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RuneScape ruined???
I think Jagex have ruined Runescape with two new updates in November. Bounty Hunter has caused 1000s of players with pures and PKers to quit, with now most of the wilderness being safe, and with the new trade system, you can't even merchant anymore!
Law running will be ruined, with more than an 8k difference (over the 3k cap made by Jagex). And Staking is now only limited to 3k, so now you have to play a whole tournament to make a bit of cash.
What were Jagex doing?!?!
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First of all, this belongs in the RuneScape forum.
Bounty Hunter is by no means safe. It's actually more dangerous than old wilderness, because you get skulled automatically, there's no place to hide, and there's an indicator above your head that shows how much loot you're carrying.
Law running is still possible through the assist system.
The purpose of these udpates was to destroy RWT, and I think it's safe to say that it has been successful.
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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.
Yeah, that actually is quite obvious. At what cost though? Is it seriously worth 'ruining' the game for so many people?
Don't believe the hype.
Runescape was ruined the second it went live...
ruinscape? *scnr*
Runescape is a cheesy graphically outdated game, so why should anyone care one way or the other. It's truly amazing that anyone bothers to play games like this anymore.
Having said that, the trade restrictions they have implemented, not allowing anyone to give items away above a certain value and not allowing trades to be made unless the items and coin involved, from both parties, is within close proximity of value, are brilliant. This is a sure fire way to reduce RMT sales significantly. It also prohibits players from twinking which is a good thing, since everyone should earn their way.
It would be wonderful if every MMOG adopted this trade restriction mechanic. It does however require that the developer employ a full time staffer to maintain and update a per server item value database so as not to stifle the player economy.
Theres been about 5 different threads about this same topic
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I agree that the updates nuked the game, and did not rid themselves of rw trading, There are more ads than ever flooding the net with them selling fully stocked accounts, this did nothing to them because they are just selling more character accounts instead of the items they produce. If anything this will increase the number of bots in order to make up for the time loss from just selling the gold before. This is counterproductive and anyone that is as foolish to think that this will stop the gold farmers is sadly mistaken. All you have to do is search runescape these days and find hundreds of gold sellers selling fully stocked accounts. So now after they ruined the game, they now have to look at other options as well spending more $ and time to stop them from account selling. Btw.. is the same amount of time and effort they would have put forth if they had not made these terrible updates as well. The loss in players atm is not from bots but from law abiding paying players, and over the next month or so I am sure you will see that drop alot more. Those players that have cancelled their memberships are having one last " runescape christmas" before they part ways. For people that have played and loved this game for so many years they do need time to say goodbye to their friends.. and that is exactly what I see happening on the game, not people that are going to be here in 2 months, but people who are giving away their stuff and cleaning their accounts out to hand them back to jagex b4 they leave.
Really, who cares. It's Runescape - a MMORPG for kids.
the majority of the players on runescape were not kids but adults like myself and i personally knew hundreds of adult players on runescape.. The problem is now that they have made the changes the only people left playing will be the kids, most of them younger than the age requirements to play. Jagex has been catering to them so that will be exactly who they have playing it now. Yes the kids with no $. Smart thinking Jagex .. not =x.
I agree the only good thing about pvp combat in runescape prior to the downdates was the fact you had one player that could do anything during combat, could wear anything during combat, and anything could happen anything goes winner takes all. The unpredictability of what your opponent was going to do is what made it fun.The unpredictability that a clan was going to log in on top of you, or you log into the middle of a clan war was what added to the excitement. They have made the game more predictable, less spontanious outbreaks of chaos = BORING. The ability to be killing dragons for crafting and prayer and then have to fight a clan out of nowhere is what made skilling entertaining. If you wanted to kill dragons on rs without being attacked they had plenty of higher level dragons all over the noncombat areas ALREADY, such as blues in ogre city... Greens were for people who wanted more excitement while training, now it is just another predictable npc area. Bounty hunter is predictable and boring it should be renamed " pile on anyone with a higher colored skull with dds's game" because that is all it is. there is no " hunting " involved, the place is so small you would have to be an idiot not to find people in there... lmao.
ive never under stood how anybody still plays this game
The reason .. prior to the recent updates... that many people played this game was that you had one character that has all abilities instead of having to choose classes and guilds and such to play. The reason was the the unpredictability in combat as to what your opponent was going to do which is very hard to find in other games. The game was 3d not 2d like alot of other games that do have the " one player does all" factor. It had many noncombat skills, in depth quests, and pvp combat zones where you could fight players your own levels and multi combat zones where you could have huge clan wars with thousands of players all at once. a Player could come up wearing mage gear and then not mage you at all, wear range gear and then only melee you, you never know what they were going to do, that made it fun for alot of players. Runescape used to have a lot of freedoms well it did prior to the updates...
They have just moved in line with other modern MMOs. No new MMO has totaly open pvp+item loss and has huge success (Eve has it, but never even got close to 500k players, even though it a good game with a lot of press).
Optional pvp and/or low risk on death attracts more players and they know it. Just about every survey done on any MMO with a large player base shows that.
Yes, But RS went against that rule, and that was why i got so many players, because it was different. And it wasn't like u could die anywhere..
Runescape should have been called ruinscape. It just plain sucks. I prefer taking a pencil, sharpening it and shoving it in my eye.
but still the game is ok
I have never played Runescape before, but i have over heard people talking about the recent update. I was told they got rid of PvP, i don't know if this is true or not.
But as much as i think this game is stupid. Removing PvP is one of the worst design flaws you can do. I don't know why any developer would remove a main part of their game.
They didn't remove PvP. They removed PKing freely in the wilderness but also added many other ways to enjoy risky PvPing.
The wilderness ISNT safe. they added a feature to prevent that from happening. It's possible that its even more dangerous to walk through now.
I'm glad to see all the little kiddies are crying over this. Maybe it'll clear alot of them out. *crosses fingers*
RuneScape had to do what they had to do to remove Real World Traders. They said themselves, they arent exactly gaining members from this. They had to do these updates to save the game. That's something alot of kids are having trouble understanding.
Ruined? How do you ruin something like runescape? You cannot turn garbage into garbage. It simply remains the same.
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If you don't like RuneScape, then why are you here? Go to some other forum so this one isn't spammed by "I hate RS" RS sucks". Nobody cares if you like it or not. Your not discussing the game so please leave.
Nice post i agree all the way
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we had to destreoy the game to save the game? very zen.