This Game is Broken

[Stragomagus]

I don't know if anyone has noticed this yet, but it's not actually jagex who are ruining the game, it's the rwt companies and the players who use them. Just stop with the ranting, even if it is quite an intelligent one and i do agree with the view of the OP.

 

 

 

To blame the RWT'ers for this is absolutely pathetic. Every MMORPG in the world has to deal with RWT, it's not like Runescape is the only game that deals with it. Jagex is trying to prevent a natural market from operating by putting up a few walls here. They even said themselves that this is a multi-million dollar industry. The RWT'ers will ALWAYS find a way past the updates, even if it's more difficult than it was before. Which is another reason why destroying the best parts of the game to stop it was so foolish.

 

 

 

There was a point where Jagex was detecting almost every RWT that took place, and they were banning people left right and centre. This point was in October - November, right before the Staking update. Instead of examining the long term effect of these bans, they decided to base their opinions on the short-term. You can't expect bans to deter people in the short-term. Some buyers need to be banned 2, even 3 times before they get the point. But the fact is they would have eventually gotten the point, and been deterred from buying gold. Even the sellers themselves were beginning to lose hope due to all the bans.

 

 

 

But of course, Jagex didn't wait and see the effects. Instead, they made a huge sacrifice in gameplay to stop RWT. And like I said, do not simply think about the current state of the game when you look at this. Think of the future updates that are now impossible. Think of the potential new mini-games that are no longer possible with Jagex's stance on wealth transfer. The whole PVP aspect of the game is gone basically, aside from the joke that is the BH.

 

 

 

There is where lies the problem. Companies today only look at the short-term instead of the long-term where if they were to look at the long-term they would be able to build up a stronger customer base instead of just the "fly-by-nights" that will quit in a month to a year. In fact there are some great examples of short-sightedness out there such as: the dot.com bust( I know it was a speculative bubble, but it proves the point), The great depression of 1928-1940s, and others that even some basic research could bring up along those terms. In fact the majority of stockholders are short-term buyers while only a small minority are in it for the long-term.

 

If Jagex truly wants to keep what is left of their main base of players they will begin looking at the long-term. examples of long-term minded companies in the gaming industry are: Nintendo, they have been around for over 100 years, Blizzard (now owned by vivendi so they are the same type of company), and using basic search terms a person could easily find more companies with this type of perspective.