Omali

The "facts" were not true back then, other than the basics like "there's a 5% margin". Everything else was wrong, fabricated, and baseless lies. But you're right. The rant was made right after the updates, so the early reaction is understandable. The OP of this thread is an idiot for thinking it's still relevant two years later. By general sentiments, you mean the sentiments by a small minority of Runescape's population, right? The contents of the rant was definitely NOT a sentiment shared by a major number of Runescape's players at any point in time.

I knew. Unless Runescape was your first MMO, you should be well acquainted with the expectation of a long grind.

Because you certainly didn't when making this thread. Runescape is a stat-based game where you grind individual stats to mold the character of your choosing, and you get better at doing things by doing them, a lot. What do you want, Runescape to be like Free Realms where leveling your certain skills requires you to partake in mini-games, like woodcutting would be you gain exp based on how close to the green meter you get the the swinging axe? Skill in Runescape is figuring how to do things more efficiently, not acting like a 10 year old with ADD and a twitchy trigger finger shooting enemies. The issue is that you're equating the slower paced portions of Runescape, the non-combat skills, to tactical fps' and arcade fps' (Cod and Halo respectively). You're comparing apples and Boeing 747's, they are 100% different games with completely different goals, methods, mechanics, and ideas. No, Runescape isn't as fast paced, tactical, or flashy as Call of Duty, but it's not trying to be, and that's where the massive difference comes in. You're comparing chess to a game of GOT YOUR NOSE, complaining that chess doesn't give you the flashy ADD-driven gameplay you long for. And I'm sure the reaction half the people had here was along the lines of "what are you, stupid?" You're asking an obvious question, to make obvious conclusions, to make a stupid point. Ok, so Runescape is a "second job" to you, virtually all MMOs have a huge element of grind to them, it's how companies rope people into paying a monthly fee, they give them countless hours of grind. And you know what? People like it. You might not, but you're not the demographic that companies are shooting for, and none of us who enjoy grind-games care that you think of it as a second job. You say "wake up and see it" as if we're all in denial that Runescape is a massive grind. If you can find me one person who truly believes that Runescape is NOT a massive grind, go ahead and show them to me. Until then, all you're doing is stating the obvious to make some invalid argument. I'll show how your argument can sum up another genre: You sit there every day for two hours playing Call of Duty. And what do you do the entire time? You lay prone, you take cover, you shoot imaginary people, and finally at the end of the day you find someone that takes more skill. or do they? When does Call of Duty really take any skill to play? When you break it down, even firefights take no skill whatsoever. You lay prone, and camp, wait for someone to run by, and shoot them. You find a spot where people can't see you, and you just pick them off one at a time. There's no gravity pull on bullets, you don't have to worry about damage to the gun from freezing temperatures, water damage, etc. Hit z to prone, click the mouse a few times. So my point is that Call of Duty takes no skill to play, at its core it's a really boring version of tiresome point and click games, just in a 3d atmosphere. Wake up and see it. Your point summed up:

What's amazing is that the author of that rant turned out to be wrong on every single level imaginable. I wonder if they're still playing to this day, or still crying on the RSOF. Author of that rant makes Epic Fail Guy look like Epic Win Guy. My guess is that it was written by a 10 year old: AMG JAGFAX, U GUISE R GUNA TURN INTO DA NAZIS IN LIEK 3 MUNTHS

Or because last year and the year before weren't designated "upgrade years". Anyone who has to ask why there aren't as many updates this year hasn't been paying attention at all.

Runescape falls into the category of a Freemium title, in that the game is inherently free with restrictions that you have to pay for. F2P does not technically have any hard limits because, even with the free stuff, you can still get to the end-game, 99 in each f2p skill. P2P brings in new areas, new stuff, and new skills as "premium" content. If you want an example of a demo MMO, look at Cartoon Network's Fusion Fall. In that game you only get a small taste (level 4, 3 "perks") before the game slams the door in your face and orders you to pay up. The major difference between Runescape and Fusion Fall is the messages they convey. Runescape is "Like that? Want something more efficient? Throw me a few bucks and I'll be glad to show you the way. But if not, that's cool." Fusionfall is "Yea, I think you've had enough. PAY ME NOW"

You can't make about a dime a day? You can find that much on the streets! Dare I ask, what country do you live in? that sir, was uncalled for. Actually it was a serious question. If he has the internet, he has five dollars a month. In most 3rd world countries, internet cafes are prevalent as a cheap alternative because people can't afford their own computers/internet. In these countries, five dollars means a lot, and can buy a lot more than it could in the US. So either the OP is a lazy kid, or he's part of the low income group to which five dollars really is that much. He could be playing from school for all I know. Considering even in the US, almost 1/3rd of the population live paycheck to paycheck, I try to stay away from personal attacks based on money until I know exactly what that person's status is.

This summer? I was testing the closed and open betas of; Champions Online, Fallen Earth, Global Agenda, Aion (Nothing special), Dungeons and Dragons Online, and Crimecraft. Something of a busy summer, considering I have 2 jobs with the prospects of a third upcoming, not to mention I'm taking 5 college classes (Communications and Media Arts. Omali on the radio? More likely that you'd think. Politics and stuff, yes?), work on two websites, and fleshing out a fiction book. Putting too much on my plate? Maybe.

Eh, I've actually hit that point. Just started college, so whatever freetime I have left is invested in TF2 or a bit of WoW. Mostly TF2. I come to the forums and the site to keep an eye out for any major changes. I've just gotten back into Runescape, doing Slayer. Summer of closed beta testing on various MMOs.

I find it more comfortable puckered, but I appreciate the concern.

Lesson of the day: If you move your feet, you lose your seat. Business lesson of the day: If you quit Runescape and leave for a very long time, not even bothering to check in every now and then to say "what's up", you're not a money maker, and as such Jagex could care less about you. They're not going to dole your name out after a month, it's going to be after a pretty long time, more likely more than a year. I hope this update kills name-squatters. The username Omali's been sat on for over six years, and has never made it to the highscores. I'm pretty sure it's banned, but there's no definitive way to find out. As for abuse: Some people need to stop busting innovation for the sake of looking up and down to find ways that people will troll it. "Omg someone will take my username just to laugh at me!" Your personal squabbles are minuscule in comparison to the benefits this could bring Runescape, particularly in the countless accounts that were banned for too many spaces, because someone from CS thought they were bad, etc.

Except Jagex said that altering your username everywhere it can show up would be too difficult, so it's likely that your display name will be separate from your username, your username being what shows up on the highscores, friend/ignore list, etc. Champions Online did this system perfectly by allowing duplicate display names, but unique usernames. So on Champions Online, I appear as: ____@Omali

You can't make about a dime a day? You can find that much on the streets! Dare I ask, what country do you live in?

Except Jagex has said multiple times that day/night is not planned. Mod MMG reiterated that recently in the Q&A

Dragon Truncheon? Dragon Club? Dragon Nightstick! The new skill is policing! Get to level 60 and disconnect people afk training on spiders in Lumbridge cellar. Level 99 and you can ban autoers.

I hope that this means I can claim the name Omali, the original owner who was probably banned or quit after tutorial island because the name hasn't been on the highscores since 6+ years ago when I created my account.

The official response from Jagex to "Will Mechscape slow down Runescape development" is that Mechscape has an entirely different team that was hired specifically for the task. A completely new team was brought in for FunOrb as well. Mechscape has had an effect on Runescape, but not the negative one people keep throwing forward. Henrique, head of Mechscape, has talked several times in the past about how advancements in the Mechscape version of Jagex's engine would eventually make their way back to Runescape. The development diary Jagex put out, about skyboxes, particle effects, bloom, etc; those are all advancements that were made during the development of Mechscape, and those of us who have been following Mechscape have known that these would be coming to Runescape for quite a good amount of time now.

SD looks pretty different, but HD looks somewhat the same. But you're right, it is about what's to come in the future.

Again, pay attention. It's resources Runescape would have never had, so putting them on Mechscape or FunOrb doesn't make a difference. I love it when people use the "___ should be" or "___ shouldn't be". It's not up to you to decide that, it's not your product, it's not your business. That's because FunOrb already has a constant reminder of Runescape; it's called Armies of Gielinor. When Jagex puts an entire mini-game in Runescape based around FunOrb, then you can complain about fairness. My guess is that they'd be making less money than if Mechscape were to launch, so both projects would be developed slower. No. Wrong again, that's not how it works. If the project for Mechscape had never started, the team working on it would have never been hired.

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls! You've heard the rumors, you've seen the advertisements, now see: the true face of Ravenkana! It's amazing what happens when the veil is pulled aside and the public sees the true face behind the Wizard of Oz. But I am a compassionate man. I have started a donation fund in order to repair Ravenkana's keyboard, which was undoubtedly taken quite a beating in the process of typing this message. I refuse to exchange blows with someone who wields such an inadequate sword.

That would explain that, since the graphics update, someone's purchased every album by Liza Minelli, The Village People, Cher, and Celine Dion on my Zune account. Someone should've told me selling my Dragon Scimitar would've fixed that. Boy it's troll in here.

I remember that well. That was around the time Andrew threatened to sue Tip.It over a T.I.Times article, wasn't it?

A whine thread that is self-? As for trivializing your pet peeves, you can't get any more trivial than what you laid out in the first post. And calling them Pet Peeves doesn't change my original post, which was that you actively seek out things to whinge about.

Wrong. Jagex had a bunch of mini-games in the beginning. Mechscape has nothing to do with that. 100% separate teams working on each game, with different leads. Pay better attention. FunOrb can always use some more advertising. All of Mechscape's improvements to the engine will come back to Runescape eventually, as seen in today's Diary, including sky boxes, particle effects, blooom, etc.

They probably got rid of it because it was much smaller at that point. Jagex has enough of a time updating the current knowledge base, without a beastiary on top of it.