Disney to create Pirate MMO – Chris is dubious

Disney to create Pirate MMO – Chris is dubious

Apr 13

Disney has announce they’re doing a massively multiplayer video game based on Pirates of the Carribean – the game will be free to download and install, but there will be a monthly subscription. This is in the wake of Toontown, an MMO where you got to be a toon. I played Toontown and it was fun, but it has some catches. The first was names were heavily censored, which is fine. I didn’t need to see a cartoon rabbit named “j3w-h8r” running around (I actually saw that name – and H1tler. Because people are fucks.)

The second catch is that being a Disney game, they are very paranoid about people being able to talk to one another, their rationale being that this is a slippery slope to child molestation. And they’re not half wrong, though there’s certainly a large amount of protecting themselves from litigation behind it, not just protecting kids. So, the solution was that there was a fairly robust set of canned talk. I think if you were friends (a system I don’t properly recall – it was four years ago), you could chat, but here’s my point: talking to a handful of people normally while everyone else runs around going “Arr!” is fun for about 15 minutes, then it starts to suck. So, I’m curious how it’s going to work.

In the meantime, why not play Puzzle Pirates? Same idea, only you interact through puzzles. Jobs on a ship? Abstracted as a puzzle. Want to have a sword fight? A puzzle very much like Super Puzzle Fighter. It’s free to play (there’s more personalization if you play), and it’ll run on systems that will burst into flame if they tried to run a 3D game, I’m telling you.