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Darkcat1923

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There are those who would question the legitimacy of the reported number of accounts, Jagex has never been one to delete accounts, no matter how long someone has been inactive, whether inactive for 1 month or seven years. I might be wrong but I believe they hope those accounts creators will one day return to the account, and potentially decide to upgrade. (Thank you Jagex, you know I disappear for years and come back, I love having my account still here waiting for me.) The only exception to this rule is when someone is banned, if I'm wrong feel free to tell me.
In my rs lifetime i've had many low levelled accounts, three in particular were wilderness scouts, 3 were pures, 1 was an professional sitter who'd sit and strangely get players of all levels to sit and chat, then there were many whose ********* I forgot after so long, and even some i've forgotten the name.
Now how many of you have done the same? All these accounts add up, so again making it seems as if the majority of the 200M accounts they are about to have came from bots, is a bit biased. Honestly, ask yourself, have many accounts have I had in my rs lifetime? Then look at your brother posting right under you, and wonder how much they've had.
200M accounts is being viewed in a negative light, well we've all contributed to that number, so what do we do moving forward? What can we suggest? Well we could ask Jagex to delete accounts that haven't logged on in so long, that day would be sad for me since as I mentioned, I go away for years and return, but oh well. Another suggestion, I played a particular superhero online game on the PS3, they have a set amount of accounts you can create. If you reach the limit, you either sulk and deal with it, or delete one of the accounts yourself. At the end of the day, all of the alloted accounts are registered under your one PSN registry name. Something like that can be implemented in RS, but then there would be complaints of Jagex restricting our freedom to create.

12-Jun-2012 22:49:52

Prophecy_AU
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Prophecy_AU

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The Bots far out weigh most of the "200Million accounts" as said way earlier in this thread the real player count is probably somewhere around 150 thousand, given after the nuke there was 40-75k on at a time, but given the different time zones you can easily double that amount.
I guess there is a congrats to 200Million accounts, but no-one that used to love this game, and still do love this game will appreciate such a celebration with any dignity because we all know only a very small partial of these accounts are real.
I don't mean to bag on Jagex at all, but they say they want a bot free runescape, but that'll never be possible, hackers that run the botting programs hack the codeing of the nuke within a few weeks.. and as im sure most Real Runescape Members know, the bots are mainly all the same varing very scarcely which could mean between only 2-3 different main programs for bots. But on the business end of things, Jagex still makes money off of the bots because whether they like it or not.. even bots that are on members have to pay for it.
Anyway, Congrats to J'Mods and P'Mods that will celebrate this, as you should know, you wont be joined by most of your actual players. :|

12-Jun-2012 22:50:31

BRENudo
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BRENudo

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They should give a bonus to the 200,000,000th account, like lifetime membership or a rare armor set. And maybe a little something for the first 100 million or 10 million accounts. Just a suggestion. And a big congrats to anyone and everyone who's been helping support Runescape by subscribing or playing! I believe we'll finally blow those World of Warcraft noobs out of the water. LONG LIVE RUNESCAPE! DOWN WITH WARCRAFT!
That is all,
Brenudo12345

12-Jun-2012 22:50:59

KleptoFever
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congrats on the 2 million milestone.
how ever i have a couple questions. firstly does that counter include botting accounts that have been banned over the years since there was a point and time jagex posted on their news page about 300-350 accounts banned years ago.
second question is, of those 2 million accounts how many of them are the bots standing at the g-e on member worlds since you started giving out 2 week free trials we now have bots at member world g-es spamming macros for gold selling sites
i ask you do me a favour, take out all the botting accounts from that total, be it ones banned in the past and ones today fighting and/or spamming macros at g-e and post a total of the legitimate accounts real players such as my self are using

12-Jun-2012 22:51:02

Sin Shenron
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Sin Shenron

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I'm so erect right now. I just wish someone would touch my peepee. I want to stick my whole fist up your bumbum and you watch me erupt all over your face, body, and pets. Then I'll find your grandma and have her ride a donkey like the Mexican Donkey Shows and slap her with a tuna. I want everyone to watch as we have a 600 person tantric bangage session that involves an aircraft carrier, pineapple, and a dozen beer bottles cover in mayo. As we all eventually ride off into the sunset on 9 legged sailfish, we all reach the maximum level of lust our bodies can handle and combust into flowers of love, passion, and mutual goat hatred.

12-Jun-2012 22:52:17

Fabfabian

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As a person who has played Runescape for a lot of their life (Over 10 years), I see this as a great milestone for Jagex. An for all of you who say "Most of the accounts are bots" we should just congratulate them on this moment!
And just to let you know I got this account when I was 6 :) big part of my life.

12-Jun-2012 22:52:24

slay sholly

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See after reading this news feed, I was happy for Jagex making it so far. Really did manage to become rather successful. record breaking good and most importantly enjoyable for me for so many years.
But i knew what the comments would be because lets face it. the botting makes it not less enjoyable but it does some what hinder the experience.
faithly honest
sir sholly
:)

12-Jun-2012 22:53:42

Titaniferous

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Hello JaGex!
I am very proud of the fact that you have accomplished one of the most popular games on-line up to date! I am also very happy for you to (almost) reach the 200 million of user that has created accounts and are new members of RuneScape community.
Besides that I am very proud that I have been a member of this large community and I am very happy to help anyone who needs help throughout the adventures in this game.
Enough of congratulations and lets get to the business.
I am somewhat not pleased about the fact that there is so many people playing this game, then why there has been rises in price for the membership? I always though that the more people plays the game we would encounter price drop of the membership. Could you please change the price to $5 once again please?
Another fact that makes me upset is that a large amount of those new created accounts are created as those low level players which are user to make money for botting/gold farming companies. Why are you so happy about 200 million counter since millions of them are bots?
Dear Jagex, I wish the best for you, and to our community as a whole.
Regards, Sick Fight.
PS. Don't ***** over member of our community once again.

12-Jun-2012 22:55:35

glittery sea
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glittery sea

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Yep, nice excuse for a celebration! Congrats Jagex for your up and coming 200m'th
account creation. Although bots may have helped you achieve this number, so what!
They have only quickened the pace for us legit players to receive rewards sooner. Yayyy!!!

12-Jun-2012 22:56:20

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