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WoW cataclysm and RuneScape


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So I was on Kotaku just now and stumbled upon the new trailer for the new World or Warcraft expansion.

 

After seeing this trailer I kind of want to try it out. It seems to have things that I would like to see added to

 

Runescape.

 

 

 

Cataclysm trailer

 

 

 

Things like:

 

-map expansions. more diverse landscapes

 

-new races to accompany the new maps

 

-new skill(s)

 

-deeper core quest.

 

-new items/abilities

 

-new monsters

 

-new quests

 

-guild leveling

 

 

 

 

 

I know that WoW has a much larger budget than RuneScape but I feel we could have more updates than we do.

 

If runescape has 1million subscribers that pay 5$ per month thats $5million/month or $60million/year. That figure

 

doesn't include advertising revenue.

 

 

 

now what do you think it costs to run runescape per year? The server hosting can't be that much per year and paying

 

workers can't be that horrible either. I know i'm missing things that run up the bill but the leftover money could very well

 

be used to develop future content.

 

 

 

What type of things do you want to see in RuneScape in the near/distant future? And do you think you might want

 

to try WoW cataclysm?

 

 

 

discuss pl0x

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you know most things just don't fit in runescape, how will the runescape team be able to sit back and make money if they've to develop? also, new races in RS, come on how will they ever make a model to fit these pixels on horned small beasts? and new spells? yay i now can teleport to the new exclusive part called geisnir omg it's so awesome! i mean, it just doesnt fit runescape! and deeper core quests haha, sometime a guy with pirate in the name tried to convince me irl that rs had better lore then wow, so why do you need deeper core quests? new items and abilities? where do you need a godly god sword for? you already have a god sword dont you? and what beats god? (ok i know) so, want new armours? yeah lets make the pixels purple and call it armours of the almighty god dragon. so you wear: god dragon steel legs (comparable to wow's purple woolen pants) and new monsters? why you can kill chickens and sell their feathers, in wow you kill chickens and never get any loot nor XP. or do you want to kill some wasps for like 20 hours so you "skill up" whilst repetively clicking the same button and swallow a fish in just 2 seconds? new quests? yeah the cook in lumbridge could use some more eggs for a cake whoop-dee-doo! and guild leveling, shouldn't we start with the guild first?

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you know most things just don't fit in runescape, how will the runescape team be able to sit back and make money if they've to develop? also, new races in RS, come on how will the yever make a modle to fit these pixels on horned small beasts? and new spells? yay i now can telport to the new exclusive part called geisnir omg it's so awesome! i mean, it just doesnt fit runescape!

 

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I kinda agree that those lazy jeddex nubs should get their fat [wagon] to work.

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lulz @ someone thinking RS could integrate some WoW aspects :lol:

 

Excactly, this failed guy pretty much, fails.

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Seeing stuff like that video, makes me wish I never started RuneScape. Only reason I don't leave this bad game is because I've already spent 5 years on it and I'm not spending another 5 on WoW. The Jagex team seems to just go, "Here, have some updates. They might suck, we aren't really sure, we didn't test them. Enjoy!" Now I know it's not like that... but look how epic that WoW video is. :x

 

 

 

Does Jagex ever do stuff like that for RuneScape? Nope. :roll: Even for the Godwars Dungeon, all they did was release it. No epic video or anything. All they give us is Development Diaries... But then again, even if Jagex WANTED to make an epic video for an upcomming update, they can't. As they never MAKE any epic updates! :wall:

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I think if Jagex only did yearly-type expansions to RS, and had the time and testing capabilities of WoW, we would see things that would seem jsut as big as that. If those updates to Wow came slowly, one at a time once a week, they would seem much less spactacular.

 

 

 

Runescapes crippling factor is the demand of the user for constant weekly updates.

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I think if Jagex only did yearly-type expansions to RS, and had the time and testing capabilities of WoW, we would see things that would seem jsut as big as that. If those updates to Wow came slowly, one at a time once a week, they would seem much less spactacular.

 

 

 

Runescapes crippling factor is the demand of the user for constant weekly updates.

 

 

 

 

 

LMAO you know wow has different departments and that wow is updated every week also? if a bug gets detected they dont wait ten weeks to say: ooh lame, they fix it, also balancing is done weekly or monthly so this argument just sux

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I think if Jagex only did yearly-type expansions to RS, and had the time and testing capabilities of WoW, we would see things that would seem jsut as big as that. If those updates to Wow came slowly, one at a time once a week, they would seem much less spactacular.

 

 

 

Runescapes crippling factor is the demand of the user for constant weekly updates.

 

 

 

 

 

LMAO you know wow has different departments and that wow is updated every week also? if a bug gets detected they dont wait ten weeks to say: ooh lame, they fix it, also balancing is done weekly or monthly so this argument just sux

 

 

 

Bugs usually get fixed quite quickly in RS also. They even do live updates. And when WoW is updated weekly it isn't new content, it's fixes and balancing as you said, not new content like RS has twice a month or more.

 

 

 

So calm down because your logic "sux"

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I still prefer runescape, played WoW for a while and I just prefer runescapes interface, I think the month I played WoW it was down quite alot for maintenence and it was also heavy on the harddrive with the updates not sure if that always happens, two different approaches to a RPG the quests in rs are alot better, the community although is really bad in RS, I still find it alot better than in WoW.

 

 

 

Rs is my preference and I wouldn't go back to WoW if or when I quit RS, I wouldnt go to another RPG as I would feel like I've spent too much time on RPGs and it's time to move on.

 

 

 

 

 

 

ooh check blizzards april fools, they're epic, what you say jagex?

 

 

 

and btw, whats catapysm?

 

 

 

 

 

1. A violent upheaval that causes great destruction or brings about a fundamental change.

 

2. A violent and sudden change in the earth's crust.

 

3. A devastating flood.

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think if Jagex only did yearly-type expansions to RS, and had the time and testing capabilities of WoW, we would see things that would seem just as big as that. If those updates to Wow came slowly, one at a time once a week, they would seem much less spactacular.

 

 

 

Runescapes crippling factor is the demand of the user for constant weekly updates.

 

 

 

I agree with that, but it's also nice to come on weekly and see an update and go and participate in that, getting lost in crowds of people flooding to do a new quest, all discussing it in a thread in here or whatnot.

 

 

 

if JaGex released yearly content it'd be;

 

1) Virtually no bugs as it'd have extensive testing.

 

Gives them more ground to cover, really test it from every angle and avoid implications as we've seen in recent months with bugs.

 

 

 

2) Give them more time to tweak it think hmm we don't like it, what if we went with this approach?

 

every week is abit of a rush and you sometimes release things that aren't good it's frantic, if you let it stew then you really get to see what's working what you don't like and aren't smothered by the work, could be releasing development diarys of future content getting the communitys feedback on what they like.

 

 

 

3) Would be a hell of a download and overwhelming.

 

Weekly updates are updates that take around 10-20 seconds to download so it's easier to download, if jagex did yearly updates instead it'd take so long to download people would be frustrated right now sometimes you get download server full, meaning jagex have to pay more hosting fees.

 

 

 

4) A few players might move on and get bored.

 

Lack of content might make people get tiresome of the weekly updates and decide to move onto another game, such as WoW where it's just on a broader scale.

 

 

 

5) Don't we have that balance already?

 

Yes we have small updates every week, but during the year we also get huge pieces of content, such as a new skill, a huge quest, a new monster, a massive change to the game engine.

 

 

 

 

LMAO you know wow has different departments and that wow is updated every week also? if a bug gets detected they dont wait ten weeks to say: ooh lame, they fix it, also balancing is done weekly or monthly so this argument just sux

 

 

 

Every developer has "differente departments" Jagex prefers the approach of smaller updates, with small filesizes, runescape can fit on a 1gb pendrive, I'm pretty sure WoW can't and RuneScape attracts different audiences, so many more skills, WoW You're limited to classes, RuneScape you're not, you can afford to mix and match, you don't find the gameplay in other games that you do in RuneScape, the monsters are different, and RuneScape is actually partly educational.. and bugs get fixed within a matter of hours depending on the severity of the bug so you can't really say that..

 

 

 

WoW has a greater learning curve than RuneScape I'll say that much, with certain classes doing different things but RuneScape is so much simpler with the combat triangle, which to be honest with you simplicity is sometimes the key.

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Runescape is a browser based game. It will never compare to WoW.

 

Correct.

 

 

 

WoW's biggest competitor will be next year, made by themselves (Blizzard) with Diablo 3 in my opinion.

 

 

 

Have to also take into account the experience blizzard has as a developer, where as Jagexs first and only hit was RuneScape.

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You know blizzard really [bleep]ed up WC lore with WoW.

 

 

 

The one thing from WoW I would like to see in RS is just the overall better items. In RS items are poorly balanced and every high level wears the exact same thing. It would be nice to see Jagex make an attempt to rebalance weapons (gonna go to regular weaps for a sec) so that they are all over all equal. Right now (looking at rune) people use the scimmy and the 2h. There are like 10 other weapons out there but they are poorly balanced. I don't do much PvP but I'm sure someone will confirm for me that most people are all in X armor and using Y weapon.

 

 

 

So ya... I don't really fault RS for not having WoW quality graphics and stuff but things like item balance COULD be done better.

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Runescape is a browser based game. It will never compare to WoW.

 

Correct.

 

 

 

WoW's biggest competitor will be next year, made by themselves (Blizzard) with Diablo 3 in my opinion.

 

 

 

Have to also take into account the experience blizzard has as a developer, where as Jagexs first and only hit was RuneScape.

 

 

 

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Runescape is a browser based game. It will never compare to WoW.

 

Correct.

 

 

 

WoW's biggest competitor will be next year, made by themselves (Blizzard) with Diablo 3 in my opinion.

 

 

 

Have to also take into account the experience blizzard has as a developer, where as Jagexs first and only hit was RuneScape.

 

 

 

And the fact that Jagex was at the fair start of the MMO regime.

 

Blizzard was able to stand back and watch what other Developers did. They looked at others mistakes and made their game (WoW) based off of others games disadvantages (like runescape).

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Runescape is a browser based game. It will never compare to WoW.

 

Correct.

 

 

 

WoW's biggest competitor will be next year, made by themselves (Blizzard) with Diablo 3 in my opinion.

 

 

 

Have to also take into account the experience blizzard has as a developer, where as Jagexs first and only hit was RuneScape.

 

 

 

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does funorb have a million members?

 

 

 

@The previous poster

 

They had people from everquest you know... people from everquest, an earlier mmo, helped make WoW

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You know blizzard really [bleep] up WC lore with WoW.

 

 

 

The one thing from WoW I would like to see in RS is just the overall better items. In RS items are poorly balanced and every high level wears the exact same thing. It would be nice to see Jagex make an attempt to rebalance weapons (gonna go to regular weaps for a sec) so that they are all over all equal. Right now (looking at rune) people use the scimmy and the 2h. There are like 10 other weapons out there but they are poorly balanced. I don't do much PvP but I'm sure someone will confirm for me that most people are all in X armor and using Y weapon.

 

 

 

So ya... I don't really fault RS for not having WoW quality graphics and stuff but things like item balance COULD be done better.

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Runescape is a browser based game. It will never compare to WoW.

 

Correct.

 

 

 

WoW's biggest competitor will be next year, made by themselves (Blizzard) with Diablo 3 in my opinion.

 

 

 

As they have said D3 would be released Q3 of 2010 you can expect atleast Q1 of 2011, if not Q3 2011. They usually take their time to finish their products instead of shipping them even if their ready or not, like EA and others. So don't expect D3 to be released anytime soon.

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As they have said D3 would be released Q3 of 2010 you can expect atleast Q1 of 2011, if not Q3 2011. They usually take their time to finish their products instead of shipping them even if their ready or not, like EA and others. So don't expect D3 to be released anytime soon.

 

You have a good point, but I can always hope :)

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