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Runescape SUCKS!!

surely anyone who is a true gamer feels exactly ths same wat i do about this game. 2 years ago i started playing runescape and now i have a lvl 68 character and the reallization that it really inst fun at all. heres why:

1. the game is chalk full of tedious work                                                                                        

2. few people are really nice. they are either stuck up high lvl'simage or stupid lazy crybaby noobsimage

3. the mageing system is retarded

4. at the end of it all, you reallize that you didnt have any fun 

do not let smooth talk fool you i would not wish this game on my worst enemy

plz post your comments 

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  • SnaKeySnaKey Member Posts: 3,386

    I don't believe you are really 37.

    The game is built for 10yr olds. What do you expect?

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  • DamonVileDamonVile Member UncommonPosts: 4,818

    You played the game for 2 years and only now think it sucks ? maybe it's just time to move on to a new game ?

  • SendenSenden Member UncommonPosts: 602

    Hehe exactly in the same boat, I played this game for two years back in it's early days when I was 14 and rune stuff was extremely rare. It was my first insight into the world of mmorpgs and well... I LOVED IT!! It had so much skills to do and the game never felt combat emphasised really. The community is the worst I have experienced by far but I was 14, and mingled in quite well and even made a fun guild of scammers where me and some of my close ingame friends had a nice little scam going and made millions off the stuff.

    Still, to this day, I havn't found a game which has got me as hooked and offered so much variety, WoW comes close but with it being combat only, it just isn't the same. Also runescape for me, went downhill when they released the 3d graphics, they totally ruined it for me.

  • GameloadingGameloading Member UncommonPosts: 14,182



    Originally posted by SnaKey

    I don't believe you are really 37.
    The game is built for 10yr olds. What do you expect?



    you say that stupid comment in every non-eve topic. do you honnestly believe runescape is aimed at a certain age? please at least get some knowledge of marketing before you make comments like that.
  • SnaKeySnaKey Member Posts: 3,386


    Originally posted by Gameloading
    do you honnestly believe runescape is aimed at a certain age?

    Yes. Yes I do.
    Everything about the game says 10yr old boy.



    please at least get some knowledge of marketing before you make comments like that.

    I would say that's pretty good marketing. Last time I looked (several years ago) Runescape had 750,000 ppl logged on at that time. If 100,000 of them where paying that means there is probably 3-4 times as much who are paying who were offline.

    A 10yr old boy plays the free game for 3 weeks then spends the next 3 weeks bugging his mommy and daddy to get him a premium.

    Yeah. I'd say that's pretty good marketing if you asked me.

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  • SendenSenden Member UncommonPosts: 602

    Well the game is free meaning it's bound to attract many younger gamers from the start off, everything is extremely simplified to offer very little challenge in terms of gameplay abilities. Eventhough I don't think the original intention was to have it aimed at 10 year olds but it's attracted so many, that anyone who is in the slightest bit mature, have either left or kept themselves to themselves.

    Also, it was very good marketing as as someone already said, loads of kids play it and then go whine to mummy or daddy to become a member. Alternatively, they could have done what I done when i played, waited until mummy and daddy wasn't looking, and phoned up for membership.

  • KormacKormac Member Posts: 297

    I played Runescape long ago, but the only good moment I remember from that game is when I one day (after I had basically quit) logged into Runescape on my old name, and found that it had not been deleted. The login window said something along the lines of "Greetings, it has been 360 days since your last logon..." So I wasted another hour on it and never played again. It has now been far more than 360 days since my last logon.

    My little sister played it, which caused me no worry at all. Besides, she was younger when she got bored and left the game than I was when I just started.

    However, you don't have to be ten years old to go for a free, meaningless spare time activity. Try to find some falling sands application somewhere, see if it can keep your attention.

    Naturally I am in perfect agreement with such ideas as "Runescape provides no excitement" and "Runescape is no fun" - although there are others who enjoy it. But I am over it, man. Play something else, anything. Yeah, not WoW. Shadowbane?

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  • MadAceMadAce Member Posts: 2,461

    Runescape is the proof that people aren't fit for anything along the lines of democracy...

    They don't DESERVE to rule themselves... God 750.000 people... While there are so many better (not saing good) free mmo's out there.

    I think those 10 year olds should be warned at school for the probable permanent brain damage one receives from Runescape.

  • siriusmongosiriusmongo Member Posts: 3
    i disagree with it all. i think its a fun game. if runescape is dumb, then all mmorpg's are dumb.
  • XenduliXenduli Member Posts: 654

    Complaining about a free/very cheap mmorpg now are we? Funny how when no-one likes a mmorpg they say it is played by kids. One day you could be playing a game made by one of them. Who'd be laughing then!

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  • JackcoltJackcolt Member UncommonPosts: 2,170


    Originally posted by siriusmongo
    i disagree with it all. i think its a fun game. if runescape is dumb, then all mmorpg's are dumb.

    Yeah... because all MMO's are like runescape?

    Like this guy who once said: Stone can't fly, mother can't fly, therefore mother must be a stone.

    Runescape is pretty suck. Lots of better free MMOs.

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  • AseenusAseenus Member UncommonPosts: 1,844
    <--- stuck up high level lol

    u started 2 years ago and ur only 68 haha i 1-2 hit 68's :P

    i quit not long ago but if they made rs with guild wars graphics i would quit all games for rs :P


  • SendenSenden Member UncommonPosts: 602
    I would love it if some company made a game like runescape with all those things you can do but make sure it costs money so they can keep all the 10 year olds away. I would probably play runescape still if it wasn't full of spoilt little brats.
  • XenduliXenduli Member Posts: 654

    Yeah those little brats are spoilt playing Runescape. ::::12:: Last time I checked you didn't need 2 512MB video cards to run it, a dual core 64-bit processor all liquid cooled of course and a 42" plasma monitor. THAT would be spoiling a kid.

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  • _Link__Link_ Member Posts: 20


    Originally posted by Senden
    I would love it if some company made a game like runescape with all those things you can do but make sure it costs money so they can keep all the 10 year olds away. I would probably play runescape still if it wasn't full of spoilt little brats.

    what ages r u talkin about those brats?i'm 14 and i play runescape but i also play other games too that i p2p like WoW and Final Fantasy XI(best MMORPG ever)
  • GreatnessGreatness Member UncommonPosts: 2,188

    Actually, Runescape about 5-6 Years ago was amazing. I played it back then where it had one server, no members, little to no one under the age of 15 probably. Plus it was Open PvP . Then slowly they started adding more servers as a few more people came in. Gradually it became worse and worse but at one point it fell down to the ground.

    Though I do have to give the devs some credit as they had a great marketing plan.

    1)Keep it browser based so small kids can play it without downloading (parents may say no to downloading).

    2)Start with free servers so people start to like it and then bring in the Pay2Play

    3)Have both running at the same time so that people in free will be tempted to go P2P.

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  • Steelarm011Steelarm011 Member Posts: 187

    Why are people harping on Runescape?

    Runescape originally and still is not intended for "hardcore" "serious" gaming. Its not your normal game. Okay, In other words, english

    ITS A BROWSER GAME, PEOPLE. YOU DONT BUY IT AT THE STORE. YOU DOWNLOAD IT AND PLAY IT FOR FREE!!!1111

    If you dont like the game, then dont play it! Runescape isnt really all that bad - it really is the best starting MMO out there for novices to MMO's. If I were to "train" an MMO player, I would bring his first character to runescape - it has the basic elements of any MMORPG - leveling, advancement, crafting, item acquisition, friends, clans, trading. Its not a bad game for you to play when your on the run if your traveling. As a full time game I doubt you could stay awake in front of the computer clicking away to attack monsters. Buts its a free game, and it damn good marketing to have someone pay 5 bucks a month to have extra features. my Hats off to Jagex, they did a great job with a small game making it "big". Good job folks.

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  • Sephiroth9Sephiroth9 Member Posts: 127
    You know what happens when a pregnant woman plays Runescape? The baby comes out as a wad of lettuce.
  • XpheyelXpheyel Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 704

    I disagree with this idea that RuneScape is a good MMORPG to start out in. Any MMOG that lacks grouping is missing a dynamic in my opinion. That isn't really a good training ground. Having some idea of what tanking and healing are is more advantageous to your long term development. You don't just exploit whatever the developers have currently left unbalanced and call it a day in other games (unless you're PVP'ing I guess). Or, inexplicably, level the gimped combat style to the cap and then demand it be balanced every week.

    On the other hand, if you want to learn to be an anonymous paranoid introverted forum lurker like myself, I recommend RuneScape for training those aspects of your personality to a keen pitch. The downside is that the idiocy of the official community may well be bit-transferable. Creeping across the world's networks and devouring your mind, leaving only bleeding sub-dermal lesions like a psychic hemorrhagic fever.

    Its also good if you want to learn about the need to have security software and possibly hardware.

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  • stickmstickm Member Posts: 219

    One thing runescape has that others dont is a crafting system that is functional... And all the skills are usefull mostly (some more then others though) so you dont even have to train combat at all. And if I am a ranger today I can start training magic tommarow and become a mage... I do not have to create a new character.

    With like WOW... the crafting is pathetic and 100% useless... if your not a lvl 60 your pathetic and useless... Some other games do not even support crafting or player based market. In RS the market is 100% player driven.

    For grinders you can level up and PK in deep wilderness where you have a level advantage or if you a lower level you can PK in lower lvl wilderness to fight people your own level.

    Also about that ingame support for grouping... You can think thats a bad thing or a good thing... The good part is they made the game so that you do not need a group to kill mobs you can do it all by yourself. And in alot of game clan support systems actually hamper clan growth... RS actually has a ton of clans with like 200+ members who have wars and mini-wars against eachother and things... Again something games like WOW will never have and could never support (try putting 400 in 1 area in WOW and not crash the server). The drawback however is there is no loot separation so in RS if you deal 51 damage and your friend deals 50 damage you get 100% of the loot.

    The one other thing that makes runescape different and better then other games is that when you kill someone you get all their stuff... This gain/loss system makes PKing fun and is one reason why it is more appealing to me then most other games. 

    And the comment about the magic system in RS being stupid... The system is that there are things called runes... And spells require different types on runes and different amounts, these runes also occupy inventory space and are consumed when casting. So when pking as a mage you must be aware that every cast you do you are wasting money... Mana based games overpower mages I think because they can run around naked and risk nothing... in RS if a warriors might bring 300k worth of stuff to PK with... the mage might bring armour worth 100k and 100 casts of a spell that costs 1500 per cast. So if the Mage does not kill you he takes a loss in profit... However if you do not understand how the gain/loss model is better you may think the mana system is better.

    And so you know, im 21, and I have been playing for 5 years on and off now. YES there are a lot of 10-12 year olds who act childishly but you dont have to deal with them at all anyway so I do not see the problem. Its not like guild wars where you get on a team with a jackass who wrecks the whole game because he gets a thrill out of it, or like WOW where people can just gank you for fun over and over again.

    People want free games to play for when they want to get into MMORPG's and RS is a complete FREE game with more content then most pay to play games so I think it is a good starting game.

    If the topic starter was really 37 he wouldn't have made a topic called "Runescape Sucks" which is something more characteristic of a 12 year old... He also my likely did not play for 2 years because level 68 is obtainable in a few weeks or a month or two of casual 1-2 hour a day training.

    And if you think im sad because im 21 and still play RS... I would say that probably 30+% of my clan is above 20... The rest are late teens and we probably have 10-20% who are below 14. So you can find older players if you look in the right places.

  • NewwbyNewwby Member Posts: 6


    Originally posted by Xpheyel

    I disagree with this idea that RuneScape is a good MMORPG to start out in.



    nah ive gotta say I agree with the guy above, runescape (I'll say now, I do indeed hate it with every fibre of my soul) is a good game to start on, but not for long peroids. I only ever played it for four days after 1 of my best m8s begged me for weeks & altho I was already knowledgable about MMO's at the time (as my siggy sez I learnt the basics from LoM2 (i personally prefer it as a teaching game than runescape)), it did make me understand some aspects of mmo's better.

    of course at my school nowadays, any1 who plays runescape is classed as geek, while the skaters who play tibia rule the school. last i checked tibia was slightly less fun and effective as an mmo than a watermelon.

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  • SnaKeySnaKey Member Posts: 3,386


    Originally posted by Newwby
    while the skaters who play tibia rule the school.

    You must go to a really geeky school. Granted, I'm 22 and haven't been in HS for awhile... but most ppl I know IRL is like "What's an MMO?"

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  • XpheyelXpheyel Member, Newbie CommonPosts: 704

    Its got a crafting system, but no trickle down or skill trees.

    The fact that you can do anything leads to its perpetually broken combat system. If you grind enough, you can use melee weapons with ranged armor and use some spells/prayers with enough reliability. Before that, in RS1, magic and ranged were hopelessly ineffective and people just raised Strength (the now irrelevant "pures"). Because then the combat system was based entirely on Strength. Attack and Defense were needed only to equip items, and the armor wasn't even that effective as far as anyone could tell.

    No in-game support for grouping is, for certain, a bad thing. Having solo-content and being able to solo things isn't bad but there isn't any reason not to let people who enjoy dinging up in groups do so. Also, all the games with grouping I've played have had friendlier communities than RS. For guilds, I'm not sure what you mean. If there is a technical limitation, its there whether the people involved are on a roster somewhere or not. Being able to talk on a guild chat instead of the vicinity or IM would be a lot better too.

    You're basically saying that either you have to group or you have to have RuneScape's pure solo system. Which isn't true.

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