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Why Runescape is Dying
Manacoid:
It's refreshing that someone is actually trying to do something about whats going on with Runescape.
The game community has completely diminished, the generation that played before and the generation that plays now is completltly different. Without the great community the game had years ago the game is just less appealing.
The company itself has changed from giving a decent game with great community to money hoarders. Of course a company needs money to survive but as soon as I log onto F2P I see at least 6 different ways Jagex want's someone to subscribe. It's sickening to see a subscribe button on the left of the screen. It can't be helped really.
Sean:
--- Quote from: Manacoid on January 04, 2014, 09:26:23 pm ---It's refreshing that someone is actually trying to do something about whats going on with Runescape.
The game community has completely diminished, the generation that played before and the generation that plays now is completltly different. Without the great community the game had years ago the game is just less appealing.
The company itself has changed from giving a decent game with great community to money hoarders. Of course a company needs money to survive but as soon as I log onto F2P I see at least 6 different ways Jagex want's someone to subscribe. It's sickening to see a subscribe button on the left of the screen. It can't be helped really.
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They became more and more money hoarding once Andrew, Paul and co. began selling their shares to venture capital companies. The money from which, it would appear, has been invested in games such as MechScape (scrapped), Stellar Dawn (permanent hiatus), 8realms (scrapped), FunOrb (discontinued) and their publishing attempt with War of Legends (no game updates in almost a year). Their current endeavour with Hasbro in Transformers Universe is already massively delayed, I'm half expecting that to be scrapped or flop.
The investors must see this, and I doubt they're happy. They will be forcing Jagex to milk the cash cow of RuneScape to get a return on their investment. That's how I see it anyway.
slayer123121:
--- Quote from: His Lordship on November 28, 2013, 11:20:59 pm ---
Thoughts?
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Damn Lordy, i've been back for 2 weeks for first time since 06 and your SPOT ON. Wtf are all these bars of Adrenaline etc! Get rid, i don't want this junk, i want simpler combat, not the 5000 buttons i currently have, atm i wouldn't dare going into the Wilderness Pking! Make it simpler i'll be on more, and all the oldies will return/you'll drive newer players into staying as PVP is THE way forward.
All in All great video, and i do like this Rs3 i do, however like you said simplfy the combat system and make the wild simple again and it'll make the game much MUCH better.
sweat:
If they did a legitimate poll like the one for 07 servers, but it was to take eoc out of rs3, and it required like 5M member accounts to vote for it, I bet it would reach that goal. The only major problem Jagex has with it is the time they invested in eoc. It would require a lot of back tracking to make all the new current top tier weapons be balanced in the old combat system. Tons of stats and special attacks would have to be made.