"I've found that with these massively multiplayer games, you've never learned it all -- you keep learning," says Mike Goslin, president of Disney Online Studio. Goslin was at the Austin GDC to discuss the company's newest MMO, Pirates of the Caribbean Online, and the lessons learned.
Goslin started at Disney at Walt Disney Imagineering, working on virtual theme park rides, specifically Disney Quest, a "theme park in a box," as he called it. The most popular ride was apparently Pirates of the Caribbean.
"The most important thing we learned was that everybody loves being a pirate," he says. "Grandmas, little girls, everybody gets on there and has a good time."
It was really disappointed for a large number of fans that Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean Online (POTCO), the fun pirate themed MMO, was shut down in Sep 2013. Some folks were unwilling to lose this game forever and then they decided to resurrect this MMO as a new title--Pirates Online Rewritten. As of now, the fan-based dev team has claimed that they have been permitted to use Disney Interactive’s POTCO assets and content, with the additional premise that the new MMO must be strictly free-to-play and not-for-profit orientated. For the point of free-to-play, the team stressed that this MMO will focus on gameplay and fun, instead of making money from players with micro-transactions.
Avast ye landlubbers! Pirates Online Rewritten is an ongoing project to recreate and improve upon the now defunct Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean Online, the fun piratey themed MMO that shut down on Sept 2013.
This is a fan made project that uses Disney Interactive’s POTCO assets and content (with their permission) that’s strictly non-profit orientated and 100% free to play – it has to be or Disney will sue. This means that Pirates Online Rewritten is being created by devs who are genuinely passionate about the game, and it will be an MMO geared towards gameplay and fun, instead of fleecing players out of their cash with micro-transactions.
All going well, Pirates Online Rewritten could be a great MMO, be warned though, pirate games can be quite addictive – they say once ye lose yer first hand, ye get hooked!
Gameskinny interview with Apez Games Creative Director Zachary Coulter about their first MMORPG Pirates of the High Seas.
They should extent the deadline broke right now wanna help out. It sound like something Iwould like
