Absolutely, RuneScape had great potential, but, as with every single MMORPG on the planet, which popularity comes cheaters. And the funny thing is, the botters and autominers and all the other cheaters are actually the ones who helped support the economy in-game, as prices would've gone sky-high if there weren't any cheaters.
I know many people will probably disagree with me, but that is the cold, hard truth.
I think that Jagex pretty much killed the game on their own. The majority of the players had nothing to do with it. Jagex basically made a poor decision in trying to counteract one demographics of cheaters, and then, instead of removing that update, admitting they were wrong, and thinking of something else to make the game much more fun for non-cheaters, they made another update to cover up the bad one. Except that update was bad too, and the chain just kept going until finally Jagex removed the wilderness and a large chunk of the players left.
What Jagex really needs is to be bought out. And to tell the truth, they should have been a long, longtime ago. I mean, Jagex makes millions every month, and there is a lot of profit that could be made for the company that finally buys Jagex.
Absolutely, RuneScape had great potential, but, as with every single MMORPG on the planet, which popularity comes cheaters. And the funny thing is, the botters and autominers and all the other cheaters are actually the ones who helped support the economy in-game, as prices would've gone sky-high if there weren't any cheaters.
I know many people will probably disagree with me, but that is the cold, hard truth. I think that Jagex pretty much killed the game on their own. The majority of the players had nothing to do with it. Jagex basically made a poor decision in trying to counteract one demographics of cheaters, and then, instead of removing that update, admitting they were wrong, and thinking of something else to make the game much more fun for non-cheaters, they made another update to cover up the bad one. Except that update was bad too, and the chain just kept going until finally Jagex removed the wilderness and a large chunk of the players left.
What Jagex really needs is to be bought out. And to tell the truth, they should have been a long, longtime ago. I mean, Jagex makes millions every month, and there is a lot of profit that could be made for the company that finally buys Jagex.
Yeah I was biting my tongue a little, but its about time someone said it. If you look back on the history of Runescape, the few cheaters it had did ALOT for the community in ways some people will never understand. At one point the cheaters had an all out war against Jagex in which they killed the bankers because Jagex banned an entire clan that lured noobs into the wild and killed them (before there was multi person combat so everything was 1v1).
This act stopped Jagex from just banning people who were luring noobs into the wild and altogether from going ban crazy, which they were on the edge of doing back then. It also resulted in the firing or stripping of powers of the mod that was banning people.
Nowadays look at whats going on. You got mods banning people for no reason and altogether causing chaos with their scams. Then, you look around and there's hardly any cheaters left so guess what? No riots. Just people complaining on the forums which Jagex doesn't even care about.
I think that if one more massive riot breaks out, then Jagex will install a "No complaining" rule and enforce it more than they enforce many of the other rules.
Some may find that funny, but it truly seems that Jagex is on the edge.
Lol I think the first riot is what started Jagex's deep hatred for cheaters which were really a very small demographic. They didn't show their hate until a few years later though. Then, they went all out and still to this day tag every limitation they put on the game as "To Prevent Cheaters". They even managed to brainwash some people into thinking that cheaters were this HUGE threat with all their advertising and such.
Kinda reminds me of how the United States portrayed Asians and Nazi's back in the 30s and 40s.
I think that if one more massive riot breaks out, then Jagex will install a "No complaining" rule and enforce it more than they enforce many of the other rules. Some may find that funny, but it truly seems that Jagex is on the edge.
They already do that, its not official but if you start a riot you can be permanently banned for “encouraging others to break rules”.
RuneScape had potential. Jagex had some really great general ideas. Having different skills, interesting quests, PvP....they had really great ideas. If the skills were lesss grindy this feature would be a lot better. All you do is do the same thing over and over, nonstop, it's just not fun after awhile. If they could make the skills less repetitive they would be much better...The idea of different skills is great, but the execution wasn' very good. The quests were great in RS. Without using sites, players had to actually use their mind to finish them. The quests weren't very linear, and none of the kill 10 X. Of course, there were many flaws of RuneScape as well. The flaws and hassles of RS easily out weigh the goods, but still, RS really had potential. Unfortunately the hands of this potential were put in the wrong hands.
Exactly..it was given to a bunch of people with more EGO than you could ever imagine...
Give Runescape with a real 3D enviroment like any modern graphic engine and it would be so imba.
I like Runescape but I dont play it anymore cause it got alittle boring, but if It would be a real game like WoW or whatever, that would be awesooooooooomness!
Give Runescape with a real 3D enviroment like any modern graphic engine and it would be so imba.
I like Runescape but I dont play it anymore cause it got alittle boring, but if It would be a real game like WoW or whatever, that would be awesooooooooomness!
Guess what, MG plans to execute the SOS so that the game would be more "mature".....what do you guys think? ...you dont wanna know what I think.
I think he’s mentally challenged. He thinks removing a couple of PG words from the chat filter that should have never been there in the first place is “liberalizing” it.
By their very definition, games aren't thought of as "mature", at least in this society. There is so much that needs to be done to RS to make it appeal to older players.
I'm pretty sure I read something about having "older worlds" in RS. If they could actually make that work, that'd be pretty cool. Not sure if I can think off hand of any other MMOs that have that option.
Yeah maybe, but there's still plenty of room for older worlds in RS too. They've got the Quickchat worlds, so they can do the older worlds if they want to.
Pretty sure "email" was removed from the filter?
I know "crap", "ass", "school", "address", "suck" and "phone" were definitely taken out.
Of course on "older worlds" they'd be no filter at all...
Other games have a different (better) system in place, because they didn't make that mistake in the first place. In other MMOs I've played you have an optional chat filter, turn it on if you're bothered by profanity and off if you aren't - totally simple.
They made a rod for their own backs with the stupid filter thing, now they can't win either way with it.
That's great but there's no reason in doing it at this point of time, because mechscape is coming up too. Older worlds are not going to happen, trust me.
Nope, you still can't say screw, shit, or email. I just tested it. Try using "skkrew," it works and I've been reported for it several times but never banned. You still can't say poof or hash either which is annoying. Poof is "gay" in britian, but hash? I don't know. I keep trying to say hash code or whatever, because I made a program called PassHash and I tell people about it sometimes... But it gets filtered which pisses me off.
Now that hits the spot. Tell me, how are things going in rs? great program by the way. Thumbs up 5/5
Well, I personally have been okay. I've gotten several levels up, and I 'm closing in on 130 combat. It's been far less frustrating to play without a random event attacking me every 10-15 minutes. With the partial loosening of the swear filter, I have also seen much less swearing and spamming (contrary to what you might think.)
As for the bad, however, I've been conscripted by 3 clans before I asked to join, verbally assaulted by two "noobs," and my ideas have gone ignored on the forums as usual.
I have also discovered that level has nothing to do with maturity:
PassHash, I believe, is the most "final" version of any program I've ever written. Usually about 95% of my programs are never finished or end up being unfit for public release. I'm glad you're happy with it. I'm quite proud that I actually finished writing a program so I like to talk about it, haha.
Poof is "gay" in britian, but hash? I don't know. I keep trying to say hash code or whatever, because I made a program called PassHash and I tell people about it sometimes... But it gets filtered which pisses me off.
In the UK (and probably other places) 'hash' is shortened slang for hashish which is an illegal drug reference so that's why that's blocked.
I think the words you mentioned before should be unblocked too and I hope they will be some day soon.
aka steroids...haha...at least kids don't try to make real pots in real life like those other kids trying to make runescape-based card games.
Jagex actually just made print out runescape cards. I think they’re counting it as an update.
Well whatever they do, they fail. It's not because Java sucks. Java is a great tool except Jagex doesn't know how to innovate. As I said before, they don't know the meaning of "think outside the box". There are many examples out there that prove this.
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Absolutely, RuneScape had great potential, but, as with every single MMORPG on the planet, which popularity comes cheaters. And the funny thing is, the botters and autominers and all the other cheaters are actually the ones who helped support the economy in-game, as prices would've gone sky-high if there weren't any cheaters.
I know many people will probably disagree with me, but that is the cold, hard truth.
I think that Jagex pretty much killed the game on their own. The majority of the players had nothing to do with it. Jagex basically made a poor decision in trying to counteract one demographics of cheaters, and then, instead of removing that update, admitting they were wrong, and thinking of something else to make the game much more fun for non-cheaters, they made another update to cover up the bad one. Except that update was bad too, and the chain just kept going until finally Jagex removed the wilderness and a large chunk of the players left.
What Jagex really needs is to be bought out. And to tell the truth, they should have been a long, long time ago. I mean, Jagex makes millions every month, and there is a lot of profit that could be made for the company that finally buys Jagex.
Yeah I was biting my tongue a little, but its about time someone said it. If you look back on the history of Runescape, the few cheaters it had did ALOT for the community in ways some people will never understand. At one point the cheaters had an all out war against Jagex in which they killed the bankers because Jagex banned an entire clan that lured noobs into the wild and killed them (before there was multi person combat so everything was 1v1).
This act stopped Jagex from just banning people who were luring noobs into the wild and altogether from going ban crazy, which they were on the edge of doing back then. It also resulted in the firing or stripping of powers of the mod that was banning people.
Nowadays look at whats going on. You got mods banning people for no reason and altogether causing chaos with their scams. Then, you look around and there's hardly any cheaters left so guess what? No riots. Just people complaining on the forums which Jagex doesn't even care about.
I think that if one more massive riot breaks out, then Jagex will install a "No complaining" rule and enforce it more than they enforce many of the other rules.
Some may find that funny, but it truly seems that Jagex is on the edge.
Lol I think the first riot is what started Jagex's deep hatred for cheaters which were really a very small demographic. They didn't show their hate until a few years later though. Then, they went all out and still to this day tag every limitation they put on the game as "To Prevent Cheaters". They even managed to brainwash some people into thinking that cheaters were this HUGE threat with all their advertising and such.
Kinda reminds me of how the United States portrayed Asians and Nazi's back in the 30s and 40s.
They already do that, its not official but if you start a riot you can be permanently banned for “encouraging others to break rules”.
They've had almost 10 years to build up this game, I would hope that it had some potential.
Exactly..it was given to a bunch of people with more EGO than you could ever imagine...
Give Runescape with a real 3D enviroment like any modern graphic engine and it would be so imba.
I like Runescape but I dont play it anymore cause it got alittle boring, but if It would be a real game like WoW or whatever, that would be awesooooooooomness!
Guess what, MG plans to execute the SOS so that the game would be more "mature".....what do you guys think? ...you dont wanna know what I think.
I think he’s mentally challenged. He thinks removing a couple of PG words from the chat filter that should have never been there in the first place is “liberalizing” it.
Sounds like one of those fake 1940's communist post cards showing the grandeur of communist rule, when in reality things are grim.
Here's what I think...
By their very definition, games aren't thought of as "mature", at least in this society. There is so much that needs to be done to RS to make it appeal to older players.
I'm pretty sure I read something about having "older worlds" in RS. If they could actually make that work, that'd be pretty cool. Not sure if I can think off hand of any other MMOs that have that option.
The words that were uncensored aren't even mature in my opinion. Here let me list what I know:
-Ass
-Butt
-Kiss ass
-Damn
-kiss butt
-butthurt-butt hurt
-kick ass
-kick butt
-fap
That's all I know so far, and I consider those words to be at "kinder level"
Funny thing is I can't say less profane words such as: email, screw, shit...ESPECIALLY SHIT lulz
Talking about "other games"...tell me some games that allow this low level of profanity to be displayed? Lulz
Talking about older worlds and such, it won't happen because they expect mechscape to take that place.
Yeah maybe, but there's still plenty of room for older worlds in RS too. They've got the Quickchat worlds, so they can do the older worlds if they want to.
Pretty sure "email" was removed from the filter?
I know "crap", "ass", "school", "address", "suck" and "phone" were definitely taken out.
Of course on "older worlds" they'd be no filter at all...
Other games have a different (better) system in place, because they didn't make that mistake in the first place. In other MMOs I've played you have an optional chat filter, turn it on if you're bothered by profanity and off if you aren't - totally simple.
They made a rod for their own backs with the stupid filter thing, now they can't win either way with it.
That's great but there's no reason in doing it at this point of time, because mechscape is coming up too. Older worlds are not going to happen, trust me.
Nope, you still can't say screw, shit, or email. I just tested it. Try using "skkrew," it works and I've been reported for it several times but never banned. You still can't say poof or hash either which is annoying. Poof is "gay" in britian, but hash? I don't know. I keep trying to say hash code or whatever, because I made a program called PassHash and I tell people about it sometimes... But it gets filtered which pisses me off.
Now that hits the spot. Tell me, how are things going in rs?
great program by the way. Thumbs up 5/5
Well, I personally have been okay. I've gotten several levels up, and I 'm closing in on 130 combat. It's been far less frustrating to play without a random event attacking me every 10-15 minutes. With the partial loosening of the swear filter, I have also seen much less swearing and spamming (contrary to what you might think.)
As for the bad, however, I've been conscripted by 3 clans before I asked to join, verbally assaulted by two "noobs," and my ideas have gone ignored on the forums as usual.
I have also discovered that level has nothing to do with maturity:
PassHash, I believe, is the most "final" version of any program I've ever written. Usually about 95% of my programs are never finished or end up being unfit for public release. I'm glad you're happy with it. I'm quite proud that I actually finished writing a program so I like to talk about it, haha.
In the UK (and probably other places) 'hash' is shortened slang for hashish which is an illegal drug reference so that's why that's blocked.
I think the words you mentioned before should be unblocked too and I hope they will be some day soon.
Oh I didn't know Jagex had their own little anti-drugs campaign lmao.
Ironically due to the herblore skill.. they have all their players on " pots" .
aka steroids...haha...at least kids don't try to make real pots in real life like those other kids trying to make runescape-based card games.
Jagex actually just made print out runescape cards. I think they’re counting it as an update.
Jagex actually just made print out runescape cards. I think they’re counting it as an update.
Well whatever they do, they fail. It's not because Java sucks. Java is a great tool except Jagex doesn't know how to innovate. As I said before, they don't know the meaning of "think outside the box". There are many examples out there that prove this.
it used to have potential. jagex ruined it.
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