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Dilbert2001
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Dilbert2001

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TBH, the xp-as-your-achievement ship has already sunken. I doubt many modern time gamers still look at xp/levels as any meaningful accomplishments/achievements at all.

I was once in the top 100 overall skill Hiscores (way back in the early 2000's when there were only a few millions registered players though), Hiscores were only about XP and levels back then. But today, there are many other categories in the Highscores, and most of them are not even remotely XP related. Obviously, XP and levels are getting less and less important by the day, even for players who care about comparing themselves to the others.

Besides, players nowadays care more about game features than "achievements". For instance, there was a new Hiscores update this week but look at how many players are talking about it in this forums and elsewhere? Almost nobody, but most of the players are talking about last week's PoF updates. Obviously, players are showing more interest in game content instead of some mere "achievements".

That said, who care about Jagex monetizing their games through XP selling when XP doesn't directly contribute to any meaningful "achievements" to gamers? Modern gamers only take advantage of the XP that's either through paying or playing to get to the point that they can enjoy the content of the game. XP selling is actually a good thing on Jagex's part because it helps players to get to the point that the game content is enjoyable fasterr.

14-Sep-2018 22:12:22

Dilbert2001
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Joch said :
I see the job adverts asking for specialist monetization experts hahahahahaha this is a pay to winn joke of a game now.


You see that kind of job adverts in basically all mid to big sized game developers/publishers nowadays. Nothing unusual. :D

Oh, what about the small game studios? Well, they have even more monetization plans but they are just too poor to hire these meontization specialists. :D

16-Sep-2018 17:26:48 - Last edited on 16-Sep-2018 17:28:17 by Dilbert2001

Zerxty

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Jagex seems to forget that there is a very sizable portion of their player base that have been playing for many years and have seen so many of these "promises" that we know they're meaningless.

At least have the decency to hide these kinds of posts so we cant see them a year later when they've already become just another false misleading statement of intent for posterity to look back on with regret.

When the next "promise" comes along, all of us here for this one will shake our heads leave our now common replies of sad disbelief and business will proceed as usual and the slow sad demise of our still yet beloved pastime will continue on its current trajectory.

18-Sep-2018 01:18:48

Dilbert2001
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Zerxty said :
Jagex seems to forget that there is a very sizable portion of their player base that have been playing for many years and have seen so many of these "promises" that we know they're meaningless.

At least have the decency to hide these kinds of posts so we cant see them a year later when they've already become just another false misleading statement of intent for posterity to look back on with regret.

When the next "promise" comes along, all of us here for this one will shake our heads leave our now common replies of sad disbelief and business will proceed as usual and the slow sad demise of our still yet beloved pastime will continue on its current trajectory.


Some MTX haters just keep bumping this thread up. Not that Jagex wants to hide or unhide it. :D

They actually added:

Live Events Dev Blog #1

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It gives you more updated information regarding their monetization plan than this thread.

18-Sep-2018 01:47:52

Barnabis
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Dilbert2001,

You do realize the thread you are quoting is from a J-mod that finally jumped a sinking ship, right? If Jagex wants us to forget, they should stop doing TH promotions every weekend.


Goodbye Mod Sayln
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Mod Balance also jumped ship too... so don't waste time quoting him. It is easy for Jagex to back away from these official posts since they were made by former employees whom no longer work at Jagex.
Jagex 2019 New Year Resolution... MTX our customers until RS3 SERVER SHUTDOWN PARTY!
The RS3 Community is treated like :@ RUBBISH :@ due to constant TH promotions.

Don't buy keys on Treasure Hunter, if you do Jagex will only make more TH promotions :(

19-Sep-2018 04:38:54 - Last edited on 19-Sep-2018 04:45:48 by Barnabis

Dilbert2001
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Barnabis said :
Dilbert2001,

You do realize the thread you are quoting is from a J-mod that finally jumped a sinking ship, right? If Jagex wants us to forget, they should stop doing TH promotions every weekend.


Goodbye Mod Sayln
Quick find code: 366-367-90-66040418


Mod Balance also jumped ship too... so don't waste time quoting him. It is easy for Jagex to back away from these official posts since they were made by former employees whom no longer work at Jagex.


I don't see Jagex "backing away" from these posts. In fact, they just released the Heart of Ice TH improvement they talked about a few days ago. And they had the RunePass "experiements" a little while ago.

Just Mods Balance and Salyn are not with Jagex now doesn't mean anything has changed. :)

19-Sep-2018 16:31:14

Dilbert2001
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snowboard said :
Over a year later, more mtx and less developers. Fuck. You. Guys.


Not more MTX. It is more like the same as last year. They initially wanted to add RunePass but decided not to. It is a favor to the players who hate MTX already. :)

More developers too. They added many more from the around 320 developers last year. They are continuing to add more and will probably be around 400 of them soon.

15-Nov-2018 18:42:20

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