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Gr8WolfLodge
Nov Member 2010

Gr8WolfLodge

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Jagex, ask yourselves this. Do you really want this game to become the next Zynga game? Whenever I play on my F2P account, I see all these ads to get me to become a member. "Become a member and get this awesome sword! Plus 5 spins on the Squeal of Fourtune! You even get a discount on these microtransactions!" No. What happened to trying to get players to become members from showing how big the member worlds are? Or by showing how many more quests, skills, cities, and items you have access to? The extra bank space, the different items, the HUGE world, and all of the quests are what sold me membership back in 2007. Not free spins or cosmetic items that you can spend real money on. How do you think new players will receive this? A game that's just trying to sell you garbage all the time? No. That's not welcoming, that comes off as greedy, intended or not. I really don't want to see this game become that. It's better than that. I know it.
When I started playing, RuneScape was an adventure. You've got to get peoples' attention right from the start. Remember tutorial island? Bring that thing back as a start. When I started playing for the very first time, Tutorial Island was great. You meet the people, learn the skills, and you get to see how amazing this game is going to be. This new tutorial just doesn't do it. It doesn't sell the game to me like T.I. did.
Show F2P players the minigames like Barrows, Pest Control, and Castlewars. To a new player, the idea of capture the flag on RuneScape sounds pretty sweet. Use things like those to market membership. More quests, more exploration, and minigames attract players.
Overall, shut down the microtransactions. Introduce things that are worthwhile for players. A new dungeon or landmass to explore and raid excites people, not cosmetic clothing and a emotes that you have to spend real money on to unlock. Please, bring back the updates that we used to look forward to, not ones that we dread and cringe after seeing them. :)

30-Aug-2012 03:25:58 - Last edited on 30-Aug-2012 03:31:03 by Gr8WolfLodge

Gray Wolves
Apr Member 2023

Gray Wolves

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Jagex has forgotten what makes this game Runescape.
What is Runescape?
Playing now does not make me feel like Jagex wants me to enjoy myself and go on a great adventure like the past, it is more like Jagex asking for more money with every turn of Runescape - giving fast xp, gp, items with no need to do any exploring of the game at all.

30-Aug-2012 03:35:15

Uber Kroqer
Aug Member 2008

Uber Kroqer

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Heres what I don't like...
Jagex said nothing of actually removing the micro transactions from the game. Meaning they are still going to sell the xp to the players. Also no mention of removing the Solomons store thing or w/e. That I personally still have the 200 coins in.

I'm so glad they are updating their out of date anti hijacking and protection systems. being a Vet player I value all my items and would be destroyed if they were taken from me. But also this computer i use is only for runescape and other games. Lol
I also really like that they finally touched on hitting the bots hard, it's so un-enjoyable to play this game and my chat be spammed with. Buy gp here, buy gp there.. It's ******** and im glad it's finally being taken care of... In the next few months im sure.
Don't forget yes. I'm sure everyone uses the squeel for the free spins. Making it one of the most played or w/e things in runescape. But keep in mind, if it weren't there who would really miss it?
No one!
Also Jagex. Look at the combat beta rants... Take consideration there.. Seriously. I'm not against some of it, like the action bar would be nice. But totally reworking and making combat that super busy is ********.

30-Aug-2012 03:36:39

Uprisinq

Uprisinq

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This game isn't even worth playing anymore. The last time there was an actual update was probably over a year ago. In the past months it has been SoF, Soloman's General store, SoF, Soloman's General store... and so on with the exact same updates.

Runescape started becoming bad once they changed the website layout, they had no reason to, it looked perfectly fine ( it looked much better than this one ) and this layout is much more childish. I remember when you had to be 13+ to play this game, now you can put 1 year old and are still able to play it.
Another thing I hate about this game is having to login with your email. I know it protects your account from hackers easier, but how am I supposed to remember my username or email I randomly created just so I can play the game.
Another bad thing (in my opinion) was bringing back free trade and wildy, everything was going fine, there were't bots roaming around everywhere, but of corse there were bots. Plus with free trade coming back, every item in the game has gone down in price, you can't make any good, easy money in the game anymore. I remember getting my first million gold, I got off Chaos druids... I was level 90 killing level 13's. I got about 130k in about an hour, very good way to make money for low levels and people who were't so great at getting money, like me.

Overall, jagex shouldn't be doing everything for money, or p2p, or making every update absolutely useless to the players. Runescape is not what it used to be and it will never go back to that potential ever again because everything is about money now for jagex and this useless evolution of combat that is going to lose probably 40% of the players that play this game. Sof is useless, solomans store is useless, changing all of the armor did need to be changed, but it changed so much that is looks bad. Runescape is done, there is nothing jagex can do to make it better than it already was.

30-Aug-2012 03:36:40

Aarony
Jul Member 2008

Aarony

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I believe they need to start showing us what they're doing with all the income so we don't fret about all the changes.
HTML5 Support, smart tv's, tablets - Is a start, keep it coming. I want to see where all my money is going if I choose to spend more than $5 a month.

30-Aug-2012 03:38:58

Nevistrix

Nevistrix

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@Gray Wolves
I'd agree but i would be able to about exploring the game. Since many of the members areas require quests to gain access to, and quests are nothing but walk for 10 minutes to point A, talk to this person, walk for 10 minutes to point B, talk to this person, give items to person, walk for 5 minutes back to bank get more items because bag space isnt enough for quest, Walk 5 minutes back to point A, turn in other items, go to point C, Fight something for a minute, walk for 2 minutes thru monsters to point D, pick up item, use quick escape exit, walk back to point A, complete quest, get terrible rewards, get access to things you will never use, waste 20+ minutes of your time. Thats what i go through when i do a quest... And the benefits to me arent worth it

30-Aug-2012 03:40:41

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