Can't escape the present: Well, I haven't played in 2006 so I don't really can say what it's like. But I think what people think back then was so much better is not how the game in itself worked, it was more the spirit of it. Jagex was smaller at the time and at least seemingly not so money-oriented as of today. Also, I think it had more of a "cult" game status back then that comes from not having good graphics and being told of only through players themselves(kind of like minecraft today).
Today, even though I haven't played back then...Jagex seems more distant somehow.
Why the negativity: Well, have you ever though about that this are simply your feelings because you personally like pking very much? For me, and from what I've seen from some others the general feeling is that some people at Jagex don't care as much about runescape anymore and only use it as a cash cow. There are several incidents to suggest this, one of them introducing wildy/free trade with no functioning bot detection system. We *do* know now that bots are back forcefully(I don't know when you wrote this article, but honestly even before the update it wasn't hard to guess tbh - there were plenty of people predicting exactly this.)
There are some other points of your article I disagree with.
The report abuse button: Have fun wasting 2 hours of your playtime reporting 100 bots at Aubury's on *one* world. Even if you do...what use if 1.it takes months until something happens 2.for some bots, nothing happens at all 3.most will just get rolledback slightly 4.even those banned can buy their accounts back?
The community using the economy to disable bots: Dream on. Nuff said, sorry.
I will happily provide Jagex with feedback and ideas, but only when I get the impression that it is of any use. From the way they are acting at the moment, I never even slightly had the idea that this would be the case.
Tbh reporting the bots does work, I mean yes as I am a Pmod it helps with my reports as they get processed alot quicker, but bots only get removed if the community complains. As jagex is a company they have to make £££, and with bots bringing in a huge chunk of that that wont change. Unless as the point is raised, the community does something. If the entire comunity, or even just a large majority raised their voices Jagex would have to bow to their wishes as simply, if the paying members get pissed off, there goes a large amount of their income. Yes I know we all love cheaper items generated by the bots, but in the end it just leaves the older players sitting on top with newer players stiffled at the bottom.
So yes the community needs to work together, and the chances are very slim for that, espcially against bots, because simply - just how many high lv players have botted? I bet you more than a few...
But remember as paying customers Jagex has to take note of what is said by us. If we shout out for harsher punishment for botting, with deleting of bot accounts, they will have to comprimise for us...
Tip.It Times - 27th February 2011
in General Discussion
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Tbh reporting the bots does work, I mean yes as I am a Pmod it helps with my reports as they get processed alot quicker, but bots only get removed if the community complains. As jagex is a company they have to make £££, and with bots bringing in a huge chunk of that that wont change. Unless as the point is raised, the community does something. If the entire comunity, or even just a large majority raised their voices Jagex would have to bow to their wishes as simply, if the paying members get pissed off, there goes a large amount of their income. Yes I know we all love cheaper items generated by the bots, but in the end it just leaves the older players sitting on top with newer players stiffled at the bottom.
So yes the community needs to work together, and the chances are very slim for that, espcially against bots, because simply - just how many high lv players have botted? I bet you more than a few...
But remember as paying customers Jagex has to take note of what is said by us. If we shout out for harsher punishment for botting, with deleting of bot accounts, they will have to comprimise for us...