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Season Fires
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Season Fires

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Obviously everything you said in the post about the micro-transactions has been what everyone has been assuming for months now. But it does mean a lot that you're willing to tell us directly, and not lie to us like in previous posts just by saying its popular content and that 90% of of players enjoy it.
And I think that I speak for everyone by saying I can't wait to see a massive reduction in botting and gold farming.
This is probably the best Jagex post made in the duration of the entire year! Hope to see more honesty and updates on important issues in the weeks to come.

30-Aug-2012 16:45:17

Essling
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Essling

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Glad to see mmg has addressed this topic himself! Not that I or any other true rs player care what the naysayers say because we understand what Jagex is doing. Whatever it takes to keep this game running in the present and future I'm all for it! Good to hear about what you have planned for the future of Rs. Thank you Mmg for posting this. You didn't have to but its the fact you did and I respect you for that.

30-Aug-2012 16:46:52

Danger Baby

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I would like to thank you for taking the time to address us about micro-payments.
I really have no problem with either of them. I do when have a little extra money, I buy costumes and spins for a little fun and distraction from regular game play.
But, I would like an answer to when the things we did buy spins for and won on the squeal of fortune will be replaced. And a guarantee that if I choose to invest in more runecoins for the bank space. That i will not log in one day and see it gone like my candyfloss, balloons and candy.
Now on to another of your post. The bot issue.. I understand that people are upset about sgs and sof. But, to only include a few lines about the bots and another promise of soon of dealing with them. I do not like.
I want to know that anyone that has cheated and gained ranks in high scores will also be banned and their levels set to zero. I understand it takes time. What i do not understand is the non communication and non banning or removing of them before they make millions and millions of coins and levels. I have reported many bots daily watched them go from levels 80 to 120 , without so much as a delay in their cheating. This to me destroys the integrity of the game more than any micro-payment you implement.
I have read time and again, how jmods coming into the game and banning bots would not be an answer. That more will just be created. But it will take time to get 85 dung for frost dragons again. It will take time for them to get levels to kill any dragon again. Time that can be used to make better ways of dealing with them.
And what do players get. We get told it will be soon. Soon to me means a few weeks. Soon does not mean people can bot into the 100 to 200 million experience before action is took.
I am backing this company paying my membership..buying your spins and runecoins. But when is your company going to back me as a player and ban,,not disable all the cheating bots and their owners they transfer money to?

30-Aug-2012 16:51:49

Hockey123456

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the reason things have gone down is the lack of content. Yes the graphics are good for a short duration. When you see other mmo's coming out with expansions/monthly patches you need to see where you stand. with the size of the team, you need a set team making fairly big patches every second month to compete with these other companys. quests only interest a certain amount of the player base.

30-Aug-2012 16:53:12

Sipodge

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I'm glad this issue has been addressed, but I'm still not happy.
I'm fine with the SoF, just not the paying for more spins part, and S's General Store I'm not happy with whatsoever.
The only paying with real money aspect of the game should be the membership. Nothing else.
Buying extra spins should be removed and S's General Store should be changed. Maybe done with a special in-game currency, rarely dropped by monsters - A bit like Clue Scrolls perhaps...
Although you did state that RuneScape is not going down the route of those Facebook style games... Well, you kind of are :P
On a positive note, HTML 5 looks amazing!

30-Aug-2012 16:53:18

WizzleNizzle

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An earlier post from 'Skins':
"Mod Mark didn't write his post, i believe IVP did and here are my reasons why below each quote from the post:
" We really appreciate the support and trust you have put in us over the last 5 years. Please know that - although some of our decisions are not necessarily popular - they are 100% driven by the aim of building the strongest possible future for RuneScape."
5 years is the amount of time IVP have been investing. Rs has been around 11 years!
and
"Equally, many of you will know our past initiatives against botting and gold farming cost us millions of players, and certainly tens of millions of dollars."
If Mod Mark wrote this, it would be in Uk Pounds. IVP is an american company so US dollars it is."

30-Aug-2012 16:56:24

Prank7
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been playing a long time and theres plenty of things i didnt like to see happen, they happened anyway. Theres also been plenty i've liked just as much obviously, as i am still enjoying the game altho not playing as much as before since i have more priorities in lfe now. Admittedly im not a fan of changes, but i realize this is just a game. To jagex and it's affiliates, its a business that employs many people. They are forced to balance between whats good for the players, as well as whats good for their business and employees. You can complain all you want, but if business is not good for them, than it will not be good for us players either.
So its give and take.
For me, im not always going to like these changes, especially the ones that threaten the integrity if the game. ..and yeah, i kind of feel some of the new content is doing just that. But i accept it because i have the choice - if i want to accept SOF items, or if i want to buy bank space, etc. Just cause its offered, doesnt mean you have to take it. Im the one controlling what I want to do. So for those people who want to buy space, or fancy emotes and such - go for it, and ty for helping Jagex fund its game content for me, i apperciate that lol
thats how i think of it anyway.
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30-Aug-2012 17:04:22

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