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"I've seen enough..." etc etc etc Because they live in the ocean, and the ocean is totally rad in the summer time m i rite

Who was talking about Runescape's microtransaction model and its future. Not Funorb's. Listed seperately from the antibot update, in a different timeline. They've been attempting to tweak their filters for a long time now to hinder the spambots which is why we saw mod posts about it a few months ago. Given that this was listed first and seperately from the botnuke part, on different timelines, it's a reasonable conclusion that they're updating their filter this week - how else would they reduce the spam volume? It might be that they're just doing another mass banning, but this is unlikely considering that's not what goldfarmer spambots are. They're 3hr old (typically) throwaway accounts. They also talked about spam as a whole, and not a current group.

That news article isn't real. You're welcome to make a new discussion topic about the ordeal but please cite reputable sources.

Or, better still, when gnomecopters were removed from the game after the last guy resigned.

An event like that would be coupled with blood raining from the sky, cats coupling with dogs, bitter enemies embracing in love in the streets, etc

Why would the head of RuneScape talk about Funorb?

IVP didn't make GameGuard, or order it made. Maplestory also doesn't use GG anymore and hasn't for a while. They use HackShield now. I know that, and I haven't played Maplestory since the beta days. (Mark of the Beta baby, yeahhh) GameGuard didn't do jack shit to prevent botting, I think is what Den's original point was for how effective the new botbreaking update would be. They're nowhere near as bad as they used to be in the current game.

The Choose Your Fate aspect of this promotion still makes me as livid as the day I first heard of it. It's utterly worthless and it makes no sense. And if I have to read the fake scenario of "chugging my last brew" I'm going to chug my fist into the face of the first person I see. (Shut up it makes sense.)

It'll be something you have to pay 50$ for. It'll be a gigantic Yelps that you have to feed monthly. The food will be Yelpschow that costs 5$ per month. :) (Not really but let's laugh to hide the frustrated relief.)

It does, by a lot. I wish they were clearer by what they meant by that part. They made it sound like the applet was going to be done in HTML5 or something o_O

They said that with Optimus but apparently that was never supposed to be a bot breaking update. They weren't clear on that, and community desperation twisted that information kind of like how the kid's game Whisper Down the Lane twists the original meaning of a phrase. TBH I agree with you, it's probably going to be delayed until at least late October, to (WARNING, THIS IS ONLY AN ASSUMPTION) fill the gap made when they eventually delay the EoC release.

Easily three of those things will be seen in the next two months, accounting for last minute delays. What exactly keeps you caring about this game if you don't get excited for a bot nuke, or security changes? God damn.

I personally saw it as a heads up to the users who were getting livid due to the fact that Prime was delayed way too long now, not really as a cocky "LOL SUK ON DEEZ BOTMAKERS"

Saw that on reddit. After seeing the comments he made earlier that day, I wasn't surprised that he would be so blunt. Good for him, hope it doesn't come at the cost of penalties.

Announced: - Filter updates, breaking (probably temporarily) spambots - ETA this week - Bot breaking update larger than the original bot nuke - ETA "next few weeks" - JAG - ETA "two weeks" - updating the client to work with HTML5 (implementation was hazy here) - ETA unclear, prolly by year's end - Mobile platform RS client - ETA unclear, probably by year's end though now that they have the dev team - vague promises on further tech updates as well as content updates - ETA throughout the rest of the year Dunno how that's a lack of substance in your world. I'm not saying there wasn't a lot of bullshit in there, but you must've misread to not think that it offered a lot of information, too.

You mean aside from the fact that he announced no less than 5 new features to the game, 3 of which are being released in the next two months? I guess when you look at it like that, there was no substance at all. You're right.

Discussed but never promised. This newspost implies that we might see them by the end of the year.

Lol @ people who can't get over the double-speak and miss the fact that this is basically the real BTS that we've been waiting for. God that's almost as annoying as the extremists.

has been removed from the newspost. Lol! I was gonna say... Permanently deal with bots like the nuke was supposed to? Oh, but this next... It'll be the one. :roll: I don't think they meant it to sound so be-all-end-all, and when someone else read it after being published they went, "uhhhhhhh..."

Woah son, pump your breaks. Bugs Bunny is a national treasure. Don't you dare defame my childhood by comparing it to this rubbish.

I was going to say, "that's a sexy cape" and then I saw it was a squid.

what even is citaskill

The Good: - MMG is finally bringing the tech and security like he did when first announced as the head of runescape (remember the email changes) in the form of greater account security with the Jagex Account Guardian and other "tech innovations" - New antibot update - New filters in place to combat spambots - New mobile play platforms to come - Promised content to follow within the coming months - Lack of content explained due to having to funnel resources elsewhere The Bad: - The SoF and Solomon's store won't change from the current direction it's going down - Faith has fallen that it requires almost quarterly statements from the head of the game in an attempt to restore broken trust The Ugly: - They claim not to sell gold and exp but via the SoF gold is sold at almost 2mil for the highest spin package and xp rates of 800k/hr are feasible with a large amount of spins, which begs the question of how they'll get around "we will not sell <this>" if they go and do it in a different way - They flat-out can't sell gold or they'd have to combat the RWT bots, but public reason they're giving is spun to be positive -- Meh even after one of the worst days I've had since my mother passed away, I can't find it in me to direct my rage at them for this newspost. They've done everything we've demanded of them and there was some great news in there. They're walking the line like lifetime pros on building up the community enough to endure the blows of decisions they're forced to make to ensure the longevity of the game and this just gave them a huge advantage. There will be buzz for months about the JAG (lawwwwwlllll) and ensuing content updates that will only play in their favor. God help them if they don't deliver on their expectations. We need good things to talk about. Boards are too damn depressing now. Need a good teaser and things to anticipate...start the information trickle.

You're right, you're the only one ever who has ever thought of that. Ever. It's been discussed to death. What's more likely is they'll simply create Loyalty Shop counterparts, like a greenfingers counterpart in solomon etc. When faced with something significantly harder to obtain (Loyalty Shop), buying becomes a more enticing option.

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