Sy_Accursed

It isn't, as far as I can see there is 0 source for this other than people running their mouths with the 'it's been delayed further because its not monday' story even though John A within like an hour of telling us last week it wwas set for the 30th said it'd later in the week and not actually monday. Plus trying to be comedic over the fact the much awaited dwarf makeover has been delayed again since it was original slated to happen what like 2 yrs ago now.

How was Bol delayed? all they'd said previously was that it would be ending this week. And, I think the first notice we had about the Dwarf Quest being this week and not last week was because a J mod posted it in the future update forum. I read on the forums its supposed to of been today, now its wednesday. :) BoL was only to last 70 days also It was never 'supposed' to be anything. When it launched on the 22nd of July we were told it was a 10 week event, but we were never given any solid end date. On the basis of the weekly resets midnight 29th Sept made sense, as did some point on the 30th for a more exact 70 days so we naturally assumed the end would be somewhere around this point. The ONLY official information we have EVER been given for bol ending was firstly last weeks BTS video meaning yes it would be this weeks game update and in the past day or 2 in we have been told Wednesday is the aim. Ending later than we assumed does not constitute a delay, a delay is when an update is postponed from when we were officially informed to expect it.

The trouble with your last little conclusion there: Jagex still gets the £3/$5/€4.25 for the bond regardless of where you got the gold so there is no reduction in value. If no-one buys the bonds for cash no-one can buy them for gp. Other than that it is what most of us have been saying all along, te way this could work, however, is some people may prefer to use legit sources which would weaken the market a bit and if there IS a legit source they can be harsher to those who subvert it for their own gain (eg using non-legit sources). Like someone else said I wouldn't be surprised if the 40% jagex claims use rwt sources start finding gold removals/temp bans and eventually permanent bans landing on their door steps in the coming months, which is where the real impact would lay. If people know Jagex are acting upon people going the non-legit way it'll drive trade to the legit method of doing things; kinda like how I hear lately most bot client forums are filled with rants of being banned using their foolproof bots coinciding nicely with the lower numbers of bots seen in-game.

Last I heard 6-7m was still roughly the going rate.

They are required, they just live on the toolbelt now. Fairly sure you have to add the manually, unlike the other autofill stuff.

Apparently Mod Ramen said it'd end on Wednesday in HLF And Mod Jack says it needs a game update to end.

Probably happened when the site design upgraded since MEP2 maps etc had similar issues, but yeah it's just showing a blank box rather than the actual content. http://www.tip.it/runescape/pages/view/ew3_puzzle_guide.htm

Lol new (ish)? The pilot aired less than a week ago, how much newer can a show be? I liked it so far, has the usual slightly awkward chemistry and rough edges a pilot has, but shows a lot of promise. I wonder how much Colbie will be in it, I could see her being around a lot more in season 2 onwards, if it lasts.

Arguably since Bol did not start until game update on the first it would still only reach 70 days in real time if it ran to actual system update.

We literally have no idea. My personal guess would be the npcs etc may disappear and a cutscene occurs at midnight GMT but it'll be a game update, hopefully early-ish, tomorrow that'll put the actual post-war content in (eg anything new in the crater, changes to npcs etc)

Two of the JMod clones on the Battlefield have outlasted their real life counterparts at Jagex. Just thought you'd like to know :P I wasn't aware any of the bigger name jmods had gone recently, other than Mod Phoenix. Who is it who has left?

The trouble with claiming quests are 'pumped up' with lore because they lack 'quest like' content is the fundamental purpose of quests IS to tell the story and provide that lore. It may not be to everyone's taste as they prefer the fighting or w/e but the primary purpose of a quest is to tell a story so having more actual meaningful lore in them is better content for those of us who actually care about the game and play quests for the story not just for the rewards. And the lore we've been getting has been of a much better quality, they've rounded off a lot of loose ends and discrepancies and tied things together and made a great effort to turn often garbled messes in to a coherent narrative of Gielinor as a world. YOUR personal taste of updates does not equate to whether or not they are quality updates. The fact you say Rs3 was not a big update shows how little you really understand the development of such a game, yes on the surface it did very little, but that does not make it a small update. It involved a heap of back end changes and a much more coding intensive interface. Also I fail to see your point of 'profits don't matter' - the entire point here was 'corruption' by padding pay cheques from these new revenues streams. The fact they are declaring much bigger profits shows that the new revenue has categorically NOT gone in to padding pay cheques and the fact that profit was then reinvested in to the company for growth shows again they are NOT feeding shareholders whims with profit makers they are using money to make the studio bigger and better. And as TradeMe pointed out there let go a very minor number of employees, all of whom were from fringe things - failed projects where the staff were no longer of use and some from customer services.

Whilst the idea of membership for gp with no bonds (aka real world money) involved does sound appealing as a player it is an utterly ridiculous concept in terms of application to the game. Membership fees are what pays for staff and servers and everything needed to run the game, they can't just let people have membership with 0 income for them. I mean it could wipe hundreds of thousands off their accounts overnight if you could get members for pure gp with no irl cash going to Jagex at all.

It depends where the corruption is. If Mod MMG was getting a bigger paycheck each time he were to increase income dramaticaly then he may get the idea "Never mind the game, I want my bonus'" On the other hand, if the additional profits were rolled back into the game, then we'd have to consider the good it does for the game via more resources and a bigger budget. One could argue that funding such investments provides significant benefits to RuneScape's long-term health, easily outweighing the moral cost of allowing some players to trade money for time--which they could already do. People made the same argument for SoF, which has been out for what, 18 months now? And I am yet to see an increase in the quality of updates we have received. I'd say the quality of updates has increased immensely this past year; quest in particular are much richer rather than just cheesy do this do that do the other. A lot of graphics have been seriously ramped out quality wise too. Plus we know from their last financial reports Jagex posted their best profit for a while, but then reinvested all of that profit and a substantial amount more in to the business; so we can categorically say they are not padding their pay cheques they are pumping money in to growing the teams and the studio as a whole.

It is not a 'facebook game with swords' Go out and look at the MMORPG market literally every game of note has something akin to sof, solomans or bonds in place. Trying to deride microtransactions as making something a 'facebook' game is utterly stupid, it is a fact of every single facet of the gaming market. Pc games, console games, mobile games, web games they are ALL using microtransactions be it in smaller in-game buys or outright add-ons/DLC. You just sound like an annoyed kid ranting and throwing out random terminology and insults to try and prove your point at anyone who disagrees in the slightest without actually considering the full meaning of those words or having a real concept of the gaming market as a whole.

I think it is wrong to throw around unethical as a term for this, it means to not conform to approved standards of social or professional behaviour. Given the games market as a whole, using microtransactions is a perfectly viable business model that pretty much every single game out there uses to some extent now. So by all standards Jagex doing such things is conforming to the social standards of the gaming industry, the exact opposite of being unethical. What is so wrong about Jagex offering the same thing every other game out there is offering in order to survive?

But is it really 'corruption'? Or is someone viewing thing as a business exactly what a game like Runescape needs to survive? It's all very well making an amazing game but if the business is not viable it will flicker out and die as quickly as it was made. I'd much rather have an amazing game with longevity that has a few RWT-esque features I'm not a huge fan of than one that is a forgetten relic because it wasn't financially viable.

Any whole community event with 'pvp elements' is bound to be safe pvp and pvp in a way that non-pvpers can avoid it.

Yeah wording of the leaked task is find an active crystal tree. In theory that task could be done regardless of stats eg find an active rune rock would jut require clicking a rune rock with ore in, even if you can't mine it.

What if they trees were meant to come out in september and they got bumped to october because of loyalty? *conspiracy face*

That could work, but also - just a natural progression of the existing crystal formations when left alone opposed to be ravaged by armies.

To me both left on the leak list are feasible. Golden Gnome as an obvious tie in and on the day BoL ends we could easily see some sort of crystal tree or such take up occupancy in the crater as part of the aftermath.

The next world event sounds intriguing/a way to make divination seem more popular than it really is not the initial buzz is gone. Looks like October includes the/some new trees from that glimmer at the end, also intrigued by the effort we can put in to rebuild lumbridge. Will this mean we have a sort of series of mini-quests that allow us to restore Lumbridge and perhaps alter it per player? The pixelation made me lol too, I wonder what it was they pixelated this time. Presumably something epically spoilery - you'd think with the concept art they obviously purposefully put up they'd be smart enough to not put in ones they need to then pixelate.

But the claim in question here has not been forefront on the website for the better part of a decade now and it was entirely removed what 2 or 3 yrs ago now. So simply put it is not a claim that has been made or used to attract people for many, many years. So aside from a few a small subsection who has been around since time began its not such a big deal to most. Heck I'd even go so far as to say for those who do recall that claim vividly it wasn't one of the 'main attractions' of the game. It certainly wasn't for me. And in this day and age it is a simple fact of the gaming industry that things work this way. Games use microtransactions, why should Jagex shy away from it and potentially bankrupt themselves in doing so just to appease people who cannot deal with the fact the world at large has evolved and this is the way the gaming industry on every platform, genre and device works now.

Pro tip for today: Foreign worlds. I had a 5 player game, no disconnects or black screens.