There is a new strawpoll out regarding the debated issue: http://strawpoll.me/3905809

 

Except sidestepping the issues with the event itself altogether

 

I'm sure that it's partially to boost account creation for Jagex's next Guinness Book record.

That's something I completely failed to consider and is far more likely. Very good point.

 

Even if 10,000 people go create new accounts for Questival, it's still a drop in the ocean compared to the ~240 million accounts that have already been created. Unless there's some sort of record involved with new people doing certain amounts of content, but with so many people making second accounts, ironman accounts, and what have you these days in any case...

 

Oh and my thoughts regarding that poll: should we avoid the issue by doing X? Or avoid it by doing Y? Or how about we do Z instead?!

Don't understand why people are getting so worked up about it though, it's only a title. Most "competitive" titles aren't on a level playing field because they rule out anyone with a full time job or in full time education.

Which wouldn't be so bad in itself if they weren't pushing these little competitions so often. Their current player base is very much in the demographic that has full time jobs/education to worry about.

I agree that the principle of "let's have a competition for everyone!" and then locking out 15k players from it is rather questionable.

 

But I doubt that this idea started as a competition. I'm betting it started as someone saying "We have a bunch of players who don't play quests. Why? What's the motivation there? And what can we do to encourage them to play through this massive facet of the game they're currently missing?"

 

I really think this was a genuine attempt to encourage folks who don't play quests to go play through some, in the hopes that if they do, they'll realize quests are awesome and then play more of them after the competition ends instead of avoiding them like they're the plague. And hey, that's a laudable goal.

 

I'm not incredibly happy with the results - they could've achieved the same end without insulting folks like me who have and are ridiculously proud of their quest cape - but changing the title definitely helps, and I'm willing to cut them some slack for having solid intentions.

 

 

Off-topic, but...

Well, I don't even bother anymore with that kind of crap they're throwing at us. Thr obly ones that win this titel are high levelled Players that kever bothered with lore or questd and are bow rushing through them for the title. That's nog what quests are for. Quests are there tot entertain you, tell a story, immerse yourself in the world, none of this Questival nonsense.

I can't help but wonder if you were commenting on a phone, with that extreme degree of typos... it made me giggle.

Wow, indeed, I just saw it. Oo I'm still figuring out the placement of all letters on my new phone.