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It seems the amount of horror stories is low (lower than expected). One of these days (probably next weekend) I'll make the step myself.
You can wish me luck if you want, or wish me to break a leg, or that the Force may be with me, or that I may live long and prosper, or thank me for the fish, or tell me I'm a wizard. Whatever floats your boat!
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THE GLOOP , THE BWIAN , and THE WIKI
music by Trewavio Morricone
You can wish me luck if you want, or wish me to break a leg, or that the Force may be with me, or that I may live long and prosper, or thank me for the fish, or tell me I'm a wizard. Whatever floats your boat!
Kings Eastwood in
THE GLOOP , THE BWIAN , and THE WIKI
music by Trewavio Morricone
YOU-KNOW-WHO
,
GO
YOU-KNOW-WHAT
YOURSELF!
24-Jul-2023 17:11:35
Linux!
I gained absolutely nothing from "upgrading" my account to a Jagex Account, other than hours spread out over multiple days of trying to get the launcher working. I just got done mostly perfecting my Java notes and then Jagex comes along and deprecated it for the C++ client literally the same day
I had a generated password specific to RS, a different generated password for my email that I check multiple times daily, and 2FA. Jagex Account aren't an improvement over that, but makes OSRS and RS significantly harder to run. Even on Windows it's harder because Jagex Launcher requires administrative rights for enforced updates, which is beyond silly since it's just a browser that shows news and lets you select games. A browser. You need
a browser
to sign into OSRS and RS. It's literally DRM!
Jagex is literally making their game harder to run for seemingly no reason. They should offer a method for people who know what they're doing to be able to go back to RuneScape accounts. They should make the launcher that their devs seemingly chose to use mostly-cross-platform components for run on Linux, or at the very least make it less of a PITA than it is. They should offer the Java client still; the heck is the benefit of straight-up hiding it, and still claiming to support it?
At the bare minimum, I need 2GB of disk space, for a launcher that's only open for like 10 seconds just to transfer account credentials from it to the actual game. And interestingly I don't know why other people want to make it have even more of a footprint by involving Lutris, Flatpak, and Proton-GE lol.
Jagex Launcher and Accounts are ultimately an answer to people not securing their accounts and using 3rd-party clients.
I emailed support and asked to revert my account and they said they can't or I would have reverted months ago. Instead, this became a second reason why I canceled my Premier subscription and likely won't come back this time.
I gained absolutely nothing from "upgrading" my account to a Jagex Account, other than hours spread out over multiple days of trying to get the launcher working. I just got done mostly perfecting my Java notes and then Jagex comes along and deprecated it for the C++ client literally the same day
I had a generated password specific to RS, a different generated password for my email that I check multiple times daily, and 2FA. Jagex Account aren't an improvement over that, but makes OSRS and RS significantly harder to run. Even on Windows it's harder because Jagex Launcher requires administrative rights for enforced updates, which is beyond silly since it's just a browser that shows news and lets you select games. A browser. You need
a browser
to sign into OSRS and RS. It's literally DRM!
Jagex is literally making their game harder to run for seemingly no reason. They should offer a method for people who know what they're doing to be able to go back to RuneScape accounts. They should make the launcher that their devs seemingly chose to use mostly-cross-platform components for run on Linux, or at the very least make it less of a PITA than it is. They should offer the Java client still; the heck is the benefit of straight-up hiding it, and still claiming to support it?
At the bare minimum, I need 2GB of disk space, for a launcher that's only open for like 10 seconds just to transfer account credentials from it to the actual game. And interestingly I don't know why other people want to make it have even more of a footprint by involving Lutris, Flatpak, and Proton-GE lol.
Jagex Launcher and Accounts are ultimately an answer to people not securing their accounts and using 3rd-party clients.
I emailed support and asked to revert my account and they said they can't or I would have reverted months ago. Instead, this became a second reason why I canceled my Premier subscription and likely won't come back this time.
26-Jul-2023 01:47:23 - Last edited on 26-Jul-2023 01:53:12 by Espionage724
Kings Abbot
said
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Interesting numbers.
Also interesting that they only release them on an OS page...
RS(3) is your game too Jagex!
You are absolutely right, RS3 is our Jagex game too, and what makes it far more interesting is we have no RS3 concerns whatsoever with Jagex Accounts, hence there are no discussions of concerns and Q&A for RS3
When the issues, concerns and questions are exclusively for OSRS, it makes no sense to let RS3 players know them. Meanwhile, RS3 players got their game specific news regarding Jagex Accounts on their page already - AFK timer extended to 10 minutes for RS3 linking to Jagex Accounts, and you don't see it posted on the OSRS Jagex Accounts blog because it doesn't concern OSRS players.
Yes, very interesting. Thank you for pointing out where the rewards are, and as well as where the issues, concerns and questions remain.
Interesting numbers.
Also interesting that they only release them on an OS page...
RS(3) is your game too Jagex!
You are absolutely right, RS3 is our Jagex game too, and what makes it far more interesting is we have no RS3 concerns whatsoever with Jagex Accounts, hence there are no discussions of concerns and Q&A for RS3
When the issues, concerns and questions are exclusively for OSRS, it makes no sense to let RS3 players know them. Meanwhile, RS3 players got their game specific news regarding Jagex Accounts on their page already - AFK timer extended to 10 minutes for RS3 linking to Jagex Accounts, and you don't see it posted on the OSRS Jagex Accounts blog because it doesn't concern OSRS players.
Yes, very interesting. Thank you for pointing out where the rewards are, and as well as where the issues, concerns and questions remain.
01-Aug-2023 17:40:54 - Last edited on 01-Aug-2023 23:05:48 by Dilbert2001
A Cole
said
:
Oh dear.
24,000 players have not had a good experience with Jagex Accounts.
A whopping 62.5% of those players would not recommend Jagex Accounts to a friend.
Apparently, even after all that work Jagex have put into this system, it's still not infallible. It also looks like they're not very good at rectifying the issues that arise. A 37.5% success rate is not good.
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My personal experience with Jagex Accounts was quite smooth. I am not one of those players who have had a bad experience with it, but I am also not one to recommend it to a friend either as the system hasn't been live long enough for me to be completely happy that it is better than the old system - particularly since there is no way back!
A friend of mine did run into a major issue. Her alt accounts were linked to an old email that went out of service over a decade ago. When trying to link those accounts to her Jagex Account, she was unable to do so, and now she is completely locked out of those accounts as Jagex have locked them.
This would not have happened if Jagex Accounts hadn't been forced on her. She would have been able to continue to use her old accounts with the traditional log in name and password. Now her 15+ year veteran account alts are essentially gone.
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In short, I would not yet recommend Jagex Accounts. My experience was smooth, but the experience of many other players has not been so.
~A~
Don't you think OSR have a lot of players? Shouldn't those 24,000 OSRS players who have issues with 3PC and such on Jagex Accouts be just a small percentage of OSRS's "hugeee" populations?
I really don't see any problem if whatever OSRS 3PCs aren't going to be supported or added to the Jagex Accounts as even if it comes to polling they will still pass by a landslide... and Jagex Accounts are for the Integrity of OSRS and not subject to polling anyway.
Oh dear.
24,000 players have not had a good experience with Jagex Accounts.
A whopping 62.5% of those players would not recommend Jagex Accounts to a friend.
Apparently, even after all that work Jagex have put into this system, it's still not infallible. It also looks like they're not very good at rectifying the issues that arise. A 37.5% success rate is not good.
---
My personal experience with Jagex Accounts was quite smooth. I am not one of those players who have had a bad experience with it, but I am also not one to recommend it to a friend either as the system hasn't been live long enough for me to be completely happy that it is better than the old system - particularly since there is no way back!
A friend of mine did run into a major issue. Her alt accounts were linked to an old email that went out of service over a decade ago. When trying to link those accounts to her Jagex Account, she was unable to do so, and now she is completely locked out of those accounts as Jagex have locked them.
This would not have happened if Jagex Accounts hadn't been forced on her. She would have been able to continue to use her old accounts with the traditional log in name and password. Now her 15+ year veteran account alts are essentially gone.
---
In short, I would not yet recommend Jagex Accounts. My experience was smooth, but the experience of many other players has not been so.
~A~
Don't you think OSR have a lot of players? Shouldn't those 24,000 OSRS players who have issues with 3PC and such on Jagex Accouts be just a small percentage of OSRS's "hugeee" populations?
I really don't see any problem if whatever OSRS 3PCs aren't going to be supported or added to the Jagex Accounts as even if it comes to polling they will still pass by a landslide... and Jagex Accounts are for the Integrity of OSRS and not subject to polling anyway.
03-Aug-2023 16:54:57
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