As a long term player since 2004 you owe me enough to at least hear me out and read what i have to say.
You're pathetic. In 2007, the removal of free trade, although unpopular WAS in the best interest of the game, and in the years that followed the game had a better feel to it, it was enjoyable. When free trade returned in 2010 i am one of few who had the good sense to vote no, and do you know why? Because i was there before trade limit, i saw the bots and i hated it, it was why i took a long break from the game. My heart sunk when free trade was brought back into the game, but i pushed on. Several times now since free trade has returned i have cancelled my membership due to boredom of playing, losing out to the mass of scammers hungry for pixels, and just general poor content updates.
You say you're team has doubled in size, but tell me Jagex, what are they actually doing? It seems the people you've employed have been split into two sections, SoF and SgS. Nothing to do with the game itself. IVP have bled other mmorpg's dry, look at maple story. This game was something in my childhood i was never ashamed of, it was fun, i played with friends and believe it or not i genuinely enjoyed it!
Now, you make it hard for me to log on. The community does too. It just isn't runescape anymore, it's a poor substitute, masquerading around as something fantastic when really, it's not even on it's last legs, it's on it's last few breaths.
you could still fix it Jagex, your community, the ones who play your games so avidly, are telling you how to do it, go on youtube and i'm sure some have made you a step by step guide, it really isn't hard, just listen.
But you wont listen, the runescape that started in a bedroom, a fun, quirky game that you could spend hours lost in has itself been lost. Now there is nothing special about this game, it's been drained.
Enjoy what revenue you can leech from the corpse Jagex, you have 1 year at most before your "players" are all Bots.
30-Aug-2012 05:00:21
