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Rundaz
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Rundaz

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How did RS get to be "Best game of the year" as a nominee? Jagex doesn't take players updates, so the game degrades VERY quickly, there is a TON of lag, and I think I speak for pretty much everybody here when I say that the only reason why I still play is because of how much time I have given into this came just to give it up. Maybe if Jagex would LISTEN to the players a little bit more, than this would be a better game.

07-Oct-2013 03:10:43

Vivil

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Rardin said :
man all this bitching and moaning...... people bitching to jagex about how they suck yet they are still members and still play the game...... if you don't like a game then don't play it or pay attention to it...

I still have nearly one year of membership in advance. Also I'm OSRS player now so I'll keep paying for the Old School.
I've quit the RS3.
It's not possible to miss some threads like this one when we share the same forums.

If you don't like the players who criticise Jagex then you shouldn't even visit those forums. Players are free to express their thoughts in here as long as they are civil. "We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape."
-Jagex rule on RWT in 2012

07-Oct-2013 03:11:01

catherby
Sep Member 2020

catherby

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I understand you're worried about another Jiblix incident. But bulk banning players just because they happen to play the Old School version nearby botters isn't going to magically boost your numbers in votes or anything.

Like I mentioned via accounthelp@jagex, I would prefer 10 botters per player than to allow even 1 innocent player to undergo what I'm going through presently.

07-Oct-2013 07:01:34

Ghosttalon
Oct Member 2020

Ghosttalon

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Rardin said :
man all this bitching and moaning...... people bitching to jagex about how they suck yet they are still members and still play the game...... if you don't like a game then don't play it or pay attention to it...


This is ridiculous. Many of us have played for 6+ years, even more. Even those who have played somewhat less (you perhaps?) have a lot of time, emotion, and memories invested into it. Let's see you just 'give up and go away' from a recreational activity you've enjoyed for such a length of time...

We still hope for better. The criticism is part of that. They're big boys and girls, they can take it. And if they can't, they should reconsider what they're doing.


Aside from that I feel I need to comment in response to last post on pg 30 as well:

Ireidusu, it's a UK developers award -- fairly limited in scope. It might raise visibility some, but what would do even more is fixing bugs, fixing core game mechanics (EoC still needs work nearly a year on), fixing minigames, and providing a quality game again. I don't know what's happened the past two years. Their attention has apparently been divided between money lost from the failure of Stellar Dawn; getting microtransactions (and now RWT) going for income; and new development for Transformers (and one wonders how that's going, really). Runescape is on life support, but no attention is being given to the health of the vital organs that would bring the game out of its terminal decline (the problems I mentioned above).

I respect your decision to vote for them. However, any attention the game gets, at the moment, is not going to be good for it in the long run. You don't want new players coming in now, only to look and run far and fast the other way.

07-Oct-2013 08:26:12

Gonio

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Did you guys not learn from the last time you tried to get the community to vote for you and you lost? It should have shown you that your community did*’t like the updates that you were implementing. However, instead of doing something about it you just keep pumping **** filled update after another out (well, not really pumping them out. They are usually pretty far spaced for the amount of effort that seems to be actually put into them.)

If you were running for ‘ballsiest’ company of the year I’d have to vote for you. Simply for the fact, that you all have the audacity to add insult to injury by asking your dwindling player base to vote for you. Even after, you don’t listen to them.

Here is (in my opinion) a short, but sweet tale of the downfall of a great empire (game)*

**. 1 – Pay2Win
The date was June 28th, 2011. Many adventurers, with battle scars and skills proving their mirth, woke up to find the first (of many) RTW incentive to trade in their hard earned money in exchange for some benefits. The incentive was of course, the ‘Loyalty Rewards Program’ (copyright Jamflex 2013), used to get more people signing up for members. There was great debate over why the ‘veteran’ players would not receive extra rewards for being ‘loyal’ all of those previous years. However, like all peasants of a monarch, they finally backed down and agreed to the good of the nation.
Little did they know they monarch was spending too much money filling their bellies with turkey legs and ale, and in turn needed to increase the taxes on its peasants once again. This came with the introduction of ‘Squeal of Fortune’ and ‘Solomon’s General Store’ on Feb. 28th, 2012, and July, 17th, 2012 respectively.

07-Oct-2013 08:57:03

Gonio

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Ch. 2 – Easier Lvl’s
The monarch knew it was having problems way before the tax increases, and decided that they needed to train their peasants further so they could create higher revenues. The monarchs rolled out ways for their followers to quickly learn skills and become more resourceful. These originated with the introduction of ivy (Sept. 23rd, 2009). They furthered this with releases of ‘Bonus XP Weekends’ (Mar. 12th, 2010) and Promissory Notes (Aug. 31st, 2012) for members. This way, peasants would not only think they were being rewarded for being loyal to the monarch, but the monarch also gained from them.
Many more updates were implemented to increase the peasants’ skills and abilities (Runespan, Lodestones, ect.) with the façade of ‘helping’ the new followers while having a drastic impact on the old followers. Who, the monarch believed, was going to leave their rule any way*
**. 3 – Quests & Bosses
The monarch finally realized that they had been focusing too much on the new members of their rule and thought they should find some way to keep the elders content. They thought that the release of harder and higher lvl content was the right way to go about this. They spent all of their time finding ways to create the hardest boss fight in history. Rather than filling in the missing spots of many interesting bosses to please the majority of players, they created one after another challenging bosses. Nex (lvl 220 – Jan. 10th, 2011), QBD (lvl 220 solo – May 22nd, 2012), Kalphite King (lvl 230 – Jan. 14th, 2013), and Vorago (lvl 240 – July 3rd, 2013).
Rather than fixing the problems they faced with the combat and the items relating to it, they figured the ‘more is better’ approach (as they do with most things) was best. With each update making the last outdated, rather than fixing the old content they went ahead making new content to outdate the old.

07-Oct-2013 08:57:45

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