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Galahad Sir
Feb Member 2006

Galahad Sir

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Thanks for sacking any good Jagex staff who believed in integrity of the game over short term profit, the most famous of which would have to be Mod Rathe, who told us how he had fought management and would continue to fight them to not allow combat advantages on SoF. We all loved him for it, we all called for him to be made CEO, but we all knew he was in danger, and soon enough he'd gone from the Main Guy for the EoC, to never heard of again.

Thanks for forcing the EoC, which could and should have been a great update, to be released before it was ready, by not supporting updates to the beta while it was running, and then just declaring it was ready because you wanted it to be, leaving the game in effectively a beta state for years afterwards.

Thanks for squardering time and resources on a failed plan to migrate to HTML5 that was never going to work, just because you'd big noted yourself in a livestream by mentioning "Runescape 3".

Thank you for promising to tone down the amount of SoF and Solomon promotions, then in fact increasing them.

Thanks for claiming that the game was in decline and microtransactions were necessary to prevent it from coming to an end, when publicly available records show that Runescape was more and more profitable every year before microtransactions were introduced.

Thank you for claiming microtransactions had given you a "War Chest" to improve the game like never before, then not showing any increase in updates.

Thanks for squandering the profits of Runescape on failed games like War of Legends, 8 Realms and Stellar Dawn, which nobody wanted to play because they were boring and pay to win. Thanks for ignoring these lessons and not considering the loss of players from making Runescape pay to win too.

12-Sep-2014 04:54:57 - Last edited on 12-Sep-2014 04:56:08 by Galahad Sir

Galahad Sir
Feb Member 2006

Galahad Sir

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Thank you for taking the profits and the business model of the gold farmers for yourself. Thank you for claiming that the gold bought by buying bonds only comes from the banks of existing players. We have nothing other than your word that there aren't fake Bond GE offers to provide more saleable gold to sell bonds, and your word is worthless.

Thank you for always taking the short term profit instead of working for the long term success, integrity and popularity of the game.

But most of all, thank you for taking a ten year promise to the players of Runescape:

"We don't want players to be able to buy their way to success in RuneScape. If we let players start doing this, it devalues RuneScape for others. We feel your status in real-life shouldn't affect your ability to be successful in RuneScape."

and showing that Runescape and it's core values meant absolutely nothing to you when there was a chance of a quick buck for you and your IVP masters.

If these are the things you are proud of achieving during your time at Jagex, then well done sir, you have achieved your aims.

Goodbye Mark Liehard.

12-Sep-2014 04:55:08

Ashxin
Dec Member 2010

Ashxin

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Galahad Sir said :
Thank you for everything you've done MMG.

Thank you for coming in with no understanding of what Runescape was about, but with the arrogance to tell everyone at the successful company Jagex that they had no understanding of what business was about.

Thank you for promising to communicate more with players in 2009, then proceeding to communicate with them less.

Thank you for being the patsy of IVP and their relentless meddling that forced Andrew Gower to sell them enough for a majority share and leave because he couldn't take it any more.

Thank you for undoing Andrew's brave work to combat botting and goldfarming, in what was the first of many instances of pretending to listen to players while you did what you were going to do all along anyway, in pursuit of short term profits at the expense of long term integrity of the game.

Thank you for lying to us about the Wildy Back poll, first in claiming it was somehow fair to let bottters and goldfarmers automatically make as many new accounts as they could and have their votes count, and second for falsely claiming you could control the bots before the poll when it turned out you couldn't.

Thank you for claiming at Runefest "We broke the bots" when all you'd done was pause them, briefly. Thank you for in general trying to make yourself appear to be some kind of rock star, instead of just humbly getting on with making a better game the way your predecessors did.

Thank you for changing Jagex's view of PMods and players in general from a valuable resource in maintaining fairness and integrity in the game, to a problem to be managed and turned into a gang of cheerleaders that constantly said Jagex was right even when they were wrong, or face losing their crown.

Thank you for forcing many good Community Management Jmods to repeat your lies and deceptions to the players to the point where they felt they had to leave the company as s

12-Sep-2014 04:55:32

Fat SquirreI
Aug Member 2023

Fat SquirreI

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Eva Element said :

Actually it is. Jagex only sells one thing. Monthly subscriptions for the game. Micro transactions provide additional financial income (a factor I'm sure just like pay check in example) and draw their existing consumers to spend extra money on stuff that basically amounts to absolutely nothing. As the actual effect on over all game is minimal. Unless you start throwing 500-600+ dollars into the game. At that point you would have to be Bill Gate's child to throw that much into this game.
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12-Sep-2014 04:55:42

Fat SquirreI
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"Thank you for promising to communicate more with players in 2009, then proceeding to communicate with them less."

I guess you haven't seen the BTS videos, J-mods on the forums, Live Twitch sessions, Live QnA's, live in-game meetings on the VIP worlds, and Power to the player polls

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12-Sep-2014 05:00:50

Eva Element

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I don't know, perhaps the more content they promised would be delivered as a result of the twice-as-large development team they say MTX funded.


I asked for proof. Not what ever the heck this is.

Plagues End was a disappointment - the epic war for Ardy was like 6 soldiers fighting me.


Umm plagues end wasn't an epic war for Ardy. It was for Elven City of Priffidas. For the elf series that has always been more puzzle then fighting the quest ended quite well for a what near 10 year gap in story. Nice lore, challenging but not annoying puzzle, fun little boss fight. Who the Dark Lord turned out to be made a lot more sense then Zamorak like most originally thought it would be.

Cave Goblin Final quest was not only a tad disappointing, but rewarded players with lower skills - because of the mechanics of the final fight, those with crappy gear and crappy HP actually had an advantage over their betters.


Cave Goblin quest was always bad quest series. How ever the funny bit is that it isn't about having bad stats. It is about evening the fight by removing the massive advantage players have with top level gear. Anyone can beat a quest boss with Port armors, level 90 weapons, overloads, level 95 curses. Strip that away and the fight becomes much more challenging.

I have not been that impressed with the quality of quests either. Yeah, we sometimes get a Fate of the Gods.. But more-often-than-not I have been disappointed.


yes because elemental workshop and Mourning End 2 were really fantastic weren't they.

Not to mention our new skill, Divination, was such a disappointment that, when given the option to vote for which skill desperately needed a new minigame, Divination won hands down


They said divination would be a gathering skill. What did you expect. also all other skills already have mini game. *** does not. I'm a big entropy fan.

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12-Sep-2014 05:01:16

Galahad Sir
Feb Member 2006

Galahad Sir

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Fat SquirreI said :
"Thank you for promising to communicate more with players in 2009, then proceeding to communicate with them less."

I guess you haven't seen the BTS videos, J-mods on the forums, Live Twitch sessions, Live QnA's, live in-game meetings on the VIP worlds, and Power to the player polls

Its ok that you didn't sell ALL that.

Are you new here? None of those things came out in the year after he made that promise.

[EDIT: In fact BTS was something that disappeared for a good length of time after that promise, before eventually being reintroduced due to players being so displeased with MMG's failure to deliver on that promise]

12-Sep-2014 05:01:43 - Last edited on 12-Sep-2014 10:03:09 by Galahad Sir

XTL

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Ashxin said :
Seriously, I'm so happy that MMG is leaving! You ruined RuneScape.

Go hang your head in shame and choke on all the cheap dollars you earned.

People like you should be muted. Permanently.

Now I realize that you do not like some of the decisions that MMG has made, although can't you at least be polite enough to... Well be polite??? He has dedicated more of his life to RuneScape than you have probably even known about the game for.

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12-Sep-2014 05:04:18

Fat SquirreI
Aug Member 2023

Fat SquirreI

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"Thank you for promising to tone down the amount of SoF and Solomon promotions, then in fact increasing them."

Lol thats a fake statement you pulled out of your ass. SoF was way way WAY nerfed and the promotions are far less invasive than before, this is simple you making **** up. Ask-Kinshra-Slave on
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12-Sep-2014 05:05:48

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