What happened to Tales of Pirates and Tales of Pirates 2?

[iParanoia]

Hello dear ToP Community,

it is a long time ago Tales of Pirates came into my mind and i went to look into serverdev and so on. Everything is dead but there is still a small group of players.
What happened the last 10 years to ToP?
Let me know the lore please.
Is it worth working on a private server for fun and getting around hundred people to play on?

 

[ikaro]

Hello dear ToP Community,

it is a long time ago Tales of Pirates came into my mind and i went to look into serverdev and so on. Everything is dead but there is still a small group of players.
What happened the last 10 years to ToP?
Let me know the lore please.
Is it worth working on a private server for fun and getting around hundred people to play on?

whats up mate, how u doing? wb =D

the community has gotten way too toxic dude! thats why a lot of great servers with solid features end up shutting down early zzz

there are plenty of “trash” admins and gms who give items to their friends or play unfairly, but honestly, the community itself is worse

tbh i dont really see a future for it.. the player base is too selective, and theres no real room for anyone else (even if they just want to try running a server, whether for fun or profit)

after all, top was a game from another era, and only people who truly love it still look for private servers or working in files/gui like eviles in lua and mothana in source (theres more ppls like Luke and others that i just idk)

not to mention the ddos attacks, which sometimes even come from people who are already “big” in the community and dont want new servers to grow… and ppls that just do that to keep things exclusive or get free items xD

ps: this is my personal view and opinion - hope no1 is offended!

 

[JustNobre]

the game originally has a big issue, you can only get gear by winning the PK
I have seen servers that over the years a guild got so much stronger that is was impossible to win PK and people start to quit.
Previously there was a server that had no gear so you just PKed for fun and won random skins, the server was popular but after a few months people got tired

 

[ikaro]

the game originally has a big issue, you can only get gear by winning the PK
I have seen servers that over the years a guild got so much stronger that is was impossible to win PK and people start to quit.
Previously there was a server that had no gear so you just PKed for fun and won random skins, the server was popular but after a few months people got tired

whats up mate, how u doing?

i agree with u that most servers today use PK as the primary farming method, but it was the community itself that wanted it that way

ive come across servers that had methods like bosses, dungeons, quests but every1 always said the same thing: "we prefer vanilla server rather this without pk"

ur own account stands as proof: even with full accessibility, server that depended entirely on apps eventually went under

the community has become so toxic that nothing seems to satisfy it anymore