A few things about RuneScape...(A long read)

[Marco]

I've always thought whoever does the censor at Jagex should be hanged..

 

The word 'Sex' is censored! How damn stupod, Runescape is 13+, and if you find reproduction offensive then you should be shot.

 

 

 

Yes, we all know how it could be used to make something offensive, but so can almost any word in the English language, grow up Jagex..

 

 

 

At first I thought their goal with the censor was to preserve a mature and adult community. Keeping the immature childish remarks out.

 

 

 

Now with the teachers, noobs, "dumbing" down the game and such I'm starting to think their goals have changed

 

 

 

Damn.. I typo'd 'stupid' to 'stupod'... That's annoying.. wont edit it though :lol:

 

 

 

Anyway, I think they've completly lost sight of any goal with the censor, and are banning words as soon as anyone becomes offended by them in the hope to keep a member..

 

 

 

You can't even say 'Damn'

 

Damnit! How can I vent my frustration properly with the substitute word 'nuts'...

[Happysniff]

I've always thought whoever does the censor at Jagex should be hanged..

 

The word 'Sex' is censored! How damn stupod, Runescape is 13+, and if you find reproduction offensive then you should be shot.

 

 

 

Yes, we all know how it could be used to make something offensive, but so can almost any word in the English language, grow up Jagex..

 

 

 

So why do you even care if sex is censored? You think someone should die because they want to censor it? YOU should die.

 

 

 

Well be happy jagex hasn't censored balls or stick or rod yet, but if you unblocked suck and combined it with the above words, it could get really nasty.

 

 

 

Balls has already been censored in the past, but has been made uncensored.

[Made0f12une]

I've always thought whoever does the censor at Jagex should be hanged..

 

The word 'Sex' is censored! How damn stupod, Runescape is 13+, and if you find reproduction offensive then you should be shot.

 

 

 

Yes, we all know how it could be used to make something offensive, but so can almost any word in the English language, grow up Jagex..

 

 

 

At first I thought their goal with the censor was to preserve a mature and adult community. Keeping the immature childish remarks out.

 

 

 

Now with the teachers, noobs, "dumbing" down the game and such I'm starting to think their goals have changed

 

 

 

Damn.. I typo'd 'stupid' to 'stupod'... That's annoying.. wont edit it though :lol:

 

 

 

Anyway, I think they've completly lost sight of any goal with the censor, and are banning words as soon as anyone becomes offended by them in the hope to keep a member..

 

 

 

You can't even say 'Damn'

 

Damnit! How can I vent my frustration properly with the substitute word 'nuts'...

 

 

 

Ironically Balls is uncensored but Screw is not.

 

 

 

I'm disapointed screw is censored. I lke to use it in terms of "I was just screwing around today and found a nail!"

 

 

 

I remember in Rsc when Cook was censored

[Marco]

I've always thought whoever does the censor at Jagex should be hanged..

 

The word 'Sex' is censored! How damn stupod, Runescape is 13+, and if you find reproduction offensive then you should be shot.

 

 

 

Yes, we all know how it could be used to make something offensive, but so can almost any word in the English language, grow up Jagex..

 

 

 

So why do you even care if sex is censored? You think someone should die because they want to censor it? YOU should die.

 

 

 

Not literally die you know.. And I used the word sex as an example of the stupidity of the censor, although the word sex has come up countless times and it's flipping annoying not being able to say it.. -.-

[Freesia]

I've always thought whoever does the censor at Jagex should be hanged..

 

The word 'Sex' is censored! How damn stupod, Runescape is 13+, and if you find reproduction offensive then you should be shot.

 

 

 

Yes, we all know how it could be used to make something offensive, but so can almost any word in the English language, grow up Jagex..

 

 

 

At first I thought their goal with the censor was to preserve a mature and adult community. Keeping the immature childish remarks out.

 

 

 

Now with the teachers, noobs, "dumbing" down the game and such I'm starting to think their goals have changed

 

 

 

Damn.. I typo'd 'stupid' to 'stupod'... That's annoying.. wont edit it though :lol:

 

 

 

Anyway, I think they've completly lost sight of any goal with the censor, and are banning words as soon as anyone becomes offended by them in the hope to keep a member..

 

 

 

You can't even say 'Damn'

 

Damnit! How can I vent my frustration properly with the substitute word 'nuts'...

 

 

 

Ironically Balls is uncensored but Screw is not.

 

 

 

I'm disapointed screw is censored. I lke to use it in terms of "I was just screwing around today and found a nail!"

 

 

 

I remember in Rsc when Cook was censored

There was a time where "cook" was censored, but i highly doubt it was as early as rsc

[red_hydra]

I hate the censorsand everything too but as much as i hate to admit it... they do help :-#

 

 

 

I mean in rs1 it wuz ridiculous how much cussing and everything there wuz. Pretty much the worst thing you can say now is noob

[Kuroi_Ame]

Well, I agree with most points. But when was the last time you did a quest without a quest guide? All quests require deep thought without a quest guide, so don't pull that bs on me.

 

Contact was the last quest I did with a guide. Come on, you think everyone must use a guide? Someone has to create that guide. There's not a guide for that person. It's not like it's impossible not to use a guide.. I've made a few actually..I'm not [developmentally delayed]ed. I can do quests without guides. I do all the new ones without guides purposely so I can have some challenge. (I did use a guide on me2, lol, I used guides on most of the old ones, but not the new ones)

 

 

 

You should have the right to say sucks. It's not a swear word, it's slang. I don't see what the big deal is with sucks, personally. Certain words should be censored, but they're getting a little carried away. Random events that give you stuff are cool, but when they occur as often as they do, it gets annoying. Used to, I would click on a tree and then sit back and play my guitar, then click again once the tree was gone, those were my relaxing skills. And most of the time all I get is like 600GP or sapphires, which suck..I want emmy+ maaaan!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[dude_of_war4]

i think that runescape is fine, updates for lower levels is annoying but there are more of them that level 70+'s

 

 

 

if you feel like that then quit? and dont make it miserable for other people, contact was hard, the boss was difficult and i lost my guthans over it

 

 

 

the chat is fine really, they keep updating there censor to make it less irritating to players, people use 'gay' and all that as abusive language, so its right to be censored

[Made0f12une]

I've always thought whoever does the censor at Jagex should be hanged..

 

The word 'Sex' is censored! How damn stupod, Runescape is 13+, and if you find reproduction offensive then you should be shot.

 

 

 

Yes, we all know how it could be used to make something offensive, but so can almost any word in the English language, grow up Jagex..

 

 

 

At first I thought their goal with the censor was to preserve a mature and adult community. Keeping the immature childish remarks out.

 

 

 

Now with the teachers, noobs, "dumbing" down the game and such I'm starting to think their goals have changed

 

 

 

Damn.. I typo'd 'stupid' to 'stupod'... That's annoying.. wont edit it though :lol:

 

 

 

Anyway, I think they've completly lost sight of any goal with the censor, and are banning words as soon as anyone becomes offended by them in the hope to keep a member..

 

 

 

You can't even say 'Damn'

 

Damnit! How can I vent my frustration properly with the substitute word 'nuts'...

 

 

 

Ironically Balls is uncensored but Screw is not.

 

 

 

I'm disapointed screw is censored. I lke to use it in terms of "I was just screwing around today and found a nail!"

 

 

 

I remember in Rsc when Cook was censored

There was a time where "cook" was censored, but i highly doubt it was as early as rsc

 

 

 

Oh trust me my friend, it was. The only way to say cook was if your text was yellow. If you said "Cook" it would be censored but if you said "@yel@Cook" it would not be (@yel@ was how you made colored text in rsc)

[frozenfreeze]

Agreed. Jagex treats all like young kids. They should remove the censor but make it if you swear, boom ban.

 

 

 

Well said!

[Kill_Thomas9]

well that pretty well sums up all of what is wrong with rs.

 

 

 

If jagex wants to stop macroers, they should hire mods that go up to suspicious players, and make a message pop up on their screen that says "A mod suspects you of autoing. You have 2 minutes to enguage in a conversation with him."

 

 

 

To prove you are not autoing, you will have to enguage in a conversation with that mod.

[IGotGrapes]

In any other game like this they have mods, you don't need more than 10. When a player receives more than 5 reports for autoing you go investigate. Send them a pop up, tell them to type a message, case sensitive, pose a question"Please spell your RS name backwards and then spell wood cutting backwards". You couldn't make a script for something like that as every mod would make it different. It really wouldn't be hard.

[Kuroi_Ame]

i think that runescape is fine, updates for lower levels is annoying but there are more of them that level 70+'s

 

 

 

if you feel like that then quit? and dont make it miserable for other people, contact was hard, the boss was difficult and i lost my guthans over it

 

 

 

the chat is fine really, they keep updating there censor to make it less irritating to players, people use 'gay' and all that as abusive language, so its right to be censored

 

Are you serious about losing Guthans during Contact? I didn't eat more than three sharks...

 

 

 

About quitting, I've considered it, but every now and then, I'll try to remember that one time a while back and I'll just do it, usually fish. I'm not saying the game is entirely bad. It just needs refining.

 

 

 

well that pretty well sums up all of what is wrong with rs.

 

 

 

If jagex wants to stop macroers, they should hire mods that go up to suspicious players, and make a message pop up on their screen that says "A mod suspects you of autoing. You have 2 minutes to enguage in a conversation with him."

 

 

 

To prove you are not autoing, you will have to enguage in a conversation with that mod.

 

 

 

And if you're not macroing but instead looking elsewhere, they ban you, and it's not even your fault. I don't know if that is such a good idea.

[Lenin64]

i perosnally dont like the censor. words are words, we'll see them eventually, why not now? and what makes them 'inappropriate'? Its just wack. Also, i, too, find the guides to be a bunch of bunk. For a long time, newbies had to start without any training (other than tutorial island) or any free stuff, and we did absolutely fine. the game should be challenging, thats what makes it fun. and as for quests, i think your dream quest has come (no pun intended, i hate puns) with the new Dream mentor. i hear talk that the boss is incredibly difficult, no matter what level you are.

[Adam007]

Agreed. Jagex treats all like young kids. They should remove the censor but make it if you swear, boom ban.

 

Maybe because the vast majority are young kids?

 

 

 

We are being sheltered.

 

 

 

Chat

 

When someone signs up to play RuneScape, they have to sign an agreement that they are thirteen years or older. If this is true, as I beleive it is, why is there a chat filter that blocks some of the following unecessary words:

 

[developmentally delayed]

 

turd

 

gay

 

a hole (litterally a hole, not abbreviated)

 

geek and nerd used to be

 

suck(s)

 

and many more that six-year-olds say!

 

 

 

The censor is so bad, that most of the time, half your sentance will be blocked and the person you are talking to will be like huh?

 

Another thing, why can't we type more than a certain amount of spaces? Does Jagex think our minds can't come up with more than 60 characters?

 

I agree the censor is annoyingly bad, but I'm glad jagex censors some words. I can't imagine the filth a 13-year old would be spewing just because he can. They censor words like gay because people use the word gay as an insult, which is offensive to some people. I'm against censorship but when we're playing a game with the majority being early tweens just discovering swear words and how to use them, I'm pretty glad we have censors.

 

 

 

Skill "teachers"

 

I'm a veterin in this game, so to speak. I've played for several years, back when there were no skill "teachers" that gave out free arrows and runes, then told you what to do. I played when there was challenge in this area of RuneScape. I played when I had to ask players how to make flour and bread and such. It wasn't easy, but it was FUN. This part doesn't matter to me, I'm not jealous of how easy it is for new players, I feel sorry for them, that they don't get to experience them.

 

Let's say 30% of people who start runescape quit because they get confused or don't know what to do off the boat. These teachers were put in by jagex to keep more of this percentage, which ultimately leads to more memberships. It just makes sense. I know we had it harder but they're just being business smart.

 

 

 

Wilderness "ditch"

 

What is up with this? Who asked for this? Who needs this? How is this helpful in the least? The message that popped up before the ditch, I though, was enough. Now, they go build a freaking ditch across the Wilderness! I don't even remember, without rereading the update message, what the reason was. This doesn't change anything between the Wilderness/World line. Before the ditch, you would get a warning message one time that would stop you before going any further, and with the ditch, it's the same thing. The only difference is that it slows things down, not by much, but it slows things.

 

Before the ditch people could still enter the wild even with the warning sign. Without it you're forced to cross it voluntarily. The ditch ended luring forever. Granted to most people it's annoying and unneccesary, but if it saves one guy a party hat it's worth it so the guy doesn't have to go through all that sadness or whatever he'd go through. They're only looking out for some of the slower players here. Again, it just makes business sense for them to make things more accessible and less likely to mess people up.

 

 

 

As for random events. At one point each worked. When they make them they work until the autoers find ways around it. While it's not a bad concept, you're right that they should remove some older ones that are now ineffective. But right now the best way they know how to counter autoers is releasing new random events.

 

 

 

As for rares. Once you understand that

But, they're useless.

is one of the most idiotic things anyone could ever possibly say, I'd hope you hate rares less, and hope you'd understand them more. They're not a waste, nor are they not useful. There's no item in the game of runescape that's more useful than a party hat. I repeat. No item in runescape is more useful than a party hat or similar rare. I invested about 20million into rares in rsc, now I have a 1bil+ networth. How can you call that a waste? How can you call that useless?

[mojo477]

wow! there really should be a show your emotions forum well i agree with you in some cases but i sorta like some randoms except some stupid ones like the leo grave digger after you get full zombie you should stop getting it and some other randoms after you get the full costume or like the frog random after there is 3+ frog tokens in your bank

[Dragontotem]

Im too lazy to use quote tags and stuff, so i make this short:

 

 

 

Cencor:

 

Agreed, it's pretty much of an 8 year old kid- style of cencor, but hey, isn't that what RS is all about nowadays?

 

Little kids going to Miniclip, see; "oh, wunescwape! well [bleep] sounds vewi intwehting, me wanna twai!"

 

Then they tell their friends in school about Oh So Mighty Game. Boof, another 100 kids playing, and then they see someone saying "Damn" and they start crying about it "cos momma said its a bad word =((==(=(=(".

 

 

 

"Challenge":

 

Why they make updates only for low levels? Hm.. Perhaps 'cause those little kids dont know how to swap from attack to strenght training and are stuck at lvl 40 attack 'cause bronze dagger wont hit good and everything higher than goblin are too scary to fight, so Jagex just HAS to make something easy for those.

 

 

 

 

 

Ahwell... Perhaps someday.. Perhaps someday...

[malo2]

I agree with the first few, but from the random events forward, you just start acting like a noob, and complaining about the kind of things only noobs complain about .

 

 

 

Random events: Is it that hard for you to pay a little more attention to the game you're playing? how many other games out there allow you to multi task so much? Is it so hard to pay a little extra attention to your game? random events are not backfiring and they are not hurting anyone but the macros. You honestly have no good excuse for being killed by a macro.

 

 

 

Rares: this is where you start contradicting yourself, first you complain about how easy its become to be a beginner, yet then you complain about a feature in the game thats a little too challenging. Rares are the biggest achievements in the game, rares exist for status, if you cant afford one; boo hoo, If you lost one, then it's your own damn fault. You say rares are useless, which makes no sense what so ever, since when was anything in any game useful? How is making a red splat with a higher number than the other guy, any more useful?

 

 

 

At first it seemed like an ok rant (wrong forum btw), same stuff everyone hates. but then you (black rain) just made your self look like a plain noob, and I have lost all future respect for you.

[Phisher]

I agree with everything but the sensor. With little kids running around, seeing everyone else calling people "Gay emo [female dog], etc." you'll see more of "Get the hell out of my way you gay [bleep]" and less of "Gtfo noob." I'd rather have my mom think gtfo means Get the freaking object than have her be seeing "Shut up dumb[posterior] you gay fool" and banning me from Rs.

 

 

 

:? Just my opinion...

 

 

 

If I offended anyone with this post-sorry, I'm just trying to make a point...

[Thus]

I think there are a lot of problems with runescape. Jagex is making it too easy for young players. When I began, I ran straight into wildy with everything in my inventory. I lost some stuff, but I, to quote, "took it like a man". Back in the day, runescape was hard, with no arrows pointing you in the right direction. If Jagex went back to its old ways with runescape, there would be less immature players and more people who have enough brain power to finish a quest or train without "skill teachers" or the guides.

[handman003]

I agree with every aspect of your post, especially the tutors. Learning stuff by myself, and asking people how to do things, was one of the best parts of the game, and still is. Being a semi-high leveled player (79 cmb), I get hardly any excitement in the game any more. Heck, when I first started playing, I usually played for 6, 7, or even more hours a day. Every day. Now I might play one or two hours every now and then. But being a part of this forum is mostly what has kept me playing all these years. TIF ftw .

 

 

 

-Hand :

[Yassin765]

Lol, dork is also censored. How could dork even possibly be a bad word?4 year olds say it!

[highlanders]

If they didn't censor those words, it would be chaos in Rs, especially in free worlds, it would be hilarious.

[Hevendor_Guy]

Wow. That sums up my entire stand on RS.

 

 

 

Quests should actually have storylines. They havn't released many other than the goblin series for a while.

 

 

 

"Ditch of Stupidity"

 

 

 

Randoms-- bunch of crap.

 

 

 

Our chat system is for 9 year olds.

 

 

 

Although about the skill tutors. They're their for people who are just starting, why be selfish about things, just because you had to go through hard times mean other newer players have to?

 

 

 

 

 

+1, only part I disagree with is the rares part, they're something to shoot for

[langer]

i have to say that I think the censor is essential to this game...sadly.

 

 

 

I have played DOTA online, a sub-game or Warcraft 3 and it feels like i'm surrounded by 12 years old who can only argue using the word gay, noob and ... i'll let you use your imagination.

 

 

 

I trust Jagex completly in this matter. I have no problem when Jagex implement something as the ditch, i mean thats only a click ... and only scammers and full-time whiners complain about this.

 

 

 

As for the chalenge runescape gives to us as players... I'm only playing this game to have fun and relax...After a long work day, a challenge is not what I'm looking for!

 

 

 

This is only my opinion. I enjoy playing this game and view every update as evolution to the game.

 

 

 

Good work Jagex, 3 years playing and not about to quit.