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10-02-2010, 05:29 AM
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Grrr. I missed the quiet servers they were easier to find a boss to have on your own.
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#32
10-02-2010, 07:00 AM
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I'm being serious here, Disney needs to turn around... NOW. I was a little skeptical at first about toontown because I thought I'd get bored in no time. Wrong, they took a piece of content that may seem like nothing, a boss battle and a cog HQ, and they can make that last six months if you're an average player. In toontown, laff points matter, and with the amount of content TT has, you'll spend a good two to three years playing the game if you're a moderate player. Stop downgrading this game Disney, get off your lazy butts, and try to hire some more developers for this game. It's not even funny how AMAZING this game could be, if you just worked on it. Right now, Disney is the kid at school that does all the work, but doesn't study, and ends up getting C's when he gets into high school, because suddenly homework is now only 10% of your grade, and tests are 60-70%. Disney, now is the test. Get off your butts and study, or flunk the class. |
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#33
10-02-2010, 12:33 PM
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Mac, you seem to ignore what Disney has been doing the past few months.
The difference between Disney's old style of releasing out content, and how they do it now, is amazingly quicker. They've been pumping out more content than the plugged well in gulf pumped out oil. If they manage to keep the content flowing, I find it pretty hard to think they aren't "studying" up. Hell, in my personal opinion, they've aced every test I've given them since the Inventory update. A simple cut back in the servers is NOT downgrading the game. Disney saw the amount of servers they had a waste of space - and honestly, it's true. If you took the old ratio of Ideal, to Quiet, it had to have been 1:10, at least. Cutting back on the servers is just saving more time on Disney's hands, so that they don't have to upkeep servers that barely a few people use each day. Not every cutback necessarily means dooms day approaches. You all need to realize, the only reason you see the Quiet servers so "crowded," is because Disney has just recently released some MAJOR content. As such, populationand activity spikes are expected. So hold your horses, everything should be back to normal in a week or two, when people get back in to the normal cycle of release, play, and complain. After all, we aren't the only ones on this planet who play POTCO, now are we?  And another thing. I think most of you all are caught in the concept that corporate Disney pays for the finances of POTCO. Well, your wrong. POTCO is left to scrap up whatever money it can, for itself. Between amusement parks, hotels, television stations, and all that stuff, corporate won't exactly be focusing on their gaming industry (especially with Christmas on the way, and families booking their trips to WDW as we speak.) POTCO pays for itself, and doesn't, nor can it rely on the Mouse himself to pay for it. When POTCO tanks, corporate isn't going to do a thing. They'll simply sit back and say "Good, now we can put those guys to work somewhere else!" Of course, POTCO is not in a tanking state, nor do I see it going that way any time soon. Players I haven't seen in one, even two years are making comebacks. A majority of my basic members are renewing their subscriptions, as well as a lot of mates here on POF. POTCO is entering a boom state, and once they get in to the groove (although I think they already have,) don't expect them to let the opportunity pass them by. Honestly, this is not the time to say Disney has failed this game. Aside from the bugs that have come with this update, (which the majority seem to fix themselves with a simple log off/on) Disney has done a mighty job at bringing this game back to gusto over the past few months. Kudos, Mickey! |
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10-02-2010, 03:35 PM
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to something del said about how disney manages which product they work on....I wish they would work on their Disney channel....The Disney channel was sooooo amazing in the 90's
now we have lame shows like Hannah Montana >.> I don't watch the Disney channel anymore but they should keep the shows that work..its a new generation of kids, they aren't gonna know the movies and shows they are watching are recycled from the 90's and 80's 0_o |
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10-02-2010, 05:03 PM
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Igor wonders
Igor wonders if all the servers could handle all the new content. Igor say as some have noted some servers were just off for a day or two. Igor ask is it not possible that some of the servers were old and could not take the new updates. Igor know some of his pcs are getting slower with all the new content.
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#36
10-02-2010, 05:21 PM
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I find myself not particularly agreeing with Del here. I do however agree with MacIronhawk that Pirates has amazing potential, most of which remains untapped. However, I have my own thoughts.
As for graphics, you guys who say it's going downhill, what setting do you play on? I'm on an HD computer, with Open GL and high graphics. Speaking personally, I find the game beautiful. Since I got this computer I often find myself just sitting on my ship as the sun rises or sets, not doing a blessed thing but watching the sun play across the water. Yes, it's that beautiful. (Borrowed from my Postcards from the Krewe, this is what I see in game.)  Yes, that's just the screenie of it. The water glitters in the light, it's rather amazing actually. And no, it's not just at sea. Characters, buildings, even the chickens on Cuba have more detail than I've ever seen before in game. So I don't know what's up with the graphics complaints, cause I love it. I don't agree with Del about these updates though. I am of the firm opinion that after nearly three years, there should have been a second story chapter long before now. The POTCO machine has been doing about a million fillers, teasers, and little in game fluffs this last year, really all starting with the last years Muertos Quests. In reality, other than the release of potions, ship repair, and fishing, all of that should have been the progression of the story chapter. It should all have led to Raven's Cove and El Patron as the chapter boss battle. Instead, we get fluff again. And every new player who sets foot in the Caribbean since Constance Sorrow and John Moses left has no clue as to the history that brought us here. Which, believe it or not brings me back around to the server issue. I'm actually not seeing people come back. Oh, they may drop in once, maybe twice. I'm seeing more people leave than come back. I'm seeing a reduction in play hours, myself included, for many of the people I've been playing with for the year I've been here. We're seeing guilds right here on the forums in slow and or rapid decline. The old guard is still leaving, and they are leaving in droves. The POTCO machine has been empty promises better left unsaid, massive letdowns, and unrealized potential for far too long now. I'm with some the others, I think there has been a significant enough drop in play that some servers were removed due to disuse. However, I also think Igor makes a very good point. I think it's very possible the servers retired are the original servers no longer capable of keeping up with the higher end of what's coming out now. I think Disney is hiding this and using disuse as the only excuse for the removal, but I'm betting it's both. Pardon the novelette here, I'm in author mode. But that's my two pieces of eight on the subject. |
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10-02-2010, 06:19 PM
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Disney, right now, is in a stage where they spent a good six months to a year on developing content, and then they started releasing it, one right after the other. Do you think anything else bigger than Raven's Cove is going to come out in less than six months? Probably not. Unless they've been working on ship customization for three years, then I'm not happy. Unless they're reading to throw the Kraken into the game in three months, I'm not happy. With toontown, you'll be at a dry period where there's no content for about three months during the year, and they'll throw in a bunch of contests, etc... That's all good, because they offer good rewards, like in game shirts so you can brag to your friends. During our dry period, we have lame GM events. Unless they have something big planned, then all we've been experiencing is luck. They worked on potions, fishing, ship repairing, and the Raven's Cove quest, along with some cool new weapons for the past year, and then they release it. Unlesss they've been working on other big things at the same time, we're not going to see anything good any time soon. |
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#38
10-02-2010, 06:42 PM
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Mac, your theories just might be sound but they seem to rely an awful lot on words like "unless" and "probably". Don't get me wrong. "Unless" you are completely wrong I agree that we will "probably not" get any more updates soon... "Unless" you are completely wrong...
Hard to make a strong argument that way even though I really DO think you're right. I just don't get the sense of panic that seems to go with thinning out the server farm. I have played on live servers where I was convinced that I was the only one there. It was kind of like realizing that you're the only one in a movie theater and you keep wondering when they're going to tell you, "Sorry. Not worth the money to run this for just you..." Anyway. Being too wordy. I guess I just think you're right and hope you're wrong. |
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10-02-2010, 07:49 PM
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Exe, when Titanic came out I was more than a tad obsessed. I saw in in the theaters 10 times. (Yes really.) Of those at least 4 I was the only person in the theater, and those were my favorite showings. Same goes for here on Pirates, I have been that feeling like I'm the only one on the server, and I loved it. I don't worry if someone is gonna tag my ship, steal my rep, try flirting with my pirates, and all the other stupid stuff I see on busier servers. Personally, I loved those quiet servers more than anything.
RIP Battassa & Jamilles. It's hard to explain I guess to the ideal busy server set, but it's like this. Quiet servers it's just you vs the server. It's where if you get in to deep an that thrall captain kills you oop, you're going to jail. To me, quiet servers are the only true test of skill left in game. Last edited by JM Ohara; 10-02-2010 at 07:52 PM.. Reason: added a thought |
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10-02-2010, 07:52 PM
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I, for one, agree that Disney should have removed a few servers. I am one of the players who like playing on quiet servers, however, there was [I]too many[I] of them in my opinion. Of course, some of these servers were "guild servers" to many guilds, however... there's no problem in just changing a guild server. Besides, it's not like it's your server, it's a server that your guild hangs out on. Anyways, that's not the thing here. I have no complaint about Disney removing servers. A lot of them were just there and had less than a hundred players on them. We still have quiet servers - but now we don't have completely empty servers that really served no purpose. I think it's nice that Disney is cleaning things up now.
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10-02-2010, 08:03 PM
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And the whole point of having those "completely empty servers" was so that pirates could go and be alone. I now noitced that almost every other server is ideal, which is too much for me. It feels like test, where there are almost no servers, and there is no way to have any privacy... I emailed them today asking why they removed them... I heard something about them having to be fixed from a guildmate, but I emailed them anyway. When I get the reply I'll make sure to post it here.
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10-02-2010, 08:05 PM
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There's no problem with change. A lot of people I noticed, don't like when things change on this game. Such as the new islands, people complained about the old Port Royal being gone. I know, I would be a little annoyed if I was in a guild with a guild server, and that server was removed. However, I don't find it being a problem that we'd just choose another server.
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#44
10-02-2010, 08:08 PM
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Not necessarily meaning that change is bad, its not. However people used those servers to level up alone on, or just hang out alone with friends. Now, it is much harder to find piece and quiet....
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10-02-2010, 08:09 PM
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It's not so much change in general. It's that it's not what some of us have been waiting for forever and a day. Most of us are still just waiting for a story chapter. Also, if you've never been in a guild with a home server, I can't explain how much like home it gets to feel like after months of playing on it.
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Disney Trash's Servers...
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