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10-05-2010, 02:28 AM
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The only reason I'm upset is because taking away the servers wasn't necessary. Maybe they get to keep a few extra bucks in their wallet but look at it this way.
POTCO is just a side thing for Disney, right? They're not going to take money from Disneyland and give it to POTCO, because they profited that money, and they need to keep Disneyland running. So why can't POTCO make it's own money? Why can a game like WOW or Wizard 101 come out of no where and start making more, and producing more than a Disney game? Why? Is it because Disney stinks when it comes to online game development? I didn't even hear about WOW until about two years ago, and I thought it was lame, until I saw the hours of gameplay, and the comments about how amazing it is. Some random company called Blizzard comes out and makes a great online game, with content that will last you years. The game will probably be around even when I die, that's how much the developers are dedicated. Why is Disney suddenly the little boy that doesn't know what he's doing when it comes to an online game? They have Panda3D for crying out loud, and they can't even release content fast. My patience isn't running low, I'll continue to play the game until they shut it down, but what I want to understand is why they're being passed by companies that came out of the blue with a good idea. What happened to Disney's creativity? If Walt Disney were still alive today he'd probably think the amount of work they've put into POTCO is pathetic. POTCO is aiming for a C, while other games are aiming for an A, and billions of dollars a year. Again, I love POTCO, and the release of Raven's Cove has even made me think it's better than it was when it opened, because they look like they're working on interactive content, instead of a list of chores to do. But, it's not fast enough. I'd like to play this game for a long time(probably makes me sound like a lazy guy living in his moms basement), and it's just not moving as fast as other online games. If they can't speed up the release of content, then the game isn't going to last. |
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10-05-2010, 03:11 AM
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10-05-2010, 03:59 AM
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they made my looting server turn into an ideal server ( Navermo) or however u spell it - sniffles-
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10-05-2010, 05:27 AM
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Great post MacIronhawk and all great questions. I did a little research and although things did improve they lost millions last year. They have restructured management to cope with the problem. The way I see it if they are still loosing money after all these years and still throwing money into then its an area where Disney really really wants to have a place in it. Its just to bad that they dont really understand the market and are kind flying blind. Hopefully with the new management in place they have the foresight to make decisions that create content and look at things overall from a better perspective and dont decide to trash the things that are currently in place.
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10-05-2010, 06:43 PM
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Sigh, the "quiet" servers still aren't. It was so bad last night that even after several server hops people kept interfering in JM's Raven's Cove quest. JM is 44, he can handle it no problem. Finally got just so sick of it I logged. And that's just last night. Sunday night...
Sunday night was awful. I had my GM pirate in, and she's 32. I got to the part about defeating ghosts at the same time in front of the southern idol. Well she's 32, and some of them were spawning 40. Even with a 37 me, I still needed backup, so we ended up with a pretty good size crew in a desperate attempt to keep my 32 alive against these guys. When along comes some random girl blasting away while I was trying to finish. We ask politely, hey could you let me finish quick please, and that would have been the end of that, I would have finished, we would have left, she could have had at all she wanted. She didn't answer me. I said, hey, there are more guys close by, my quest says I have to have these, can ya just let me work here. No answer. Now, after having been at it for well over an hour already and being unable to time it right, I was annoyed. So when she still didn't answer my little GM did yell at her, an told her we had been there first and to go away. No answer. Yeah, at this point most would pick up servers. I had changed servers already four or five times looking to find a place to work with no luck. By that point I was thinking why does it have to be ME that moves every time. My stubborn streak kicked in, an I wasn't going anywhere thank you. Well, after almost a half hour of Connie yelling at her trying to get her to talk, a pirate tps to her, an all I could think was oh nice now we're gonna have a war. But here it was a little 21. He took one shot an down he went. I had no problem with him, so both my pirates, and several others in the crew did everything we could to keep him alive, or revived. He was a perfectly decent pirate, and rather nice actually. He wasn't to fond of her behavior either, and as it turns out, he was her GM!! Well, one of my crew finally gets the girl to talk, an she says she was working a quest too. I said then why didn't you just say so we could have worked together and been long done. No answer. My crewmate says, ok, so we take turns, let Connie finish then you can have it all to yourself. Except by then I so didn't trust her, so I said she could go first. So she went back at it. What weapon did she pull? The Spinecrest sword. She had been lying, and had already finished the quest. Very nice. Well, even after she agreed to finish and let my pirate work this girl kept at it for quite a while, an by now I personally was staying to keep the little guy alive. She's got several of the crew and also her GM telling her she agreed to take turns when was she gonna let me have mine. An when she finally answers, starts yelling at us that we don't own the game we don't own the server she has just as much right to be there as we do. Nothing she said could have ticked me off more than that. By her own admission we had the right to be there, yet she was refusing to take turns and play nice. Her own statement was I had the right to be there, just like her. She was blasting me for asking her to let me work, then all the time just standing there doing everything in her power to drive me off the server. There is nothing I hate worse than hypocrites, and this girl was of the highest order. I had to wait nearly two hours for her to leave, finally. Yet her GM had the decency to not only repeatedly apologize for her behavior, which I told him every time he wasn't at fault for, but to stay and try his hardest to help keep Connie alive while she tried again. This is what the server reduction has done. It's put all those belligerent hypocritical I have a right to be here an so do you but you don't get to use your right pirates in the same space as us normal decent players. It's put the mean vindictive people in the same space as those of us who just want to play. Far far worse it's put the rep stealing pushy people in the same space as fresh of the dock for the very first time brand new players. These rude people, rep stealers, and all together pushy pirates might just all together push potential new money right out of game. Yeah, I have a major problem with that. |
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10-05-2010, 11:52 PM
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JM, I'm really sorry for that... the only thing worse than a rep stealer is a rep stealer that ignores you and finally answers after a really long time only to yell at you. No other comments other than that stinks, and they need to add those servers back.
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10-06-2010, 12:14 AM
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Well as The Joker says/said in The Dark Knight "It's all part of the plan." -.-
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10-06-2010, 03:10 AM
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Well i had the worst lag you'd ever seem when the old grapics were around if i went sailing id crash if i went on the svs isles id crash if i looked at the ships they lowered the grapics because it was happening to alot of people but they added more effects like the fog around the sails when you start to move and the best thing they've done is removed servers it will save money for new updates and i mean come on 100 servers witch could cost a lot just to maintain that ppl almost never use i think disney is doing a great job i wouldnt be surprised if this game winds up winning a mmo award next year and if your worried about the problems with the accounts right now thats because they didn't account for the large masses of players when ithe update was on test and believe me this problem wasnt on test and if you pay attention to the ppl on test who have new ships if u examine them u can see disney is fixing them they have fixed lots of glitch and are working on the cannons of the ship of the line now i wouldnt be surprised to see them on live VERY soon 
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#101
10-06-2010, 08:49 PM
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That is terrible, JM. I understand your frustration completely.
Your point alone shows that there should be more servers. Rude behavior will continue and it is a huge problem, but with more quiet servers it can defiantly help eliminate it. |
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Disney Trash's Servers...
Galagon 2004 Champion!
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