The Future Of Runescape

[1canadian1]

Rs5 will come..in 25 years. :

[Genome]

Java is also developing, and may not be the limitation that some consider it to be.

 

 

 

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/jcanyon/

 

 

 

Actaully, that's not even a latest version demo, I was looking for the Java 6 examples.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yer I agree, java is God

[maxdout4life]

java is God

woot later iam gonna be a java game scripter and i'll be god

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

bow down already.... :twisted:

[Taito2004]

tbh.. it never even crossed my mind that runescape wouln't be around.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Things have changed so much since I started playing, even in the last two and a half years. I've just got bored of runescape though. It used to excite me - hell, i'd go as far as saying I was addicted.. but now there dosent seem to be anything worth playing for. I met a great person on runescape, who is now an even greater real life friend, and I'm greatfull for runescape allowing me to meet such a nice guy.. he means the world to me.. but that's all I'm greatefull for. There was always a nagging voice in the back of my head saying "You're wasting your time playing this game and that one day, could just cease to exist, and all of your hard work would be for nothing".

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I guess that's the reason I've basically quit. I can't see me ever going back to runescape properly, no matter what they did to update the game.. and I'm sure there're people who are just like me in way of thinking. However, Jagex will continue, as long as there are new players joining, paying membership, and enjoying runescape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jagex will have to move with the times to accomodate these new players, and what THEY want from a game. I mean, with things such as the PS3 coming out.. why would people want to play runescape over PS3? I mean, sure, there's lots of things that ya can do on RS that you cant with a console game, but still, it's not exactly great.. there'll have to be newer and more exciting things introduced into the game - which people have already pointed out, is hard work for Jagex with their current method of playing the game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In my opinion, if Jagex is going to have any chance of being around in 10 years, they will probably, I would imagine, have to re-do the whole game. People joining the games now, will always want things like phat's, and want to reach insainly good goals.. but these things are always going to be overshaddowed by the "Yeah well Zezima has had 99 everything for the past x years" or "Phats are going up at around 100 million a day, and being level three player, you can only hope to make 20gp a day if you're lucky". I know this wont bother some people, but others will be really anoyed at it, and I guess, the numbers of players joining up will be considerably lower.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anyways.. just my thoughts.

[Kenshinjapan]

I think something drastic will happen overnight to end the game. Maybe the stock market crashes and the company is ruined, or possibly Andrew dies and there's a huge controversy on who runs/owns the company, thus splitting the companys stocks with several other people; which make decisions about the company and drive it into the ground with bad decisions. Hey, it happened to someone I know irl with their pager company :-w .

[Autist]

I doubt the game will still exist in 15 years

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 5 years...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Moved off browser based game into something other than Java script since this is what limits many potential game features.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

So, you are saying that RS is running on javascript? Nice one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There's a HUGE difference between JAVA and JAVASCRIPT. Learn the difference.

[Makoto_the_Phoenix]

At the rate that it's going, its renaissance is well behind it and doesn't ever hope to see a sequel. So I'm going to say five years tops.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Perhaps all of the Java and C++ used to build the game will be ported over to a desktop version someday. But then it'd defeat the purpose of it being an MMORPG, don't you think...?

[Jeffery]

i think they gonna make a rs3 soon they keeping secret because of the amount of fake websites that would go around

[Macmaster92]

 

Java is also developing, and may not be the limitation that some consider it to be.

 

 

 

http://java.sun.com/products/jfc/tsc/articles/jcanyon/

 

 

 

Actaully, that's not even a latest version demo, I was looking for the Java 6 examples.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yer I agree, java is God

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

+1

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Java owns

[shurikennin]

just think...we've all put so much time into this game....personally, i really dont know what i would do without it....its kinda my way out...to relieve stress....and if in a few years it just dissapears? was 2 or 3 years of my life wasted playing this game?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Its kind of a contradiction.....i want runescape to stay the same for a while, but there are so many people that play now....some days, there are like 1.1k people in each world....its insane. Jagex has to make updates....to accomodate the new players. (even if the updates are bad, Jagex still has to create new skills.) They probably know that the updates arent the best, but they have to continue to update the game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I just hope if they make a runescape 3 or something...we will be able to keep our stats and items.....some people have worked hard for their items just to have them stay on a previous game.

+1 except zezima would have his stats erased "by accident" and have a limit on one hour of play(for zezima) a day :lol: :XD:

[shurikennin]

I think something drastic will happen overnight to end the game. Maybe the stock market crashes and the company is ruined, or possibly Andrew dies and there's a huge controversy on who runs/owns the company, thus splitting the companys stocks with several other people; which make decisions about the company and drive it into the ground with bad decisions. Hey, it happened to someone I know irl with their pager company :-w .

 

 

 

about the stock market crash thing,I think Jagex is a private company, not public

[monkeyboo2]

 

 

 

 

* 99 cap raised to 126

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*99 strength*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

person: w00t!! str cape!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*next day*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

"you are unable to wear your strength cape, you need a strength level of 126"

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

that would be pretty bad lol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

lvl 126 is about 190m xp if im not mistaken? thats about 180m more xp to skill cape rofl. That would make skill capes goddam rare and larryr would be the first one by far to get rc skilcape.

[red_hydra]

More skills and quests i guess. Seems like dats all theyve been doin.

 

 

 

I dont think tha game will just disappear tho... I mean theyre gna keep it goin as long as theyre makin money off it. Plus hasn't Andrew Gower been involved with runescape since he was in college when he first started makin it?? I dont expect hed just stop one day.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jagex should improve Karils in tha future tho :D

[monkeyboo2]

In the future Pest Control will be back where it belongs, in Hell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dangit, it's already there.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I wish. No unforntuantely i have mny crystal ball here and its not gonna happen. NOw give me your palm to read...

 

 

 

And that ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã5 for doing it...

[Dragondan_Ro]

I hope they start giving non member more bank space(as much as members got now) and members get double as much space as they have now.

[One Too Far]

 

* 99 cap raised to 126

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

99 cap raised to 100.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 99 cap is not going to be raised.. ever.. I bet my Irish heritage on it...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*parents walk in saying: sorry we got somthing to tel you, you are adopted, thats right.*

[Will H]

 

 

* 99 cap raised to 126

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

99 cap raised to 100.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The 99 cap is not going to be raised.. ever.. I bet my Irish heritage on it...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*parents walk in saying: sorry we got somthing to tel you, you are adopted, thats right.*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*I'm afraid your real parents were... you aren't going to like this... Irish. I'm so sorry... :cry:*

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't think that we can currently predict the lifespan of Jagex at the moment, it's all down to what decisions they make. If they make the right ones, it's almost indefinate in theory. If they make the wrong ones, probably only about 5 years. Let's all hope for the best.

[Kill_Thomas9]

I doubt RS will improve that much in 5 years. New challenges could be good, and to fix the game they could just remove Pest Control.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

READ THIS!!!!!!:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ok, lets get this straight:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Pc ruined combat. (I use pc)

 

 

 

"Cook x" ruined cooking. (I use "cook x")

 

 

 

"Fletch x" ruined fletching. (I use "fletch x")

 

 

 

The abyss ruined runecrafting. (I use the abyss.)

 

 

 

Pyramid plunder ruined thieving. (I dont use pyramid plunder)

 

 

 

Construction ruined prayer. (I dont use POH alters)

 

 

 

Pyramid plunder ruined agility. (I dont use Pyramid plunder)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There is the list of all the things that ruined all the skills so far. So if I want to be a "pure" or non "rs2 procuct", I'd better stick to something like mining or smithing.

 

 

 

[Platinum_Myr]

An interesting topic we have here.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't think the problem is JAVA, the problem is the Internet. It has to do with how much information they can pass from the server to the client quickly. I mean, there are OS's written on Java.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They just can't send that much information very quickly consistantly given the network they are running on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think however, that if/when RS "dies" or the company no longer supports it, they SHOULD release it to the public. When they feal that they cannot make money on it, let the people who like to play and have the drive to do so, write basically a private sort of server.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Games like PSO v1 and v2 are STILL AROUND because of this sort of thing.

[Makoto_the_Phoenix]

I don't think the problem is JAVA, the problem is the Internet. It has to do with how much information they can pass from the server to the client quickly. I mean, there are OS's written on Java.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They just can't send that much information very quickly consistantly given the network they are running on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, in five or ten years tops, bandwidth speeds will be approaching 100-400GBps. Yes, that's Gigabytes. Transferring an average sized hard drive's contents in less than a second won't be a problem by then.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In truth I think I may have been overgenerous with my five years estimate. If things continue with the lack of top-end support for higher levels, it'll lose two years off of my initial estimation, so 3 years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If it adds another restrictive rule such as rule 15 again, it'll lose another year off of that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If they outlaw fansites, they'll lose all but six months. By that time, the RS membership population will become stagnate and just drop off to other games.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't know what to tell you, but from where I'm sitting, the future does not look good for Jagex or RuneScape.

[Greedom1]

 

 

 

Don't know what to tell you, but from where I'm sitting, the future does not look good for Jagex or RuneScape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I agree. Though I'm sure both you and I will try to enjoy the game as much as we can while it lasts.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

However, I will argue that many people play this game for the perceived value of their items or skills. If there were a sudden loss of confidence in future of RS (assume a loss of 25% of "core" players within 6 months, which is about 50-100k depending on how you figure), you can fully expect that the game would be severely diminished within about 6 months. The logic behind this is that if people collectively figure there's no more point to wasting time pursuing their goals on here, inertia only lasts for so long. (Also factor in that many people play because of the friends they have on here... more so for older players. If enough key "connectors" go, it's possible that many other players will follow.) (For more on "connectors" see The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obviously Jagex can cut back on worlds and development staff to keep itself afloat and even rather profitable for years, but I think you get the point. We haven't burst the bubble yet, but I think it's clear that it's beginning to stretch considerably.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I don't see the end of RS for easily 5 years (unless there is a replacement of some sort). Will it be as enjoyable to play as it is now in even 3 years? Of course not. But in some mutated-demon-hellspawn sort of way, it will be around, and most of us probably won't like it. (Jagex prove me wrong! :pray: )

[Kill_Thomas9]

 

I don't think the problem is JAVA, the problem is the Internet. It has to do with how much information they can pass from the server to the client quickly. I mean, there are OS's written on Java.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They just can't send that much information very quickly consistantly given the network they are running on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Actually, in five or ten years tops, bandwidth speeds will be approaching 100-400GBps. Yes, that's Gigabytes. Transferring an average sized hard drive's contents in less than a second won't be a problem by then.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In truth I think I may have been overgenerous with my five years estimate. If things continue with the lack of top-end support for higher levels, it'll lose two years off of my initial estimation, so 3 years.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If it adds another restrictive rule such as rule 15 again, it'll lose another year off of that.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If they outlaw fansites, they'll lose all but six months. By that time, the RS membership population will become stagnate and just drop off to other games.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Don't know what to tell you, but from where I'm sitting, the future does not look good for Jagex or RuneScape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but that puts your estimation at 1.5 years. Somehow I cant see it gone by 2009.

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Let me say only this; The future is a very frightening place for many of us...

[zman123123]

 

How do you see the future of runescape 5, 10, or even 15 years from now. What changes do you expect to see in runescape? What differences?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some people may think that nothing dealing with graphics or sound will change drastically, becuase jagex is trying to make the game compatible with most computers.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What about the skills? Will there be anymore additions? What skills will they be?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

game gonna be like wow in 5 years...where u buy the game and pay monthy :x

 

 

 

No offense.. but Rs has been around about 8 years right? ( maybe 7). Do you think they haven't already considerd that a long time ago? And obviously decided not to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Also, im sure these posts and thoughts are talked about everyday for the last 7-8 years since it started. It doesn't seem to pull through, but i think we worry ourself to much.. I personally think it will be around a few more years at the least, its still making more than its losing, why would they end it?

[builtom]

Unless they start paying attention to the entire community rather than just the new players, sort out what they are doing and make the game less of a hassle to play then they will go downhill, and once they pass a certain point its no going back.