Lookit Light on Jun 17, 2020 wrote:

Thanks for the honest response, Bat. I am very disappointed that you are still at that stage, but it's an honest response nonetheless.

If you wish to interact with us more through community events, I would be delighted to provide some suggestions. As well as Nautical XP Parties, I would suggest other varieties of events, like, say...

Pet Sparring Events. I seem to remember that you once hosted this sort of thing. I remember in particular the SpiderFight Pet Sparring event that you had on... I think it was the August KI Live of 2018? It was a fun gathering, I even remember fighting you, Bat! I think performing this sort of thing would not only grab the attention of many players, but bring about interest in competitive Pet Sparring. I would probably hop in myself if this was held.

As much as I would like to leave it here, though, Pirate101 cannot be saved trough occasional community interaction. These developers, chiming in on their updates... that had better happen soon.

Happy to host other events. I can see how only doing Nautical XP Parties can be draining :).

Do you have links to other past announcements we can reference? I'll do more digging too.

Thanks!

Bat Masterson on Jun 18, 2020 wrote:

Happy to host other events. I can see how only doing Nautical XP Parties can be draining :).

Do you have links to other past announcements we can reference? I'll do more digging too.

Thanks!

I'm afraid I don't know much about that even aside from what I've already provided. I'm looking forward to community interaction, though.

Bat Masterson on Jun 17, 2020 wrote:

Hi all! I know it's been a little while since we last responded, so I wanted to jump in here again. The comments we made in our previous couple of Producer's Letters is where we are currently at:
https://www.pirate101.com/free_game/producers_letter

I wish I could give you news of an imminent new world, but as we stated in the September letter, we currently have no plans for anything as large as new book-style content.

As we continue to gather feedback and read these comments, I'll be sure to have our team chime in on updates both big and small when we have something to announce.

Meanwhile, there is indeed more players out in the Spiral and it's been fun interacting with all of them! In fact, our recent Nautical XP Party was a blast with several new Pirates at the helm. I want to run another one of these, but it depends on your interest. What can we do for community activities, and how can we help those you are coordinating?

Keep me updated when new community events kick off and we'll be sure to get the word out about them!

Thanks for the honesty. Took 4 years for the poor CM's to be allowed to be honest. KI just be straight up with us. You have nothing to lose clearly to not just be upfront at this point. Everyone has sadly lost faith in it. Lucky Wiz got Ratbeard actually able to put resources into making their PVP great again and probably working on some other cool stuff. Miss the days where I felt there was a reason to come on and have a discussion with them and others in my favorite part of the game. Sadly even that community which still tries to run events, talk outside the game, etc just can't be any more self sufficient. It's sad that you guys scrapped so many projects. Really wish you'd dust them off and finish them just to give us something. I'm also surprised by how you never bothered to try to give us another new bundle. I'm sure the Empire Bundle still gets a purchase every now and then. I can't see how difficult it could be to toss us some old resources and powerful stuff together even if it's just plucked from Wizard at this point to give us something decently exciting while also able to have a reason to show we still want to monetarily support the game so you can find some excuse to give us content in the future.

I really. Really. Miss this game. Some ideas for ways to maybe gauge more players interest and give us something to do while you figure out something:

Companion code give aways. Final Bastion is running 2 events (PVP and PVE related) that give pack companions. This has shown great interest and if done on a large scale by you guys through give aways (raffles), KI streams, etc it would be an actual impactful thing that'll entice people to get involved.

Hatchathons. Make a really neat pet (actually useful talents, timewarp, grants rally and relentless, in its pool) then give it away so people new and veteran can get excited about a kick-starting pet. Cool way to introduce more loyal pets into the game for collectors and pet gurus?

Login rewards, login daily to get some gold, little bit of crowns, a mount, etc. Make a member benefit if you feel like it. Free permanent mounts even if they're reskinned or whatever are always welcomed from all players.

Hint-And-Seek give us a riddle or something to find and send a screenshot of it on a forum post, facebook, twitter and those who guessed it write get sent a prize.

What prizes people ACTUALLY WANT AND WOULD BE TRUE INCENTIVES (doing all these events are fine but with no real incentive they just get ignored):
Companions (packs)
Gear (Gear of the week, fort power items like Swashbuckler eyepatch, Imperial Boots of Moo Manchu, Dreadnaught weapons, etc)
Pets with good talent+power pools for beginners/veterans to kick start with (as stated above)
LOTS OF GOLD (we're pirates after all. I'm talking 100k)
PERMANENT MOUNTS (not temporary)

Overall there are tons of things you could do with little effort to implement and not implementing these or even considering it is a little farfetched and out dated considering what other games are doing.

At this point it really isn't on us to tell you what we want KI. You know. We definitely have voiced it plenty of times and more than just "new story content". Crafting would be cool, fishing even, new housing items??? Like even that hobby side of the game (while I'm not big on it, I know people enjoy it) hasnt had anything new. New bundle that is actually useful with a cool companion? ANY OF THE ALREADY IMPLEMENTED PROMOTIONS FOR COMPANIONS IN THE FILES (Not spoiling dont worry) LIKE YOU DID FOR SCRATCH! I mean if you honestly have no plans for a big story update in the near future or even a small one with like 5 level increase at least give us the promotions mostly if they already exist in the files like they currently do. I could go on all day. The point is, as much as I want this game to revive, or enjoy Wiz (and I have been wanting to play it again, probably will try again soon.) it doesn't make it any different you have failed as game publishers. I mean we're just asking for pennies at this point on here guys. If we went to any other game and asked for this and got it, people would majorly go on a rampage about how terrible of an update it'd be. But here we are asking for one new, actually relevant update, in 4 years and they still say "we have no plans for anything as large as new book-style (main story) content". Come on this is ridiculous and sad. Falmea, you should be disappointed in how you run this company after seeing this thread.

But regardless, here I am. You got me. I am on my hands and knees. Give us, something, relevant. Small like new gear or a companion, maybe a promotion. Crafting, fishing, bloody new housing items. Again. It's dumb I even have to say please, that'd excite me. Pirate isn't just neglected. It's ignored. It's trashed. And its left to pick up scraps. If Wiz is getting the better bread because they're the golden child. This is child abuse and I rest my case.

Hope that little rant doesn't remove the actual ideas I mentioned as I do think people would enjoy them and could keep us tight if run consistently until you decide what your plans are for Pirates going into the future.

TechnomagePvP on Jun 22, 2020 wrote:

Thanks for the honesty. Took 4 years for the poor CM's to be allowed to be honest. KI just be straight up with us. You have nothing to lose clearly to not just be upfront at this point. Everyone has sadly lost faith in it. Lucky Wiz got Ratbeard actually able to put resources into making their PVP great again and probably working on some other cool stuff. Miss the days where I felt there was a reason to come on and have a discussion with them and others in my favorite part of the game. Sadly even that community which still tries to run events, talk outside the game, etc just can't be any more self sufficient. It's sad that you guys scrapped so many projects. Really wish you'd dust them off and finish them just to give us something. I'm also surprised by how you never bothered to try to give us another new bundle. I'm sure the Empire Bundle still gets a purchase every now and then. I can't see how difficult it could be to toss us some old resources and powerful stuff together even if it's just plucked from Wizard at this point to give us something decently exciting while also able to have a reason to show we still want to monetarily support the game so you can find some excuse to give us content in the future.

I really. Really. Miss this game. Some ideas for ways to maybe gauge more players interest and give us something to do while you figure out something:

Companion code give aways. Final Bastion is running 2 events (PVP and PVE related) that give pack companions. This has shown great interest and if done on a large scale by you guys through give aways (raffles), KI streams, etc it would be an actual impactful thing that'll entice people to get involved.

Hatchathons. Make a really neat pet (actually useful talents, timewarp, grants rally and relentless, in its pool) then give it away so people new and veteran can get excited about a kick-starting pet. Cool way to introduce more loyal pets into the game for collectors and pet gurus?

Login rewards, login daily to get some gold, little bit of crowns, a mount, etc. Make a member benefit if you feel like it. Free permanent mounts even if they're reskinned or whatever are always welcomed from all players.

Hint-And-Seek give us a riddle or something to find and send a screenshot of it on a forum post, facebook, twitter and those who guessed it write get sent a prize.

What prizes people ACTUALLY WANT AND WOULD BE TRUE INCENTIVES (doing all these events are fine but with no real incentive they just get ignored):
Companions (packs)
Gear (Gear of the week, fort power items like Swashbuckler eyepatch, Imperial Boots of Moo Manchu, Dreadnaught weapons, etc)
Pets with good talent+power pools for beginners/veterans to kick start with (as stated above)
LOTS OF GOLD (we're pirates after all. I'm talking 100k)
PERMANENT MOUNTS (not temporary)

Overall there are tons of things you could do with little effort to implement and not implementing these or even considering it is a little farfetched and out dated considering what other games are doing.

At this point it really isn't on us to tell you what we want KI. You know. We definitely have voiced it plenty of times and more than just "new story content". Crafting would be cool, fishing even, new housing items??? Like even that hobby side of the game (while I'm not big on it, I know people enjoy it) hasnt had anything new. New bundle that is actually useful with a cool companion? ANY OF THE ALREADY IMPLEMENTED PROMOTIONS FOR COMPANIONS IN THE FILES (Not spoiling dont worry) LIKE YOU DID FOR SCRATCH! I mean if you honestly have no plans for a big story update in the near future or even a small one with like 5 level increase at least give us the promotions mostly if they already exist in the files like they currently do. I could go on all day. The point is, as much as I want this game to revive, or enjoy Wiz (and I have been wanting to play it again, probably will try again soon.) it doesn't make it any different you have failed as game publishers. I mean we're just asking for pennies at this point on here guys. If we went to any other game and asked for this and got it, people would majorly go on a rampage about how terrible of an update it'd be. But here we are asking for one new, actually relevant update, in 4 years and they still say "we have no plans for anything as large as new book-style (main story) content". Come on this is ridiculous and sad. Falmea, you should be disappointed in how you run this company after seeing this thread.

But regardless, here I am. You got me. I am on my hands and knees. Give us, something, relevant. Small like new gear or a companion, maybe a promotion. Crafting, fishing, bloody new housing items. Again. It's dumb I even have to say please, that'd excite me. Pirate isn't just neglected. It's ignored. It's trashed. And its left to pick up scraps. If Wiz is getting the better bread because they're the golden child. This is child abuse and I rest my case.

Hope that little rant doesn't remove the actual ideas I mentioned as I do think people would enjoy them and could keep us tight if run consistently until you decide what your plans are for Pirates going into the future.

Out of what you said, the thing that really sticks out to me is about Wizard101 being the golden child and getting the bread while Pirate101 is stuck with the scraps. It's kind of hard to compare Wiz and Pirate because their gameplay is very different which I understand makes Pirate the harder game to develop, I really do.

But in terms of side content, hobbies, and even the story itself, Wizard101 has gotten the better end of the deal. Wiz has had THREE arcs, the first one being the only one without an open ended conclusion while the other 2 arcs have had segues for the continuing arc. I am hearing rumors that Kingsisle is working on Arc 4 which means that there are clearly still creative, hardworking developers making content.

But why can't any of these people be given to Pirate? Wizard101 is pretty much twice as large as Pirate in terms of content since it has 16 worlds, gardening, crafting, fishing, etc while Pirate only has like 7.5 worlds (Monquista and both Valencias being very short), pets and farmable dungeons. You guys literally just did a massive update to change all the character models and higher level spells when honestly I think you should have focused on Pirate itself.

We have had to wait 4 years for an update on Pirate, we could have waited a little longer for Glowbugs to no longer be overpowered.

The community has so many ideas for possible worlds and I bet it takes longer to make them since Pirate has things like the different skyways and the stormgates, but the reward will be so great. Wiz can survive at least a year without any kind of story update so it's not like you'll lose money there.

Honestly I'm not sure about the financial or coding side of making a game so I'll do my research there, but I can for sure say that there will never be a lack of creativity in making these two games.

Please Kingsisle, show Pirate the same amount of love as Wiz. It could be just as popular if you guys gave it the same level of love. You might as well shut it down if you don't because pretty soon no one will play it anymore and that would be a terrible shame.

I agree with everyone here in regards to how sad I am to see pirate spiral down the wrong path (no pun intended).

I am one of those players that buy "arcade bundles" that bought the "Empire Bundle" and decked out my house with as much Aquilla stuff as i could find; I even bought the captain's quarters so i could have a mini house inside my ship though I didn't buy the one with scrips because I felt the scrip mechanics were too difficult at the time. I love my privateer and want to come back to Pirate; but why come back and pay for a monthly fee if all I am doing lately is Moo Manchu for the badge and the "Shadow Companions" those fights do not measure up to the "gear" that we have, I am extremely disappointed that the gateway to polaris is still closed via valencia but I am more focused that yes they "Delayed" the book content.

This grid based battle system that we have is bringing those of us who crave "nostalgia" from back in the shining force/Traysia/SRPG Genesis days. I want to see us move in the right direction and not backwards, sure i lost my ninja pig companion from the mailed "code" we got from beta but in honesty, Pirate should be more successful in all aspects. While I am not a streamer; i can say for certain I would "consider" streaming if the game expands more and gives us what we waited over 8 years for now.

Is there ANYTHING that you guys can do to try to bridge the two games in a way at the very least and give our wizards that "pirate feel"... You gave wizard the coo coo clock bundle, the fight in Valencia ... however I would love to see Pirate get some love perhaps give us the B.O.X. events where we can see how the skyways developed rather than eldorado; still use that map but if your going to expand maybe its best our pirates go back in time and help gain new companions to fight the battles. Perhaps stopping Kane's creation to begin with and let the Queen take over the spiral ... I am slowly drained of ideas as I write because I feel depressed thinking that a game that actually encourages you to think is going down the drain like this...
Its unfortunate and while i am a yearly Wizard player; I want to play pirate too; why give up the fight now...

Okay so.. I don’t usually post much, but like many other people here I am ending my Pirate101 membership. As much as I love the game and how it started out strong KI cannot handle enough updates to manage 2 major games. It’s really hard to keep two huge communities content. Let’s put it like this.. You have 2 plants. One is dead, it represents Pirate101. One is healthy and thriving, it represents Wizard101. You cannot take care of both plants. You can only choose one. Are you going to keep the dead wilted plant? Or the healthy thriving plant? KI has been given a lot of pressure on this topic and they know it. The Pirate101 community is dying, the game is dying. They can’t keep going like this forever. They need to make a decision. Either continue ignoring Pirate101 or start giving it some new story line updates.

I know we all love this game and we have made so many memories on it... I just hope our cries and pleas will be heard by KI. We have been surviving off of false hope all this time. But somewhere I’m sure there is hope for us. An update waiting to surprise us around the corner. We have to hang on just a little longer.

From your concerned pirate friend, Keira

Greetings everyone, I've been here the whole ride just in the backgrounds though. I really hope something soon happens for the future of this dying game & community. Fight on!

I knew the game was dying but I never expected to see these forums so...dead.

darkmoordude on Oct 5, 2020 wrote:

I knew the game was dying but I never expected to see these forums so...dead.

Yeah, it's quite strange to see, especially remembering the days of the VA II release and even mega threads like "What's Cooking at the Taverns?", etc. Good times

A quick return to these message boards confirms my worries. KI has made no attempt to revive this game. There is no update and no attempt to interact with the community anymore, despite our desperate attempts to do so.

I am so very... disappointed...

Fellas game's dead. No updates are ever gonna happen.

Let's just enjoy it while it lasts.

I mean, I just don't think Kingsisle cares about Pirate101 as a property anymore. I haven't seen it heavily advertised and it almost feels like they try to hide it. The worst part is that Pirate101 has better gameplay mechanics and more overall potential, since it allows you to REALLY explore this amazing world they've set up. I heard they laid off a bunch of developers in 2016, so they're already flying pretty low. I feel bad for anyone working on Pirate101, trying to keep it afloat while Kingsisle turns a blind eye. I don't even need new story, I just want more WORLD to explore! You can't make a pirate game and not let me go wild D:<

Loyal Max Silver

Law of diminishing returns, give it a google my esteemed pirates