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No they haven't. What has happened is players blame ALL losses on EoC. Which ignore the anti bot programs like Bot Watch which went online around the same time. Players tend to point out anti bot updates because players are.....Honestly I'm not sure if ignorant or stupid of how heavily and unbelievably botted the game was before. The wilderness was removed because they couldn't handle the botting and gold farming.

My statement holds true. Assuming for the sake of argument there are 100,000 total players on the game. Also assuming your friend list is maxed out at 400. If all those players were to leave that would only be 0.4% of total player base. So that is ultimately an insignificant portion of the player base.

My god you really don't think before typing, but okay, if you really wanna bring fake math examples to try and make a point then multiply my friend list of "400" by the amount of players that can relate to the same issue.

We lost a lot of real players, and you know what's the worse?, there are still bots and auto-typers spamming around Runescape, so now we have a low player base and there's still bots... awesome?, I wonder how it would look like without bots nowadays... 100 players per world?

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lmao its hilarious how threads tend to get derailed by ppl talking about eoc. STFU this is a thread about jagex being sold to a chinese mining company for 300m

There is noting to chat about here. We could spend all day talking about who farts louder a cat or a kitten and it would achieve the same thing if we didn't.

Apparently there is eoc to argue kek And I swear I'm not going to let her know all the pain I have known

16-Mar-2016 18:43:44

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Well, they won't know anything until the contract is finished. How much control Jagex still has will be part of that contract, I would imagine. It just depends on what the two sides can agree to and how much Jagex is willing to keep that control versus selling it.

It's well known that the Chinese like to control what they have (and that's fair enough) but the whole game will change and it wouldn't surprise me if it left Britain and goes East.

16-Mar-2016 18:43:58

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You did when you make stupid claims.

Servers and game data are two different things. You can purchase or rent more servers if you need to. How ever the game data can not be bought as such. There is about 4 years worth of content updates since 07 happened before EoC. They wouldn't keep snap shots of the entire game that far back. There would be no need to. They also were not sure if the demand was there. Hence why they had a poll about it before implementing it. When the demand was found to be sufficient they did the work needed to bring the snap shot they had found up to game play specs. Which took a fair amount of work and delayed a few other projects because of it. Showing the amount of work needed to be done to it.

Jagex has continue to keep OSRS and increase it's staff because the demand remains consistent enough to warrant the time and resources spent to upkeep/updated it. Jagex is a business they aren't going to waste time developing something that already existed if they were not sure there is a big demand for it. Hence why their other upcoming ideas Chronicles and Idle both focus heavily on Runescape.

You really don't understand how the concept of purchasing something works do you. Many a player partially if not completely sustains their membership costs completely on bonds. To say they sell gold would mean I pay 5 dollars to Jagex and then I get money in return. Just like when you buy membership you pay 10 USD and get 1 month membership in return. Bonds I buy services from Jagex. 14 day members, 200 rune coins, 15 keys. I can then trade that to another player for gp. And they in turn cash in on the services I bought instead.

There is a difference. Though I'm sure it is all but invisible to players like you who don't seem to understand key and important differences. I'm a big entropy fan.

All subtlety and nuance of a napalm enema

16-Mar-2016 18:45:55

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A Chinese company will most likely use Chinese experience by installing their own managers at some point in time. This will result in Chinese style microtransactions, which are far worse than what Runescape currently has.

P much

Doesn't mean we can't poke holes in jagex's attempt to make this seem like it is a wonderful thing.

Oops quoted wrong thing stupid phone. And I swear I'm not going to let her know all the pain I have known

16-Mar-2016 18:48:04 - Last edited on 16-Mar-2016 18:49:49 by Averia Light

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Well, they won't know anything until the contract is finished. How much control Jagex still has will be part of that contract, I would imagine. It just depends on what the two sides can agree to and how much Jagex is willing to keep that control versus selling it.

It's well known that the Chinese like to control what they have (and that's fair enough) but the whole game will change and it wouldn't surprise me if it left Britain and goes East.
Again, that would depend upon what is in the contract. If the Chinese company gives development control to Jagex and agrees to the location and these things aren't conditional or temporary, then that is how it will be or it will be a breech.
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16-Mar-2016 18:49:09

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I expect there is going to be a lot of mining and construction after the acquisition.In all seriousness,why would want to bought by a Chinese mining company that probably have decline in revenue since the slowdown.I wonder if this company is one of those zombie company.

16-Mar-2016 18:49:20

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Sadly we won't get any concrete answers because Jagex themselves don't know. The only thing they can do is damage control.

The Chinese company will own a 100% stake and will be able to do whatever they feel is best for the RS brand.

Indeed. The OP reads to me, "Everything should be ok (we hope, but we don't really know much about the deal)."
Well, they won't know anything until the contract is finished. How much control Jagex still has will be part of that contract, I would imagine. It just depends on what the two sides can agree to and how much Jagex is willing to keep that control versus selling it.

"Jagex" will have 0 control over anything, when you own 100% of a company then there is no contract that can force you to do something with a company you don't want. The only things the two companies will agree on is how much money they'll get paid for their shares and possibly negotiate employment security for some of their top management.

16-Mar-2016 18:49:36

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I'm not going to bother......Seriously! When you wake up for school tomorrow you might see things in a different light.

16-Mar-2016 18:51:35

Xanadu

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Again, that would depend upon what is in the contract. If the Chinese company gives development control to Jagex and agrees to the location and these things aren't conditional or temporary, then that is how it will be or it will be a breech.

Let's hope it stays but I honestly don't hold out much hope and as for the Q's & A's on the first page simply tells me that Jagex staff don't know either, anything good and the chances are the staff would have been told. Lacking in information tells me Jagex bosses are trying to hold on to what they have until the deals go through. Anything negative and the desirability will fall and this could make them lose the deal. Don't forget a lot of the J mods now are teens that play RS too and the last thing they want is other players being told what's happening in case they have a massive fall in revenue with players leaving.

16-Mar-2016 18:56:57 - Last edited on 16-Mar-2016 18:57:27 by Xanadu

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