Is Jagex Spin Doctoring?

[lordkrohn1626]

ooops double post...dang server lag

[Grand_Overlord_Mly]

Merchants are not gone. Some items have insanely active markets in the GE, and merchants buy as low as they can and sell as high as they can, and almost instantly complete their trades, making millions in minutes. I won't tell you what these active items are, because it would mean you might try to get in on my money, but you can all be sure that merchants still exist, but only merchants and their friends know that they do.

[lordkrohn1626]

Merchants are not gone. .... I won't tell you what these active items are, because it would mean you might try to get in on my money, but you can all be sure that merchants still exist, but only merchants and their friends know that they do.

as if all of the RS merchants are somehow organized :XD: a secret society within Lumbry who meets in the kitchen every 3rd tuesday to devise their schemes :roll:

[BloodArgon]

Pking is dead.~ Bounty Hunter

 

Wilderness is gone.~Last I checked you can still walk north and see the "wildy warning"

 

Merchanting is dead. ~ Ripping players off, and buying stupidly low? Good!

 

Multiplayer is dead. ~ Oh, so more then two players cant play?

 

 

 

 

 

RUNESCAPE IS DEAD. ~ I wish you were with spam like this

 

 

 

JAGEX HATES US. ~Thats why they still work on updates and such.

 

 

 

RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

More on topic, Jagex never made hype so big about something like this with anything else. 4 development diaries about it? Wallpapers? ANAGRAMS?! When was the last time Jagex did this, even with new skills? Last ones they just released out there like it was nothing, this is going to be big.

[Lemeja]

First of all, how many people actually made accounts just to merchant? It was a good way of making money but I doubt that's ALL anybody did. It's the same with staking and pking (alright maybe pking). I doubt anyone would make an account just to train it up to those perfect staking stats and stake as much as they could?

 

 

 

How many of those stakers and merchanters ACTUALLY quit just because they couldn't do those things anymore. Most of them probably had good enough stats to continue playing, do quests, train some skills. That's what the game actually is about.

 

 

 

Pure merchanters are gone.

 

Pure pkers are gone.

 

Pure stakers are gone.

 

 

 

At least 80% of the RS population is still left and those people will probably enjoy summoning as much as possible, and it can't possibly be bad if they hyped it up this much.

[bedman]

First of all, how many people actually made accounts just to merchant? It was a good way of making money but I doubt that's ALL anybody did. It's the same with staking and pking (alright maybe pking). I doubt anyone would make an account just to train it up to those perfect staking stats and stake as much as they could?

 

 

 

How many of those stakers and merchanters ACTUALLY quit just because they couldn't do those things anymore. Most of them probably had good enough stats to continue playing, do quests, train some skills. That's what the game actually is about.

 

 

 

Pure merchanters are gone.

 

Pure pkers are gone.

 

Pure stakers are gone.

 

 

 

At least 80% of the RS population is still left and those people will probably enjoy summoning as much as possible, and it can't possibly be bad if they hyped it up this much.

 

 

 

Erm, merchanting has just been lifted to another lvl...

 

People are making millions a day. Without doing any effort. So please dont talk about merchanting as if it's not existing anymore.

 

 

 

What DOESNT exist anymore is "instant rich". Well, you could get lucky and get a armadyl hilt. But still, you cant win 2B with staking like you could once before.

 

 

 

And about farming: I actually LOVE that skill. At least a bit different

[loligo]

As for spin-doctoring...

 

 

 

I didn't buy the statements in the dev diary about being disappointed in not keeping summoning a secret until it's release. I think the teases and leaking of information has been a very deliberate and calculated ploy.

 

 

 

1) It contributes to the interest of players to stay with the game after several difficult weeks of implementing new updates, most of which were viewed unfavorably by many players.

 

 

 

2) It allows Jagex to gauge the interest and expectations of the players before the skill is introduced.

 

 

 

The second point is far more likely and interesting, I think. We as players can let our imaginations run wild predicting and hoping what the skill will be. When we post those ideas on one forum or another, Jagex can read them and continue to tweak and modify the skill to fit our expectations before having to release it and suffer the backlash. In essence, we can get what we want, they provide what we want, and everyone is happy (except the eternal whiners who are never happy with anything).

 

 

 

I'm sure they are pleased with the work they have put into the skill, but I don't believe the 'gee-whiz' attitude of the dev diaries.

 

 

 

doc

[jessy87]

As for summoning, I don't see it meeting a lot of the expectations players had for it. I mean is it supposed to fill the void Jagex created by effectively removing pking, staking and merchanting from the game?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

again, this is taken from the original post by the author of this thread

 

 

 

 

 

where does it say this?

 

 

 

 

 

does anyone know? seriously?

[Danqazmlp]

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Jesse87: hehe, fair enough, but me muffle my opinion? :XD:

 

 

 

I only voice it about things I know a fair amount about, if I don't have any experience in the subject matter, I just shut it. more should do the same, like the original poster....

 

 

 

Pking is dead.

 

Wilderness is gone.

 

Merchanting is dead.

 

Multiplayer is dead.

 

 

 

 

 

RUNESCAPE IS DEAD.

 

 

 

JAGEX HATES US.

 

 

 

RUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

That was uncalled for.

 

Everyone has a right to voice their opinion, no matter how much you disagree with them.

 

 

 

Please, have a little more courtesy when posting.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

go to hell for the following reasons (please)

 

1-the wild is gone..no more danger...boring with no danger.

 

2-i might have sucked [wagon] at pking but i liked it all the same!

 

3-merchanting was fun as hell, and i made a good deal of money from it

 

4-since the removal of player based trade..75% of the mulltiplayer..is now dead...all i can call multiplayer is minigames

 

 

 

so shut hell and keep your mouth shut :evil:

 

 

 

 

 

although...i dont think jagex hates us...more...i donno...wants to break up with us and cant find the words :cry:

 

 

 

oh if only we could weed all these idiots out of the game...oh wait, maybe we are... :XD:

 

 

 

1. been to wildy lately? try on a 126 rev....I have only been pked twice in 3 years, both times by teams as I was soloing a clue, pkers are easy to avoid, defeat....revs? not so much, they teleblock, freeze, poison u at 8 all within secs......more dangerous now then when the spinelss pker pups ran around in groups teaming single players

 

 

 

2. very few people pked....small percentage...walk into old wildy...you might see a dot now and then, maybe an occasional group....outside of wildy? cant find a spot in the whole rs world to be alone...hmmmm wonder where the VAST majority played? I'd draw you a picture but I am fresh out of crayons.

 

 

 

3. merchants were the scourge of RS, gathered all available resources and marked the prices up...good riddance, so sorry you cant buy a phat set after a week of playing now :roll:

 

 

 

4. Dont like it? leave

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Hear hear, i couldn't have said it any better than that.

 

 

 

On another note, to all those saying rs is dead, i personally have not noticed ANY decline in players at all, holding on well for a dead game, no less players, constant updates, riddence of RWT's and other inconveniances, yeh sure seems dead to me.

[alphakoldes]

By the way, to anyone who thinks any of my comments were actually serious, I forgot the sarcasm> tags.

 

 

 

Thanks for anyone who disagreed with me, you're actually smart. :thumbsup:

[jessy87]

Jesse87: hehe, fair enough, but me muffle my opinion? :XD:

 

 

 

I only voice it about things I know a fair amount about, if I don't have any experience in the subject matter, I just shut it. more should do the same, like the original poster...

 

 

 

 

 

i did not mean your opinions specifically. i mean f2p as a whole.

 

 

 

not sure if thats how you took it, by no means did i try to say as a f2p person should anyones personal opinions be muffled here or anywhere. i just think jagex's idea of "muffling" or "listen last" method to free player is a somewhat reasonable one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

By the way, to anyone who thinks any of my comments were actually serious, I forgot the sarcasm> tags.

 

 

 

Thanks for anyone who disagreed with me, you're actually smart. :thumbsup:

 

 

 

seemed a bit extreme originally, hence i ignored it. either way, its a sensitive issue,i personally think people should keep opinions like you claimed to have(but did not) to them selves, as it call extreme attention to some1. im just saying do your self a favor(everyone) take time to consider your opinions

 

 

 

on the RSOF some 1 stated "omfg look at the pop" title where it continued to say 400k people was a minimum # of players ALWAYS playing, yet til before the trade/pk update we did not have enough severs for runescape to even support 300k people online at once.

[Georgelemmons]

I love how people are looking at summoning, with how great Jagex is making it out to be, and automatically assuming it's all a big conspiracy and the skill is going to be boring to train like farming.

 

 

 

Until farming becomes a combat skill, you really need to work on your skills of speculation.

 

 

 

That would be amazing if it did! 8-)

 

 

 

I agree w/ you about his speculation.