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Whatusaytome
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Dilbert2001 said :
Isn't it a good thing for players to have more choices? It is totally up to the players to decide what to buy whether from SGS, TH or just from the game's reward shops/quests etc?

One can also get a piece of each from SGS, TH, quests, minigame etc.

After all, everything can be obtained from the gp earned from playing the game, regardless they are in SGS, TH or wherever in the game. I only see the positives.

My point was they should put more Game-related things on TH and stop making new cosmetic outfits that serve no purpose. We are fine on outfits in game for a while, and development of new cosmetic outfits is a waste of dev time which should be better placed elsewhere.
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03-Nov-2017 19:24:01

Draco Burnz
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Whatusaytome said :
My point was they should put more Game-related things on TH and stop making new cosmetic outfits that serve no purpose.


Yet you're the only one thats saying they serve no purpose.

Also they do have one, and thats fashionscape.
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03-Nov-2017 20:30:26 - Last edited on 03-Nov-2017 20:30:43 by Draco Burnz

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Dilbert2001 said :
Open your eyes and wake up if you still don't realize no matter what's in your dreams of no MTX, it won't happen IN REAL LIFE. Look what's in the next TH promotion? It is best xp granting Super Nova stars again. Yes, right... now go back to your dreams and keep telling yourselves don't wake up because otherwise you will see Jagex keep selling xp. ;)

Or I have a better suggestion to you. You can dream of going to a theater and command the operators not to sell popcorn and soda because it is MTX.... If it doesn't work then [erhaps you can go to McDonald's and tell them they can only sell super value meals.... selling McFlurries and hot chocolates is a crime because it is MTX. :P


I don't think you get it Jagex fanboy numero uno. Players play RS for the gameplay not to support Jagex and give away their irl money at the same rate that Jagex loses their player base. Then again guys like you are fans of Jagex, not fans of RS so you probably don't understand. Popcorn are not microtransactions, they are just snacks. You can't even eat microtransactions in RS. You're paying for fake items from crooked Jagex, they're fake, very fake. Sad.

03-Nov-2017 21:17:08

Dilbert2001
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Adboi100 said :
Dilbert2001 said :
Open your eyes and wake up if you still don't realize no matter what's in your dreams of no MTX, it won't happen IN REAL LIFE. Look what's in the next TH promotion? It is best xp granting Super Nova stars again. Yes, right... now go back to your dreams and keep telling yourselves don't wake up because otherwise you will see Jagex keep selling xp. ;)

Or I have a better suggestion to you. You can dream of going to a theater and command the operators not to sell popcorn and soda because it is MTX.... If it doesn't work then [erhaps you can go to McDonald's and tell them they can only sell super value meals.... selling McFlurries and hot chocolates is a crime because it is MTX. :P


I don't think you get it Jagex fanboy numero uno. Players play RS for the gameplay not to support Jagex and give away their irl money at the same rate that Jagex loses their player base. Then again guys like you are fans of Jagex, not fans of RS so you probably don't understand. Popcorn are not microtransactions, they are just snacks. You can't even eat microtransactions in RS. You're paying for fake items from crooked Jagex, they're fake, very fake. Sad.


Real world companies are only there to make real money, not the fake money that trolls said they will pay. Trolls come to runescape to eat burnt meat but they can't eat real world popcorn. Burnt meat perhaps Dad are what they "pay" to eat but unfortunately real people can't eat them. Why don't trolls go find a game with no MTX that they can "pay" to eat burnt meat? Drum roll... because there is none. :)

03-Nov-2017 21:53:21

Dilbert2001
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Whatusaytome said :
Dilbert2001 said :
Isn't it a good thing for players to have more choices? It is totally up to the players to decide what to buy whether from SGS, TH or just from the game's reward shops/quests etc?

One can also get a piece of each from SGS, TH, quests, minigame etc.

After all, everything can be obtained from the gp earned from playing the game, regardless they are in SGS, TH or wherever in the game. I only see the positives.

My point was they should put more Game-related things on TH and stop making new cosmetic outfits that serve no purpose. We are fine on outfits in game for a while, and development of new cosmetic outfits is a waste of dev time which should be better placed elsewhere.


If the SEASONAL Ghotweave costumes are the "cosmetic outfits that serve no purpose" so are the Scythe, Santa suits, Bunny Ears etc. There are plenty of these "cosmetic outfits that serve no purpose" in this game but I still see many people purposedly wearing them.

Other than these Seasonal outfits, I don't see any more "new" outfits other than new skilling outfits that obviously serve their respective skilling purpose. Other that those... I see nothing else on TH since I have apparently own all the others either through playing the game or TH.

Actually I like to see new useful items on TH like deathtouched darts, MQC lore drop enhancers, music track unlocker without attending the long dead minigames, etc. However, I don't mind to see new seasonal outfits although I never get all of them.

03-Nov-2017 22:09:58 - Last edited on 03-Nov-2017 22:11:39 by Dilbert2001

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Dilbert2001 said :

Real world companies are only there to make real money, not the fake money that trolls said they will pay. Trolls come to runescape to eat burnt meat but they can't eat real world popcorn. Burnt meat perhaps Dad are what they "pay" to eat but unfortunately real people can't eat them. Why don't trolls go find a game with no MTX that they can "pay" to eat burnt meat? Drum roll... because there is none. :)


Other games don't handle MTX in the dumb way that Jagex does, by spewing them everywhere like diarrhoea after a dodgy kebab from a sweaty kebab shop in 3am the morning after a hot summer day. There's a saying: "Don't shit where you eat". Jagex, a now ruined games developer who failed at creating a game other than RS and still relies on the very heartbeat of that game, does not seem to have gotten that message.

Once RS3 is gone, Jagex will undoubtedly start corrupting OSRS with their MTX trash and then there will be a time when it will be DESTROYED by Jagex's own hands as well.

03-Nov-2017 22:13:17 - Last edited on 03-Nov-2017 22:13:30 by Adboi100

Dilbert2001
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Adboi100 said :
Dilbert2001 said :

Real world companies are only there to make real money, not the fake money that trolls said they will pay. Trolls come to runescape to eat burnt meat but they can't eat real world popcorn. Burnt meat perhaps Dad are what they "pay" to eat but unfortunately real people can't eat them. Why don't trolls go find a game with no MTX that they can "pay" to eat burnt meat? Drum roll... because there is none. :)


Other games don't handle MTX in the dumb way that Jagex does, by spewing them everywhere like diarrhoea after a dodgy kebab from a sweaty kebab shop in 3am the morning after a hot summer day. There's a saying: "Don't shit where you eat". Jagex, a now ruined games developer who failed at creating a game other than RS and still relies on the very heartbeat of that game, does not seem to have gotten that message.

Once RS3 is gone, Jagex will undoubtedly start corrupting OSRS with their MTX trash and then there will be a time when it will be DESTROYED by Jagex's own hands as well.


I suggest you just go to the "other games". Perhaps they have burnt meat that you like.to eat :P

03-Nov-2017 22:28:30

Whatusaytome
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So you haven't seen purposeless content in Solomons, or TH, or in game? And you fully support buying xp obviously, so you advocate that, by your standards, this game is a total success even these past few years?

Sounds like You, like adboi100 said to drake, are a fan of Jagex and not the game. I myself am the opposite, i truly enjoyed this game for 12 years, growing up from my early teens to being near 30. This game was fantastic... Was...

I don't care to max every skill nor do I see any need or extra benefit to 200m the skills I do like. I paid dollars for my membership from several years ago to the end of last year. I even bought bonds to give away and do drop parties, but I don't plan on spending money here anymore.

I have seen so many people, thousands of people, abuse every possible thing they could to benefit themselves in the fastest way possible at the expense of others. and I have watched a good 85% or more of everybody there walk away unharmed.

I see the economy breaking more and more everyday and any reworks they finish are only going to ruin it further because of the thousands of abusive people who will use new runite prices for example as their next legal scam tools.

Despite countless reports, tracking activities by these people, and trying to bring some sense of morality and legitimacy back to this game. After a few years of all of those efforts being trashed by Jagex, and after the company totally selling out, they have the nerve to only admit their mistake of being too mtx based. Like they feel everything else is going to be fine because they will release some quests...

This game will fall in the near future if they keep doing this nonsense. They spend too much on unnecessary updates that, if they didn't happen, we wouldn't notice, and if they took those resources and fixed some real current game problems, they might have a greater longevity in the end.
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03-Nov-2017 23:17:36

Dilbert2001
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I don't buy xp but I can't stop other people from buying xp, especially now leeching services are the everywhere in the game. Perhaps they should stop the leeching services first if they don't want people to buy xp.

I don't find anything on TH other than stars/lamps, crap resources and a few pieces of random junk because I already own them from playing this game 15 years. And they haven't anything new outfits there for a long time.

03-Nov-2017 23:40:36

Dan Ur
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The only free games are ones you make yourself in your backyard and don't use store bought items. Micro payments for online content is the name of the online world just look at any website's bottom line, they have to pay for the power and the computers first then the people then any upgrades. So if the membership fees can't pay for this game they will have to make it up somewhere.

You demand great stuff then complain you have to pay for it. This is not a free game like picking up leaves in your back yard. It costs money and I really don't want the membership fees to go up. I buy stuff off the TH and I buy bonds too. I don't use the bonds on the TH I use them for in game gp and to help clan mates play the game. I am not spending money on the pixel fashions, but I know people that love that bit of the game play, so to each their own way of spending money on content.

In the real world you could just lay out under a pile of leaves for free, but most people like houses. If your door breaks, you end up spending cash or time to fix it, so owning a house is just one micro transaction after another as things break. The game does not live in a free to use world, so we as players have to pay somehow, be it no ads or ads.

Thanks Jagex for the post, I like the game I have played it since 2005, and will play it as long as it is offered.

06-Nov-2017 10:55:15

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