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Shogo Yahagi
Feb Member 2006

Shogo Yahagi

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What a load of nonsense. You know as well as we do that you're selling xp and gold through SoF. In fact, that's the argument you trot out when people rightly say that you're encouraging minors to gamble with real money: You claim that it's not gambling because you always get something, and with the convert to coins option, what you're always getting is gold. If you're taking the player's money and the player is getting gold in return, you're selling gold, plain and simple. Please stop insulting our intelligence by claiming otherwise.
Furthermore, you know that doing so unbalances the game, because that's the excuse you gave for shortchanging long-time loyal players by not giving them the quest spins they should have earned for quests they had already completed. Apparently you expect us to believe that if we would just give you some cash, it would take the curse off those spins and they would suddenly have no effect on the game. Preposterous!

31-Aug-2012 02:06:52 - Last edited on 31-Aug-2012 02:07:53 by Shogo Yahagi

Fournaridis

Fournaridis

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Shogo,
That was very well thought out and I agree with you completely. However, it's becoming more and more obvious that there's simply nothing we can do. Jagex doesn't care what we think and has no intentions of removing this update no one wants or asked for.
What a shame.

31-Aug-2012 02:10:43

Kystael
Sep Member 2023

Kystael

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Most, if not all vet players feel the same way. Our game is changing and we dont like it.
jagex obviously dosnt care about their old players. They are changing the game to make it more appealing to this new generation of gamers. Good MMOs are a dieing breed, RuneScape having microtransactions is solid proof of that. You fools have forgotten what your own game is! Videogames are ENTERTAINMENT. Meant to be fun and relaxing during someones downtime. At this point, with the lack of actual playable game content updates, watching you constantly ignore the voice of your players, and all the BS your feeding us instead of actually just being straight with us... This game is a source of more stress than anything else. Your pushing your old players out. "Good" entertainment dosnt leave a bad taste in your mouth. All of this BS does. To those of you ranting about how if we dont like it, we should just shut up and leave? Ok. I certainly am if these arent removed from the game soon. But I laugh at you as I walk out the door, because after a little time passes, and you become vets yourselves, and the dev teams switch out on you, and undermine the game you have come to love, you will eat your own words.

31-Aug-2012 02:16:40

[#F86JGG3L7]

[#F86JGG3L7]

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Well there has to be something we can do because why should we let random company take over our game and suck the game out of the game. If they need money go open an online Casino and use the money they get off it on making games.
There is more to life than money. You don't have to grab it everywhere every chance you get. You are supposed to have standards, other wise we would all be out robbing old age pensioners for an easy life.

31-Aug-2012 02:17:09

Liroku
Jan Member 2023

Liroku

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This news makes me giddy inside. HTML5 looks amazing, draw distance ftw! I have never had a problem with the micro-transactions. I feel it is completely understandable and doesn't break the game. You have to fund the development team that creates antibots, so which breaks the game worse micro-transactions or 150 million bots? It comes down to either increasing monthly subscriptions or adding micro-transactions. Seeing as many people that complain about the micro's are people that can't afford it, this is obviously the correct direction or those of you in this situation wouldn't be able to afford membership.
In closing, people buying micro-transactions is like a tax that let's people who can barely afford membership continue to do so. It's like food stamps for nerds. If you don't like it, move on and quit spamming up the forums for those who continue to enjoy this game. There are plenty of other games out there to play. I will gladly pay 3x my membership fees in micro-transactions if it means not having to filter through 2 more people complaining on forums. Many of which are free players?

31-Aug-2012 02:21:01

Kystael
Sep Member 2023

Kystael

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"There is more to life than money. You don't have to grab it everywhere every chance you get. You are supposed to have standards, other wise we would all be out robbing old age pensioners for an easy life. "
Sadly, people with money, and people with moral standards are, practically speaking, never the same people.
They get a little money and realize how nice it is. Then they want more. Then all the sudden, nothing else matters, and they are doing every little thing that they can legally, and sometimes illegally, get away with for their god: the all-mighty dollar.

31-Aug-2012 02:22:27

[#F86JGG3L7]

[#F86JGG3L7]

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Bots over microtransactions. Any day. That's not true lol money irl is hard work, everybody wants it when you have it. Depends on your values. Some people are obsessed with it. It doesn't matter if they have it or not. You either are or you aren't.

31-Aug-2012 02:24:08 - Last edited on 31-Aug-2012 02:25:25 by [#F86JGG3L7]

Gloooo Flumo

Gloooo Flumo

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@chickenfloss
You feel it's completely understandable and doesn't break the game? Well guess what? You feel wrong.
It's quite obvious that you don't know what you are talking about with regards Jagexs 'funds'. Their income is doing perfectly fine.
You think that the people that don't like micro-transactions can't afford them? Oh my goodness, I'm responding to a child. "If you don't like what I don't like then you must be poor." How on earth can you generalize the huge amount of people that dislike it?
You say you enjoy the game now. Well that's great. I assume you enjoyed it before too. So why can't EVERYONE enjoy it like they used to? Don't you care that the player base is shrinking? Eventually there will not be anyone left to enjoy it. You fine with that? Well then more power to you.
Yes there are plenty of games out there, but time and money has been invested in this one. What a terrible community we would be if we could just drop RuneScape like it meant nothing to us. That sounds like Jagex.
You know why we're free players? Because we've had enough, and we've quit.

Read my wall of text on page 131

31-Aug-2012 02:34:14 - Last edited on 31-Aug-2012 02:34:54 by Gloooo Flumo

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