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24-Jan-2015 11:34:02

V_IronJosh_V

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The more posts I read on here about player interaction being killed with the GE it makes me laugh. I am active on classic, OSRS and RS3. I have been active on RS3 since 2005 and classic since they reopened it, almost at legends cape on classic :) . As I digress...

On OSRS when I merchant, especially before AutoChat was added, sellers/buyers rarely said any pleasantries. All I got were 'ty' and price clarifications and I merc*'d quite a bit. There was no "Hello, how are you?" "What are you using those items for?" etc. Rarely was I asked to keep them added for "future sales/buys". Now that AutoChat is around it is a bit better but basically the same. No real conversation occurs on W1 in the marketplace. Most people only talk with each other in the expensive items area south-west of the anvil or at Varrock center where "rares" try to get sold.

RS3 was really interesting. Fally park back in the day was a pretty social place but that was limited to specific sections of the park. These were the most expensive items sections scattered about, like how we see OSRS marketplace acting. Once GE came out that changed. People talked a whole lot more.

As much as everyone who hates the GE says it kills communication... it really livened it. Lots of people specifically hung out and skilled at the GE for conversation and marketplace ease. I'm sure you remember the same rich folks, from world to world, after the GE came out w/ full 3a melee and such with their fans at the GE. Tons of people found community in the GE. To deny that... for any reason... is foolish. The conversations were longer, more in-depth and meaningful at the GE.

Conversations in OSRS W1 are like bad text messages and have little-to-no depth. If anyone is trying to say OSRS W1 interaction is more meaningful than relaxing around the GE actually chatting with people, why? Why are you choosing to deny a huge part of RS history? The GE is community.

24-Jan-2015 14:24:11 - Last edited on 24-Jan-2015 14:34:26 by V_IronJosh_V

Gad Zook

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What I'm saying is if you choose to "interact" at the GE that's your thing. I didn't grow up chatting things up around the GE. Neither did I ever see world 1 Varrock as the center of trade, only the center for people who don't know how to use the forums. While those people may "need" the GE, I don't. So kindly refrain from restricting all of my trade to that one place. As you said, trade isn't about chatting, so why are you dimwits suddenly so concerned about the flipside of our argument? If the GE is so much better for you I'll take your word for it but it's not better for me. I'll gladly "not use it" as so many have pointed out, IF you will allow me that option and vote to also leave my preferred trading spots in the game instead of being so ridiculously selfish about it.

24-Jan-2015 16:23:17

Chuck Sneeed

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#GEveryBank

Let's do it haha.

Seriously, the original poll said the trade posts would also be GE spots. Now they're doing a second poll asking about them again?

Come on Jagex. I don't have that many runes to get to varrock all the time. 10 Years wasted on this game. Worth every second.

24-Jan-2015 16:44:48

V_IronJosh_V

V_IronJosh_V

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Gad Zook said :
What I'm saying is if you choose to "interact" at the GE that's your thing. I didn't grow up chatting things up around the GE. Neither did I ever see world 1 Varrock as the center of trade, only the center for people who don't know how to use the forums. While those people may "need" the GE, I don't. So kindly refrain from restricting all of my trade to that one place. As you said, trade isn't about chatting, so why are you dimwits suddenly so concerned about the flipside of our argument? If the GE is so much better for you I'll take your word for it but it's not better for me. I'll gladly "not use it" as so many have pointed out, IF you will allow me that option and vote to also leave my preferred trading spots in the game instead of being so ridiculously selfish about it.

I was waiting for someone to say that GE would restrict their trade to one place. Tons of people on RS3 still use forums for bulk deals, good deals and there are still trading CCs. The "rare/expensive" market on RS3 pretty much operated outside of the GE, as well as a ton of other things. I get your frustration but you are just being flippant with your opinion to want it your way without trying to adapt to the situation. Nobody is forcing anything on you. What would be better for you is trying to adapt as opposed to being upset over every change. You can use the forums, CCs and the GE. It is like a toolkit for success... and stands to reason that the same thing will happen on OSRS since it is implemented roughly the same. Grant it balanced trade and wildy removal aren't occurring at teh same time... so the market changes won't exactly be the same. Nonetheless, try to adapt! Don't rage.

24-Jan-2015 17:02:19 - Last edited on 24-Jan-2015 17:08:45 by V_IronJosh_V

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24-Jan-2015 20:12:00

Metal Little
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In order to have made this poll fair and unbiased, Jagex should've only allowed the real veterans to decide whether or not they needed the GE or not. I, for one, didn't ever need the GE, and I've gotten four Skillcapes and became a success without it. Only accounts that were created and played before November 2007 should've been allowed to vote. That would've prevented all the GE prods from turning this into RS4. Obviously, they know nothing about the game in the pre-GE era, so they can't function without an EasyScape feature and would whine about not having the GE and ultimately vote for it.

Although it's too late, and there's always that what-if aspect, the 24% are left cheated and deceived. We, the real veterans, didn't vote two years ago on OSR to turn it into RS4 nor did we vote two years ago to get GE implemented in this game, which was a promise Jagex failed to uphold. If anything, the closest thing to GE should've been the TP with all its fallbacks.
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24-Jan-2015 20:43:12

Metal Little
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Metal Little

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Trapariax said :
Metal Little said :
Monky killer said :
2010 was a peak point for rs wich many players aim to get back

NO! 2007 was the peak point for RS and what many refer to as the Golden Era. Hence, that's what many old schoolers aimed to get back, and we got it back in OSR. Post-2007 is just an '08-15 prod's vision of RS since they've never experienced the real deal. Now, all those neophytes want to migrate to our game and transform it into their vision of a watered-down game that resembles a shell of itself (i.e. RS3) as it exists in their world.
I honestly do not know what you're on about. You do realise that 2008-2015 is a massive time-frame, right? That's SEVEN YEARS. Everything changes, for better and for worse. Did you really think RuneScape was going to stay the same all these years? And why do you assume that all of the players in your so-called "Golden Age" left in that year and got replaced by new players? I joined in 2006, loved the game, and when the GE came out, I loved it, and kept playing all through to 2012. You are acting deluded.

You can't read between the lines, and I shouldn't have to spell it out for you. The bottom line is no matter how people put it, the GE was and is NOT an essential part of Old School. Its incision in Fall 2007 has nothing to do with the old-school way and the Golden Age in which the name also came from others and not just me alone. It doesn't matter if it's two years, seven years, a decade, a score, a century, or a damn millennium.

Also, new players coming into this game, replacing the real, old-school vets, and making this into another RS3 is also the problem. They come in here ignorant to how the game was originally intended and the whole reason behind having a pre-GE version of the game, which some has felt led to the downfall of RS. There was a meaning behind getting OSR back prior to the GE. Understand!
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Bring back the old look on male Armadyl armor!

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24-Jan-2015 21:03:39

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