get bored with it. I mean, in my noob days. I thought it was so cool doing the Treasure Map, and there were always people asking to do it too. Now, I hear of so many level 50's that haven't even started it! People just need to settle down and enjoy the updates as they come, instead of consistently complaining about new content needing to be added.

Now, I am not saying that new content shouldn't be added, because it definitely needs to be. Especially, especially, new story quests. Yes, I mean more than one. But, not all at the same time. Like, since there are 4 POTC movies, they should add 4 story quests based off each movie.

POTC 1: The Curse of the Black Pearl (Ok, we already have that one taken casre of.)

POTC 2: Dead Man's Chest. The Kraken Boss Battle

POTC 3: At World's End. We could have a story quest where we need to rescue Jack from Davy Jones' Locker.

POTC 4: On Stranger Tides. This one could be interesting. Simply, we should have to find the Fountain of Youth. (Ok we are already "Immortal" anyways... so this could be a good idea.


So, POTCO needs to create and release more stuff... But I don't think it is in bad shape. I will continue to play, and I hope that at least POTCo has enough right now to keep the people busy.

[Isaiah Ropeswine]

In my noob days...in...my...noob...days. That really hit me mate, cuz it really made me realize how much this game rocked! 3 years ago everything was so... New...fresh. It was great. With the boss battles and old port royal and torture etc, I loved it so much. Now I've been playing for a little over 3 years (beta) and I realize how bored I get nowadays. It might be tough, but I would love to have new features. A do anything feature, almost like sims.. You wanna swim into open water u can! You wanna climb to the crows nest of yer ship u can! You wanna kill other pirates, have at it! Certain pvpers can have the entire server to themselves. That would be amazing. New updates like these will make game so much more better. Plus maybe co-gm and senior officer positions in guild? It's really not that much to ask