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Jagex's financial report 2010-2011: http://www.stellardawncentral.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=18950 Interesting things to note: -Turnover from subscriptions seems to be slowing down compared to other years, but still increased by ~900,000 euros -Operating profit fell by ALMOST 50% (~18mil to ~10mil). Legal prices might've made up a large chunk of it (jagex v. botters) -Gross profit fell by ~2mil (24mil to 22mil) -Turnover from advertising continues to decrease (I think this is mainly what people refer to when they say Runescape is dying- it does a good job at keeping old players, but it's getting less and less new players). It's been decreasing since 2007. -Despite working in at least 4 different games (stellar dawn, Runescape, 8realms, transformers) & maintaining a few others (herotopia, funorb, war of legends, planetarion), development increased from 166 to 181. Although there was a massive increase in technical (36 to 66) -Customer relations fell by 13 (lol) And then there's a few stuff I could mention about how a bunch of investors own jagex now but I feel that point's been overdone to death.

Long break? Don't even bother then. The game is unplayable. Not because of bots, but because of the sheer fact that it's near impossible to get back to playing at that point. There's only two things fun to do: nex and dungeoneering. And to be honest, I don't even know about nex, since it takes near maxed stats to do. As for dungeoneering, it's only fun if you do it with some friends. Dgs is tolerable, if you've dungeoneered to a decent level before. Other than that, they're way too elitist to find fun. Pvm (other than nex, and maybe the corporeal beast; but again, that takes decent stats and drops are unbelievably rare) isn't fun, specially with your stats. Skilling is just outright stupid. The whole game is just a grindfest relying on skinner's box mechanics. There's only two ways I see you can get addicted to this: 1. You got hooked when you were 11 years old, like me ( and yes, by surfing this site, I admit that the game is incredibly addicting once you manage to get hooked to it). 2. You got hooked during the 2001-2005 era, when the idea of an online mmo was still novel. I haven't played for a few months now, and I've been playing less than 1 hour a day for a year now. But I still find myself being drawn to log in to the game. Except whenever I log in nowadays, I just lobby stand. Every once in a while, a good friend logs in (most have quit), and I goof around with them (like doing 9001gp f2p magic stakes). But I can't find the will to actually do something productive in the game. With your stats so low, and not having played for years now, I'd just outright quit before I'd get hooked again. Drop all of your stuff (it's probably not even worth much now), don't renew your membership, and find yourself coming back to the game less and less until you quit. The game is unbearable at this point. I'll probably get disagreed on and flamed because I'm on one of the oldest runescape fansite on the internet, where most people left are probably very loyal to runescape. And that's fine. I just felt the need to share my opinion because I felt the OP was in a very similar situation as me. But I'm not a mind reader, and the OP + everybody else is fully allowed to disagree with my feelings. Damnit, I could've just said this instead of wasting 20 minutes on a few paragraphs long post. But whatever, I liked writing that. Felt like getting something off of my chest.