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Problems I see with Runescape
If you look at the ratio of bots to actual real players, it's totally out of control. Banning a few thousand accounts once or twice a year doesn't even put a dent into the problem. But, my opinion, is that if Jagex banned all bot accounts, they would lose far too much money. Then there are the problems of kids language and behavior... they literally tell me that Jagex will not do anything about it. It is a major joke to them. A problem with the game itself is the fact they keep adding things... but don't increase your bank space to accomodate the additional quest items nor change the housing so more items may be added. What this does is forces the player to either drop the items or "pay" for another player just for bank space. If Jagex would clean up their act, it would be a good and entertaining rpg.
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It is a free game...what do you expect?
The game is a pay to play game... with monthly subscriptions. Yes there are free options, but there is very little in the free portion of the game .. like a trial version lol.
I agree that bots are a major problem, and they do not care about money loss from banning bot accounts, most bots are free to play anyhow and they do not receive profits from them anyhow. AS for member bots they need to not only ban the bots, but ban their ip addys and their main accounts that are being supplied by the bots, That is the only thing that would put a dent in them at all. Have a 3 strike rule, either scamming, hacking or botting from same Ip addy 3 times ande ip addy is perma banned. Yes they may have more than one ip addy, but if they keep up that behavior they will run out eventually. Now as for kids language and behavior, that happens on every game out there, what would be nice would be an actual enforcement of the 13+ age restriction and possibly some 17+ age servers. Bank space is greatly needed , I too have been asking them for a long time to make bank updates, and a bank organizer ( tab system). But personally I think the biggest downfall on runescape is how long it takes to do anything at higher levels, chopping magic logs, mining rune ore ect.. they need to speed it up or give you the ability to earn items that will allow you to gain higher skilled rescources faster. There is no reward in the game for the hard work it takes to get 99 in anything, a goofy cape that makes people follow you around and beg you to do silly emotes is a punishment not a reward. You work all that way thinking it will get you ahead... only to have the game much more time consuming than it was before. For those players that actually have a life, it is very hard if not impossible to get anything done in 15min to an hour.
The number of honest players still by far surpasses the amount of people using bots. I know its getting worse though.
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no you kno whats gay how they permanently muted me for stuff that wasnt my fault other than the site sharing wich was for my clan
1. my friend needed 2 borro 1m, we had passwords for each other not the game but each other so no hackers. i say gime the pass some noob goes u scammer! and bam 8 black marks 3 days muted
2. fishing at catherby some noob piks a fight starts talking smack i talk back bam he reports me
3. aparently i ahd a like offence that they couldnt tell me it was like a some ofence i dotn kno like i didnt do anything they just gave me some random offence
I wasn't discussing the f2p game. I've been told that is even worst. I'm talking about the two that I pay on a monthly basis which I rarely play. There is so much that "can" be done but is being ignored which in my opinion comes down to "money" that would be lost.
I agree about the improvement that can be made regarding mining and award system for reaching lvls 99. And the bank space. There are some very good points made there.
Jagex can make Runescape a better game with some simple solutions but instead they concentrate on adding more quests that makes me wonder who thinks these up! And what they have done to the the clue scrolls is so outrageous that I tend to just drop them.
The whole point that I've tried to make here is that I'm paying for game that is continously getting worst instead of better. Jagex needs to get on the ball and listen to their "paying" customers and make some positive changes.
that right there is so true i mean i am one of the older players of runescape ive quit many times cause of the crap that rs pulls. i started playing right after they updated to rs2 wich was wat 5 years ago and i was paying for like a year i am a member again now for pking but they muted me for such a stupid reason.
The ratio of bots to real players?
It's something like 1 in 400, which equals to about 12k bots.
The average lifespan of a F2P bot is about a week, about a month for P2P bots. They're replaced extremely quickly.
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Have played: RuneScape, EQ2 (free trial), Last Chaos, Silk Road, Dungeon Runners.
Currently playing: RuneScape, Dungeon Runners.
The notion that graphics, or anything else for that matter, are anywhere near as important as gameplay/fun is so utterly ridiculous that anyone who shares such a view should be placed in an asylum.
The number of honest players still by far surpasses the amount of people using bots. I know its getting worse though.
I agree with it, and I believe that most player are honest~
Runescape is now Habbo Hotel, or Hello Kitty Online if you prefer that one. Nothing but a graphical chat room. PvP and what little economy RS had are now gone the window. Who's going to buy all those rune armors your smitty made, now that no one loses anything (in theory you can still lose stuff, but not much)?
The one thing that you could always throw at RS bashers face, hardcore PvP, is no more. Now there really are no reasons to not go play WoW.
And the trade update will effect (i.e. destroy)merchanting, but not the economy as a whole. Still, that's no excuse for it to not be raised.
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Have played: RuneScape, EQ2 (free trial), Last Chaos, Silk Road, Dungeon Runners.
Currently playing: RuneScape, Dungeon Runners.
The notion that graphics, or anything else for that matter, are anywhere near as important as gameplay/fun is so utterly ridiculous that anyone who shares such a view should be placed in an asylum.
Well the only thing that had been keepingme playing all this time that ive been perm muted is the wilderness. Now they have nothing they are constantly trying to make new games that imitate the dangers of it but they cant do it. Why? Because the wilderness gave u a senseof danger all of these new games are for sissys other than bounty hunter you dont lose your stuff when you go in and if you do go in to boutny hunter you can run out in a blink of an eye. Ive walked out lots of times without worrying about dying. In the wilderness when your at the mage bank and youve got 2 lvl 112s comin after you and youre frozen from anceint or stck from tele blok thats when the games exciting. Not when your like ...... 3 steps ok im outside now dangers gone. Theyve ruined the game for me.
Last the game has now been filtered so strictly that they are pretty much targeting like 10 year old kids, have you noticed al of the parental help, parental customer support and all the new crap theyve put on to let 5 year olds play the game. I missed being scammed out of a couple mill cause of my haste and stupidity and most of all i miss when lvl 3's didnt call lvl 100's noobs.
im a 101 and im on occasionaly so im not a member, like 2 weeks ago a lvl 50 something called me a noob in fist of guthix and thats just 1 time, like you realy think that your that good the only reason youre killing people half your lvl is because jagex cuts the lvl 3's defence to 0 so you can hit a 1 on them seriousley this game is crap now
It's true I went straight from runescape to WoW.