Have you (or a friend) left the game out of boredom?

[Shadow Cat]

I got bored mainly because of my guild, so I left for a while. I joined a guild with some old friends and I love it. I love talking and I usually end up talking more than playing. Now I'm juggling Toontown and PotCO so that extends my time of having something to do while still playing with friends. If I didn't know the awesome people in my guild, I would have gotten bored and left a long time ago...

[Poison elf]

It definitely ran its course when you have completed quests/ characters. Going somewhere else (game) and maxing a character there though has gotten old also. I have always been one to say skip graphics, the two people that care can go away, versus the rest of the players that would like to see some content. It never sinks in, and everyone gets a big lag game with nothing to do.

If it wasn't for Ventrilio, and talking to a bunch of the guild a lot of the time, I probably would have lost interest long ago. I now at least get to laugh at one of our guys getting banned almost weekly for saying the V word in pirate chat.

We have run contests and some of the limited members have gotten unlimited accounts by winning. We have made officer challenges as well, to give other challenges. Things like this can go only so far.

Its months on end now you can see daily rankings of people hitting 40. Meaning nowhere to go from there. The fathers day thing I think was a example of the don't care attitude Disney has been continuously showing. How many 100's of characters basically got a slap in the face with this 2 x 0 rep fathers day.

To add to this problem give the people that aren't quite there, a perk to get advanced and have nothing to do also. Don't think I understand that logic at all.

[larkija]

Oh no, I would die if the bf/gf comes around.

Anyway, I once quit for a while awhile back when I had basic. I had nothing to do, since I maxed out everything I could possibly do. Soon, I got unlimited and went right back on.

[Bella]

I have lost most of my guild and ALL of my officers to WoW because there is not squat for them to do. Yes it is disapointing to lose friends to other games but I can totally understand. I myself have became bored of the game. I only keep unlimited because my husband has not maxed his pirate and as a GM I feel It is my duty to stay. Otherwise I probably would have left too.

[Peggo]

My guild seems to have vanished too. I assume it's out of boredom. I have but the one character which I have played but not maxed out yet. I hate repeating things anyway.
Coming from beta and then from basic I did a lot of things three times, and now...nothing. I can't get through The Black Pearl, and it appears there's nothing after it???
How does Disney expect to keep paying players?

[Steely Jim]

I haven’t gone anywhere, but it sometimes seems like I have. I don’t generally spend a lot of time playing anyway, but I’m not even hitting 2 hours per week right now. Personally, I’m not likely to leave on the basis of being bored with the supplied content. My attraction to this game was generically out of interest in developing a pirate character, and specifically related to how much I enjoyed the ride the first time I went to WDW in 1977; the movie has relatively little to do with it, except that I do feel it feel it’s an authentic expression of the narrative shown throughout the theme park ride.

Neither “Leveling,” nor Questing, really drives much of my interest in MMOs. My interest is in developing characters that feel “authentic” in the context of the game world. I also gravitated to PotCO due to its “MMOG lite” nature, as I know I don’t have the time to play a hardcore MMORPG. Just like is commonly mentioned in this game, as it pertains to guilds, people are usually looking to maintain a repeated high density of social interactions with the same people within the game. Since my play style is never to spend long stretches in the game, and because I regularly come and go on multi-week cycles (i.e. I play for a few weeks, then don’t bother for a few weeks, then go back to it for a few weeks, and so on), I long ago relegated myself to just amusing myself by socializing with whomever happens to be around rather than a finite group of players.

I know that most of the mainstream games make much out of “level grinding” and “group memberships,” but not all MMOGs are so dependent on content additions to drive interest in play. My favorite play experiences have been on games that were often still technically in development, and after expansions characters were regularly stat-wiped; no one cared in those games because their relationships were built on the personalities they gave to their characters, not the stats/completed quests associated with those characters.

For now, PotCO is the best fit for me; however, the flashy, high-speed grindfests will never seem as appealing to me as the role-play driven concepts like the Eternal Lands, PlaneShift(s), and Illarion(s) of the MMO universe.

[poisonpanik]

Myself and a few guild mates are dropping our accounts to basic... Disney left nothing for us higher level pirates... I am 1/2 way to lvl 37 and all my weapons are min level of 18 (nades and doll 25) and I've completed every quest in the game to-date... What is there left to do but grind which is MINDLESS and BORING.... I wrote disney and told them they should put a HUGE dungeon in kingshead with lvl 40+ enemies that will require you to master everything or crew up to actually do any real good in there. Highly doubt they even care... This is why I've left every other online RPG I've ever played... Lack of high level content to keep it fresh.

[Charlotte Grey]

Originally Posted by Nelly Darkpaine

dropping out due to boredom shows a lack of creativity on the part of the player.

THIS is assuming that the member is in a guild, and has an active friends list.

I realize that. At the time, the only person on my guild was my brother. And he was never online.
All he'd be doing - playing Super Mario Party 8 on our Wii. Not so fun if you're alone. Besides, people kept rejecting the guild invites...

Now they don't, thank heavens, so once my unlimited access runs out, I don't have to worry about having a life as a pirate.

And...at least my brother PLAYS now, when I'm playing. So I'm a lot less bored.

Thank GOD!

And, by the way, poisonpanik, it probably takes Disney a while to get each thing up. So if I were you, I'd keep emailing them repeatedly until they get the point. They may already be working on it. Who knows? Oh, and seriously, when does Pirates Online ever get "MINDLESS and BORING?" I mean, come on, you're living the life of a PIRATE. Not some Disney Toon character... I understand your viewpoint though, for higher level pirates, it must be difficult.
I know Disney is developing higher level stuff right now, at least, that's what they told me when I asked. So you should probably wait.

[poisonpanik]

Charlotte, I plan on switching to basic until something new comes out. No need to pay Disney for me to be bored... I've got plenty of friends and I do help them out (mainly a stationary healer) but eventually it would be nice to actually have some sort of goal to ascertain again... They left 0 incentive for me to master anything on purpose so why should I grind? That's all I've got left...

[Charlotte Grey]

Ah, I see. I was assuming you were just...leaving forever....
I didn't even realize you were paying right then.
Again, I think that's why you should wait for the new stuff.

[faithrose4648]

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[davy redflint]

pay a year so i'll keep playin , 1 pirate lelf to lvl out then what is ther to do but quit. maybe they will upgrade the lvls and let u hav more than 4 pirates.

[Silver Locket]

A good friend of mine left not only from boredom but frustration with all the bugs in game. I've had people tell me how other games are far better than this one, but for now I'm looking to be a pirate. I do wish we had more to keep us busy, but it's my choice to stay or go.

I pay one month at a time, the time will come when I shall set sail from POTCO, but not just yet.

[Joseph]

I got bord with the game so I left for about a month and then came back