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Lapitcka
Mar Member 2005

Lapitcka

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I am thrilled to read this blog! Was getting discouraged by the doom sayers. I love OSRS and I plan on playing it as long as I can find my mouse and click it! I'm looking forward to maxing my 07 account.

08-Jun-2013 02:31:26

Lapitcka
Mar Member 2005

Lapitcka

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Great news!

I'm aware that you have stated f2p is not an option currently. Having said that I would just like to state my support for f2p being introduced. It would be a great advertisement and encourage growth. If this team were to sacrifice some short-term income for the games long-term health, it would be a HUGE step in the right direction.

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^ This is what I think too. I think we need f2p to help us grow. It's not like any of us are going to stop paying membership, since we love OSRS and want to have all features available.


Also, for the botting issue, there's word going around that you only temporarily ban people for botting? I don't think this is really acceptable; there shouldn't be exceptions for botting. If you get caught, you should be perm banned. If you must, put it to a poll. We want HARSHER penalties for botting.

Sorry but f2p is just going to be a haven for gold farmers.

08-Jun-2013 02:32:45

Yng Xehanort
Feb Member 2013

Yng Xehanort

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'Cost – When Old School RuneScape launched we said access would be included as part of membership for the first 6 months, and then we’d review the pricing. We’ve made that decision now, rather than wait for September… There will be no increase in cost for the foreseeable future and we aren’t planning to review the pricing again for at least the next year, if not much longer. You will be able to access both Old School and the main game for the price you are currently paying for membership.'

And here I thought that Jagex was 100% only about the money. Seems that at least the small team of developers for OSRS actually care about the game and what the community has to say as opposed to majority of the employees working on EoC.

To be honest, this 1 paragraph was the main thing I was thinking about when I saw the post on the main page for OSRS, was actually expecting them to make up some BS story about how it's not living to standards and that they were planning to put at $10 increase on the price. They know it would work, it's been out for 3 months, which is more than enough time to get people hooked into playing the game that would actually have no choice but to forking over the extra $120 a year due to being addicted to the game.

Glad they didn't try pulling that **** at least and I am glad that the small team of developers are actually a group that is dedicated to making the game better by our standards as opposed to some investors that are trying to cater to a younger audience while pushing away loyal players.

P.S. Don't forget the promise of no EoC, no SoF, no Solomon's Store, and no GE that you made 3 months ago. Don't even poll them, we already know the tricks that can be used to work in favor of certain people when it comes to the polls.

08-Jun-2013 03:54:51

rak1n

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If jagex want's to stop botting, they need to put a surveillance team.
create a program, with a queue, any player that hasn't logged out for 24hr+ put it in the que, any player failed more then 2 or 3 random event put it in the queue called possible threat. any player that randomly loges out every 6 hour for for a close random range number (only logs out for 30sec to 40min) put them in the queue!

Now run that queue through a bot watcher with list of event checks, random clicks, afk times, pattern matching, chats (log). now based on good algorithm and result, determine if the player botting. assign some more trusted player mods, to hunt down bots, and bring the ban hammer down. RAK1N
Playing RS since 2004

08-Jun-2013 05:12:47

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