Runescape

 This, my friends is a rant about runescape.

i knew runescape was going downhill when they decided to allow f2p's to fight in the duel arena.

now, when i was a noob, i used to look at that duel arena ALL the time and i would wish like nothing else that i could go in there. of course, i became a member then and saw how crummy it was. i bet there are a load of noobs who used to look into that duel arena and become a member just to take a look, so they have lost a lot of cash as well. then pking was banned. .............

then i thought, wow these guys are ruining their OWN game. usually people quit because they were hacked or pked to a point were they lost EVERYTHING. i used to love going into the wildy and completely screwing someones day, its what made runescape unique, then they got rid of trading over 3k for f2p's. i thought that was sooooo stupid, i quit. i researched into a runescape website just before i quit, but they had scrapped the website because 18,000 of their users had quit! 18,000 on 1 runescape fansite. there are HUNDREDS of those all over the place, i bet runescape has lost 30,000+

well done jagex.......you've screwed the 3rd most popular game in the world

Well i wouldnt say it was the 3rd most popular game in the world,hell its not even close to 3rd,but you are correct about the duel arena,i became a member once and i HATED the duel arena...i quitted when i got to the level 80s when i got DSL and i said to myself "I dont need this boring game anymore,i'm gonna play WoW,CoH,CoV,Warrock,and a hell of a lot of other games that are actually worth the time"

First you say that Jagex messed up by making Duel Arena F2P.

Then you criticized Jagex for getting rid of the wilderness.

The two things listed above are intertwined; the first is the cause and the second is the effect. I hope you realize that.

I also hope you realize that they did these changes because of the problem with Real-World Trading, and for the most part it's been quite effective. RWT would have 'screwed' the game a lot more than these updates have if something hadn't been done.

And RuneScape's either the second, third, or fourth most popular MMO in the world (damn the unreliable statistics).

I quit Runescape when they did those updates too.

On the forums there were at least 100 forum posts with large numbers of people on them that quit all because of the on pking(that ban shouldn't be with a question mark).

Anyway, Jagex ruined a awsome game.

P.S. The grand exchange and summoning stink too.

Spoiler: Runescape was already ruined.

Originally posted by BobCrazyton

Spoiler: Runescape was already ruined.

RWTer's aren't gone.  Instead they will sell accounts that are high leveled with cash on thwem and make more cash then before.  Not only thsat, but they also go on your account and make the money for you.

You really thought an update that Jagex made would get rid of these companis for good? Come on, they make too much money to be stopped in their tracks.  All these updates were only a little speed bump in the rosd for hese people

    There are still the same number of people on Runescape as there were last year. There was no mass- quitting.

But I'm glad you're moving on, this game is depressingly boring.

this is incorrect the number of paying members has significantly dropped .. People may still play in non but they aren;t going to pay for that junk L0L. Anyhow if you think that it is the same amount of people  paying for that game you are mistaken. I personally know  350 people quit and if i know that many then there had to be alot more since alot of them told me that their entire clans cancelled their memberships.

Real world traders exist in every game, I mean did they really have to ruin the game (which is around 3rd most popular in the world due to the fact of their being millions of activated free accounts) because of problems that exist in EVERY SINGLE FUCKIN GAME.  What they really need to invest their time into is creating a less crappy game engine and actually have a game that doesnt look like it was drawn by a third grader.  Unfair trades didnt solve anything.  Just stopped people from making pures because its pointless if you cant trade to your main. And, with the wildy all crapped out its not even worth it to get scared when you run through there wearing a santa hat or just trying to get to the mage/ agility areas.  Overall, the past months have severely fucked runescape and jagex needs to get rid of their changes or lose everything they have worked for.