Pirates of the Caribbean Online sets sail today

by Alexander Sliwinski { Oct 31st 2007 at 11:22AM }

Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean Online launched today for PC and Mac. The game is apparently free to download from PiratesOnline.com. The basic game is free, but for full access there will be a $10 monthly fee. As we learned during our hands-on time with the title months ago, the game is designed for the casual audience. The game is based off the Toontown Online engine, so the graphics will look dated, but the requirements on your computer of choice are low.

Players can create their own pirate from scratch, get a ship, quest for treasure and do various other piratey things. Although we'd recommend Sid Meier's Pirates! (which from a graphics perspective still looks better) before we'd say to try this, if you're really itching for a simple MMO you may want to check out Pirates of the Caribbean Online.

Gallery: Pirates of the Caribbean Online

Tags: disney, piratesofcaribbeanonline, piratesonline

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Jerk Face @ Oct 31st 2007 11:26AM

Boooooo!!!

McWeen @ Oct 31st 2007 11:35AM

An MMO based on a movie based on a ride...that sounds like it will turn out well.

Zoidberg Jesus (a.k.a. Jebo) @ Oct 31st 2007 11:41AM

As long as the term “booty” has not been replaced with the more politically correct “fortune attained via fraudulent means”, there is nothing negative or positive to say on the subject.

jimmcq @ Oct 31st 2007 11:47AM

It the price of FREE it is worth at least checking out. There is a wiki dedicated to this title at http://PotC-Wiki.com/

EihBeir @ Oct 31st 2007 12:04PM

Yeah, free is great.

But here's what you get if you spend some coin...
http://www.wowwiki.com/Main_Page

Chris @ Oct 31st 2007 11:45AM

Nice graphics, you can tell they spent at lot of time on this piece of .... art XD serious only a moron or a child will play this game and enjoy it.

GRANTED @ Oct 31st 2007 11:55AM

but.. i like pirates...

t_m @ Oct 31st 2007 1:16PM

depends if its fun or not... i would have thought.

Sean @ Oct 31st 2007 11:50AM

If I played, I'd run around asking, "Why is the rum gone?!"

gonk @ Oct 31st 2007 12:01PM

LOL

WiNG @ Oct 31st 2007 12:17PM

Are there any quests where you board ships, kill the crew, and rape their women?

Sean @ Oct 31st 2007 12:21PM

I'd rather play a Pirates of Dark Water MMO.

LaughingTarget @ Oct 31st 2007 5:13PM

"In a world ruled by Dark Water...and ambiguously gay protaganists..."

Sean @ Oct 31st 2007 5:18PM

Hahaha. Best MMO ever.

Cap'n Jack @ Oct 31st 2007 1:08PM

*angry yawns*

Count Noobula @ Oct 31st 2007 1:15PM

Shiver me timbres! This game will suck balls. I just wonder how many losers out there will sign up to play this piece of shit MMO.

FunkyFlyChicken @ Nov 2nd 2007 9:44AM

Oh, I dunno.... about as many losers as those who post on Joystiq at least 3 times an hour?

In all seriousness though, I installed Toontown since my daughter loves everything Disney. It's no where near worth a fee, the servers are crap, the graphics are about as rudimentary as you can get.

But I installed the Pirates out of curiosity, just to see. First thing I did was make a pirate, and submit my name, and go through the tutorial. Logged out for a minute, came back, saw they rejected my name "Funky McFly".

But I guess it's ok that I see people in Toontown with names similar to "Dudley Yankamything"...

That right there had me uninstall it.