Is the game dead? Any alternative Pirate MMO games out there?

[KingThant]

I've played the game like back around 2005, but i just logged in Meridian and the inns on major islands were empty... man this game used to have so many players, I really want to play this game but being this dead i don't know if i should...

[Scarpath]

The game isn't dead ;p

There might not be quite as many players as there used to be, but there are still enough. However, the main ocean with a lot of players is Emerald. Unfortuntaly, Meridian has been shrinking a lot over the past few months. If you want an ocean where there is always a ship jobbing, you'll have to make the switch over to Emerald, or run the pillage yourself.

Even on the 'dead' oceans though, some of us are still kicking and having fun. Cerulean is quite a happy place ^^

[KingThant]

Well I played about 10 hours yesterday on Emerald, Dubs are 3.9k which is insane. But i did enjoy playing poker for majority of it. I think i remember why i loved this game, its the poker lol

[Ezechiah Winterspoon]

lol poker, the evil itself :-D
As Scarpath says - the game is still running perfectly well. I, for one, appreciate the half-empty islands, because otherwise it's really hard navigating through the cumbersome crowds (and you can always get this "experience" on Admiral, if you really want it)
Recently, a new feature - the greedies - has been added, so don't worry, the game will live on at least for a bit more :o)

[Raku]

Facts that killed this game.

Hiatus = Character deleted
Stupid rules = Permanent bans
Doubloons = Pay to win
Poker = Poker

[HOODRICH_bojangles]

Dubs are ok
Poker is literally keeping the game alive and personally the reason lots of people including me come back to the game. Online gambling was a great idea for this childrens game lol

[Toni_lynn]

i dont like that you can't trasfer your pirate from ocean to ocean. Worked too hard for a decade to get stats

[Durwoodz]

I think they should upgrade this game to a mobile app. I feel the game would prosper much more that way. If money is what they are looking for then making this mobile compatable would forsure make them some money. Making it a phone game wouldnt even be that hard either since half of the puzzles are easy enough to convert over.

[El General]

To everyone looking to keep playing YPP, there is currently an on going beta not shown in Steam, Puzzle Pirate Dark Seas, you can download it from the official forums

[Trifuser]

Dark seas is on steam now for people who want to play it

[Triptrippen]

hiatus= character deleted, I was wondering why my character was gone :/

[dionysiae]

I began Y!PP in 2005 and just got my old account back and also one from 2012. The admins couldn't be nicer. I too have a bit of PoE on Cerulean never to be reclaimed... lol and a few ships. Same on Meridian. I am playing on Emerald Ocean and its been fun. Even found a few hearties from back in the day. I think there are so many bigger, louder, cut scened, options out there to take away from this gem of a game. From what I have heard from other pirates is that summer seems to be a great time to play. Come on in, the waters fine. Yarr!

[fatesdeath]

yea i do miss playing been only 4 years when i last played and i would like to see it get going again

[Schloss Ritter]

Fortunately been on Emerald since joining late like five years ago. And idk about this hiatus deletion thing because I literally was away from the game for around two years and returned with everything completely intact. Unless some of you had both a hiatus and switched computers or otherwise deleted your own pirate data?

Not being able to transfer progress to another server is annoying though, and if they ever want me to play Dark Waters, I'd really rather not have to start over. Will probably hang it up for good if there's not a transfer option since it's essentially the same game that they had to relaunch in order to add high priced pay-to-win DLC.

[fatesdeath]

yea i just logged on from break too and yea its like dead i was arround on and off since 2013 i have 200 dubs on my main account and the servers are ded inns are dead its a shame really i hate that i cant just transfer my stuff over here to the "new" re paste game sigh

[Bomsusik]

The only active ocean right now is Emerald on the Classic Puzzle Pirates, at least 100 users on average and some times close to 300!

Also Dark Seas is gaining popularity with about the same amount of users, so Puzzle Pirates isn't dead, it's just more concentrated on specific oceans, while dark seas has only one ocean so that's not a problem at all in there.