One year has passed !

[Den]

Jagex have done a great job in patching the game up after cutting a chunk of it away.

 

I like how the new Runescape is.

 

 

 

The things I dislike is junk trades and price manipulators.

 

 

 

I see a good future in updates and wish jagex a Merry Christmas.

[Sam]

Great year IMO, though the post by Ginger Warrior I agree with in some ways.

 

 

 

It's still such a linear game. Meh, that's what people call fun these days. Just go along with the flow :roll:

[Omar]

I'd come, but Wednesday is homework night for me... Meh, I'll try. I'm happy when ti comes to what Jagex did about the bots too. :thumbup:

[fat_klutz]

The game is better in general because they took pking out. Removing pking removed a ton of the problems or at least hid them from the general publics eye. Major imbalances in combat no longer became a major issue because of this. Removing bots was certainly nice but it hasn't made it an easier to train. Now instead of silence at yew trees you just have tons of people asking for your woodcutting level.

 

 

 

I agree the game is better but and I love some of the changes but Jagex did not solve everything.

[xlippsx]

Thing is I still think old runescape was better even though I didn't pk and duel arena. TBH it was actually funny to get pked while runecrafting. Now its just... -Sigh-

 

 

 

I 100% couldn't agree more. 2003-2006 were Rs's best years IMO. The game has become too much like all the other mmo's now.

[No_99_Melee]

I miss unbalanced trade and pking (never pked, but a huge fan of watching pros at work ;) ). I understand with RWT Jagex had to do what they did, but cmon people are still easily RWTing through Bounty Hunter. It did cut down on the autoers a lot, but I never really hated them, all they did was make sharks, yews, and flax cheap :P

 

 

 

Can't do anything about it now but reminisce and deal with it...

[Smithy93]

Plus, everyone who hated the trading system probably left now, showing Runescape's TRUE fans!

[mario_sunny]

A mass gathering of people are either two things: MSSWs or riots. Since this isn't MSSW5, it's going to turn into a riot, I can almost garantee you. Ranters take advantage of these huge crowds and get them to do all these wild things to their favor. All it takes are a few jagex haters in the crowd to start a huge anti-jagex fest.

 

 

 

I have mixed feelings to jagex myself right now. I don't think they've made the best decisions, but I am surprised because I thought runescape would be in a worse shape today.

[DreamReaper]

No free trade :thumbdown:

 

A stuipd pricing sysytem that hardly works (G.E.) :thumbdown:

 

"Improved" graphics :thumbdown:

 

No more making money on skill (staking) :thumbdown:

 

Bounty hunter :thumbdown:

 

A half-baked excuse for pking (PvP worlds) :thumbdown:

 

Still sooo many glitches :thumbdown:

 

Minigames with huge loopholes and stupid technicalities (S.C.) :thumbdown:

 

 

 

The ONLY positive was Fist of Guthix. :thumbup:

 

 

 

 

 

Yea, a very good year...

[Tim]

though i do miss the unbalanced trade (stopped a mate giving me full dragon when he quit) this years turn-around has been great. : i enjoy Clan wars, Stealing Creation, the QUESTS! (cant forget the quests) and the graphic update too. though i am dissapointed as they still havent realeased the Phoenix Summon creature yet. besides that, good job. :

[time2quit]

Runescape centers around grinding. No two ways about it, now more than ever. The events of 10th December last year will forever be in my memory as regards to Jagex/runescape. They took out part of their game, a huge part, FREE player killing in the wilderness; not this mickey mouse BH or the even worse pvp worlds.... If i kill someone and cost him a torso/v skirt/whip/barrows gloves I do not want to be rewarded with 64k of loot (combat bracelet + some other rubbish) [one of my many examples..]. And then the changes to the trade system, which spelt the end of runescape and the begining of Comuscape.

 

 

 

Although I didnt play for much in classic before the switch to Rs2 I must admit this is going to be my last year in rs at most. The game isn't what it was to me, I've been holding of for a worthwhile change to bring back in my playing career was the golden time, and well it doesn't look like its ever going to happen.

 

 

 

I supose I'd better just leave and cut out the last 4 years+ of playing from my life, hoped it wouldnt end like this, I like many others who left 11 months and 19 days ago.

[Salad]

Jagex have made the year a fantastic one in my opinion, I was on the verge of quitting in the New Year but they have added some really good content. :)

 

True, summoning,RSHD, E3 (or w/e), Stealing Creation, While guthix sleeps, soon to be French Servers, PvP worlds, others that I forgot.

 

This was the best year of runescape I saw to date.

[Aneron]

Runescape has definitely improved greatly in terms of content this past year, and Jagex has largely made up for the massive restrictions imposed in order to stop real world trading. It still exists, but it is so much less prevalent than it used to be.

 

 

 

My only dissatisfactions are from the failure to provide a true replacement for player-vs-player, and the ways in which the Grand Exchange has hurt the economy.

 

 

 

Bounty Hunter is profitable when you do it right, but it has very little in common with the old wilderness. Player-vs-player servers are very similar but it's near impossible to turn a profit - in order to get good drops, you must spend a long time standing around in hot zones, die often, and not get more than a few kills each hour.

 

 

 

The Grand Exchange revolutionized trading but also made some items impossible to sell, and others impossible to buy because the prices are incorrect, or don't move quickly enough, resulting in the convoluted and far from ideal world of junk trading seen today. Having an official, defined "price" also makes people much more panicky about the items they own, and the chronic cycle of price manipulation of almost every expensive item in the game is annoying to say the least.

[belfordrocks]

Sly_Wizard.

 

 

 

I don't know how you came up with half the G.E. prices are wrong, but for your sake I've randomly picked five items and their prices:

 

 

 

1. White bead- 540gp

 

2. Fat snail meat- 93gp

 

3. Oranges(5)- 1,435gp

 

4. Chopped tomato- 23gp

 

5. Mithril mace- 293gp

 

 

 

(These items were chosen completely at random.)

 

 

 

None of these prices look significantly wrong to me.

 

 

 

 

 

No free trade

 

 

 

Why do you need free trade other than to RWT or scamming?

 

 

 

On the plus side, there will be no more selling bad wine for 600k, no more people swapping iron scimitars for rune scimitars, ropes for abyssal whips or tarromin seeds for ranarr seeds. There will be no more luring, no more 'Jagex blocks your pass *****'.

 

 

 

Very bloody positive indeed.

 

 

 

A stuipd pricing sysytem that hardly works (G.E.)

 

 

 

See above.

 

 

 

"Improved" graphics

 

 

 

Now you're just being a whiny moron. RS HD was a giant step forward for RuneScape. Jagex had put a lot of effort into it and it turned out brilliantly. And as always, I'd like to see you do better.

 

 

 

No more making money on skill (staking)

 

 

 

There was no skill involved. It always boiled down to put up stake, accept, DDS four times, switch to whip and hope for the best. And staking is compulsive gambling, every gp you gain has come from the inventory of another person.

 

 

 

A half-baked excuse for pking (PvP worlds)

 

 

 

How? Elaborate.

 

 

 

Still sooo many glitches

 

 

 

This is a big game. Again, I'd like to see you do better.

 

 

 

Minigames with huge loopholes and stupid technicalities (S.C.)

 

 

 

Again, elaborate.

 

 

 

If i kill someone and cost him a torso/v skirt/whip/barrows gloves I do not want to be rewarded with 64k of loot (combat bracelet + some other rubbish) [one of my many examples..].

 

 

 

Then you are a bloody sadist who preys on others misfortune. Take you 64k and be grateful, or leave. At the same time in the back of your brain (if applicable), you shoudl be feeling bloody sorry for that poor bloke who lost months of hard work because he was brutally victimised by selfish people like you.

 

 

 

Now for my two cents, it has been a great year. It started off with the removal of PKing, a long overdue change in the game. Moronic toddlers and 'professional pjers' and what not just got cleaned out of the game.

 

 

 

We had Summoning, the ability of familiars was truly brilliant (the macaw was my favourite). We had Fist of Guthix, a fun minigame which both PvP and strategy as opposed to staking. We saw The Great Orb Project, another skill-based minigame. Tings such as Stealing Creation, Trawler fixes and other similar things have capped off what is undoubtedly the best year in RuneScape's history (for anyone who has an IQ higher than that of an acorn).

 

 

 

Brilliant.

[Da_Latios]

Let's have a rant against ranters. We should have a massive riot against rioters. And we should PK all those nasty PKers.

[Dazzuh]

RSHD: Great update.

 

PVP Worlds: Good, but still not the same.

 

GE: Still needs some tweaking!

 

 

 

I think now with the choice of Bounty Hunter or PVP Worlds Jagex have literally done all they can to keep the fun and excitement in player killing without reintroducing a lot of the RWT'ing back. I KNOW it's still out there, but it has been minimized.

 

 

 

Overall they've done a good job, but I don't find the game nearly as much fun, mostly down to a lack of freedom i think. Which is why i barely play anymore. :/

[Yomyth105]

lol. u might be congratulating jagex on this day while lots of others will riot and say that jagex didnt do anything to come back...

[DreamReaper]

Sly_Wizard.

 

 

 

I don't know how you came up with half the G.E. prices are wrong, but for your sake I've randomly picked five items and their prices:

 

 

 

1. White bead- 540gp

 

2. Fat snail meat- 93gp

 

3. Oranges(5)- 1,435gp

 

4. Chopped tomato- 23gp

 

5. Mithril mace- 293gp

 

 

 

(These items were chosen completely at random.)

 

 

 

None of these prices look significantly wrong to me.

 

Who cares if those prices are wrong? Those are obscure and useless items. For example, blood runes. They're 275gp for lowest and market on the G.E. and not going any lower. That's a sign of a wrong price to me.

 

 

 

No free trade

 

 

 

Why do you need free trade other than to RWT or scamming?

 

 

 

On the plus side, there will be no more selling bad wine for 600k, no more people swapping iron scimitars for rune scimitars, ropes for abyssal whips or tarromin seeds for ranarr seeds. There will be no more luring, no more 'Jagex blocks your pass *****'.

 

 

 

Very bloody positive indeed.

 

 

 

People still lure, people still password scam, and people still scam. And why the hell wouldn't you want free trade? if someone wants to buy my abbysal whip for 4m, let them. Oh, wait... they can't with the limits. What about gifts for friends? Or are you too selfish and cheap to give any.

 

 

 

A stuipd pricing sysytem that hardly works (G.E.)

 

 

 

See above.

 

 

 

Indeed, see above.

 

 

 

"Improved" graphics

 

 

 

Now you're just being a whiny moron. RS HD was a giant step forward for RuneScape. Jagex had put a lot of effort into it and it turned out brilliantly. And as always, I'd like to see you do better.

 

 

 

Oh no, he told me to do better. Well guess what? I can't do better because it was perfect the way it was. HD looks like some over-saturated children's story book. Hmm, you don't like my opinion? Too bad, I don't design game graphics for a living. If you're so ill-contented with me, make ME a better person, whiny moron.

 

 

 

No more making money on skill (staking)

 

 

 

There was no skill involved. It always boiled down to put up stake, accept, DDS four times, switch to whip and hope for the best. And staking is compulsive gambling, every gp you gain has come from the inventory of another person.

 

 

 

Go stake Phat sets and tell me it doesn't take skill. Don't comment on that which you have no idea of.

 

 

 

A half-baked excuse for pking (PvP worlds)

 

 

 

How? Elaborate.

 

 

 

I kill Bob, Bob has hybriding gear and an AGS. I smite out his prayer, and as he drops dead, I get a rune platebody, a ring of stone, and a bunch of 1/2 summer pies. His hybrid gear alone was probably worth 10m and his AGS around 60, but I don't even get 2m. There was a glitch in the early days of PvP worlds, where you would lose all you items, whether you were skulled or not. That is half-baked.

 

 

 

Still sooo many glitches

 

 

 

This is a big game. Again, I'd like to see you do better.

 

 

 

Jagex is a big company. I'd like to see the QA do better.

 

 

 

Minigames with huge loopholes and stupid technicalities (S.C.)

 

 

 

Again, elaborate.

 

 

 

Over 5m points a game. 400k+ theiving xp in an hour. Games being 1 minute long. One minute left warning coming up when the game starts. Need I go on?

 

 

 

If i kill someone and cost him a torso/v skirt/whip/barrows gloves I do not want to be rewarded with 64k of loot (combat bracelet + some other rubbish) [one of my many examples..].

 

 

 

Then you are a bloody sadist who preys on others misfortune. Take you 64k and be grateful, or leave. At the same time in the back of your brain (if applicable), you shoudl be feeling bloody sorry for that poor bloke who lost months of hard work because he was brutally victimised by selfish people like you.

 

 

 

You still lose your stuff when you die. And how the hell is he selfish? It's a PvP world, he took the risk and payed for it. And that's maybe 2m he lost. 4 hours of work, maybe. The fighter torso is easy to get back in less than 4 hours as well. You're an incompetent fool, if you take much longer than 6 hours. Quite victimizing the idiots.

 

 

 

Now for my two cents, it has been a great year. It started off with the removal of PKing, a long overdue change in the game. Moronic toddlers and 'professional pjers' and what not just got cleaned out of the game.

 

 

 

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: and again :lol: Have you ever BH'ed? :lol: :lol: :lol: I assume not. You've just summed up the majority of BH'ers in those words.

 

 

 

We had Summoning, the ability of familiars was truly brilliant (the macaw was my favourite). We had Fist of Guthix, a fun minigame which both PvP and strategy as opposed to staking. We saw The Great Orb Project, another skill-based minigame. Tings such as Stealing Creation, Trawler fixes and other similar things have capped off what is undoubtedly the worst year in RuneScape's history (for anyone who has an IQ higher than that of an acorn).

 

 

 

Brilliant.

[belfordrocks]

You are a PKer therefore your opinion is worthless to me. In my opinion Pvp worlds are an epic fail because they were introduced in the first place. RuneScape should be PKing free because all Pkers are selfish little sadists who go to bed feeling better knowing they made someone cry.

[gordhammer1]

ill admit i did quit around new years. not because any of the changes effected me. but just because they changed it. i dont like change ; ) but i have come back recently, and i love it.

[Ginger_Warrior]

You are a PKer therefore your opinion is worthless to me. In my opinion Pvp worlds are an epic fail because they were introduced in the first place. RuneScape should be PKing free because all Pkers are selfish little sadists who go to bed feeling better knowing they made someone cry.

 

Come on, let's stop the whiny "OMFG PKers killed me!!!" talk. No one made you enter the wilderness, you accepted the risks when you entered. The only borderline legitimate argument Jagex could come up with was that RWTers (completely separate group to PKers) were using it to conduct their trades.

 

 

 

Also, surely people on this board can argue without resorting to the argumentum ad hominem fallacy. This statement also applies to the person who referred to all RS quitters as "moronic teenagers". If you want to prove I'm moronic for leaving, engage in a proper argument with me, rather than mud-slinging.

[doomy]

You are a PKer therefore your opinion is worthless to me. In my opinion Pvp worlds are an epic fail because they were introduced in the first place. RuneScape should be PKing free because all Pkers are selfish little sadists who go to bed feeling better knowing they made someone cry.

 

Are you really that stupid?

 

People enter the wilderness knowing they have a chance of dying.

 

If I kill somebody its a great feeling, I get loot and I feel superior to them, I don't care if they cry of not, pking is not selfish and pkers arn't sadistic, you can't just generalise that all pkers kill to make people cry...

 

I don't cry if I die, I realise that I was at risk of dying, and it was my choice to enter the wilderness.

[belfordrocks]

OK, hypothetical scenario.

 

 

 

There are two people, Hardworking Joe and Selfish Tom. Hardworking Joe works hard for his money, busy skilling, mining and slaying dragons. After months of hard work, he decides to buy an Armadyl Godsword. Boy has he earnt it!

 

 

 

Selfish Tom is too lazy to level up his account. He uses real world trading to buy a level 99 strength pure and 25 million gold pieces. He got the real world money from dealing in the drug industry. Selfish Tom is walking along one day, in his bought character, when he sees Hardworking Joe and his Armadyl Godsword. He thoughtlessly kills Hardworking Joe, verbally abusing him as Selfish Tom abuses a bug to one-hit knockout him and Selfish Tom is rewarded with 64 thousand gold worth of items. Meanwhile Hardworking Joe respawns in Camelot having lost months of hard work, determination and earnings.

 

 

 

Upon seeing the free 64k, Selfish Tom explodes. He angrily yells at the fact that he was given a free 64K, because he demands MILLIONS! Of course, never mind Hardworking Joe who has lost everything, since having consideration for others is the last thing Selfish Tom would do. Hardworking Joe is very sad indeed, whilst Selfish Tom starts sadistically whining about how the 60 million are his property and selfishly demands Jagex return them. Selfish Tom has no sympathy for Hardworking Joe because he is a heartless lunatic.

[3hitm4g3u]

Plus, everyone who hated the trading system probably left now, showing Runescape's TRUE fans!

 

 

 

Being a true fan shouldn't mean you have to accept [cabbage]ty updates.

[Ravenkana]

OK, hypothetical scenario.

 

 

 

There are two people, Hardworking Joe and Selfish Tom. Hardworking Joe works hard for his money, busy skilling, mining and slaying dragons. After months of hard work, he decides to buy an Armadyl Godsword. Boy has he earnt it!

 

 

 

Selfish Tom is too lazy to level up his account. He uses real world trading to buy a level 99 strength pure and 25 million gold pieces. He got the real world money from dealing in the drug industry. Selfish Tom is walking along one day, in his bought character, when he sees Hardworking Joe and his Armadyl Godsword. He thoughtlessly kills Hardworking Joe, verbally abusing him as Selfish Tom abuses a bug to one-hit knockout him and Selfish Tom is rewarded with 64 thousand gold worth of items. Meanwhile Hardworking Joe respawns in Camelot having lost months of hard work, determination and earnings.

 

 

 

Upon seeing the free 64k, Selfish Tom explodes. He angrily yells at the fact that he was given a free 64K, because he demands MILLIONS! Of course, never mind Hardworking Joe who has lost everything, since having consideration for others is the last thing Selfish Tom would do. Hardworking Joe is very sad indeed, whilst Selfish Tom starts sadistically whining about how the 60 million are his property and selfishly demands Jagex return them. Selfish Tom has no sympathy for Hardworking Joe because he is a heartless lunatic.

Here's one for you

 

 

 

We have two people. One is Dissatisfied Customer, the other Unsuccessful Troll. Dissatisfied Customer lists complaints about a game he loves, in the hope that the company and other players will read them and maybe, just maybe, think "Gee willikers, this sure should be fixed!" Unsuccessful Troll, seeing this, decides to attack Dissatisfied Customer. First he starts by attacking portions of the argument and not the whole. When another person, Sympathetic Player, joins the fray to help Dissatisfied Customer, Unsuccessful Troll declares that he will not listen to either because of their playing style. When several other people comment on how rude and stupid this is, Unsuccessful Troll writes a convoluted story involving biased towards his own opinion, making his opponent out to be a foolish, cheating scumbag and himself to be a hardworking, intelligent player. Added to this are a series of unlikely circumstances and a huge sack of facts that were thrown out for being "unsympathetic" to his cause.

 

 

 

Which story is more true? You decide.