When is pirate101 coming

Mobile: Many players have dreamed for a W mobile release. Being able to pull out a mobile device practically anywhere and quest, decorate castles, train pets or check on gardens is a desire all wizards would love to see. Current mobile devices are typically not as powerful as higher end PCs or consoles, or in some cases, as affordable.

However, phones now look as though they could meet the operational requirements, but may not even have too? This is where the power of game streaming could come in. X-Cloud, Amazon Luna and Google Stadia are powerful game streaming services that handle the performance of gaming on servers, which is then streamed to a device. Sadly, after the acquisition of KI, the currently ran mobile games Animal Cove, Ever-Clicker and Rise and Destroy will be officially closed at the end of the month.

The acquisition notes state that MGI has acquired mobile-related ips to W and P, though other than the mention of a potential mobile release for W, no new announcements regarding new mobile games or the future of Grub Guardian have been made.

Be on the look out for a short Animal Cove post soon! While the future remains bright for Kingsisle, much of this post is still speculation with nothing set in stone. Drawn from information provided by various reports and posts, make sure to check out the official announcements, analysis and press releases.

What are you hoping to see come to our favorite MMOs? MGI Press Release. Official KingsIsle Announcement:. MGI Investor Call. Recap of Acquisition: MGI has expressed great interest in further developing both Wizard and Pirate, stating that both games have much potential to continue growing and have very strong, loyal communities. Larger Updates: With the KI team getting access to more resources from their new owners, updates will for sure reflect the acquisition.

Member Benefits: Free-to-play content is easily a highlighted phrase from the acquisition, but would could be the future of member benefits? Mobile Games: The End of an Era? Official Statement Regarding the Completion of the Acquisition. About the Author: White Tiger. Update Notes explain what's been changed and improved.

Javascript is required to view this site. KingsIsle Entertainment Wizard And no updates ever since as you know for Now, what does that indicate? Let me tell you. As you can see we had 5 fairly large 3 out of the 5 at least , important, QoL updates. They introduced a lot of systems, mechanisms and even companions to enjoy for sometime. Some of the additions like Ship PvP need more tweaking, but that is for later. But what matters is we did get more than enough QoL updates in the past 4 years.

Noticed that Polaris meme tweet of One Eyed Jack? Seeing all the Devs excited is just the beginning. And today, made me realize one important thing. Keep in mind the following are nothing but my own expectations and speculations.

Although updates for Pirate are confirmed, nothing specific has been announced regarding content and timing of the next update. Say no more, I stated the obvious. Lots of things to do, more farming to complete, challenging bosses to solo and unique boss gear to obtain.

Not enough evidence Polaris could be next? How about the Stormgate in Polaris in Calabria skyway? The most important information for the sake of this article is included in the above screenshot. The major points:. Since Pirate players have had little reason to be optimistic about the future of their game, some members of the community immediately took this announcement as evidence that Pirate was saved and would be revived by MGI.

If so, what would be necessary? Below, you can check out some of the important financial data for Pirate, as well as Kingsisle as a whole.

This data was displayed at the January 19th press conference. I encourage everyone to listen to the VOD, which is much more thorough. Throughout the remainder of this piece, I will invoke various facts from the slides to make my points. Pirate has a much smaller playerbase and generates a much smaller stream of revenue than Wizard Furthermore, similar findings hold regarding number of accounts.

Pirate has under 10 million accounts, while Wizard has over 50 million. However, this information is essential to understanding how Pirate could be revived. The numbers for Pirate are not good right now. This is an unfortunate fact. As such, it is very likely that Wizard is a better dollar-for-dollar investment right now. This is done by equating the marginal revenue per dollar spent on the two games i.

With the massive size difference in the two games, an additional dollar is likely better spent on Wizard right now. So, what reason is there to be optimistic? Slide 5 shows that MGI revenue was approximately 4.

Thus, it might be the case that KingsIsle has sufficient funding to allocate a greater portion of it to larger Pirate updates. How could this work? Another basic result in economics is diminishing returns. The more you invest in a given project, the less each additional dollar gives you. So, with sufficient additional funding, you should be able to convince yourself that that investing in Pirate can become at least as good as investing in Wizard at some point.

It will still likely be the case that more is invested into Wizard It is still a larger game and given how engrained it is into the culture, it is likely to stay that way. Perhaps the most important cause for optimism lies with some of the statements made by MGI management during the recent press conference. At approximately the minute mark, an MGI official fields a question regarding future storyline updates. Various KI developers have expressed this sentiment on multiple platforms, and the game has won multiple awards in its early days.

However, due to bad luck, a dearth of players trying out both Wizard and Pirate, poor investment decisions, or other unknown factors, Pirate has not realized this potential.