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Tclcis

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If we left things the way they are and never tried to improve we would be stuck without wheels.

Some would argue that Mankind was better off in the forests than they ever will be in a city .
"Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans." - Douglas Adams, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

I guess I should leave some replies to the greats.

26-Mar-2016 04:12:12

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this is what happens when you let people like venture capitalists buy up companies. They buy it, then try to milk it, and when the cow doesn't have any more milk you sell it to someone else. This is step 3. One of the best goats in Runescape.

26-Mar-2016 04:16:44

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Fifi he believes that the new company will change the entire structure of the game so that it fits in the free**um model because that is the most popular model of game in China.

Absolutely not true that free**um is the most popular model of games in China. The FACT is almost all online games in China are free to play. Even the very few "subscription" based games like WoW in China do not actually require a monthly subscription. Their so-called "subscription" is non-recurring. A purchase of one game time card = 1 subscription. It is basically one microtransaction per "subscription".

So they mostly follow the free**um structure just like I said. Just say I'm wrong again then reword what I said. :)

@Fosbinder, while its not the topic of the thread Ill throw a short reply. If humans didn't progress in technology then there wouldn't be as many of us around. We seem to be doing too well because of technology.

Free**um, in the online gaming industy, refers to a monetization model with significant locked content (e.g. access beyond the Falador gate) that requires a real money payment (in most cases, a recurring subscription plan) to unlock.

"Free"-to-play, refers to a pricing model with allows all players to access most, if not all, game features without a recurring payment plan.

You can hardly (if you can even) find any online game that requires a recurring subscription in China. If their virtual content is not sold through in game microntransactions, it will be in a certain way sold like buy-a-movie-ticket-and-get-game-time-for-xyzzy-online like what Blizzard is going to do with WoW-movie-ticket-for-WoW-game-time.

26-Mar-2016 04:38:46

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this is what happens when you let people like venture capitalists buy up companies. They buy it, then try to milk it, and when the cow doesn't have any more milk you sell it to someone else. This is step 3.

Except Jagex as a company continues to provide more and more profits each year.

26-Mar-2016 05:45:10

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this is what happens when you let people like venture capitalists buy up companies. They buy it, then try to milk it, and when the cow doesn't have any more milk you sell it to someone else. This is step 3.

Except Jagex as a company continues to provide more and more profits each year.

Except that there's a thread in this very forum that proves your statement false. You know that, you posted in it (and it's currently on or around page 5 if you need to find it again). "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" -Martin Luther King Jr.

26-Mar-2016 06:54:41

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this is what happens when you let people like venture capitalists buy up companies. They buy it, then try to milk it, and when the cow doesn't have any more milk you sell it to someone else. This is step 3.

Except Jagex as a company continues to provide more and more profits each year.

Solomons store covers most of , if not all profits these days.. Sub count is at an all time low and is continuing to dwindle .

26-Mar-2016 06:55:48

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Sinophobia. Sinophobia everywhere ._.

Phobia of differing opinions. Phobia of differing opinions everywhere ._. "Revenge...is like a rolling stone, which, when a man hath forced up a hill, will return upon him with a greater violence, and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion."- Jeremy Taylor

26-Mar-2016 07:11:12

Potionomics

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I'd like to give my opinions but before that i just would like to mention that i may not have followed through all the updates about this regarding issues so its solely opinon based.

I have played runescape for about 11-12-ish years now with breaks for my studies but every now and then i enjoyed paying a visit to the rs community.

I think runescape have done a splendid job maintaining the game over the past couple of years.
*claps*
For the staffs and employees for jagex runescape division
(Us the community can sometimes demand alot lolz, you guys deserve appreciation for ur hard work)

As a fellow asian gamer myself, i look forward for runescape opening in the asian market.
In my opinion, runescape might be better with extra additional playerbase, i would suggest you do some advertising though if this potention acquisition did not happen.
Recently i have not found alot of noobs in runescape, and many of the players i see are mostly veterans. Runescape really needs additional players. I need noobs to throw my gp at lolz.

Though there are just things i worried about such as the botters, gold farmers and about the microtransactions that other people have mentioned.
China is a country which is really famous for ingame gold farming and rwt, a more sophisticated botting sytems might just develop with the increase of the playerbase. I do hope to not see anymore bots in the future.
I do question the tendency of runescape after the acquisition tho, i just hope that there will not be drastic change that hinders most of us as players.

If the acquisiton do happen, i would just hope that the runescape community driven spirits or those players opinion regards for future ùpdates will still be kept.

Looking forwaŕd towards the updates that u guys will make.

26-Mar-2016 10:02:41

Tclcis

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Except that there's a thread in this very forum that proves your statement false. You know that, you posted in it (and it's currently on or around page 5 if you need to find it again).
Customer support stats Feb?

Or did you mean page 6 with Kristas numbers thread?
You do realise that Jagex spends their profits on the company to make it better, such as ventures like chronicle and darkscape. The value of Jagex has also steadily increased over time.

26-Mar-2016 14:12:40

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