hello. sometimes it seems that no matter what type of conversation i get into with a clan some pmod will find some absurd reason to mute me and build up my black marks, so this leads me to think why keep playing if i am going to be perm muted some where in the near future? over the few months jagex has lost a fraction of there players due to heavy mutes and bans.

after reading the forums i found a reason not to quit i heard of a feature still being developed by jagex called "degrading black mark system" meaning offences on your account will go away over time with good behavior.

so my question is..do you think rule 1 should be removed and players be allowed to say whatever the hell they want to in game (bad words, racism, sexuality, drugs, crime, hate,etc)

with doing this rs will be a way better game imo and im sure jagex will have way more players if this ever happens, plus im pretty sure nothing bad will happen since mainly the majority of mmorpgs do not have speech restrictions.

Absolutely not, RS has many many players under the age of 16 that don't need to be immersed in a game full of "bad words, racism, sexuality, drugs, crime, hate,etc," as you put it. When Jagex made a 13 or under version of the game their subs increased 40% which means parents will let more of their children play if they can block out all of the offensive content.

Ages 14-16 don't need to be around that language either IMO and even though I don't play RS I would be happy to tell me friends young children about it because RS is a great game to break young kids into the world of MMORPGS.

personally, i applaud jagex. if you can't control your mouth you don't need to talk in a game that kids play.

RS is a free game so you should see it as a privilege to play. There is NO in game situation that warrant the use of the words you mentioned.

Im sure jagex would rather have less players, than a bunch of foul mouthed, ill-mannered, keyboard thugs around.

GJ Jagex!!!

Originally posted by merv808

personally, i applaud jagex. if you can't control your mouth you don't need to talk in a game that kids play.

RS is a free game so you should see it as a privilege to play. There is NO in game situation that warrant the use of the words you mentioned.

Im sure jagex would rather have less players, than a bunch of foul mouthed, ill-mannered, keyboard thugs around.

GJ Jagex!!!

 

no im pretty sure they would sacrifice the kid friendly theme to make more money.

Originally posted by merv808

personally, i applaud jagex. if you can't control your mouth you don't need to talk in a game that kids play.

RS is a free game so you should see it as a privilege to play. There is NO in game situation that warrant the use of the words you mentioned.

Im sure jagex would rather have less players, than a bunch of foul mouthed, ill-mannered, keyboard thugs around.

GJ Jagex!!!

 

Actually its the opposite now that they are cracking down on the language. Like I stated above they have had their subscriptions increase by 40% since they made the 13 and under feature.

Originally posted by ZoMBiEXxX

Originally posted by merv808

personally, i applaud jagex. if you can't control your mouth you don't need to talk in a game that kids play.

RS is a free game so you should see it as a privilege to play. There is NO in game situation that warrant the use of the words you mentioned.

Im sure jagex would rather have less players, than a bunch of foul mouthed, ill-mannered, keyboard thugs around.

GJ Jagex!!!

 

 

Actually its the opposite now that they are cracking down on the language. Like I stated above they have had their subscriptions increase by 40% since they made the 13 and under feature.

well thats cool, but we are still on the same page.

the answer to the OPs question is "no!". plain and simple

You know it is quite funny about Jagex, most other mmorpgs do not have a strict chat filter, but yet Runescape does and has more flaming, swearing and spamming than any other game out there. It has the single most worst community because it is mostly made up of little potty mouthed kiddos who have nothing beter to do than walk around trying to mispell  swear words to get around the chat filter. If Jagex was truely cracking down on this they would have to ban most of their players, so that is obviously not the case. You cannot log into any world on that game for any amount of time without seeing mispelled words, insults and spam.  I disagree that their chat filter helps anything. In the many years i have played that game I have seen it go further and further downhill in that dept.  It has a poor atmosphere and a poor community and everything Jagex has done has done nothing to improve that.  In that game you have 12 year olds dating 53 year old truck drivers, you have more sexually expicit chat than I have seen in any other mmorpg that I have played, You have kids walking around talking about their wankers and Jagex has not banned any of them. I strongly disagree that their chat filter is needed with what they have going on with it compared to other games that  have 100 x time community without one. It is all about customer service, Jagex does not know the meaning of that so they abviously do not know how to provide a spam free game with a good community.

after recent calculation i have read that rs will have approx, 20k more players if free speech is implemented.

Originally posted by sonicwhip

after recent calculation i have read that rs will have approx, 20k more players if free speech is implemented.

Thats nothing tbh. Maybe they'd consider it if it was 200k. But they woudn't no gaming company would allow those things.

Either way people are going to curse with or without the chat filter. Runescape has scared away most of the mature players of the game, so of course there is going to be kids saying curse words for the first time in there life because they think that makes them big. I have been followed by a level 3 that cursed like crazy for no reason at all. Thats just how poor the community has gotten.

Meh.... if you don't like the moderation policies, go play another game.

Free speech is an illusion, there is always limitations on speech no matter where you are, and gaming worlds are no different.

Originally posted by Kyleran

Meh.... if you don't like the moderation policies, go play another game.

Free speech is an illusion, there is always limitations on speech no matter where you are, and gaming worlds are no different.

 

Once again I have to explain that people can say what they think about the game and most have gone to other games, but that doesn't mean that they can't complain about it. And your probably right. Everywhere you go there will probably be a speech limitation. Even if rs did let free speech happen it wouldn't really make up for anything. They made mistakes and people left permanantly unless they bring back the wildy and other things, which is impossible seeing as how they don't want to admit their mistakes.  

Originally posted by deviliscious

You know it is quite funny about Jagex, most other mmorpgs do not have a strict chat filter, but yet Runescape does and has more flaming, swearing and spamming than any other game out there. It has the single most worst community because it is mostly made up of little potty mouthed kiddos who have nothing beter to do than walk around trying to mispell  swear words to get around the chat filter. If Jagex was truely cracking down on this they would have to ban most of their players, so that is obviously not the case. You cannot log into any world on that game for any amount of time without seeing mispelled words, insults and spam.  I disagree that their chat filter helps anything. In the many years i have played that game I have seen it go further and further downhill in that dept.  It has a poor atmosphere and a poor community and everything Jagex has done has done nothing to improve that.  In that game you have 12 year olds dating 53 year old truck drivers, you have more sexually expicit chat than I have seen in any other mmorpg that I have played, You have kids walking around t