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Cow God
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Archamedes said :
Stop reporting things that no one cares about. And let us know what you are doing to fix the issues RS is having. I think Mod MMG told us exactly how they are trying to stop bots from ruining the fun for us! And not only that, don't forget that they've now got power to the players, which basically let's us choose for the most important things in the game, isn't that countering alot of problems for RuneScape?

04-Apr-2014 23:59:54

Hinyness

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Sorry i drop in so late, but i really have to address this.

When you say that this 30-60k player count is the actual player count. If that were true not only would i be concerned about the games fate, but i don't see the full truth behind it.

1) Whenever i played during the glory days (2008-2012) I knew one thing. Each time jagex released an update which would renew the games code so bots would malfunction. So after each update the player count dropped from 120 or 150k down to 90 or 110k. This was because bots shut down after an update and bot makers had to renew their scripts to run on the new code which usually took bot makers about 1-3 days to restore.

2) When you say true numbers you are forgetting that OSRS is not bot free yet the total player count counts for both games.

With that first point in mind and bot nuke is that they wiped out 95% (or 98% as the mentioned during the bot nuke) of the bots. Well if that's the case then why were there 90-110k player still online after having eliminated bots after an update or the bot nuke?

So if you want me to believe that 30-60k is the actual player count of legit players then we are missing about 30-50k people. Did they leave because of the EoC or is your story not completely true?

05-Apr-2014 00:02:59

Unphazed
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I enjoyed reading this information. I think MMG answered a lot of the common RS-players' questions. Certainly not saying Jagex has been dishonest in the past but I really like the statistics and honesty, especially in saying EoC and the removal of bots has caused a decrease in players. I hope to see more of these types of News posts. Rock on Jagex!! :)

05-Apr-2014 00:06:09 - Last edited on 11-Apr-2016 04:52:45 by Unphazed

Hinyness

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Cow God said :
Archamedes said :
Stop reporting things that no one cares about. And let us know what you are doing to fix the issues RS is having. I think Mod MMG told us exactly how they are trying to stop bots from ruining the fun for us! And not only that, don't forget that they've now got power to the players, which basically let's us choose for the most important things in the game, isn't that countering alot of problems for RuneScape? Power to the players is not all that its cracked up to be. When jagex polled if we should lower the amount of worlds the players voted no. Why? Why people voted "no" when there is only 200 per world on average? I don't trust that all player votes are for the good of the game.

05-Apr-2014 00:07:38

Unphazed
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Hinyness said :
Cow God said :
Archamedes said :
Stop reporting things that no one cares about. And let us know what you are doing to fix the issues RS is having. I think Mod MMG told us exactly how they are trying to stop bots from ruining the fun for us! And not only that, don't forget that they've now got power to the players, which basically let's us choose for the most important things in the game, isn't that countering alot of problems for RuneScape? Power to the players is not all that its cracked up to be. When jagex polled if we should lower the amount of worlds the players voted no. Why? Why people voted "no" when there is only 200 per world on average? I don't trust that all player votes are for the good of the game.

Obviously, not everyone is going to agree with every result from power to the players, but is our fellow players that are making these decisions. Like me and many others, we have played the same world for years now and wouldn't want to play on any other one.

05-Apr-2014 00:10:57 - Last edited on 11-Apr-2016 04:52:59 by Unphazed

Arky

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Totally agree with this news post, many people think that as soon as EoC hit and the past few years lots of players have left the game due to the reduction in "total players online" however, the majority of this is just due to bots leaving the game thanks to BotWatch. I'm glad to see more people are joining+returning to Runescape than previous years, and I feel Jagex is making all the right choices involving the community such as Power to the Players. Even though I'm a fan of EoC and Revolution, I feel Legacy Mode will be supported by many players and help cause the return of many too. It's also very interesting to see the average age of players, and the median to be between 19-25, I also had no idea that only 1% of players have +1bill wealth. Very interesting stats!

05-Apr-2014 00:12:29

Stinker276
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Wes G said :
But unfortunaly you are selling xp and that has caused me and many many others to stop playing the game. I will wait for the day you stop selling xp and will happily start playing again. And yet you've had concurrent membership since before the squeal was put into the game and still it remains. Voting with your wallet, you're doing it wrong.

05-Apr-2014 00:17:58

Saxo
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Epsilon said :
I feel like that 1614 average total level is skewed by accounts made in the past ~year, just by the sake of not having as much time to train as the rest of the demographic. Or those who created a new account just to play osrs

probably all of the percentages are skewed in mod mmgs favour somehow.

05-Apr-2014 00:19:08

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