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Looking forward to a more mature runescape

Norriie

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At first, I was a bit upset with the wilderness & free trade changes. I hated the idea that runescape would be going back to the old days of level-3-bald-green-shirt-guy bots, item scammers, and gloating pkers (after knowingly killing someone on a treasure trail!). But I think I was wrong in being so angry.

 

Especially after today's update, which gave us the long-awaited ability to remove the language filter. A couple months back I started moving away from runescape. Maybe it was just boredom, maybe it was finals coming up and studying taking up most of my time, or maybe I was growing out of this game that I've loved for all these years.

 

I found myself playing other games. Games with better combat systems. Games with more intuitive controls (and customizable hotkeys, damn it!). Games with unrestricted language, trading, and just more control overall given to your unique playing experience. There are, admittedly, a lot of things that runescape lacks. And it'll take time for us to get those things, if we ever do. But I can see that right now, Jagex is working towards the most important aspect of any RPG - Freedom. That's why we play this game, instead of one with specific levels, or zones, or any other way of separating one part of the game from the next. MMORPGs are often known for their free-roaming, take-it-at-your-own-pace kind of gameplay.

 

And after all this time, the game we know and love had become more restrictive. Because it's easy to see something wrong and just add a new rule to get rid of it. But it isn't easy to find a solution that retains your freedom, while fixing the problem too. Jagex isn't quite there yet, but they're trying. They've made some massive improvements already, and a lot of smaller steps in the right direction.

I just hope that it doesn't stop here.

 

 

(And hey, maybe next update they'll give us WASD controls.

Or not...but a girl can dream, right?)

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tripsis

I can relate to a lot of what you said :) In particular, I have often criticized RuneScape for the extreme simplicity of their combat system. There's almost no challenge, skill or critical thinking/planning required. It's completely click+wait based combat. After a certain point I moved on to other MMOs with more complex combat systems with individual skills, which require the player to understand their skill set and know how and when to use them.

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FunWithMorte

I've been playing Runescape on and off since a while before RS2... and I left not long after RS2 was released, then I return to find out I can no longer access RS Classic which made me a bit depressed... I leave, return again and notice what I am assuming was the non-free trade system? where you can only trade a certain amount per trade or something... I am unfamiliar with it, I left for a week and came back and it was gone. =\

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