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"Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'."
- Bob Dylan
Personally, I have mixed feelings about Soloman's store and micro transactions, but I would like to say; Folks have been talking about the death of RuneScape and whatever update/addition/content/lack of content was sure to be the cause of it since 2001. Yet, here we are.
Nigh twelve years of this game persisting should be enough proof that, for better or worse, it will not die easily. The one thing that might possibly have kept it going, (other than the pure love and dedication of players,) is that it has not remained wholly behind the times, while still of course retaining a certain nostalgic quality.
With such an absolutely vast market in customization and micro transactions available to games with large enough player bases, as proven in numerous other games, completely ignoring said market would simply hold games back. That being said, of course the whole situation must still be handled with some taste and discretion. In this case, limiting the product to the purely cosmetic seems to show a reasonable amount of the required discretion.
If nothing else folks, take your 200 free Runecoins and run
I am very pleased that I can now wear a decent helmet and still have my Bunny Ears displayed. I've wanted to have the ability to do something like that for years, and our modern gaming world has seen fit as to grant it.
Half full folks, half full.
~Cal
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'."
- Bob Dylan
Personally, I have mixed feelings about Soloman's store and micro transactions, but I would like to say; Folks have been talking about the death of RuneScape and whatever update/addition/content/lack of content was sure to be the cause of it since 2001. Yet, here we are.
Nigh twelve years of this game persisting should be enough proof that, for better or worse, it will not die easily. The one thing that might possibly have kept it going, (other than the pure love and dedication of players,) is that it has not remained wholly behind the times, while still of course retaining a certain nostalgic quality.
With such an absolutely vast market in customization and micro transactions available to games with large enough player bases, as proven in numerous other games, completely ignoring said market would simply hold games back. That being said, of course the whole situation must still be handled with some taste and discretion. In this case, limiting the product to the purely cosmetic seems to show a reasonable amount of the required discretion.
If nothing else folks, take your 200 free Runecoins and run
I am very pleased that I can now wear a decent helmet and still have my Bunny Ears displayed. I've wanted to have the ability to do something like that for years, and our modern gaming world has seen fit as to grant it.
Half full folks, half full.
~Cal
18-Dec-2012 13:08:17
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