It seems to me that Jagex have committed their normal crime of doing something based on false information. The devs have started using the other social media sites, quite a few players also use them and Jagex have assumed that players ONLY want X/Reddit/Discord because that's what the devs and their favoured players want to use.
Given that the forums don't record your presence if you're not logged in, it appears that Jagex have seen exactly what they want to see and are now telling us that the forums aren't used and so they are going to close them down... because we ALL use the social media sites, don't we?
My take on this is that it's the wrong move. Even their own figures show that most players don't use X/Reddit/Discord, we're telling them that we don't want to be made to use them, and the silent majority who won't even know until they need help of some kind help (I know players who don't even read the updates).
I have said this on a few threads now but let us all remember the mess they made of the wildy because they were SURE that most players wanted it to be dangerous and they went through hoops trying to keep it dangerous while making it more popular. How many resources were wasted, how much ingame money was generated, how many times did players take advantage of poorly planned changes, how many times did players like me try to tell Jagex not to listen to a minority of very vocal players? Too many to count looking back! And when they gave us the opt out of PvP, how welcome was that? If only they had listened to the majority of players in the first instance, they could have saved such a lot of grief.
Closing the forums is the same, badly planned and not worth the hassle it will cause for a lot of players.
But Jagex aren't going to change their mind because they are only going to listen to a favoured few.
I'm very sad that Jagex never appear to learn from the history of failed changes.
16-Jan-2024 12:27:19
