Dying (or DEAD) Disney has let us down!

[Basil Dreadflint]

The game is dying, or has already done so. Disney has let us down.
The one year anniversary came on October 31. By the end of the first week in November, a ton of the players had let their accounts expire. By the third week of November, Disney cut about 1/2 of the servers, (We all know that it was because game play has dropped significantly.)

All the rumors about new stuff coming on the anniversary were bogus. Then the Tavern Takeovers, where the Disney GM's kept hinting and blatantly saying, new things are coming,, be sure to be at the Founder's Feast to find out more. (HA!) Other than the roast pig giving out 10 super tonics, nothing happened there, either.

There has been major update after major update, but none of them has actually added any major new content. Yeah, the clothing quests and the level 5 weapons, but no increases in Notoriety, Weapons levels, ships or ship capabilities. Nothing that the average level 40 pirate wants or needs!

Guilds are dying left and right. Most guilds are losing full access players, and they are seeing no new players coming in. The die hards are creating new baby pirates, but it is rare to find a "new" player. Be honest. If your guild has about 100 pirates in the list, then you may have 20 to 25 ACTIVE players right now! Probably even less.

Even those who play pretty regularly are beginning to chat about how bored they are with the game. No incentive to continue their memberships, because Disney hasn't given us anything to keep us active. Grinding weapons gets extremely boring, when all you are grinding them for is to reach the last level. There isn't even any fanfare for mastering, unless your friends make it for you.

Where is the second story chapter? What use is having the Pearl, if we can never sail her, or chase after Jolly Roger? When are they going to raise the notoriety and weapons skill caps? What use are weapons that are more powerful than our old ones, when there are no enemies to use them on, or they don't earn us any rep?

COME ON Disney!! Quit making up these little side quests and amusements, Give us something that is truely MAJOR! The Muertos Moon is fun, ONCE! After that, the best anyone can hope for is that it happens on a different server than the one they are on.

My suggestions:

Raise Notoriety max to level 60, using the same progressive scale factors that are in place now, the final level would require around 80,000 rep to achieve. This should keep us all busy.

Raise weapons max to level 50 each.. Same reasoning as for Notoriety.

Give us at least 2 new types of war ship, but only allow us 3 total. Time to make some decisions!

Allow customization of our ships, allow us to "move" cannons. I would love to take 2 cannons from the side of my War frigate and add them to the front. I would also like to be able to fly a Guild pennant from the top of my main mast. Paint job would be a nice touch, too.

New, higher level enemies and ships! We will need the challenge if we are going to raise the caps.

GIVE US THE NEXT STORY CHAPTER! There has to be a reason we did all that work to recapture the Pearl from the Navy. Jolly Roger has been growing more powerful. There are French and Spanish undead. Where is the story that ties it all together?


What does everyone else think?