Zantareous

Jagex has posted on Facebook:

Why not? If it allows me to better enjoy the game I believe I should be able to do so.

Back of my throat (chewing on my nails).

And now Amazon has added unlimited music storage: http://mashable.com/2011/07/06/amazon-cloud-player-storage/ (5 GB storage pace for free, with the option to pay for increased storage.)

I signed up for an invite the first day it was announced, still nothing :wall:

I've been using it for a few weeks now. I absolutely loved the concept, it basically takes two old music websites - Songza and Jelli Radio - and mixes them together to make streaming songs (usually in a select genre) chosen by and voted on by users. (When I first joined, however, I was expecting that the DJs would literally be remixing the songs live haha; maybe someday live remixes will be an option, could be interesting!) At first I thought the points system was great - it made people choose the best songs for each room because they wanted to gain the most points from the listeners. This meant that you were always listening to great songs for each room. I quickly found out, however, that it had severe drawbacks. DJs are so desperate for points and/or they don't *actually* know much about the genres (they're just there for the points) that they tend to play the same top songs over and over (they seem to find lists of top x-genre songs on websites like Last.fm and exclusively play those songs). A lot of the DJs might not even actually be present, they use a bot to grab a DJ spot and then make a long list of songs while they're AFK. The developers have talked about their future goals for turntable.fm and it seems really interesting. Among their ideas was the ability for artists to DJ and you could listen in, it would be just like an online concert. Say Deadmau5 were to DJ, you might even be able to pay and DJ right beside him. Now, personally, I would find that much more cool if the songs were actually being played live somehow, otherwise I could have just listened on Grooveshark/Youtube without all of the lag. I'd like to see Last.fm scrobbling in the future, an ability to see who's in the room (it's impossible to find certain users in crowded rooms), a better voting system (in rooms with lots of people, most are AFK, so your vote doesn't have much value if no one else is voting), and if possible move away from Flash (I believe they're planning to move to HTML5). And so, although the concept is awesome, I was burnt out quite fast; also, turntable.fm has been crippled more and more in order to remain legal, making it increasingly less fun. I think I'll stick to Pandora for now, maybe I'll drop by turntable.fm in the future if a friend wants to listen to some songs with me. Turntable.fm is in invite-only beta; in order to get in you need a Facebook friend that's already in or you need to receive an invite via email. If you need an invite, go on turntable's fan page (http://www.facebook.com/turntable.fm). There's always people on there offering the ability to add them as a friend on facebook in order to log on turntable.fm (after getting in, feel free to un-friend the person).

Jagex also posted a video of the falling rocks on their RuneScape channel: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-eJfdSl6JA Also, here's a "user" video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QG6AsOubylI (I find it odd that the person just happened to be recording then, this is their first video, and they even decided to add audio - especially RuneScape music instead of something by Evanescence or Drowning Pool)

I still would have preferred for all of the rewards to be cosmetic only, I don't agree with this method of obtaining auras.

Zombocom?

For those complaining about "If this is the biggest update of the year..." it is better worded on their Twitter account: (https://twitter.com/#!/RuneScape/status/86476365674713088) I think it's an awesome update regardless... So much hate. :(

This sounds amazing! This kind of update would actually make me continually renew my membership if done correctly. :D

Same. You don't need to use an email (at least for the initial login, maybe they changed it recently). After logging in I was welcomed with a white page, so I used ReloadEvery (Firefox addon) to reload the page until it displayed the correct page.

If your membership were to run out today or tomorrow (after signing up for the program) would you receive the 3,000 Loyalty Points for re-subscribing?

The "sign up now" (http://www.runescape.com/m=loyalty-points/) link isn't working for me.

I nostalgia'd

Awesome :o

The models definitely don't go together with the water. It looks like a bad picture edit.

I would like it if they were to bring back the old Tutorial Island and at the Quest Guide part (before you go down the ladder to learn about Mining/Smithing) the Quest Guide would ask you if you want to complete your first quest. This quest would be to go down the ladder where you would be greeted by the White Knight and complete the current tutorial of defeating the dragon (the current tutorial even has that ladder at the entrance, so both tutorials work together quite well). They could further expand this storyline by saying that the Dragon is blocking the path to the mines, so you need to clear him out to get to the Mining/Smithing instructor and then complete the old tutorial as usual.

lolwat.

That as well, super annoying.

Slightly relevant, another (recent) RuneScape-related annoyance some people have been experiencing is that RuneScape will sometimes steal complete attention of anything you type, e.g. trying to type a URL in the address bar of a new tab will appear in the RuneScape window instead. Is this exclusively a Firefox 4 problem, or are other browsers experiencing this as well?

The GE and Hiscores have always been a hit-and-miss for me - I press Enter and hope for the best.

Wouldn't this work better on other tablets?

Standing around and seeing the average asking price, Zybez, Forums.

When old friends stop playing and I've completed my few remaining large goals.