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Demonicsfire
Mar Member 2023

Demonicsfire

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as alot of people have said the devs just took way to much out and shoved all the remaining junk together and are trying to pass it off as an "update". we all know its a fortnight type battle pass to get us to spend more cash. you got me paying for my membership, be happy with that. i got lots of other games i can easy go to that dont cost me anything after the first payment

i liked it when you could log in, do your dailies that would take a few mins at most and then log out. was also good that when maxed you could turn off skills, making it alot faster. now they want me to do full slayer tasks? find the random yellow balls that spawn in divination randomly? over 100 rituals??!? no thank you!!!

hell, my aim was to get my max and quest capes back (there my end game goals). if the devs keep pullin sh*t lke this i may not even make it to lev 90, and im lev 87 atm Logic, who needs it...

05-Sep-2023 08:38:58

gaiania
Aug Member 2009

gaiania

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Hero pass is utter garbage that is how easy it is to describe it.
It is nothing but confusing badly designed interfaces,more and more and more cosmetic garbage that no one want's.
Plus we have to listen to that unbelievably annoying clicking sound every god damn time
a points ticks in and we have to looke at so many annoying chat messages from that atrocity that Hero pass is.
The least jagex can do as fast as possible is to let us be able to turn off that clicking sound and the chat messages and the red dot thing that appears on the tab and it can only go to slow jagex.
What where you thinking when you made this Zamorakian horror of an update?
like so many other players write,when do jagex learn to listen to their players who actually
pay their wages and?

05-Sep-2023 08:55:57

Megycal
Sep Member 2005

Megycal

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After poking around in the heropass interfaces I have decided I'd like to have yak track back. It looks even more time consuming. I'm not happy with the missions, especially the daily missions. They are not a good replacement for the old daily challenges.
With so many cosmetics each time the pass theme changes our override wardrobe is going to become even more cluttered. I'll almost certainly never wear the hero pass outfits..I don't like the clunky armour and weapon overrides.

05-Sep-2023 11:42:01

Chaosderp
Jun Member 2023

Chaosderp

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Monetizing combat benefits is the first of many mistakes with this pass, let alone the sheer amount of time one has to put in if they want to effectively finish the entire pass without spending anything. I had come back after ~15 years of not playing the game because Amazon Prime dropped a free sub awhile back, enjoyed what I had done in those 7 days, and actually paid for a sub again since the early 2000s. Necromancy added to that hype and I was actually enjoying the game for once in a very long time until this battlepass came out. I already canceled the sub that was going to renew and will probably play until it runs out then only come back when Amazon gives out another free 7 day sub unless this company drastically change how they go about dealing with future passes.

05-Sep-2023 12:53:21 - Last edited on 05-Sep-2023 12:54:04 by Chaosderp

0dd Cookies
Jul Member 2020

0dd Cookies

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I am going to start with saying, that I am going to try and give this a fair shot... but so far with interacting with the Hero Pass, I'm not liking it that much.

I liked having the option to turn off skills that were 99 for the daily challenges, the Hero Pass does not offer this, so for both yesterday and today, I've had to do skills that I have no interest in doing at the moment (all my skills are 99+, so by being able to turn some off in favour of others was good for me as some are just of no interest any more).

Having to do the daily task for so long is a bore, the great thing about dailies were that they were short and sweet, this new system has you doing one skill for much longer to get it to completion, and one action does not mean one point is knocked off (at least not that I could tell doing smithing and construction).

The quest it's asking people to complete, for me it's dead and buried, I'm part way through it (I was before the update), but my partner is also being requested to do the same quest... he's not even bothered with the Fort at all, so he'd have to do all the previous quests too. Why isn't it tailored to each person and where they're at quest wise?

Collecting rewards is a clumsy set up, I ended up collecting number 20 before realising I have some before it to collect (yes, I'm aware of the claim all button, but I wanted to read what I was getting individually), why not make it so you can't collect later rewards until previous ones are collected?

Why so many cosmetics? Not everyone is heavily involved with fashion scape, and even those that are, have more than enough to choose from already without adding hundreds of more pieces, same goes for pets, I have so many damned pets, I couldn't rotate them all in a day!

Again, I'll try to give it a fair go, a month most likely - to see if I like it enough to interact with it, but so far, I'm not seeing anything that'll make me want to stick with it.

05-Sep-2023 12:55:21

0dd Cookies
Jul Member 2020

0dd Cookies

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cont...

I really enjoyed the Yak track, it was the reason I took on premier, my premier runs out next month, and while I do already have the 20 bonds to renew, there's a possibility that I may choose to not, the rewards from Hero Pass just aren't good enough for me to definitely want premier.

Hopefully Jagex will read through all this early feedback and see that people aren't impressed and make some changes.

05-Sep-2023 12:59:05

Lions RAWR
Sep Member 2019

Lions RAWR

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Dilbert2001 said :
No big streamers with ten's of thousands of viewers sponsored to tell us how huugggeeee Hero Pass is... No RWT contests, real money prizes, giveaways, raffles... no nothing except a livestream and a developer blog...
No Jmods dressing in their sales attires
telling us to buy whatever products or discount membership... Obviously, the free will consumers tell us their opinion of Hero Pass, and I can understand and agree with. :)

You mean you didn't see the video that Jagex Released with Mod Doom and Mod breezy looking sharp in sales attire selling us this Hero pass? Hard to believe that to be the case since it was released at the same time as the live stream.

The vast majority of the remaining RS3 players are upset about this update. Even people who normally defend Jagex are upset about it.

Its clear that this " Major update" flopped hard in the morals department. Time to follow an trail of Treasure.
My Goals Lions Goals

05-Sep-2023 14:12:18

Lions RAWR
Sep Member 2019

Lions RAWR

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Personally I think that Jagex has once again showed that it only cares about Milking the remaining RS3 players and could care less about anything else. It got many of the players back with necromancy so they had a bigger pool to milk.

The hero pass is worse than the Yak track, even if its been using lipstick to cover it up. They took the grindy part of skill and kill and made it front and center in the hero pass. Sure you can do missions, but missions alone won't allow you to reach 99 in a timely matter and 120 would be nearly impossible.

They claimed they would be reducing daily scape, but if you don't complete your daily missions, you are less likely to complete the Hero pass. The only missions that roll over for the entire pass is the general weekly missions, not the basic weekly missions ( confusing eh?)

The design interface of Hero pass is disgusting and I don't know who thought it was a good idea to do it like that. If you are going to have a battleplass, at least make the interface easier to use.

This update shows that greed has been the forefront for releasing it. The fact that it will be around all year just shows that this is the long term plan of milking players until they either give in or give up. Time to follow an trail of Treasure.
My Goals Lions Goals

05-Sep-2023 14:29:44

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