Tip.It Times - 19th June 2011

[kamykazee]

FInally, Jagex stands for JAva GAming EXperts

 

I think during some research i did a month ago i saw that they changed it to Just about gaming experience, or something. I believe it is no longer Java gaming experts. I'm sorry i am unable to provide you with the link where i saw it, or in what context, as i have forgotten it since then and have visited many other websites but i'm fairly sure it doesnt stand for Java gaming experts anymore, as i remember it struck me immediatly when i noticed they had changed it, so i remembered it well.

[Racheya]

FInally, Jagex stands for JAva GAming EXperts

 

I think during some research i did a month ago i saw that they changed it to Just about gaming experience, or something. I believe it is no longer Java gaming experts. I'm sorry i am unable to provide you with the link where i saw it, or in what context, as i have forgotten it since then and have visited many other websites but i'm fairly sure it doesnt stand for Java gaming experts anymore, as i remember it struck me immediatly when i noticed they had changed it, so i remembered it well.

Yes, I've heard that too. Can't remember where, but they have changed it.

[Jackie_Clay]

I don't like the handling of the Ornate Katana and maybe Jagex seeing the player's outrage at this 'Vanity Item' concept where the items are only redeemable via game cards they may alter their stance and allow other members to get their hands on one in some other way then shelling out the cash for card.

[jasignhagj]

FInally, Jagex stands for JAva GAming EXperts

 

I think during some research i did a month ago i saw that they changed it to Just about gaming experience, or something. I believe it is no longer Java gaming experts. I'm sorry i am unable to provide you with the link where i saw it, or in what context, as i have forgotten it since then and have visited many other websites but i'm fairly sure it doesnt stand for Java gaming experts anymore, as i remember it struck me immediatly when i noticed they had changed it, so i remembered it well.

Really? That sounds... wrong. I guess they're trying to get away from just being java developers.

[zhong881209]

i wasnt saying about myself, but other ppl, remember Jagex last survey show that most of the people still using low end pc to play.

 

my pc is more than enough to play RS in HD. even though i using adblock plus, but i allow it to run in Rs. most of the time i am using RS client, since 1 click access to the homepage. while i just using CSS to hide it.

 

weird, last time when Jagex lift the ban hammer and ban MANY of the member, they say they wont be lenient and give chance even though they are member. and they say that free ads give them around the same as membership, while they giving member more content just because they pay.

 

i been through RS for 10 years now, from cpu speed as low as 133mhz and 266mhz, and so on until dual and even quad core. i know that even a simple ads can take toll out of the low end pc.

[Zygimantas]

FInally, Jagex stands for JAva GAming EXperts

 

I think during some research i did a month ago i saw that they changed it to Just about gaming experience, or something. I believe it is no longer Java gaming experts. I'm sorry i am unable to provide you with the link where i saw it, or in what context, as i have forgotten it since then and have visited many other websites but i'm fairly sure it doesnt stand for Java gaming experts anymore, as i remember it struck me immediatly when i noticed they had changed it, so i remembered it well.

Yea, you were close.

Jagex, which stands for Just About the Game Experience, is the name of the company which produces the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, MMORPG, RuneScape, and the Java gaming site, FunOrb, as well as some other small games.

 

http://www.runescape.com/kbase/guid/jagex

[Kaida23]

Yea, you were close.

Jagex, which stands for Just About the Game Experience, is the name of the company which produces the Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, MMORPG, RuneScape, and the Java gaming site, FunOrb, as well as some other small games.

Are you sure it wasn't changed to "Just Auto/bot the Game Experience"? :lol:

[Elven_Rose]

I know there is alot of controversy over the ornate katana and mixed feelings about it. Well just to say I think of it as the prize in a box of cereal. You don't go out and buy the box of cereal just for the prize. No you buy the cereal because you like it and the prize is a little bonus or junk depending how you think of it. I have bought one of the 90 day cards and actually it was only $22.50 which is cheaper than the $7.95 per month price when they increased the price.

As for the katana itself well it is pretty and it does have stats but very low ones. I still would like for this weapon to go rs wide (for everyone) but as a real weapon with real stats. Well ok maybe not this one but a weapon styled after it.

[Master_Smither]

I know there is alot of controversy over the ornate katana and mixed feelings about it. Well just to say I think of it as the prize in a box of cereal. You don't go out and buy the box of cereal just for the prize. No you buy the cereal because you like it and the prize is a little bonus or junk depending how you think of it. I have bought one of the 90 day cards and actually it was only $22.50 which is cheaper than the $7.95 per month price when they increased the price.

As for the katana itself well it is pretty and it does have stats but very low ones. I still would like for this weapon to go rs wide (for everyone) but as a real weapon with real stats. Well ok maybe not this one but a weapon styled after it.

 

My mom buys cereal for the prize for my little sister. Also, I wanted cereal just for the toy when I was little. Obviously, I wouldn't buy cereal that I didn't like unless the prize was amazing (like a sword of something! :rolleyes: ). The mentality of someone young is much different than you may think. Personally, I like how the katana looks. People say the stance is [fruity] and what not, but it's one of the better rs stances there is and has been. If I had just started RuneScape and was young, I would be drawn to the katana like flies on [cabbage]. There's plenty of gamestops under 30 miles away and I would heavily considering spending the extra two dollars for one month to get it.

 

Speaking of old weapon stances...

 

[Ginger_Warrior]

So long as it doesn't create an imbalance within the combat environment I don't see a problem. I'm not really up-to-date with this story, but if they'd have released something like the Barrelchest Anchor as a promo item and slapped a 1 Attack/Strength requirement then we'd have problems. As it is, I gather that isn't the case and there's nothing wrong with wielding equipement for aesthetics rather than the usual unnecessarily deep stat analysis which sometimes plagues RPGs in general, especially Japanese ones.

 

It's like how Nintendo run promo Pokemon through Toys 'R' Us, but for some mystical reason this is only limited to the US despite it also being a UK-wide chain. Reality is, yes the Pokemon received through those events are powerful on paper, but thanks to other complex factors within the metagame (natures, IVs, tiers), they aren't likely to upset the balance of the competitive main game. If you ever see a Deoxys-S leading a team in a D/P Uber match you can be pretty damn sure it was hacked anyway, spare a ~1:2.5 billion chance the game might've randomly produce a 'perfect' Deoxys, which isn't Nintendo's fault. It's not like American players would be getting something everyone else are incapable of getting for themselves.

 

The recon helmet in Halo: Reach is a decent example but not one that really holds much weight since equipment on Halo holds no stats and has no effect on in-game performance (except incredibly minor things like Party effect alerting people to your death or something). Still, you could argue the Ornate Katana's stats are so meager it doesn't really have any effect either.

 

Promos are good. Imbalance is bad, and Jagex haven't created one here.

 

On an unrelated note, I find it funny a katana holds a negative stab bonus, having watched Kill Bill (I think the schoolgirl uses one on that seedy drunken guy--she definitely doesn't bludgeon him to death anyway).