Pirates of the Caribbean Online.
This game meant a lot to us, or did it? Was POTCO really the reason that we enjoyed playing this game so much? Was it the community? The people and the way that this game was run by Disney that made us continue to come back. It has been two years since this game has shut down and since then, we have had several “false prophets” come forth and promise us a rebuild of this game. Is it really worth it though?
When POTCO closed down, I was still a very active member of the POTCO community on this forums and others, but as time went on I continued on with different games and stuck with some of the favorite pirates throughout the years, yes I loved this game just as much as you all did. I simply knew that all good things must come to an end and decided not to back any of the POTCO remakes. I frankly, did not want to see POTCO come back by any other hand than Disney’s.
This community has been lost. As the day goes on, I continue to see less and less posts and less and less people logging on. The only thing people log on now is for updates on the remakes or forum games. This used to be a place for the community to stick together and play newer games. So that we could remember the old game that brought us together and bring that comradery to other games. However, this place has been corrupted. This is no longer a forums for the ex-potco community but a community for remakes. I cannot be the only player that feels that a remake should just be left alone. Even if someone creates it. (Which is highly unlikely imo) It will still close again. Nobody is going to make POTCO last a lifetime. It simply isn’t going to happen. None of the crews recreating the game have really done as good a job as ToonTown Rewritten either. They knew where to start, they have a team dedicated to the community and to the game. We only have developers not interested in communicating with us. They want to hide their work and work in secrecy. They are against an open source project because they don’t want someone to “steal their work” or they have fear of hackers even though they have claimed that their current technology is “unhackable”
Is anyone else tired of the drama associated with these remakes? Whilst they bring them to our beloved community board of piratesforums.co I thoroughly enjoyed coming here to learn about new games and talk amongst fellow pirates when Pirates Online Rewritten was forced to post on their own forums. What made the stance change? I don’t wish to insight drama amongst myself so I have posted this on another account and I do hope that all moderators with access to my information would be decent enough to keep it a secret. If they would like to address issues with me specifically then to take them to a PM rather than revealing myself here.
I would like to use this as a start of a discussion as to the benefits of allowing POTCO to be put to rest and this community going back to talking about new games and working together as a community rather than waiting on a remake that will eventually close just as POTCO did.
Although nobody may have seen me in POTCO, I actually was a player, and although I did forget my pirate name, I also did tend to stay away from others and do my own thing. I can remember that on the last day of POTCO, I had played it in the morning, then came back after school, and I had nearly cried when my login didn't work, even after trying several times. The game itself, even before I got a Pirate's Forums account, I always had POTCO on my mind, just on the edge, and I had kept on making small references, and I missed, was it called, Raven's Island? Raven's Cove? I don't remember, but I hope you know what I'm talking about. I had always felt bad for the ghosts on the island, and even they always killed me, They always had a very special place in my heart. Just think, You're a ghost on the island, and you have almost no friends, and when you see a living person, you want them to be like you, so that you could be friends longer, without the worry of losing them, so you attack the live person, AKA you. I can remember one of the things they say to you before they kill you: 'Are you a ghost?' I still miss them. I miss the original game so much, that I keep on getting games like 'Lego Pirates of the Caribbean' and a few other games I have lost my faith in, because I was looking for something that would give me more memories, but all the games are based off the movies, and don't let the gamer create their own plot. You always have to follow the story in those games, while in POTCO, your plot could be making a crew, exploring, ect. In fact, I have a game about Lord of the Rings, and whenever I play it, since when you aren't following the story you can do your own thing, I will to a place where is enemies, and I'll fight them, with my wooden sword, pretending that I'm my POTCO character, fighting the undead once again.
