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Gameist said :
God vivec, get some comprehension and logic skills please. You have no idea what you're talking about.

BR0MAT0 is pretty much spot on.

What is most chilling though is that IVP did buyout MapleStory and killed it. MapleStory had a large player base as does Runescape, but the micro-transactions that were implemented over time killed the game. This is what's happening to Runescape. The effects of such micro-transactions will show in due time.

You also can't add micro-transactions to a game that has a huge veteran player base when the game was all about fair competition by not allowing RWT and micro-transactions for the past 9 years. It will kill the game.

Micro-transactions don't work well in MMO's period.

This is really the best way to put things, if it wasn't offered at the beging then a lot of the veteran players will hate it, as I do, it's not something that should be offered because as OP has said it's only a step closer to selling gold/items/xp boost. Games that do sell these things aren't horribly un-popular (Never played WoW but I still play Guild Wars 2 and in Guild Wars 2 you can buy xp boost/etc) but they aren't as popular as Runescape was pre-EoC, Keep in mind I think the EoC isn't as bad as many make it out to be; however I do think Solomon's is a very bad thing for runescape, I understand that most MMO's don't make it past 10 or so years, and runescape is nearing that limit however instead of making a team of developers for solomons they should spend the resources on more updates/ways to bring members back to runescape.

02-Jul-2013 09:53:32 - Last edited on 02-Jul-2013 09:56:53 by Madgroup

RedoOfHeal3r
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@DwarvenLied(page 45)

You are correct in most, if not all of the points you made. You mentioned something about the world being cut-throat. Very true :( , but I don't think you fully understood what you were saying.

Is it okay for Jagex to cut OUR throats because the world can be a cut-throat place? I don't know anything about the laws over in the UK, but I'd imagine one of them is not anything like this --> You can cut anyone's throat you wish to.

They don't have to cut long-term players' throats just because they have a hard job. Nobody is putting a gun to their heads(I hope)and telling them to get rid of as many long-term players as they can.

Some long-term players make like what they're doing, but a lot don't. Look how many people are currently online sometime. I don't know if you've payed attention to it over the years, but it's at an ALL TIME LOW. Jagex are even stretching the truth a bit about that number. EXAMPLE: I remember a time when there were 150k+ people logged in. A few seconds ago it was 66k and some change.

If you're ever bored sometime or just simply feel like doing this, add up roughly the number of players online by what the world select screen says. You will find that it is WRONG. It is less than the number on the main page(or forum pages). Go to the Old School Runescape home page and look at that number. It will be roughly the number you found that the counter was off by.

By the way,voicing complaints and concerns about this game( or anything), is NOT an example of someone
taking it for granted
. Don't judge people; it gets on their nerves and mine when I see people doing it. People would be taking the game for granted if they said nothing and just quit. I also direct this last paragraph at all those bitching about how people should just quit if they don't like something. There are those of us out there who have respect for the game and what it was. We won't quit unless we have to; we will voice our concerns.

09-Jul-2013 02:24:14 - Last edited on 09-Jul-2013 02:40:50 by RedoOfHeal3r

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Legendary pets ... have a number of useful gameplay functions too, such as gathering dropped items and depositing items to your bank.


Jagex admits to them providing a gameplay advantage.

09-Jul-2013 15:26:25 - Last edited on 09-Jul-2013 15:26:49 by [#4VU7PXU6T]

War tortoise
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[#4VU7PXU6T] said :
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Legendary pets ... have a number of useful gameplay functions too, such as gathering dropped items and depositing items to your bank.


Jagex admits to them providing a gameplay advantage.


yet the stuff they do is nearly usless, or at leas tin my book they are. I some times use banking thogh because I over bring food when wanting to kill stuff, but since like 99.99% of the time I'm not killing stuff its usless to me. also its only 1 item every 10 min, and if you own more than 1 sgs pet that can do said effect, it's still only 1 item every 10 min.

As far as picking up items, it doesn't do it every kill plus it won't let me 1 to 1 pick what items I want, I gotta pick from stupid categorys.

wish this thread would get eaten already like most other threads.
Lost Woods numba 1, (NOT EE, Those scrubs are liars ;p)

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09-Jul-2013 17:42:21 - Last edited on 09-Jul-2013 17:53:24 by War tortoise

Eddie Body

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[#4VU7PXU6T] said :
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Legendary pets ... have a number of useful gameplay functions too, such as gathering dropped items and depositing items to your bank.


Jagex admits to them providing a gameplay advantage.


+1

Unfortunately, a year later, your thread appears to reveal hidden truths.

I was hoping that the funds from these micro transactions would result in superior game content.

Instead, I have observed that their customer service has declined, there is lack of responsiveness in addressing issues with respect to the existing game content and, their Quality Assurance Department is substandard in that they fail to catch many errors prior to the release of their products.

I agree with you, I'm not buying into this, the game is going in the wrong direction.

09-Jul-2013 18:22:04

nat
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I don't understand why this is still an issue. It's been well over a year now. SOF and Solomons are ingrained in the game now. It's obvious that they won't be taken out just because a handful of people do not enjoy the additions.

To those crying RWT - they own the product. It isn't considered RWT if it's their product. That would be like saying paying membership is RWT. It can be thought of as an add-on to your current membership prices. It's not like anyones FORCING you to buy cosmetics. As for the 'pets' giving in-game advantages - the advantage is so slight that this shouldn't even matter.

As I said, no one is forcing you to buy cosmetics. They are also not forcing you to buy spins. Yes, they give in-game advantages such as EXP boosts, but 30k per normal pendant isn't a whole lot of bonus experience, considering that you can gain 300k Xp/Hr these days in any skill, given you have the proper levels and money. Spins are also extremely random. You're taking a huge chance when you spend IRL money for the chance at MAYBE getting the pendants and skill lamps that you need.

For some reason people expect change to come in a heartbeat. Change doesn't happen that way. The developers have been busy with EOC and RS3 for the longest time. They've also been busy with the new skills. Though I'll admit they haven't been doing the greatest of jobs, I think we should hold out a bit longer and wait for the bigger projects to be done before we assume that the games completely gone. Players begged for a harder bosses - they delivered with KK and Vorago, as well as buffs to Nex and a Hard Mode for GWD. Players begged for nerfs to war bands - they delivered, and also gave us other ways to train our skills. Lately we've seen a trend of them making more low-level content, and I feel like that's completely okay if they want to keep fresh people coming in. You can't expect them to cater to the high-levels forever.

Inb4calledasuckup. Sorry if this seemed scattered

15-Jul-2013 23:13:08

Omnikay
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wow you are angery but thair is nothing you can do simular transistions like this have been hapining for online games for years now so with history as a teacher evin all the player in rs wont mater thay will just discontenu the game and mack a new one

15-Jul-2013 23:16:30

Omnikay
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but i got to admit i dont think its fair that you can use a pet to bank i item that means you can remotly bank the wand of treachery lets say right when you find it in the wildy that is if you dont get hit first cuse that cloces the interface but still

15-Jul-2013 23:27:22

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