"MMG! MMG! Everyone kept buying gold from RWT because it's half as expensive as bonds! I know! Let's tell them RWTers are DDoSing runescape!" :rolleyes: Many MMOs suffer DDOS attacks in retaliation from gold farmers and cheaters. The forum for Garry's Mod (Facepunch) gets DDoS'd every time they ban another cheat program, and so do many other games. Not saying that is guaranteed to be the case this time, but it isn't exactly uncommon.
D&D Tracker: Thank [bleep]. I hate how much of a pain it is to track D&D's right now. Buckets of Improvements: Generally never a bad thing. I'm expecting Jagex to "accidentally" change the game's font to something painfully unreadable only to fix it the next day, like they usually do with these kitchen sink updates. Barrows: Coolio Jones. Not really interested since I don't do group content. Solomon: Same old garbage. Either way, looks like a good month.
I have access to all of Jagex's press releases. I find this way beyond extremely hard to believe... Like as if this was a bad joke at Halloween... Link to Source Article, please? :geek: ~Mr. D. V. "No Link? No Proof, and therefore Unbelievable!" Devnull Why is it hard to believe that someone who runs an MMO website would be on the press list for an MMO developer? There is no source article, what I posted is a direct copy and paste of the press release that was sent out at about 10am (eastern) this morning.
Jagex is circulating a press release today stating that the amount of gold being injected into the game by gold farmers has dropped 81% since bonds were introduced. https://www.develop-online.net/press-releases/runescape-close-to-eradicating-gold-farming/0185146
I wonder how that internal conversation went. Random employee: Sir, our reports have come back. 40-50% of the population are buying gold. Gerhard: God our community sucks.
Because you give Jagex a simple task, they'll manage to figure out a way to screw it up. I'd hate to see them cook. "I made grilled cheese." "There's no cheese." "Ah crap." "Or bread." "Ah crap." "And you burned the house down."
My other problem is: Super September. Thank you Jagex, pick the month that most of your base is going back to school/college/university to launch an event that would better be suited for August or July.
"Log in once a day, every day, for the whole month" Not even one week into the month and I've already stopped caring. Impressive. I like games that have temporary content, but once you get into a daily "slip up once and you're [bleep]ed with no recourse" challenges, the game is no longer a game, it's a job. One that demands you schedule your normal life around it.
HERESY! I try and set records on how fast I can get through quests by spam hitting the spacebar, in combination with the 1 and 2 keys. The day Runescape Lore dies, will be a good day for Runescape. Yea, why would people care about lore in a role playing game? Stupid Jagex, what we really need is more mini-games that are just mindless grind, otherwise our brains hurt from all the thinking.
Yes they are. Real world trading is the exchange of real money for virtual goods, as much as Jagex used to deny it and then amended their rules to admit.
If anything will kill Jagex off, it's self-imposed bankruptcy from their growing line of failed projects. MechScape, Stellar Dawn, Funorb, 8Realms, Transformers as an MMO, and hopefully not Transformers as a MOBA.