If you say you're going to quit, do so!

[Dragonmaker9]

As with many updates over the years, the recent Constitution and Climbing Boots updates have caused a mass of posts on the forums of people threatening to quit, especially if Jagex don't give a reason. Hell, some are even saying Jagex is a terrible company (which I will address a a side topic in this thread).

 

Firstly, I want to make it clear that the recent climbing boots update is one that I feel so strongly about, I've come full circle and decided not to care and just remove my membership and only start paying again if/once this all settles done or Jagex does a rollback. However, if you look through the "Recent Updates" forum on the official website, just look at all the posts threatening to quit, or those that have said they are removing their membership. How many do you think actually will? I'd bet less than 5%, and that's being genourous.

 

You see, these people may feel that this update does harm to the game, but spend so much time on the game, that they will need something else to fill their lives with (I'm not saying they have no life outside of the internet, but even 1-2 hours a day is a long time). They also need to keep in contact with the friends they have made in-game. It's a hard thing to do, changing your routine and ending relationships with friends (of course, if you're really quitting, you might as well just share an e-mail address, a banned account means nothing).

 

So far, I've established that quitting is difficult, so the title of this thread may seem confusing to you. I'm going to say why quitting is easy now, and explain why Jagex is a good company, seperately, but linked in another way.

 

FunOrb can be used to fill the time spent on RuneScape and keep in contact with the friends made on RuneScape (especially once FunOrb Central is completed). as any FunOrb member will know, Arcanists can take away hours of your life, and I'm sure there are some die-hard Brick-a-Brac fans like me out there. There's even Armies of Gielinor to fill the RuneScape shaped hole people who have quit will be missing. As you're playing much smaller games, it may be easier to slowly spend less time on Jagex-related (or gaming in general) sites and filling the time spent playing RuneScape doing something else. If players took FunOrb into account, quitting would be far easier. (but of course, one of the reasons Jagex doesn't promote FunOrb is because they know this).

 

On a slightly related topic, many of the updates that have caused a lot of anger have apprently be the fault of Mod MMG, or Mark Gerhard. He is the CEO of Jagex, not RuneScape and even if such a job was availble, I doubt he'd have a large say in what updates happen. Mark Gerhard has to handle the running of Jagex as a whole, and while his presence is not as announced on FunOrb, I'm sure he is the one that checks up on how it's faring to the rest of the Jagex products, and if anything needs to be changed if it's under-performing. FunOrb is currently, and in my opinion always has been, filled with better, more honest and hardworking staff than RuneScape. Updates aren't frequent, so what? While I may not like certain games, I can't admit that all updates are of excellent qaulity (which is less than I can say for RuneScape, miscalculating the highly anticipated bonus XP weekend? don't you guys double-check?), and I feel the Jagex Staff are much more present on the forum, and enjoy interacting with the players more (some of the stuff said by Jagex Staff in Mod Wars and the like is great, and the events are great fun). I'm going off on a tagent here, I may expand upon this in another thread at a later date, but I'm not sure if a RuneScape fansite is the best place to do so, I'll just skip to the point of this paragraph. FunOrb is doing a lot of things Mark Gerhard promised in his introductory post for RuneScape, so it's important to remember he doesn't have a huge say in what updates are made to RuneScape, but rather the coporate culture of Jagex.

 

To get back to the main topic of this thread, and to summarise it. The reason players don't quit is because it is hard to, losing a lot of time spent on their avatar, having to fill the time in their routine with other activities, and losing friends. However, I've also said that FunOrb provides a nice way to slowly quit RuneScape, or Jagex products and services altogether. It's just that so many players try to quit instantly that they are unable to, and if they realised this, they would find quitting far easier.

 

If they say they are going to quit, should do so, and have a plan to do so. Threats aren't going to change things, and Jagex, being the smart company they are, know this.

 

 

[Blutters]

I've no take on the FunOrb portion, as none of those games really interest me.

You are, however, exceptionally correct that very few people threatening to quit will actually do so. It's a lot like someone reporting abuse in RuneScape in that they'll say that they're doing so, but won't actually go through with it because it requires too much effort, just to "scare" the target player. Players are wise enough to know that when someone announces that they're reporting them, they probably really aren't, and in the same fashion by now JaGEx can easily see through these quitting threats. It's even more apparent when someone with extremely high levels and a ton of work put into the game makes a thread like "Quitting after 5 years". They obviously have a lot of time and effort invested and aren't going to quit, especially if they played through some other notably notorious updates.

 

I know not everyone is like me, but I'm personally in a position to where I don't have everything I want (items or stats-wise) but I have enough, and I have goals that can be completed without worrying about the state of the economy. It's pretty obvious that on this particular update people are complaining more from jealousy than any genuine regard for the economy (most people, anyway).

 

Lastly, you are absolutely correct about JaGEx being a good company, but not because of the reasons you've given. Rather, because they will listen to and appease players only enough to keep their bottom lines nice and high. There's a steep drop-off point between the amount of effort they will put forth and what players actually want or feel that JaGEx needs to do.

[Skull]

Quitting runescape is almost impossible.

It's too fun, no matter how bad some updates may be, most updates are great.

Nah, it's actually pretty easy.

[Saunamajuri]

Quitting runescape is almost impossible.

It's too fun, no matter how bad some updates may be, most updates are great.

Nah, it's actually pretty easy.

Nah, It's actually not that easy.

[Rock Hard]

great post tbh op :)

 

but if you really want to quit you will, if not then you wont

[Rock Hard]

great post tbh op :)

 

but if you really want to quit you will, if not then you wont

 

Nobody really wants to quit because they wouldn't have played in the first place if they did

 

who's this 'nobody' ?

 

thats what quitting is mate; stopping playing when you no longer want to

 

people change, as do their circumstances

[quelmotz]

:thumbdown: Why wasn't Steel Sentinels mentioned?

 

Ok, on topic, I agree fully. I myself more-or-less quitted RS, though sometimes I still go back to do the Holiday quests or for the sake of nostalgia. I am an active FunOrb player though, so you could say I was one of the RS-to-FunOrb migrants.

 

It is difficult to straight-out quit RuneScape, but if you quit gradually like I did, slowly devoting more and more of your attention to other things, it isn't really painful. Especially if you're just moving to FunOrb. I took at least a year to "quit" RuneScape, and I still haven't cut all the strings of attachment to it. I still post a lot on these forums, and I went back recently to try out the Dungeoneering skill, which I liked, but I didn't feel like going back to RuneScape again.

 

FunOrb's community can be really close-knit, especially within multiplayer games. I have lots of friends in Steel Sentinels, and it is much easier to get close to them. In the huge RuneScape world, you'll probably not meet a friend again unless you both love a minigame/training at a particular place, and even so, it is rare for you to meet considering the huge range of activities available. FunOrb, on the other hand, often only draws players to a few games they really like. I am only truly active in Steel Sentinels, though I play Arcanists once in a blue moon, and I used to be active in Bachelor Fridge and Kickabout League. And within each game there really isn't much space for you to NOT meet. You can EASILY arrange a meeting (no need to teleport around, run around, etc), and even without prior arrangements, you'll most likely meet coincidentally every few games or something.

[Sir_Kurity]

I am an active FunOrb player though, so you could say I was one of the RS-to-FunOrb migrants.

 

These guys exist? o.O

[Levon_]

You make jagex/runescape seem like a drug.

 

Which I wholeheartedly think it is.

 

I HATE this game with a passion. HATE it. But I can't stop..

[Dragonmaker9]

Why wasn't Steel Sentinels mentioned?

 

Sorry, I knew I was forgetting someting, I don't really like that game (but I can't deny it's of amazing qaulity).

 

I guess I'm a RunEscape to FunOrb migrant too.

 

I agree that FunOrbs's community is close-knit, and that's one of the main reason I had a long session of Brick-a-Brac, most of the people in the lobby knew at least three other people.

[mister_moocky]

You make jagex/runescape seem like a drug.

 

Which I wholeheartedly think it is.

 

I HATE this game with a passion. HATE it. But I can't stop..

Naw man you stopped

for a day.

[quelmotz]

Why wasn't Steel Sentinels mentioned?

 

Sorry, I knew I was forgetting someting, I don't really like that game (but I can't deny it's of amazing qaulity).

 

I guess I'm a RunEscape to FunOrb migrant too.

 

I agree that FunOrbs's community is close-knit, and that's one of the main reason I had a long session of Brick-a-Brac, most of the people in the lobby knew at least three other people.

 

I was just joking. If everyone expects you to list all their favourite games you might as well copy the whole list of games from somewhere and cut out a few like 36 card trick and that monkey game and some others.

 

These guys exist? o.O

 

Was that sarcasm? ...

 

No, I'm serious.

[Harakiri]

I know nothing about the FunOrb to Runescape migrants because I don't use Funorb and am an old timer and was a Miniclips to Runescape migrant (remember kids, all Miniclipers to Runescapers are evil!).

 

I quit. It was pretty easy. I was off for a couple months and went on again. Found nothing to do that excited me. And I left. I really haven't been playing Runescape the past year or so. Maybe an hour in the past year, but otherwise quitting was pretty easy when me and online console games met we kind of walked away from Runescape and didn't look back.

[Dragonmaker9]

If everyone expects you to list all their favourite games you might as well copy the whole list of games from somewhere and cut out a few like 36 card trick and that monkey game and some others.

 

Actually, one of my friend's favourite games is Monkey Puzzle. I was mentioning Steel Sentinels because of it's high qaulity...I guess I should mention Kickabout Leugeand Flea Circus now that Im looking at the full list, maybe Bouncedown too, but that's as far as I will go.

 

Anyway, back to the main topic and the replies so far!

 

I think that some people saying they found it easy to quit and others saying it was/is hard to quit proves my point.

 

Rustoid523 - I wouldn't go as far as to say a drug, RuneScape isn't addictive. I guess the closest is it's how some people feel about chocolate.

 

ratchet573 - Online gaming is probably the easiest way to fill your time, as that's basically what RuneScape is. Even though I've online experienced proper online gaming on Mario Kart DS and Mario Kart Wii, it's never hard to find a game, especially on Mario Kart Wii, and personally, I could spend hours on it if I had the time, so I guess that's the easiest way if you have your console set up for internet usage and aree decent at the game (because no one likes losing all the time, or winning all the time).

 

Thanks for all replies!

[IXxPURITYxXI]

All I know is that I've quit successfully. :P

 

I've made the transition from RuneScape wars to Xbox Live wars... Change for the better? Change for the worse? Who knows? Hahaa.

[Owned_Nex]

I think alot of people have quit successfully. The only reason it looks like everything is fine is because of the types of people leaving. Most of the actual adults who play Runescape have taken a leave. Look at the community now compared to classic. 10% Adults, 50% Kids, 40% bots. The kids can't leave because they are addicted. Also, they can't move onto another MMORPG if that is what they are in to. Runescape is a simple game. They like that. The adults have realized that there are better things out there now. They have the capability to move onto a "harder" game. World of Warcraft, is an example.

 

Jagex, quite frankly. Realizes THIS. But it is ok. They still get money.

[Sir_Kurity]

Quitting runescape is almost impossible.

It's too fun, no matter how bad some updates may be, most updates are great.

Nah, it's actually pretty easy.

Nah, It's actually not that easy.

 

It depends really.

 

I thought i could never quit (about a year ago), but i actually found it really easy.

 

Probably because my membership ran out and i had another game to turn to, but :D

[CaJ]

I leave this game quietly.

 

I find that people who grow all emotional when they post their threats to quit Runescape are the ones who shouldn't of been playing in the first place.

 

Based on my experiences, the only people who quit that others gave a damn about was those who were top ranked, or were popular among players. Quitting to me is nothing more than moving on to something else in life.

 

Despite a load of content, Runescape can be very boring. I space out my playing time, so I won't feel that I'm just sitting on my computer chair all day long grinding a skill to death.