After as good hour and a half looking for a particular post, I finally found it!
"Number of Joystick Awards prior to the 2007 change: 0
Number of Joystick Awards in the 3 years since the change: 2
Coincidence? I think not. The game was overrun with bots, scams, lures, etc. The game reached a point of practically being unplayable by any true gamers. By restricting areas of content that were highly abused, Jagex were free to focus on developing richer content and they were recognized for it. Moving backwards is backwards thinking.
It's amazing how the very petition to reintroduce these highly abused areas of content was rife with false votes. People were voting for themselves, their friends, strangers on the hiscores, etc. How ironic a that petition regarding highly abused content should itself be abused.
Meanwhile the second poll which requires a login, hasn't managed to hit 500k in four days. That's not exactly an impressive number. And check out some of the names listed as recent voters. Of the 15 displayed on the page, I only found 4 that were ranked. Only FOUR. Out of 15. Seriously? Yeah, talk about flooding the vote with newly created accounts." -Rembroth.
She's good.
03-Jan-2011 19:36:32
