LOL, so now even the Jagex CEO is using the "omg i got haxored" excuse?
These service outages have nothing to do with DDoSers or malicious revenge attacks from people whose business was ruined and everything to do with profit$. Jagex does not want to maintain all the servers it once had because the number of players doesn't justify it, so they've changed to cheaper hosting services. You know this is true because they've even got a poll asking if we think they should cut the number of available worlds.
This is all a direct result of the bad decisions made in the past such as EOC and NIS that so killed the player population barely 50K play at peak times like weekends and holidays. I remember when it was normal for 250K people to be playing just after the Slayer skill was released. Then someone got the bright idea to ruin the Wilderness in 2006 and things have never been the same since.
Power to the Players is a really bad joke, as well as a cheap and transparent marketing gimmick. The blame for these disruptions falls squarely on the shoulders of Jagex, and no one else.
18-Mar-2014 13:16:47
