I suppose I should have seen this coming but..... I'm speechless. There goes 5 years of my life and AT LEAST $500 in UA payments.
I don't see why Disney/DIMG is so afraid to keep the game running. Sure it will mean -Gasp- work and, God forbid spending some money, but this is still worth it in the long run, especially with POTC5 coming out.
Now I guess all that's left to do is make this last month the best time we've ever had in POTCO, make our last farewells, and find another game to move to.
I might move to RIFT and get a membership there, since I won't have to pay for POTCO anymore.
Let's look at it this way:
We are all veteran pirates, who have sailed with Jack Sparrow and the crew of the Black Pearl (not literally, but you get the meaning), battled the forces of the EITC, Navy, and Jolly Roger sometimes single-handedly and sometimes as a legion of swashbucklers and marauders, and made hundreds of new friends while we were at it. At least we are the group of people lucky enough to be able to say that, as well as experience the thrill that is hanging out on POTCO with our guildies and looting peeps.
If everyone, and I mean, EVERYONE from POTCO moves to a new game, and creates a new guild, why not call it something like the POTCO Legion, in honor of our unfortunately fallen game.