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Kat Stryke

Kat Stryke

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On a different note, a point on "outdated" forums.

This is a public forum, where we can express ourselves using our words. While we do have some options such as stylized text, color options, and even the ability to post images, it is primarily our words here that really matter. When it comes down to it, being able to share our words is all that is truly needed on a forum like this.

Not enough for you? What sorts of bells and whistles do you reuire to hold your attention? Flashing lights and air horns? Animated dancing pandas? Downvoting? What are you, five?

Grow the hell up. I've been putting out fire with gasoline! ^_^

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13-Jan-2024 21:08:35

Qwis7
Aug Member 2010

Qwis7

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Lets face it.
The real reason is money.

Simply more upkeep (even if it is very small) and no income.
Jagex is a busnis not some kind of charethy or lets make playrrs happy for free!
No its a real busnis that needs to get money in order to keep hoing.

Some might disagree, but in the end this is all that matters.

Aside form that happy scapping all and who knows maybe we meet somewere els!!! :D

13-Jan-2024 21:14:53

Brave Alain
Aug Member 2004

Brave Alain

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Kat Stryke said :
Mini JIT said :
''we've therefore decided to channel more of our staff time and resources into those platforms for improved engagement.''

Load of crap. It's been years since J mods/ community momagers have posted on the forums. Forum mods do not even get paid.
You nailed it. This is a classic example of a self-fulfilling prophesy.

When the J-mods decided to abandon this forum to splash around in the social-media cesspools to spend more time with the teeny-boppers over their loyal playerbase, naturally the gushing fanlings followed them there. The mods spent more time there and clearly none here, driving even more traffic away from the RSOF and into the social-media sewers.

Just imagine how different the situation might be now, if Jagex had only been more active on their own forums - driving traffic away from third-party sites instead of towards them. Perhaps then we might have seen very different newsposts from Jagex announcing new features coming to the RSOF, alongside the shutting down of the RS Discord servers, due to a lack of usage.

It is as if they said their thumbs hurt, then they picked up hammers to smash their own thumbs with, so they can be right in saying their thumbs are injured.

Like I said: A self-fulfilling prophesy.

Totally agree. The RSOF died because of lack of interest by JMods, not the players. All the issues with over-zealous forum mods could have been solved if Jagex had cared and then we would have had a thriving RSOF community.

13-Jan-2024 21:27:46

Ryan Scott

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Bruce Waayne said :

I almost never have my threads locked and i havent been banned in over a decade. Im not going to name names but i eat ALOT of ridiculous bans on other fourms. They are all undeserved and mod power abuse.

I will name it: most popular reddit subs, they tend to have snowflake rules, however if you get banned there, you can just make a new account.. if you get banned here, you will get muted in game too. Although I never got perma muted or even temporary muted because of the forums .. There were people who were...it must suck having an account with thousands of hours where you cannot interact with other players because of something you did on the forums.

Also these forums have pretty strict rules.. especially zero tolerance for banter of other players and there are plenty of places who allow that, so why would anyone use these forums, except maybe wannabe player mods? Bye forums. Good riddance.

13-Jan-2024 23:32:43

Vengeance of
Mar Member 2018

Vengeance of

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Kat Stryke said :
Just imagine how different the situation might be now, if Jagex had only been more active on their own forums - driving traffic away from third-party sites instead of towards them. Perhaps then we might have seen very different newsposts from Jagex announcing new features coming to the RSOF, alongside the shutting down of the RS Discord servers, due to a lack of usage.


Not a snowball's chance in hell.

Do you know why Jagex stopped caring about the forums? Because the bulk of the playerbase had already abandoned them in favour of these third-party sites. They went where the players went. Yes, there was a knock-on effect of players leaving the forums once it became apparent that Jagex had abandoned them, but at worst, it sped up the bleeding of what was an already fatal wound. Believe me, this has happened with dozens if not hundreds of other official forums of this age. The RSOF would not have been the exception to the rule.

Even if Jagex had stubbornly refused to give up on the forums and adopt social media, it might have kept this place alive for a couple of years longer at best . This is just the natural end-of-life for places like this. Nothing more.

14-Jan-2024 05:27:11 - Last edited on 14-Jan-2024 05:27:47 by Vengeance of

Kat Stryke

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Vengeance of said :
Kat Stryke said :
Just imagine how different the situation might be now, if Jagex had only been more active on their own forums - driving traffic away from third-party sites instead of towards them. Perhaps then we might have seen very different newsposts from Jagex announcing new features coming to the RSOF, alongside the shutting down of the RS Discord servers, due to a lack of usage.


Not a snowball's chance in hell.

Do you know why Jagex stopped caring about the forums? Because the bulk of the playerbase had already abandoned them in favour of these third-party sites. They went where the players went. Yes, there was a knock-on effect of players leaving the forums once it became apparent that Jagex had abandoned them, but at worst, it sped up the bleeding of what was an already fatal wound. Believe me, this has happened with dozens if not hundreds of other official forums of this age. The RSOF would not have been the exception to the rule.

Even if Jagex had stubbornly refused to give up on the forums and adopt social media, it might have kept this place alive for a couple of years longer at best . This is just the natural end-of-life for places like this. Nothing more.
Quite a theory you have there. Did you post it to your MySpace page? Did you share it on Vine? How about Parler? That was a thing for like a week.

The deservedly-named Discord is a chaotic mess. Reddit is similarly worthless when it comes to actual constructive conversations. Who even knows if these shit sites will still exist in a few years.

Not everything that is newer is always better. Today's popular music proves that.

Follow the other sheep into the social-media cesspools while they last, if you wish.

Not all of us are so easily manipulated. I've been putting out fire with gasoline! ^_^

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15-Jan-2024 20:59:11

Mel 624
Dec Member 2021

Mel 624

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I think the forums have more traffic than it's being given credit. What it still has in spite of all the factors working against it shows that it would do a lot better if Jagex ever bothered to listen to feedback on how to improve the experience here. A lot of what drove people off the forums was preventable. QoL issues with accessing them, issues with moderation, lack of engagement and promotion by Jagex. They kept omitting the forums when listing ways to contact them for feedback like when they were asking players about the cosmetic overrides.

I'd like to point out that sufficient outcry over this could still potentially save the forums. They removed Hero Pass and and made OSRS because players spoke up. If we can convince them to keep the forums, it could potentially be a turning point to finally get some improvements on how they communicate with players. How to block a forum user
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Death And Taxes: An Analysis
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Petition: leave forums open!

Don't let Jagex forget the forums.

16-Jan-2024 04:32:45

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