This is me reposting!
I am a veteran player, and I have enjoyed this game for more than 4 years or so, and I voted "Yes" to return the Wilderness and trading to its original state.
Why you may ask?
Well, I myself find Runescape a game fun not for how easy it is to play, but how difficult it is to play and how you have to wait hours to sell your items in a bustling market place! I enjoyed this, as it made lots of player on player interaction, allowed you to start your own enterprises, and enjoy the business side of Runescape, and that is why I use to play the game. Now, the Market Place is like a stock market, no longer a place where people interact and actually trade, haggle, ETC. This has desolated my reasons to play the game as I loved this, and now, it is replaced with a cold Grand Exchange!
As for the Wilderness, the rush, the thrill of fighting others was wonderful! I was never good at it, but it was a fun pass time, as well as a good way to compete with other players, as you see in the new system, no one, I MEAN NO ONE, wants to wait hours for their EP to fill, wait an hour for a target, or face extreme penalties to their drop? Who in their right mind WOULD WANT THIS? Part of the reason you would be in the Wilderness is to get valuable ores, fight powerful monsters, earning good income, as Player Killers lurk in the shadows and strike. This is part, of the very fun of Runescape! It is the imperfections, the difficulties in this game, that make it fun. If you just got a billion gold from doing pointless grinding why would that be fun? Yet that is what the normal player in Runescape is doing now.
Please, I beg you, bring back the risk, the fun of Runescape and restore it to its former classical self!
I know *ots will return, just update your systems to remove them faster, and educate the Runescape population why not to perform this. In order to remove botters, you must remove the demand for them. Otherwise, they will ALWAYS EXIST.
01-Jan-2011 00:47:27
