The Chronicles of Narnia. Narnia itself isn't that great, but Lewis mentions multiple dimensions, giving developers much flexibility.

Originally posted by Aristea

As far as FPS goes, it's more TPS to me ( third person shooter ) but it's not a shooter. There will not be any mouseclicking to move though.

If you have to aim with a reticule, it's a shooter.

Next SWG? No.

Crappy home-made game? No.

Something in between, perhaps. When it comes out, it should be added to the list. However, I don't think it's worth tracking.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

 

 

And yes it is too late for Jagex, instead of giving their CS staff training or emplying people who give a shit to paying customers instead of spending resources on a german client no one plays...

The German version of the game didn't take a lot of money to make. They just translated all the words to German on two new servers.

Originally posted by Ozmodan

I love how they come up with 6 million active customers, they really mean 6 million have downloaded the game at one time or other, they probably have a couple hundred thousand active accounts at best.  Get pretty tired of these developers lying through their teeth about subscription numbers, means you just cannot trust them at all.

First of all, RuneScape's a browser game. You don't have to download it.

Second of all, it says that there are 6 million active players, not customers. There are only one million paying subscribers. I think 6 million is a bit high, but not too far off.

Third, it'd be pretty odd to have 150,000 to 250,000 players logged on at any given time if the total amount of players was only a little higher than that.

Developers don't lie. They all learned their lesson after what happened to DnL.

Originally posted by AmazingAvery

Originally posted by Llamster

 

Originally posted by Aristea

Watch out for agressive mods there, the word idiot might get you a ban pretty quick. Change it now, before the Americans wake up, Don't think they've got Europeans as mods.

Strange thing to say, considering that Jagex is a UK based company and all three of its offices are located in the UK.

 

Yeah, I agree with the thing about Customer Support. But hey, there's five million players. It'd be pretty hard to get decent support for all of them.

I started when there was around 2000 ppl, and left the game about 20 months ago, in all that time it just got worse and worse. The final straw was the automated responses about nothing I was having issues with. It was bad to begin with. Seriously though if CS picked up and the company looked liked it cared for the community things would of been better, although something tells me its too late for that now.

Jagex does care for the community. After all, that's where all the money comes from.

Your last sentence is bull. Of course it's never too late. Jagex makes a lot of money and is able to do a lot of things. However, they seem satisfied with the 105 customer support employees they have right now, and that's not a good thing.

Originally posted by Aristea

Watch out for agressive mods there, the word idiot might get you a ban pretty quick. Change it now, before the Americans wake up, Don't think they've got Europeans as mods.

 Lol.

Yeah, I agree with the thing about Customer Support. But hey, there's five million players. It'd be pretty hard to get decent support for all of them.

The scamming and gold market isn't as bad as the overall immaturity of the community. And the community isn't as bad as the low-end graphics and dull gameplay.

On your poll, I rated it a 6.

Originally posted by Soldarith

1.) HALO series - There is hardly a rival that can compete, IMO, to this absolutely amazing soundtrack (all 3 of them!)

You're damn right. I love the tunes from Halo 2.

I felt that this is too big for the RuneScape forum (no one ever goes there).

I get your point. It's just that most Java MMOs have poor graphics, so people assume that Java isn't very good.

RuneScape is 3D because it has x, y, and z axes, unlike just x and z for MapleStory and x and y for all other 2D games. Also, you can swivel the camera. However, it has no zoom feature, so I guess you could say that it doesn't have a "3D perspective".

Of course those are just renders. If they were real screenshots, that would be pathetic.

I'll be keeping track of this. Good luck!

Maybe you could try LOTRO. It has spectacular graphics.

Remember, though. Gameplay > Graphics. Vanguard is an excellent example of that.

No, the map is too small. It's slightly smaller than most F2P Korean MMOs, which is pathetic since RuneScape makes so much money. I made some calculations and estimated that the total land area is about 1/2 of a square mile.

However, the amount of stuff squeezed into such a small place makes the map seem bigger.

Just clearing something up.

There are about 1 million subscribers.

The total number of active players is about 4-5 million.

RuneScape is popular because it's a browser game.

You aren't anywhere near the truth. RuneScape is popular because it's easily accessible. It is, without question, the best browser game ever made.

I was about to watch it, but then they asked for my age. I decided against it.

Please don't post anything like this again.

Originally posted by JasPlun

 If this company cannot handle both games then they definatly are not able to handle a game of the magnitude STO should be.

That's exactly why they cancelled Gods and Heroes, so that STO would turn out good.

Also, I was unaware that SOE changed its name to $ony Online Entertainment ($OE).

I'm thinking that this article is more of a humorous one as opposed to a rant.

If it is serious.....

...... well that's just sad.

Originally posted by megaflux

raises an interesting question: what BETTER things are there to do with our time?

drugs?  not productive

sex? productive but honestly kids detract from game time, and they grow up to be bastard kid gamers.

physical activities? over rated , unless they add some kind of fight to the death sport to reality.

extreme sports? yay broken bones.

there is just very little to do BUT play games, even if we built like doozers theres limits to space.

i think until they legalize the wholesale slaughter of lawyers and politicians there will be NOTHING better to do than playing video games.

 

I really hope that this is sarcasm.

Because the in-game economy would crash.