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Pirates of the Caribbean Online: Preview: A Pirate's Life For Me
Stradden
Managing EditorMember CommonPosts: 6,696
Recently, Managing Editor Jon Wood traveled to San Francisco California to take a look at Disney Online's Pirates of the Caribbean Online.
Recently, I had the opportunity to travel to San Francisco and attend the event for Disney Online's upcoming game, Pirates of the Caribbean Online. For anyone who may have been living under a rock for the last few years, Pirates of the Caribbean is a pirate-themed ride, as well as the basis for a successful movie franchise that is now becoming an MMORPG.
Pirates isn't Disney's first foray into the world of MMORPGs. Toontown Online (Disney's first MMORPG) is clearly marketed toward children, an audience much younger than most standard MMORPGs. In that game, players become cartoon characters in a game that replaces combat with gags and PvP with mini-games in a successful attempt to strip the violence away from the game. For those players out there who were concerned that Pirates of the Caribbean would be made in its predecessor's image, they can rest easily in the knowledge that while Toontown Online finds clever ways around swinging swords and firing guns, Pirates makes no such concessions.
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Read the whole article here.
Cheers,
Jon Wood
Managing Editor
MMORPG.com
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Final Fantasy 7
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Played: Erm, a lot more.
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I can handle in game advertisement if it means not paying a monthly fee. I play AO for free and the ads dont bother me at all.
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Which Final Fantasy Character Are You?
Final Fantasy 7
It seems kinda cool except the UI system they talked about that will for sure take some getting use to....but idk yet ill have to wait for it to come out and hear what the majority of people have say about it.
.....It's disney if this game is going to be 100% rated G
......then forget it, but i hope it turns out to be pretty cool.
But lets see, maybe they will make it good.
For what it is, it's good...not great, but a nice starter MMO to get kids used to them.
and yes, I'm a recovering Disney cast member..I was indoctrinated into their logic and I can see exactly where they're going with this and just how it fits into their grand plan
-maxstone
Hell ill go play that for free and i may even pay for it if i like it.This is a winner in my books just because it wont have a frickin elf around.
What is your physical limit?
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WoW Killer!
ok maybe not, my only comment is it figures the only company that has the balls enough to try semi twitch based combat is fricken disney.
I'll try it out heck i played WoW and toon town (which are about nearly the same) why not try this as well.
The only 'innovation' in the game that appealed to me at all was the player manned, player piloted vessels. That is a huge step forward, and something that had been sorely missing from a number of MMORPG's like SWG. This would be something that would be good to incorporate into POTBS, but they have indicated no such feature. Something like that would also be good for Vanguard and their player created and operated ships. This feature is also something which could have a direct application for Star Trek Online (vaporware?). Really, player manned, player piloted vehicles is something sorely missing from MMORPG's today.
Having said that though, I can honestly say that this game does not appear to appeal to me, nor had it before this preview. I think it'll be a hit with young parents with young kids looking to encourage computer use, but in a relatively 'safe' environment. It may even be simple enough for the young parents to play with their kids.
Maybe this game will benefit other gaming communities by drawing off the young, immature players. Think of this like that kiddie play area at McDonald's... It'll keep the kiddies occupied with something else, hopefully making other games and communities more enjoyable for the rest of us. (e.g., no more people leaving groups in the middle of a dungeon run because they have to go finish their homework or because mommy says it's bedtime)
Though Im more cautious due to the Disney name.... general rule, the LESS they controll it, the better a game it should be (case in point: TRON 2.0)
are we talking about WoW or Toontown, though comparing those two might offend the ToonTown community.
players will have names as close as they can to "Jack Sparrow" just like people on fantasy games put "legolas" if there an elf.
and with no global chat its gonna be even worse!
the singleplayer game was ok, but an mmo...
Quantity*
And yes i agree, it feels like the name "massive multiplayer online" is being abbused by game developers. Imo 500 gamers in a game does not make the game massive multiplayer, it just makes it online. There needs to be a new definition of what mmo means, or atleast add a new term for the online games which just have a lot of players (a bit more then avg which is about 16-32 players). call it something simple like Gonline, G for Greater.
below 100 - Online
up to 1500 - Gonline
above 1500- Massive multiplayer online
Im betting my money that this game is gonna become a Gonline game. Infact from now on ill be judging these mmos and giving them the title either mmo or Gonline.
What folks are failing to comprehend here is that in a couple years most games rated T and below will be Sans the Global chat and Plus the naming database. People truly have no clue how close WoW came to Speedchat and Name selector just like Toontown. Developers are being slammed and I mean slammed by Senators and parenting group because little Timmay keeps hearing the F word on Barrens chat by folks named donkeyhumper, now that the mainstream media has "Discovered" MMO's you can bet your ass developers will start sanitizing them in any way possible to save public face.
And that's what's scary. The general trend is to blame the game and developers for problems in the society, ofcourse it's seeing the F-word in a text chat and seeing semi-nude fantasy characters that creates killers. It has nothing to do with easy access to guns, drugs, exclusion from society and such. It's the games ...
A bit off topic, but i had to get it out.
As to the game, currently it looks bad, it need a big touch on the texturing department, but i do think it can be quite fun, and it's a niche that's not very exploited, thus very good from a competition standpoint. If i remember correctly it's basically Sea Dogs with new names and some undeads (and the graphics currently look the same also), and it was a fairly fun game. "Family friendly" can be quite fun, i dont think many complain about the lack of blood in WoW, it's not what makes or breaks a game. It's no blood in BF2 either, and it's a darn fun game.
If pulled off right it can be a quite successful game, there's 14 on the dousen of fantasy games, the only "ride, trade and fight"-game is EvE and not all like sci-fi (not to mention the harsch pvp-idea of eve). Pirates of the burning sea is an obivious contender, but will probably not exist in a free version.
This will not be a wow-killer, but it'll get a large enough community, i'd say SWG-size (genereally: among the biggest pre-wow)
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