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I'd say cooking is the least admirable followed closely by fletching and firemaking, cooking and fletch virtually pay out what you put it and firemaking is so much xp it's just click click click rather than cost. But look at it the other way, i have a friend who got 99 wc (and yes legit lol) she's now been fletching and is close to 99 in that too, you can't say that just the pure clicking is unadmirable if they actually got all the supplies themselves.

First of all: Just because Jagex made a quest that allows you to skip the Chaos Maze does in NO WAY mean the game is directing itself to yougner players. Players do the quest, and thus, get the reward that makes life easier. Second of all: Just because Andrew Gower is one of the richest men in the U.K. does in NO WAY mean Jagex is trying to get younger audiences. It means the game is expanding and becoming more succesful. More and more players, some of which are younger than 13, some of which are older, are playing. Third of all: Anyone who thinks that all of Runescape is going to the children need to do the quest Another Slice of H.A.M. In said quest, the antagonist holds the protagonist in a hostage style grab with a sword pressed against her neck, and says that if you (the player) come any closer, he'll slit her throat. Oooooh yeaaaah, that is soooo much for the kiddies. Don't forget being held on the train tracks at the end, if only it didn't have such a stupid name

How many kids do you really think look at a pixelated image and compare it to real life, few, The lessons learnt online and the lessons learnt in life very rarely cross over, simply because it isnt practical, you can't learn the sleight of mouse tricks out of a book and you can't learn who's trying to scam you with a stolen credit card (which happened to me today) on a game, how did i learn to avoid losing 700 euro and spot real theives?? i looked to the right sources, a free online game not being one of them Life's important lessons are taught in life, a game is there for fun.

thats a fair point, the age rating is nothing to do with the book

I'd also really like to see this 'proof' that's being talked about if someone could tell me where and what it is. EDIT - never mind, found it, strange how you always look right in front of you last lol. If you'll look verrrrry carefully you'll see it's non-members only, non-members is not runescape, it's the demo and has been said so many times, while making that book there might not be helping the situation, non-members is not the game and being a free online game with no downloads or sign-up required it's obviously accessible by these ages anyway, you can't honestly expect it to make any difference, Actively encouraging 8-12 year olds to sign up for the real game would be a violation of jagex's principles, a combonation of not having the members guide and young kids just not having the means to pay ensures this (how many parents are gonna pay monthly for a game for an 8-year old?, i've known tribes of kids younger than me grow up and i can tell you very few indeed), showing and educating them on what cannot be hidden to prepare them for later on while not affecting the serious players who pay i see no problem with. Also durial was not smart, he was a coward, sure it was tempting but it doesn't make it right, he found a loophole and exploited people with no defence for everything he could like a mugger preying on children and babies

FACT - runescape will grow, attracting more people FACT - runescape will be easily accessible by ALL ages, you talk about looking at things rationally, how the hell would jagex STOP kids under 13 from signing up by lying about their age, they can't, no game like this can and as it grows more people will come, from all age groups. FACT - no matter where you advertise kids will always find it, how many kids do you think have seen games sites hailing runescape, how many people have caught on through word of mouth? You have some good points but it's just like an X-rated ad or film - there's nothing to stop kids getting to it (nothing foolproof), runescape is advertising, and advertising can't be contained to one strict group.

Ok where is all this preteen stuff coming from? a preteen is someone who is NOT a teenager (that seems unclear to some, as does the fact that [developmentally delayed]s will be [developmentally delayed]s no matter the age), they have to blatently lie to create an account which puts it down to them no matter where jagex advertises the game. I've been playing on and off for over 5 years, and the doom-merchant views expressed by the author are not shared by all of us from the days of classic, me and a friend have played since then and greatly enjoy everything new and laugh at our superiority over the masses, Sure the community was better back then, but not that much, personally i don't value the community above the game, people will always spoil it and in my experience i've seen that it's the younger teens who take care of that while the preteens wander around die and give up at level 10. That's just what comes when things develop, how many people honestly think that the game would be better if it remained the same for 4 years? i don't, i'd much rather stay off f2p and ignore the occasional noob.