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Griphook

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SandyHorizon said :
Pretty sure they said at the very beginning of this month that there would be no updates, or possibly one near the end of the month, so I don't know why anyone is surprised over there being no updates today.


I think it's less "surprise", more "exasperation". Three months in a row with only marginal amounts of new, non-limited-time-event content is uncharacteristic for RuneScape, and considering that we've had two patch weeks that went over like a lead balloon in the past month (the Sigil removal/rework and last week's), I'm not surprised that patience with Jagex is wearing thin right now.

Not helping matters is that, while Jagex has been talking about long-term goals lately, we really don't have any indication that things are going to improve in the short-term. October will likely also be sparse with Halloween and RuneFest, and while I'd personally be fine with December playing out like last year with a piece of permanent content served alongside limited-time goodies, I don't think it'll satisfy people who feel like the second half of 2019 has crashed and burned so far.
I think you hit the nail on the head here. Nine consecutive weeks without a content update really isn't acceptable for a subscription-based game. What are we subscribing for, anyway? This is exactly why I only sub for a month or two a year, there's just not enough content to warrant playing longer.

That being said, I love Anachronia, even if it does feel a bit lifeless with the lack of examines and side quests - and quests are really the one area that Runescape shines over other games. Just about everything else, there are other games that do better. But quests are always interesting and funny, and they're what keeps bringing me back to the game.

10-Sep-2019 10:04:45

SIXTY-NIN3
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I don't think $11/month is quite enough to cover this platinum standard of work. I would be willing to pay up to $16, maybe even $22(!), in future to continue supporting this wonderful company that cares so much about its consumers. Keep up the great work, Jagex! :) “Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.”

10-Sep-2019 10:06:35

Hupw
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@Luckyluke91
You say give us something..

these things are not equal. skilling updates require less dev time than quests and pvm. I dont want 1 pvm update for every skilling update, i want real dev time to be put into my bosses. I want mechanics, difficulty, an actual endgame push and a change to the meta. if they churn out crassian leviathans it's going to be really disappointing. I think they mentioned a clue scroll update so you are getting your clue update before we get a new boss anyway. also yes more quests.

I do not agree that everything...

I dont know what to tell you man, it seems a lot like you are disagreeing with me for the sake of disagreeing with me. you are quantifiably inaccurate either way. go look at the trade volume on logs pre invention and post invention. runecrafting? no. they are making blood runes and getting magic threads for rune pouches.
again, the g e charts dont lie you can go look at them and see for yourself. fishing is pretty obvious, blubber jellies are a profit to cook why? why do you think, man.

Nobody is enjoying Anachronia?

I didnt say anywhere that people arent enjoying anachronia.The agility course is by far and away the best agility course in runescape. Big game hunter is worse xp than afk moth catching which is pretty sad, and the rewards are pretty lackluster. What i actually said was that nobody is tuning in to watch it on twitch and people arent telling their friends to make accounts to play the content. which according to the graph of how many people are logged in every day on average, they arent.( http://www.misplaceditems.******_tools/graph/?display=max&interval=month&mid=1567232389&total=1 ) the number of average players has actually gone down since the release of anachronia. the last notable uptick in players happened when they released AOD. the numbers dont lie, friend.

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edit: the graph link gets filtered a bit. obvious/rs

mods pls dont delete. its just a graph showing player numbers H̸̛͘͠Į̸̛͜͜

10-Sep-2019 10:18:35 - Last edited on 10-Sep-2019 10:31:50 by Hupw

Hupw
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@Luckyluke91

All the top streamers are PVM'ers?

who are these top streamers? because i am skeptical that they are top streamers if they are predominantly skilling streamers. just checked over on twitch and 80% of the streams are pvm content, accounting for 92% of the RS3 twitch viewers.

And yes I still enjoy the Magister...

dog, you better be memeing hard here. if you cant break 250k dpm with a stacking 25% damage bonus in max gear you are doing something horribly wrong.

can you please tell me what you enjoy about a boss with zero boss mechanics? does the giant mole and kbd also top your list of favourite boss encounters? or is the giant mole too heavy on the boss mechanics for your taste? serious questions by the way.

I dont mind at all that most players are under 150k aod rules dpm. but i do mind when those players act as if not being good at the combat system is somehow a virtue and then goes on to say that everyone who is decent should be forced to play mid tier content ad infinitum.

Menaphos has some of the best content released in a few years.

it would seem that one of the biggest drops in average players came immediately following the release of menaphos. the numbers dont lie yet again, friend. H̸̛͘͠Į̸̛͜͜

10-Sep-2019 10:20:03

S 1 M O N
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IMO the issue isn't the lack of content, but the quality and how Jagex aims to actually rebuild the community feel to the game.

Minigames are just a no-no in current vein. The existing ones are all dead content, any time they've tried to reinvigorate them they just fail, and within weeks most worlds are empty. Just look at Shattered Worlds.

They need to stop focusing on the PvM and work on bringing gear to mini-games, or creating gear that you can't trade but have decent stats either way. Ports was a good idea, but obviously is exclusive to you. Even if they just created a mini game that offered 'kits' to upgrade various things, that would be fine.

10-Sep-2019 10:30:22

Hupw
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S 1 M O N said :
IMO the issue isn't the lack of content, but the quality and how Jagex aims to actually rebuild the community feel to the game.

Minigames are just a no-no in current vein. The existing ones are all dead content, any time they've tried to reinvigorate them they just fail, and within weeks most worlds are empty. Just look at Shattered Worlds.

They need to stop focusing on the PvM and work on bringing gear to mini-games, or creating gear that you can't trade but have decent stats either way. Ports was a good idea, but obviously is exclusive to you. Even if they just created a mini game that offered 'kits' to upgrade various things, that would be fine.


so minigames die immediately and you want them to focus on minigames by shoehorning gear into them to force people to play content that would otherwise be dead? also, what gear are you talking about? we have tank and dps gear available for extremely cheap at any tier below 92, which the exception of maybe tectonic which might be a bit pricey for some people. H̸̛͘͠Į̸̛͜͜

10-Sep-2019 10:36:27 - Last edited on 10-Sep-2019 10:42:40 by Hupw

Griphook

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Hupw said :
S 1 M O N said :
IMO the issue isn't the lack of content, but the quality and how Jagex aims to actually rebuild the community feel to the game.

Minigames are just a no-no in current vein. The existing ones are all dead content, any time they've tried to reinvigorate them they just fail, and within weeks most worlds are empty. Just look at Shattered Worlds.

They need to stop focusing on the PvM and work on bringing gear to mini-games, or creating gear that you can't trade but have decent stats either way. Ports was a good idea, but obviously is exclusive to you. Even if they just created a mini game that offered 'kits' to upgrade various things, that would be fine.


so minigames die immediately and you want them to focus on minigames by shoehorning gear into them to force people to play content that would otherwise be dead? also, what gear are you talking about? we have tank and dps gear available for extremely cheap at any tier below 92, which the exception of maybe tectonic which might be a bit pricey for some people.
Forcing people to play content that would otherwise be dead is literally Jagex's entire job. Would anyone do PvM if the drops sucked? People go where the money is, and where the gear is, so making minigame rewards more lucrative is a great idea that might actually revitalise them. And personally, minigames are a hell of a lot more fun to play than PvM bosses. They're also more nuanced than just pure combat, requiring an understanding of unique mechanics and strategy to leverage them, more so than simply spamming the right abilities at the right time.

10-Sep-2019 12:20:41

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