RuneScape Forum Archive | Lack of New Quests

Dec

2021

Dulcis Nex

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Hunteresque said :
The Menaphos quests felt a bit rushed and I found that disappointing considering they were 4 out of the 6 quests released last year.
One of them was literally just fetching things for an NPC. Go fetch 3 golden pyramids.
QUALITY CONTENT. It's all about quality over quantity guys. You'll get it when you deserve it.

18-Mar-2018 13:34:07

Merlee-Dixon

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Yes i see where Hunter is coming from there has been lack of quests lately it's been more stuff to do with slayer and bosses. Going back to 2007 to 2009 there was a new quest every month sometime more. Just hope they can start doing that again because i know quest are not everybody cup of tea but in my eyes they give a game a good story line.

18-Mar-2018 14:46:13

Dec

2023

Fait

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dont you see behind the lines?
people wanted M and S rework
people voted 120 slay
people voted on slayer stuff
people voted on combat pets
people will and going to vote on boss and creatures and skills
people voted on clue scroll rework
ofc that takes work to do and have higher priority and in the old days you had both some of the osrs team + rs3 team in one team aswell

i am pretty sure there was available option to vote for quests in survey and polls, Jag can never satisfy all its player base, but if people dont want quest and it never passes the poll then there is no need to pull out some quest just to do it to do it, instead of making something cool.
I dont think majority cares about the quest exept the lorelovers, there is a reason why people uses guides to get through it asap, me myself would rather see 100 other updates before 1 single quest update

18-Mar-2018 14:55:36

Deltaslug

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tbh, before you get all nostalgic ... you do remember how buggy a lot of the old quests were?
as bad as you think some content released is currently, some of the old quests on release week were in really bad shape.

plus how often would a quest from "back in the day" have to be pushed back a week or 2 from the time they said they were going to release it?
nowadays, if they say they are going to release it 3/19, they really do mean they will try to release it 3/19 ... 3/20 at the latest.

18-Mar-2018 22:05:25

Jun

2020

Falkorgron

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Hunteresque said :
I'm struggling to figure out what your point is here, to be honest. I can still resort to the point that you don't need an English degree to write a good storyline for a set of quests. I could write a storyline that could be considered "good", but do I have an English degree? Not at all...

Any quest that doesn't have "5000 words of impeccable English" is not automatically labelled as "bad" by the current community. Sliske's set of games weren't necessarily written to the quality of someone with an English degree (Missing, Presumed Death - Sliske's Endgame) yet people that I've asked actually quite enjoyed that questline...

You're assuming I made this thread for what reason? I don't understand what you're trying to insinuate.

The point of that I'm being sarcastic about the English degree part. If I wasn't clear, what I was trying to say was that making the good quests that everybody wants which is a ton of lore along with runescape mythology god smashing takes up a lot of work, and like what someone already said, it is not reusable content. It takes extra work to explain rs mythology because player s want cutscenes, extra graphics, and etc..A Jmod even complained on twitter once that the community on rs only want a shit ton of lore in order to make a good quest.

Hunteresque said :

Any quest that doesn't have "5000 words of impeccable English" is not automatically labelled as "bad" by the current community

statistics and feedback proves otherwise.

18-Mar-2018 22:27:20 - Last edited on 18-Mar-2018 22:34:06 by Falkorgron

Jun

2020

Falkorgron

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Hunteresque said :

Yes, I remember Runelabs. Why would they remove Runelabs because of quests and suggestion for future quests? That doesn't make any sense... The whole idea of it was to get ideas from the community. People suggesting new quest stories would hardly cause its closure.

Because what doesn't make sense is why some particular individuals would pay their clannies and random people A shit ton of gp from credit card swiping to get their imagination upvoted on runelabs. We've might even seen that pop up on the forums, lately, I think.

I mean, those people could've just given me all the money and I would've upvoted on several accounts.

18-Mar-2018 22:29:49 - Last edited on 18-Mar-2018 22:31:49 by Falkorgron

Deltaslug

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Problems with Runelabs? HA

- poor UI/mechanics (this is a laundry list unto itself)
- lack of moderation (spam posts, duplicate posts, players spamming ideas not related to that month's theme)
- eventually lack of further development
- not enough players using it at the start (you had ideas with just a few k supporters in the FIRST 1-2 polls)
- massive dropoff after that (final polling you had top items with barely 1k support after over 3 months)
- all it took was a single Jmod or popular RS Youtuber giving a thumbs up to an idea to give it a spike

And yes, the groups who stuffed the ballots.

18-Mar-2018 22:56:44

Jul

2011

Hunteresque

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Fait said :
But still there is to much boring annoying quests, they should rather cut the quests down and maybe make like 2-1 quests.
Fair enough the quest line is differents but com’ooon there is so many shhh quest to do, stopped doing quest after the grinder menaphos came out.

And for one instance its to repetetive specially the new one, they should delete a bunch of the idiot boring no content quests and set ut up maybe 3 questlibe with different stories led into the same final quest?

Imo i hate quests, idc bout quests, think rs quest is boring but it have good potential

RuneScape quests do have amazing potential and did do some great things with that potential years ago. Some people dislike quests and that's fair enough but that shouldn't mean that they shouldn't be in the game. I'm not a massive fan of bossing for example, but I don't think that Jagex should stop releasing bosses, only because I don't hugely enjoy fighting them. ~~Hunteresque - The Picturesque Hunter~~
~~Master Quest Cape Owner - 20/05/2021~~

19-Mar-2018 00:10:26

Jul

2011

Hunteresque

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Dulcis Nex said :
"Quality over quantity" is just an excuse for laziness. Refusing to use existing areas for quests when many, many good ones were only or almost only in old areas. They way things are done at Jagex has clearly changed, and a quest is a year long project instead of sitting down and getting them done at the rapid pace we saw before.
It's ironic that the company that has said they probably won't do any more world events because they are a lot of effort for a one time thing, puts excessive resources into areas and cutscenes only visited or viewed once (and most still aren't that good).

How many quests did we have in 2008, the year While Guthix Sleeps, in many people's opinion the best quest was released? 19. And they weren't a bunch a 5 minute quests either, they had an impressive roster of medium and long, enjoyable quests.

Instead we get 6 quests in 2017 including a 5 minute Menaphos quest, a 0 content errand quest, 2 unfunny "comedy" quests pissing on lore and continuity for a some puns a 6 year old might laugh at and one I can't even do yet because it requires 100 odd hours of rep grinding

They could re-use areas already in-game for sure.

Your points here are extremely valid and I hugely support what you have said here. "Quality over quantity" is an excuse for laziness. While Guthix Sleeps is my all-time favourite quest and the fact that it was released amongst 18 others is shocking. Checking which quests were released during 2008 (Spirit of Summer, Rocking Out, Legacy of Seergaze etc), I can only agree with you and say that the other ones released in 2008 were also of great quality and thoroughly enjoyable further confirming your point about "quality over quantity". ~~Hunteresque - The Picturesque Hunter~~
~~Master Quest Cape Owner - 20/05/2021~~

19-Mar-2018 00:16:29 - Last edited on 19-Mar-2018 00:17:39 by Hunteresque

Jul

2011

Hunteresque

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Dulcis Nex said :
Hunteresque said :
The Menaphos quests felt a bit rushed and I found that disappointing considering they were 4 out of the 6 quests released last year.
One of them was literally just fetching things for an NPC. Go fetch 3 golden pyramids.
QUALITY CONTENT. It's all about quality over quantity guys.

Exactly. The whole quest was being a runaround which was funny and humorous in One Small Favour however during this one, the humour, for me at least, wasn't present. ~~Hunteresque - The Picturesque Hunter~~
~~Master Quest Cape Owner - 20/05/2021~~

19-Mar-2018 00:19:31

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