You may not agree that they are the 'right' features ) There has always been a team working on PP and we have always shipped new features regularly.
Some of you may recall the mooted 'Titan'. I have a lot of time for the idea that shaking up the end game, for example with a mechanism for shop destruction, would help to keep things vibrant. Puzzle Pirates' community remains remarkably robust for an old game, but it's fair to say that it has shrunk since peaking in size around 2007. This is an interesting thread, albeit tough to read. They're obscenely expensive to a new player on the dub oceans.ĭubloons just took all the worst aspects of the imbalanced on the subscriber oceans and amplified them by making everything more expensive for entry level players.Ĭleaver here, Puzzle Pirates' original designer and Three Rings' founding CEO. If you want to be a great sword-fighter, you're gonna need a falchion, skull-dagger, or cleaver.
Additionally, the dubloon costs for major items made it hard for non-elite, non-paying members to stand a chance. Since labor was so hard to come by, most people just made alts to do it for them, and paid shit wages. On the dubloon oceans, the economic market was killed by labor badges. All those high-ranking puzzle players? Probably a solid half of them are cheaters, the other half are the legit best players and their alts. Interest started to wane and there was nothing new to bring back old players. If you're not retaining new players, you're gonna have a bad time.ĭevelopment halt. This further killed off pillaging, and isn't that accessible to new players. It also killed off a lot of the pillaging mentality. It because such a massive wealth funnel, that most people's funding came from a couple good poker players who would hoover the economies POE to fund their blockade defenses/attacks. Additionally, since actually holding an island wasn't good for much besides prestige, there isn't much point to actually fighting for them unless you say you want to hold an island. Super-mega alliances kept things pretty much stagnant except for the occasional rivalry between massive egos, or trouble maker flags like Notorious Fandango or Oceanus Expeditus. The upper level of the games stagnated due to little to no competitions between Flags. Subscription oceans started dying when they introduced the doubloon oceans.
#Patch age of pirates series
It was a series of bad decisions on OOO part. Used to be really big in this game, was a Senior Office/Royalty in a major flag on Midnight and then on Cobalt.
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