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Lions RAWR
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Lions RAWR

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Well, the Premier Club members will get advanced and guaranteed access - but it would be crazy to prevent the wider community from also being able to test the Beta and provide feedback eventually.

The point of a Beta is to make sure as much testing as possible can be done before launch so that things are as smooth as possible. Premier Members are top of the list for people who will be allowed to test it out; but we'd be doing a bad job of testing if we didn't open it up to the wider community towards the end. :)

Hope that explains things a little better!


Thanks for the Quick reply Mod drebin :)

I totally forgot to think about the implications of the wider community. If the beta was only for premier club members, that would be for a limited amount of players, so opening the beta up for the whole community ensures that better feedback is obtained.

I am also not so well educated in Beta's because I did not realize it goes in stages. from closed til open beta's. Always assumed it would be one or the other lol.

thanks again for clearing it up :)
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29-Mar-2013 14:10:45

Marusha

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MsChaney posted:
If we're premier members, do we still have to register?
And, will the rs client be updated for html5 at any point during the beta if we don't like using chrome?

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Good question.
I don't want google chrome on my pc again.
It took me long enough to get rid of it.

I also wonder if giving feedback is any usefull,
because it don't seems to me that they ever listen to us. :)

Give us back our old female stance and run back, plz



Why would you ever want to remove google chrome from your computer? It's the best browser out there, and that's been proven. It's the most stable, it's the fastest and it's the most secure, jagex even agreed and they stand behind it.


Lucky for you than.

For me. it was one problem after the other.
It made my pc slower with sneaky Google spyware and auto updates on the background.

And the fact that you cannot just uninstall it, is for me a big reason too. :)
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29-Mar-2013 14:11:23 - Last edited on 29-Mar-2013 14:12:27 by Marusha

Kentt
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Kentt

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Quick question, are you looking for more feedback from people with older computers, or people with the best computer out on the market?

Also, will non-members like myself obtain access at any point before it leaves the beta stage?
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29-Mar-2013 14:11:45

HeroicSnorro

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Heh, I know this question was not meant for me, but I will try to answer it anyways:

So without further ado, what makes Runescape" Runescape"?

I fell for this game 8 years ago due to the amount of freedom this game offers. Do you want to be a miner? Go ahead and do it. Would you rather annoy some bosses? Grab your gear and get on with it. Would you like to do something for which you don't have the requirements yet? Then get moving and work towards your goals.

Especially getting 85 mining by powermining iron may have taught me a thing or two about patience.

The game was universal and you had to work to achieve your goals. Unfortunately, the direction this game seems to be going in for the past 2 years slowly alienated me from the game I loved to play. Surely, the core of the game is still there, but lodestones for example make the RS game world feel so much smaller. It's on the 07 servers (where I don't have teleports yet) where I appreciate the size of the game world again.

Another example is the introduction of micropayments. Whilst I don't mind the cosmetic store, I do mind the wheel. It is not uncommon to receive quite some money from there (according to what I have heard). The wheel devalues the sense of achievement which I get when I receive a rare drop or make money through other ways. This is why I boycott it, in order to keep special things special.

This is what made Runescape "Runescape", and why I as a long term player feel kind of alienated from the main game.

-=HeroicSnorro=-

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On the other hand, I am quite curious about the primal full helm drop rate too. Will it see an adjustment in the coming update?

EDIT: The ability to 'nuke' Yelps in the announced customisable interface beta would be a step in the right direction, in my opinion.
Sometimes, less is more.

29-Mar-2013 14:12:22 - Last edited on 29-Mar-2013 14:17:52 by HeroicSnorro

Mod Drebin

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Celes Aurora posted:

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Just my opinion, but maybe it's time to peel back some of the accessibility and safety. Part of the original charm of the game was the exploration and the danger. And for higher-tier quests, add back in exploration, length and difficult puzzles.

That's an interesting bit of feedback - thanks! Basically, you're after a hardcore challenge where risk-reward is much higher and things are - dare I say - more difficult to get to grips with? I get that, but don't forget we also need to keep RuneScape accessible so new players can come in and enjoy the game.

Perhaps there's more we can do to work out where the "easy mode" stuff should tail off better, but I'm sure you agree we can't have perma-death instakills right out of the tutorial - that would just be bad game design. ;)

So what sort of ideas can you think of to help increase difficulty gradually? I'd be interested to hear your thoughts!


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29-Mar-2013 14:18:52

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