Warillusen wrote:I was free to play for most of my Runescape times. I never read updates, I just played because friends were playing it. I was 13 when I started Runescape, Everybody in year 7 played it talked about it. Runescape was enjoyable with friends, now the only person I know irl who still plays Runescape is Sam even then she's inactive.

RSMVs died along with Luckybucket, all there is now is clusterfuck of colours.
The only problem I see with Castle Wars now is that there is a lot less people who play it.
Why would you even complain about KQ? Everybody knows it was bound to happen, that it'd be topped by a stronger boss.
Who the hell did actually Rev hunt? It was terrible. I don't know how far you're talking back but Revs to me was very recent. Even if it was 3 years ago.

The game was funner when we were young (and stupid).

Owen wrote:
I used to rev hunt for the majority of my time >_> I made 3 videos about rev hunting, it was fun/scary sense of danger and all that.

Owen wrote:I mentioned KQ because.. Jagex have released 2 "bosses" in about 2 (maybe 3) years. (TDs and Nex.) [unless you count chaos dworges or w/e they're called. the things that drop dpicks. >_> But no, they're level 112 or some bs.] for people who actually enjoy boss hunting, there really isn't a lot of choice, since.. how many times can you do a boss before getting bored?

Owen wrote:Oh.. Castle wars.. Where to start.. (Ima put these in bullet points)
- Ballista's. Just.. why?
- -place cade- -set cade on fire- -zs spec the person trying to get up the stairs- -place cade- -set cade on fire- -zs the person trying to get up the stairs- And so on.. making it impossible to get past. (if they're good)
- Afkers. purely to get the "game" to add to their total for comp cape.
- This point is kinda 2 in 1; The rewards. ok, so the halo/armour is decent, however.. there new content is a CASTLE WARS CHINCHOMPA, which.. you buy 3 for 1 ticket? that's playing a full game and drawing it.. for 3 chinchompas.. I could understand if it was say.. 20k gp for 3.. or something someone would actually pay.. (I know they're not regular chinchompas, but they suck.) and, because the rewards aren't.. "good" enough in my opinion, people think they can just sit back at the base "defending" when really, the other team is winning 5-0 and they're defending. (ok rant over.)

Owen wrote:I don't fully agree with that either, I know what you're saying, however, something I think you're overlooking is..
well, let's use slayer as the example. What benefit is there of getting 99 slayer now a days? The cape? Ok, cool, slayer is one of the nicest capes around, HOWEVER you will see many people walking around with them, which doesn't make you "stand out" in the crowd. Which to me anyway, is the purpose of getting the cape. The money? and have a level 113 come up with 2b/3 phats/20 santas or whatever saying "l0l i just staked 2b and won" after you've spent weeks getting 99 slayer, which you may have made.. 50m? if you're lucky.

Owen wrote:Oh.. and P.s. For a new player logging into f2p, they'd be greeted by "BUY CHEAP GOLD AT RSGOLD.NET TROLOLOLOL ONLY 0.59$ PER 1 MILLION!@" pretty sure half of them would leave.

Invisible349 wrote:I liked it back when I hadn't discovered everything in RS.

You're angry at a tactic people use? Or the Zspear?

Well once again Owen, the reason they have made more bosses is because it's what people wanted, they saw people killing a lot of KQ or KBD and decided people need more variety. I really don't see a problem with more bosses, I don't enjoy killing them myself but yes, they provide those 'PvM' kids entertainment.

If you enjoy slayer and respect it as a skill then you'll do it for whatever. Look at Dav, he still trains slayer regardless of people staking.

Invisible349 wrote:I liked it back when I hadn't discovered everything in RS.

Penguin414 wrote:They do give you a few new things to check out every month. But they can't put out an entire area each month so you are going to know the game like the back of your hand. Not even WoW does that, no game does.

• Gnome Graphical rework (February)
  
• Elemental Workshop IV (March)
  
• Ring of Wealth (March)
  
• Livid Farm (April)
  
• Clan Camp (April)
  
• Holly and Hawthorn - Easter Event (April)
  
• Capes of Distinction (May)
  
• Lava Flow Mine (May)
  
• Loyalty Rewards (June)
  
• Troll Invasion (June)
  
• Clan Citadels (July)
  
• New Grand Exchange (August)
  
• Temple Trekking rework (August)
  
• Addition rewards for minigames (August)
  
• Branches of Drakmeyer and graphics overhaul (August)
  

• Gnome Graphical rework (February) [Not interested in graphics, I don't think anyone who started rs originally is.]
  
• Elemental Workshop IV (March) [I don't like quests]
  
• Ring of Wealth (March) [Corp Glitch.]
  
• Livid Farm (April) [Not interested enough to go and actally see what this is about]
  
• Clan Camp (April) [Waste of space IMO. However, I like the concept.]
  
• Holly and Hawthorn - Easter Event (April) [The easter event failed? >_> That's what I thought. Esp. the emote]
  
• Capes of Distinction (May) [WOOHOO The first relatively interesting thing.]
  
• Lava Flow Mine (May) [All i've heard/read about this, is that you get the mining armour for a 2.5% exp boost.]
  
• Loyalty Rewards (June) [Lame.]
  
• Troll Invasion (June) [Another way to boost skills without actually doing the skill! Is anyone ever going to Runecraft again?]
  
• Clan Citadels (July) [Set the bars too high per tier, only favours the most popular clans get even bigger.]
  
• New Grand Exchange (August) [Not that "epic" in the GRAND scheme of things (cwutididther) but yes, decent update.]
  
• Temple Trekking rework (August) [I don't really care about Temple Trekking >_>]
  
• Addition rewards for minigames (August) [These are great until you look at.. "Oh wait, 60k Runecrafting guild tokens for an armour that gives 2.5% extra xp?" Generally, I like these..]
  
• Branches of Drakmeyer and graphics overhaul (August) [not released yet? >_>]
  

• Mage Training Arena (January)
  
• Agility Pyramid (January) *Then tweaked 3 days later*
  
• 4 new worlds (February)
  
• Fairy tale part 1 (February)
  
• Chaos elemental/Dragon 2h's (February)
  
• Pies (Garden/summer ect.) (February)
  
• Recipe for Disaster (March)
  
• 5 more words. (March)
  
• Temple Treking released (March) [Ironically]
  
• Pest control (April) *and then Adjusted 6 days later*
  
• Rune essence adjustments (April) (TO TRY AND STOP BOTTING)
  
• New Rsof. (April)
  
• New and improved Game Engine. (May)
  
• More Changes to Pest control (May)
  
• Player Owned Houses (May)
  
• 11 New worlds (May)
  
• Pyramid Plunder (June)
  
• Trouble Brewing (June)
  
• Stronghold Security (June)
  
• Fairy tale Part 2 (June)
  
• Warriors guild (June)
  
• Crossbows. (June)
  
• Lunar Diplomacy (June)
  

Warillusen wrote:Dude, most of the reasons you put for those updates you're just slack to do.
You're being way over antagonistic about this, quit being ignorant and try them before criticizing them.

Owen wrote:
One Question; Are you happy with the direction RuneScape is heading?

• Graphics: A lot of players from various MMO's will always compare games upon graphics "WoW has better graphics than the rest", "Pirate Galaxy has great graphics compared to others". I think it is highly reasonable that JAGEX are spending the time to drastically improve the graphics of the game. With Console game reviews its always "CoD Black Ops 9/10", "Operation Flashpoint 8/10". These reviews are based on graphics as well as game play. To me, my dad has both of these, I don't think the graphics of it are that good on them. The graphics that JAGEX are managing to add to Runescape is great seeing as it has to be done through Java rather than a personal game engine. There are still limits with Java that a lot of games are struggling to get past but JAGEX are trying to push them to the limit to make the game look the best it can. I am very pleased with the graphical situation of the game at the moment and think that once the entire map has been done, it should add a new depth to game play that we don't yet see.
  
  
• Content: Yeah, maybe the content this year so far hasn't been as exciting as 2006 but thats not the point. Some of the updates from this year have been adding and expanding to those released back in 2006. Adding more scenarios to minigames, adding new magic spells. Yeah, fine a lot of the updates this year have been graphic/audio related but I've mentioned about that above. The updates that are actually content haven't been to bad. Jadinko lair sounds like a fairly decent place to train a variety of skills, combat and non-combat ones. It also sounds like its been a successful update from the feedback I have heard about it. Lava Flow Mine, You won't find several hundred people doing this on every world, but its a nice way to train mining fast if you don't like the atmosphere at LRC, I personally think this content is alright, yeah, its not going to be massively used but it's been added for variety. Artisans Workshop, once again, it was added to give Smithers a different way to train. I haven't done a lot of it myself but from feedback I've read, it seems like a fairly decent bit of content, it could do with a few improvements by the sounds of it, but nonetheless, those who have tried it enough think it was a good update. Without new content being added, the game would die and I think the content that is being added is acceptable.
  
  
• Quests: Some of this years quests haven't been the best but you have to write new quests based upon the current storyline and lore of the game. Not to mention that you have to avoid conflict between any other quests that are in the pipeline. I was a bit dissapointed that the Slug Queen died from a pillar falling on her but I liked the way the quest worked. I liked the mechanics of having to control the other characters along with your own to complete the puzzles and I look forward to seeing that mechanism being used more often. I suppose you could say we are lacking the Grand Master quest for this year, you would be right, but there is no need for JAGEX to release massive quests every single year, yeah, there seems to be a big hype about ROTM based upon the fact that the community found out about it as soon as it started being designed. Nonetheless, I think the overall content of the quests that have been released so far has been very good.
  
  
• Experience: I think the overall game play experience has drastically improved over the last 2 years. Obviously there are some positives and negatives but I genuinely feel that its been on the up. Yeah, if your a free player there is a huge problem of RWT advertisments and bots but if you ignore that, I feel the free player experience has been getting better. No longer do the graphics of Lumbridge look square and incredibly old, when you finish the induction quest and you appear in Lumbridge, you are greeted by nice graphics, and what looks like a pleasant village. First thoughts to a new player would be "This place looks quite nice, I'm going to check out some of the other areas". Moving on to members, yes there is a large number of bots that seem to be infesting a rather large amount of places but it's like people have been pointing out. For everytime that JAGEX ban 1 bot, the chances are another 3 brand new accounts have been created by the owner to start botting again. The problem is not necessarily stopping the bots but encouraging people not to bot, that way, less botting accounts are being created and they can gain control on the problem. Bots also help keep the prices of things in the grand exchange where they need to be. Look at the number of people who train prayer for example, the number of bones being brought each day is a very large number? What would happen without any bots to collect those bones? The price of bones would rise up to well over 8k each. These promotional offers haven't exactly been the best way to promote the game but I'm not sure it can be helped. The reason for the Katana was to try and show members as well as free players that these 90 days exist and can be picked up from a large number of shops these days for what is a reasonable price to pay for membership compared to other MMO games. The refer a friend is a fairly poor attempt at trying to encourage new players to play. Yeah, it does favour bots, yes, they could have introduced something similar with different rewards instead and I wish they would have. I've already encourage the majority of my friends to play this game, a lot of them have accounts, but will only log on for seasonal events and such these days because they have lost interest or found other games on the market. I honestly think that setting aside the problem that bots are taking a while to be dealt with, I think game play experience is on the up.
  

Mr V wrote:I think the content that is being added is acceptable.

Mr V wrote:
No longer do the graphics of Lumbridge look square and incredibly old, when you finish the induction quest and you appear in Lumbridge, you are greeted by nice graphics, and what looks like a pleasant village. First thoughts to a new player would be "This place looks quite nice, I'm going to check out some of the other areas".

Mr V wrote:
For everytime that JAGEX ban 1 bot, the chances are another 3 brand new accounts have been created by the owner to start botting again.

Warillusen wrote:You cannot rid bots. In any MMO, it's impossible.

Warillusen wrote:Though sometimes I ponder if the bot problem was as bad as before the Wilderness and Free Trade removal.