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Well what I'm getting at is that perhaps the investors feel that RS is no longer the best way for Jagex to make money, and they would prefer Jagex focuses on their other products.

Ffs stop linking us on 4chan :(

Firstly, a disclaimer: I haven't played since late '09. As a result, some of my general knowledge of the game may not be up to par. If you see a mistake, please correct me and I'll edit. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Every game has a life-span; this much is basically unarguable. The natural life flow of a game dictates that it will eventually peak and deteriorate after that point. Even the so-called great classics maintain only a cult following after a long enough time. Runescape shouldn't be any different. So the question is: When will Runescape die? When will it cease to be a mainstream game and maintain only a cult following? Many of you, I'm sure, think that's happening as we speak. I agree. But what I also think is that Jagex is doing it deliberately. Now, this is a pretty big, and hard to prove claim; so let me start with some backstory. A while back, I was reading the wikipedia article on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (you may all know him better as the man who wrote the famous Sherlock Holmes novels). I found an interesting section: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Arthur_Conan_Doyle#.22Death.22_of_Sherlock_Holmes In summary; Doyle was tired of writing about the same old character, so he deliberately changed things up so that he'd have to write about Holmes no longer. It didn't work, but that's irrellevant. I believe Jagex is doing the same thing. My biggest argument in support of this is, of course - botting and RWT. Why did Jagex bring back free trade and the wilderness? Of course, people wanted it - but that much was obvious. That hadn't changed - people always wanted free trade and the wildy. In December 2007, the bot/rwt problem was so bad that Jagex majorly changed the game - and it worked. Afterwards, the game was largely bot-free (at least compared to what it was like before). Yet all of a sudden - they changed it back. What changed? What happened to all the reasons they put forward for removal of free trade back in 2007? Were they irrelevant? I doubt it. How could they be? Bots ruined the game then and they continue to. Jagex's promised "secret action" against the bots is basically non-existent (or at least all public evidence seems to indicate this). As a result, bots run rampant, and Jagex doesn't seem to care - at all. Now, in what scenario does a company looking to make money completely ignore the demands of their real users and do something that seems, to all intents and purposes, to be self-destructive? The only thing I can think of is that they want to stop selling their product. We also know that Jagex has branched out. They already have a variety of other games and a massive MMO (SD, possibly an rs replacement) on the way. Perhaps they feel that RS will no longer be a profitable enterprise in the future? It would certainly explain why Andrew appears to have severed ties with them. From an outsider's perspective, it seems as if they don't care anymore. Their rule enforcement is awful; they don't care about accounts being compromised (it seems to be happening more and more as of late). The updates have been lackluster for some time....all in all it seems as if they're devoting most of their resources to something else and the welfare of runescape is no longer their primary concern. Now, this is all just wild speculation on my part - obviously I have little solid evidence to actually confirm any of this. But I'm curious to get your opinions - is this at all plausible?

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Lols. When you have tools at your disposal, you use them :D

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Yes, excellent.

Don't worry, they shall be repaired shortly.

Looks like a routing issue. As for how to solve it though, I've no idea :? Perhaps calling your ISP might help?

I demand you obtain some new, exciting homework for us to do!

Well aren't you a party pooper :(

Excellent. POST YOUR QUIZ HERE, LET'S DO SOME MATH

I don't math.

I feel the same way, but I think it's mostly nostalgia. TF2 is the only game I really enjoy these days. Almost all new games don't really appeal to me.

Bad.

@halo: When I first saw it it was a flash animation. Back in my day, before YouTube existed ;)

But you DIDN'T

You guys are so cute when you struggle against insurmountable odds <3: 0.

Vikings are 0-1 :(

Well the reason I ask is that I think a lot of guys (on this thread and elsewhere) would immediately write off a woman who wanted to wait until marriage to have sex. I think it's silly and nonsensical that it's acceptable to judge a woman for not wanting to have sex, but not for wanting to have sex.

Well that's creepy.

Oh my.

Well, let's put it this way. What would you think of a woman who didn't want to have sex with you until marriage? Would you still date her?

Some kind of tennis dude.

Aww man I could have sworn I had that one.