06-Aug-09 RuneScape Q&A � Mark Gerhard

[Toad]

Very surprised to hear about a new skill being f2p.

 

 

 

P2P will have higher level content for that skill though, much like skills now that are both f2p and p2p.

 

 

 

Q) Madmarkx

 

What he means is will we be able to change our login name while keeping the same ingame display name. If we are allowed to change our loging name, our accounts will be a lot more secure since others would not know our login name. Will this be possible? (to change our login name instead of our name displayed ingame)?

 

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A) We're not looking to change the login name at the minute but we are looking to maybe replace it with your e-mail address. This would also make account recovery a lot easier :)

 

 

 

 

New login = your Email address? interesting

[IzzetGuildmage]

36) Bionic Cool2 asks;

 

With so many other MMORPG's out there constantly making their graphics, game play and features better, do you feel RuneScape has had to compete with them by making updates bigger and better then they had been before?

 

 

 

We dont look to our competitors for our strategies. If anything, we tend to get shamelessly copied by the industry. We have always tried to make our games and updates the best that they could possibly be, regardless of the competition. We still have one of the worlds largest, and still growing, communities, not to mention the Guinness World Record for the most popular free game, which tells me that we are doing the right things overall.

 

 

 

What a freaking hypocrite! If anything, Jagex has copied other games/movies/books for years, most infuriating of which are Worms/Worms2 (arcanists), Advance Wars (war of gielinor or whatever that crap's called) and many quests following the story line or slightly altered storylines of existion fiction.

[jonni]

36) Bionic Cool2 asks;

 

With so many other MMORPG's out there constantly making their graphics, game play and features better, do you feel RuneScape has had to compete with them by making updates bigger and better then they had been before?

 

 

 

We dont look to our competitors for our strategies. If anything, we tend to get shamelessly copied by the industry. We have always tried to make our games and updates the best that they could possibly be, regardless of the competition. We still have one of the worlds largest, and still growing, communities, not to mention the Guinness World Record for the most popular free game, which tells me that we are doing the right things overall.

 

 

 

What a freaking hypocrite! If anything, Jagex has copied other games/movies/books for years, most infuriating of which are Worms/Worms2 (arcanists), Advance Wars (war of gielinor or whatever that crap's called) and many quests following the story line or slightly altered storylines of existion fiction.

 

 

 

some of the funorb stuff is quite obvious yes, but a lot of runescape references (monty python stuff) is more respectful parodying by fans at jagex.

[Omali]

What a freaking hypocrite! If anything, Jagex has copied other games/movies/books for years, most infuriating of which are Worms/Worms2 (arcanists), Advance Wars (war of gielinor or whatever that crap's called) and many quests following the story line or slightly altered storylines of existion fiction.

 

 

 

Someone needs to learn what a hypocrite is. Why is it "infuriating" that Jagex used the same game concepts as other games?

 

 

 

And Worms didn't invent the turn-based 2-d aim and fire strategy game, and Advance Wars didn't invent its genre either. As for the quests; There is no such thing as an original thought.

[jonni]

Q) Beloved Lie

 

 

 

I have one other question I'm kind of nervous to ask, so if a mod thinks it's breaking the rules or just a bad suggestion feel free to hide my post but I think it's worth the shot of asking. Anyway here I go :@ Have you guys ever thought of maybe having a Runescape convention?

 

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A) Yes, we're looking in to running one soon.

 

 

 

uh oh

[Hamtaro]

Where did they mention the RSC cape being removed? :?

 

 

 

Q) Hi Hamtaro

 

Will the RSC cape/other item for RSC players in RS2 be available with the release of the cheat servers in a few months, or has the idea been scrapped? If so, will it have a unique emote like a skill cape or a quest point cape?

 

 

 

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A)Hi Hi Hamtaro!

 

 

 

The idea has been scrapped in favour of bringing back the RSC servers.

 

 

 

Very disappointing. He even told us in that old RSC Q&A he couldn't see why not to give us an RSC item in RS2. Glad I asked.

 

 

 

Even more disappointed about the possibility of sailing :evil: -.-

[Orc]

 

 

 

06-Aug-2009 20:37:59

 

Q) Bla918

 

 

 

On the new Q&A Dev Blog posted today, I saw that you are working on RSC 'Cheat Servers' and I have heard in the past from a J Mod (not sure which, sorry) that people who can still play RSC (me being one of them, although not frequently) will be getting some form of item in the main RuneScape game that shows the fact they still can play RSC.

 

 

 

My question is will current RSC players still be getting these items, and will our current servers remain or will they all be cheat servers from then on.

 

 

 

Thanks

 

 

 

-Bla

 

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A) Hi Bla,

 

We will be bringing back RSC for all to play but we wont be making any RSC items in RuneScape.

 

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Q) Hi Hamtaro

 

Will the RSC cape/other item for RSC players in RS2 be available with the release of the cheat servers in a few months, or has the idea been scrapped? If so, will it have a unique emote like a skill cape or a quest point cape?

 

 

 

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A)Hi Hi Hamtaro!

 

 

 

The idea has been scrapped in favour of bringing back the RSC servers.

 

 

 

Well that just ruined my evening, was really looking forward to that. Although MMG did state that they were looking at more ways of rewarding the most loyal and longest serving players.

 

 

 

 

We're looking at new ways of recognising our longest serving, and loyal players.

[Mungo0]

Seemed to me that he was very adept at using "PR-speak", so to speak, and avoided the topics pretty well. He also answered some questions that were pretty much the same, such as those about RSC, but hey. They have the final say in what to answer.

[shadeh]

Hmm, the iphone app would be REALLY popular.

 

 

 

And whoever said it earlier, a banking/ge app would be really cool! But then there's the scamming that might put Jagex off that...

 

 

 

Maybe they could make Runescape work on the iphone somehow, you could tilt the screen to move the camera about.

 

 

 

Or maybe put RS classic onto the iphone =O

[strilmus]

42) 583saradomin asks;

 

Why doesn't Mod MMG post everything he said in his clan (if everyone is telling the truth that he did say future updates in his clan) on the forums? It is so hard to trust word of mouth in this game.

 

 

 

I dont talk about future updates or content in my Clan Chat as I wouldnt want to spoil future updates and content isnt really my area of expertise anyway thats what the RuneScape team do really well. I just enjoy the content as a typical player on my choob account and I just use the Clan Chat as an opportunity to talk to players about every day stuff, usually have a bit of a laugh and sometimes they give me feedback on new content or things that annoy them in game which is also helpful. So since we just chat about random and everyday stuff I dont think it is important to get transcripts on the forums.

 

 

 

The reason why we have regular Q&As with the players is to officially answer questions relating to the game.

 

 

 

LIES

 

 

 

I keep hearing about how the man blurts out random stuff about possible content every other day or so.

 

 

 

Anyway...

 

 

 

I don't think the iPhone is suitable for RS.

[Amundogus2]

How on earth did noone discuss this?:

 

 

 

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"13) J 36 asks;

 

I have seen many people ask about a film or cartoon version of RuneScape but not seen any answers, is this something that you have thought of.

 

 

 

Yes, indeed, we are talking to a number of people about doing a film of some of our games. I expect this would be a full feature film rather than some sort of cartoon."

 

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Its a friggin confirmation of the fact that Jagex is thinking seriously about making a film off one of their products! Why do you intend on discussing friggin name changing and cheap copies of RSC when we have THIS? :)

[strilmus]

I won't get excited until we know what the plot is.

[Poppet]

How on earth did noone discuss this?:

 

 

 

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"13) J 36 asks;

 

I have seen many people ask about a film or cartoon version of RuneScape but not seen any answers, is this something that you have thought of.

 

 

 

Yes, indeed, we are talking to a number of people about doing a film of some of our games. I expect this would be a full feature film rather than some sort of cartoon."

 

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Its a friggin confirmation of the fact that Jagex is thinking seriously about making a film off one of their products! Why do you intend on discussing friggin name changing and cheap copies of RSC when we have THIS? :)

 

 

 

Because Jagex has always told the opposite of what they say most of the time. (Sarcasm)

[Master_Smither]

So he answered a few questions multiple times and said close to nothing useful. This wasn't productive at all and entirely met my expectations for the QA they announced. Overall I'd give it a 2/10 if I was rating it. The best part is where he claimed they had a good QA team and answered a question by one of the most famous bug abusers in Runescape.

 

 

 

I sure do miss the days before Andrew made him stop talking about future content... :|

[Grogthurk]

 

 

 

I sure do miss the days before Andrew made him stop talking about future content... :|

 

 

 

 

 

Elaborate

 

 

 

and the famous Bug Abuser

[duncdar2]

So he answered a few questions multiple times and said close to nothing useful. This wasn't productive at all and entirely met my expectations for the QA they announced. Overall I'd give it a 2/10 if I was rating it. The best part is where he claimed they had a good QA team and answered a question by one of the most famous bug abusers in Runescape.

 

 

 

I sure do miss the days before Andrew made him stop talking about future content... :|

 

Then you didn't read it. It cancelled out many specualtions and silly ideas about the game. Also cleared up LOADS of stuff.

 

Such as Sailing has potential of being a skill and F2P won't get skill capes.

[Master_Smither]

 

 

 

I sure do miss the days before Andrew made him stop talking about future content... :|

 

 

 

 

 

Elaborate

 

 

 

and the famous Bug Abuser

 

 

 

Back when MMG first decided to start up his cc he'd freely give information about future content such as the prayer update and name changing. Until, Andrew told him to stop as it was starting to cause people to get anxious about updates over 6 months away.

 

 

 

The famous bug abuser is svew who has not only spammed Mod MMG cc with secrets about various things(ignore listed from the cc too) but has made videos of bugs such as no-clipping and RWTing via the Bh crater. He's never been banned for bug abuse and has successfully appealed the bans he got manually by J mods :roll:.

 

 

 

I thought this, specially why MMG stopped Q&A in his cc, was common knowledge. :?

 

 

 

So he answered a few questions multiple times and said close to nothing useful. This wasn't productive at all and entirely met my expectations for the QA they announced. Overall I'd give it a 2/10 if I was rating it. The best part is where he claimed they had a good QA team and answered a question by one of the most famous bug abusers in Runescape.

 

 

 

I sure do miss the days before Andrew made him stop talking about future content... :|

 

Then you didn't read it. It cancelled out many specualtions and silly ideas about the game. Also cleared up LOADS of stuff.

 

Such as Sailing has potential of being a skill and F2P won't get skill capes.

 

 

 

All what he talked about has been stated in his previosu Q&A's in his CC before the stopped for reasons explained above. Maybe your the one who hasn't read enough of the threads around Tip.it? ;)

[duncdar2]

I don't tend to read most threads about official updates on fansites as in most cases, they get editted and missunderstood.

[Master_Smither]

I don't tend to read most threads about official updates on fansites as in most cases, they get editted and missunderstood.

 

 

 

Then please don't tell me I didn't read anything when your the one who doesn't read things. I take it as an insult as I don't just blurt out random things without looking into them first.

 

 

 

P.S It was not a thread about an official update it was a thread of cumulative information found in MMG cc before it got stopped by Andrew.

[duncdar2]

I said I don't read things on fan sites.

[Amundogus2]

 

 

 

P2P will have higher level content for that skill though, much like skills now that are both f2p and p2p.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is that fact, or are you just assuming this?

[Master_Smither]

I don't tend to read most threads about official updates on fansites as in most cases, they get editted and missunderstood.

 

 

 

You only mentioned official updates and neither this nor was the MMG Q&A before it got closed an official update.

[db300]

 

 

 

P2P will have higher level content for that skill though, much like skills now that are both f2p and p2p.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Is that fact, or are you just assuming this?

 

 

 

I haven't heard anything about it, but I assume it's a safe assumption because of how the already existing skills are laid out.

[strilmus]

Well.....it is true.

 

 

 

Despite their much lauded "epic amounts of F2P content", the free game is primarily designed to drop off almost all support for higher leveled characters at some point or another, plus a general lack of certain somewhat important bridges between levels where you're stuck just making more of X instead of moving onto better things. (Last I checked, cooking thousands of lobsters isn't in-depth gaming.) This is a problem with P2P also, but they tend to get priority treatment on the matter.

 

 

 

Then again, that's the way this game was made, and people tend to accept it too easily rather than push for change.

[Michaael]

@ people saying it was a bad QA

 

 

 

At least they're reaching out to the community, it's a good start to say the least. 2-3 years ago my biggest problem with Jagex was how out of touch they were with the players.

 

 

 

I think it's a pretty boring QA. You can't blame MMG though. He just can't say what's coming out left and right; and I find that disappointing, but understandable. If I had been working on an update and had it leaked I would be pretty mad. I think in light of that, he did the best he could to work with the non content related questions.

 

 

 

I'll be looking foreword to the content team's QA, that better be PACKED with good info about coming updates.