Who cares?

Runescape is a stupid game with awful graphics and boring gameplay... end of story... good bye!

PS... Membership is a ripoff!

I quit runescape because of the trading update...now i can't merchant or give my friends stuff...irritating..

Originally posted by phatpetey

In my eyes runescape really is ruined. Many of the great features just dissapeared. I think the main reason why Jagex did this is to make their game more open for younger gamers. By introducing the Grand Exchange system it's made impossible for smart players to merchant. Young players have no idea how to do this. Younger players might get lost in the wilderness and lose alot of items with the new Pk rules it's impossible to lose your gear. It seems like Jagex is de-adulting it's game.

Aaah, its made it harder to merchant, and more difficult to find a niche, but not impossible. Using the GE database, and with around 20m to start, a, lets say, arbitrage with rarer, high value items can be used.  

Unless your were a merchant before trade restrictions/GE who bought/sold things like d chains, pHats, etc. This form of "merchanting" is far more efficient.

Behind the scenes June

Woo, two new quests! Yay!

i miss the wilderness

Originally posted by sonicwhip

i miss the wilderness

who doesn't

I don't agree with the updates I enjoyed Runescape alot more before but I can see their reasons for doing it.. It has saved Runescape and because of these updates we still have a good game that we can enjoy. However I think Runescape blatently know they have done wrong and are oblivious to our efforts to help such as posts on the forums on how to stamp out RWT but to bring back to wilderness so I am 50/50 about the update. I just wish Jagex would listen.

Originally posted by pkdarang0r

I don't agree with the updates I enjoyed Runescape alot more before but I can see their reasons for doing it.. It has saved Runescape and because of these updates we still have a good game that we can enjoy. However I think Runescape blatently know they have done wrong and are oblivious to our efforts to help such as posts on the forums on how to stamp out RWT but to bring back to wilderness so I am 50/50 about the update. I just wish Jagex would listen.

Well, i for one, do not see the reason for the updates. every MMORPG has some form of real world trading, you can't expect runescape to be any different.

Yes but it was the MANNER IN WHICH JAGEX CARRIED THESE UPDATES OUT which has upset lots of people.

Originally posted by swaindaddy

Really, who cares. It's Runescape - a MMORPG for kids.

its rated for 13 year olds -.- and i think its good  the trade and wild update made more than 10,000 players quit most of those players were scammers and RWTers atleast they got rid of some of them RIGHT? you have to think of the bright side and if you hate runescape, dont post anything on RUNESCAPE FORUMS

Originally posted by exel134

its rated for 13 year olds -.- and i think its good  the trade and wild update made more than 10,000 players quit most of those players were scammers and RWTers atleast they got rid of some of them RIGHT? you have to think of the bright side and if you hate runescape, dont post anything on RUNESCAPE FORUMS

Actually you are incorrect. The RMTS still play the game, they get paid to play so they are still there just now they are selling fully loaded accounts and logging onto other peoples accounts and getting the stuff they paid for for them while they sleep. The Player loss was in LAW ABIDING MEMBERS those updates affected clans, families, and long time players the most and they are the ones that quit. BTW your numbers are wayy off, Jagex announced that they lost $60,000 members months ago, and I still think they greatly deflated that number to try and make it not look as bad as it truely was at that time. Since then they have lost hundreds of thousands of players and are now hiding their player counter that used to show the number of players online. The counters were showing about 50,0000 players online before they decided to hide them according to everyone I spoke with on that subject.

I am thinking of the bright side of all this, they are hiring for a "New Head of Runescape"  so hopefully they are getting rid of the idiot who messed the game up and  hopefully are getting someone in there that can make real changes to the game instead of demolish it. That is the bright side of all this,  maybe the next guy will do better.

Your right do not go Runescapes game forums if you disagree and want to make good suggestions to their game, they will just delete the posts, and ban you from forums. That is why players can come here and post freely about the game where Jagex cannot control the population by trying to brainwash them into thinking that they needed to do that to their game. The members here have played other games and can compare all games freely without having the Game makers decide what they get to say. That is what this site is for. Being able to speak freely about the games love em or hate em. All opinions are welcome here, the good the bad and the ugly.

I believe taking out Staking, Trading, and PKing ruined the game big time...

Makes me miss the old days, Runescape Classic... ooh... good ol' days... even the community back then was... sooo much more mature.

EDIT: and the counter is still there.

And also, botting is still pretty much alive... so is RWT, they tried hard; but failed.

Originally posted by Malduster

And also, botting is still pretty much alive... so is RWT, they tried hard; but failed.

Maybe there are a few people botting but the number of bots actually has decreased, places where yews etc were where there were 5 level 3's cutting the tree you were cutting, they have mostly gone. And yes RWT obviously isn't totally gone but it is harder for them to do it and less people do it now because its not worth the effort.

True, but what im saying is their efforts to bring down botting etc brought down runescape, thats MY view atleast...

Mass banning worked perfect, but they did not really have enough time for that, the two times they DID do it we saw a MAJOR decline in the bot population.

Fact is, I miss Runescape... Behind the crappy browser based graphics, it used to be a deep game with an awesome economy, amazing PvP and what not.

Originally posted by Malduster

True, but what im saying is their efforts to bring down botting etc brought down runescape, thats MY view atleast...

 

Mass banning worked perfect, but they did not really have enough time for that, the two times they DID do it we saw a MAJOR decline in the bot population.

 

Fact is, I miss Runescape... Behind the crappy browser based graphics, it used to be a deep game with an awesome economy, amazing PvP and what not.

OK that's fair enough..

Actually, you can still merchant... it's almost better now then before the update. Yes pures are in trouble because they have no use, but the people that ever thought of making pures in the first place are insane! There no good. Runescapes economy is going up, even though you don't think the new updates were good. Most people take advantage of them.

Originally posted by nbeecher

Actually, you can still merchant... it's almost better now then before the update. Yes pures are in trouble because they have no use, but the people that ever thought of making pures in the first place are insane! There no good. Runescapes economy is going up, even though you don't think the new updates were good. Most people take advantage of them.

I have to strongly disagree that the econonmy is going up, in it's current state it is very, very broken.

When they removed the wilderness pk they also removed the demand for player made items, and threw the game into a majorly off balanced tailspin.  Since Runite armor, weapons, and crafted dhide do not degrade or need to be replaced a player only needs one of them in the game. Any player who crafts in the game crafts many of these items, not just one, and since there are more sellers than buyers of these items  The supply and demand of the game is thrown way off. With the old wilderness it created a huge demand for Pots, food, armor ,weapons, runes,  and arrows that no longer exists. There is no reason to craft these items any more because the profit is gone.  Pots sit on the exchange forever now when you used to be able to sell supersets in 2 min if you just hopped to the right world to do so. The entire system is very broken because the supplies it takes to make the items cost more than the crafted items themselves so there is no profit in skill training and no reason to exist.  That in combination with the trade limits means you can no longer convienance merchant and there is no longer any real reason for convienace merchanting simply because most of convienance merchanting took place due to the old wilderness. Players were in a  hurry to get back to fighting and would buy at a higher price not to have to go to faly w2  in order to buy what they needed to get back to the war. They have not done anything to repair this broken crippled economy since the updates, I do not see how they really can within the new framework, unless they start making all items degradable and create a new demand for all player crafted items I do not see it happeneing any time soon.

Agreed Devil.  Stength potions are now 750ea, from when they used to sell 1k each.  I am now going to be conducting a test- I have put 600 lobsters in the G.E. selling at 248ea.  If the econemy had actually gotten better, then we should see them sell rather quickly, since they sold very fast before (especially at that price).