Runescape in 5 years?

[Gin_and_Tonic]

The biggest problem with JAGeX is, marcos are just to intelligent for them... Unless they start Ip bans, they're going to continue.

 

 

 

They claim they have 1million paying customers. My bet is 200 000+ of them are bots.

 

 

 

Eventually, JAGeX will get bored of the rants, and like said, sell it to some business.

[highlanders]

200 000 bots as members? Loool

 

 

 

~15k member bots, at the most.

[Gin_and_Tonic]

200 000 bots as members? Loool

 

 

 

~15k member bots, at the most.

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, so theres 50 members world, right?

 

(these are the amount on at one time)

 

 

 

I see atleast 20 auto-shark fishers in everyguild - thats 1000?

 

Another 10 at various other spots - 500?

 

2 auto rune buyers in every rune shop - thats 500?

 

About 40 Green dragon autoers - 2000?

 

Atleast 40 yew tree autoers - another 2000?

 

3 at Flest crawlers - 300

 

Another atleast 50 somewhere else in the Strongold (Ankous, Minotaurs)- 2500

 

 

 

Thats about 9000 all on at one time as an estimate... Im sure there are thousands more at other places aswell.

 

I know its just a guess, but i wouldn't say its far off.

 

 

 

Maybe 200 000 was a little high, but 60k seems more realistic.

[darkforaster]

200 000 bots as members? Loool

 

 

 

~15k member bots, at the most.

 

 

 

 

 

Okay, so theres 50 members world, right?

 

(these are the amount on at one time)

 

 

 

I see atleast 20 auto-shark fishers in everyguild - thats 1000?

 

Another 10 at various other spots - 500?

 

2 auto rune buyers in every rune shop - thats 500?

 

About 40 Green dragon autoers - 2000?

 

Atleast 40 yew tree autoers - another 2000?

 

3 at Flest crawlers - 300

 

Another atleast 50 somewhere else in the Strongold (Ankous, Minotaurs)- 2500

 

 

 

Thats about 9000 all on at one time as an estimate... Im sure there are thousands more at other places aswell.

 

I know its just a guess, but i wouldn't say its far off.

 

 

 

Maybe 200 000 was a little high, but 60k seems more realistic.

 

 

 

I doubt each members world has that amount in it. Just all the ones you've seen at that time.

 

 

 

I also think that around 15k bots would be members. But, meh, I'm not members ANYMORE. (I do know what I'm talking about.)

 

 

 

P.S. 3 * 50 = 150. Not 300 :P

[Gin_and_Tonic]

 

 

 

P.S. 3 * 50 = 150. Not 300 :P

 

 

 

Theres two Flesh Crawler rooms.

[merker1020]

WELL! jagex should get $100 000 000 a year unless some pay for a month or two, why not put runescape on tele? like make an add, ya know?

 

And while there at it why not get a better software to make runescape3 and make it! But these are suggestions for what they should do...

 

Im sad to say it but i think IF rs3 is gonna come out maybe have 1 account and 1 account only per computer...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Im not the SUPER computer person but i know a fair bit...

 

 

 

(one thing before the wilderness ditch my cousin easily pked a poor newb dropped 200 bronze and more, sad story)Thats what he looked like!

 

[Jacks0n]

what you think Runescape will be like in five years

 

 

 

NO SUCH THING.... OVERPOWERED BY NOOBS...

[darkforaster]

 

 

 

P.S. 3 * 50 = 150. Not 300 :P

 

 

 

Theres two Flesh Crawler rooms.

 

 

 

Ok, sorry. Didn't know that. I just knew that 3 * 50 = 150.

 

 

 

But I know now. I won't make that mistake again.

[HellsBells]

It depends completely on what JaGex does...If they come out with good high level updates, quests, maybe even make new graphics, then RuneScape might not be as big as there are more scammers, lurers and autoers by the minute but it will still be a very popular game. If JaGex keeps making more quests like Tower of Life and they upgrade the graphics for cows and chickens :roll: , I see RuneScape as a completely deserted game. All you will see are autoers, and a few players going for 99 skills, etc. but there will be no more than 1000 left. RuneScape is in a coffin right now. They can get out of the coffin, or they can let nails be hammered in. I sure hope it's not the second one.

[kohe]

You have to see it from their point of view, the autoer's point of view is what I'm talking about. Even IP bans wouldn't do the job since, think about how much a gold farmer earns a month (the only reason for autoing is real life traiding) they make a living from it, so unless their expenses are covered by rs gps sold for real cash, they will keep getting away with it and finding new ways to make it more profitable, thats what buinessmen do, just our "buisnessmen" are a bit pathetic.

 

 

 

You cannot say JAGeX isn't doing anything about it, think that they just started this crusade against macroers and gold farmers recently, atleast at the stage we're at the game is, getting ruined by them. In my opinion we will see jagex fight for us until they cannot do anything against them.

 

 

 

I wouldn't say scammers are a "bad" thing, I think they make people work more, as for every single person that quits when they get scmmed 10 work theirselves back up, and to get scammed for outrageous ammounts you've also got to be a bit thick, like for example I was offered 70k nats and 10m for a phat yesterday and this merchant expected me to believe that was 220m, I know its a low strike but hey, its how he makes his living.

 

 

 

I do not see rs in a couple of years, it will just be under-populated and jagex will cancel the servers - as the game became easier many people are achieving their goals, and once you've been playing for a long time, you just want to finish what yous started and leave. I believe we will see something like this very soon, as soon as this summer's end of perhaps the winter, where the ammount of people living the game will be bigger than the ammount comming in, once the member populus of rs decreases steadily we can say, that the end of rs will be here :)

[Hi9im8Here7]

RS in five years? First off I would like to say that the odds of Jagex fixing all of their huge problems with CS, macroers, immaturity, and everything else...are about the same odds as me suddenly coming out with the next WOW.

 

 

 

Financially rs might become very successful. New members are coming in all the time. Jagex is making more and more money every month.

 

 

 

But the community will suffer greatly. Jagex's new customer base will probably become 10+ instead of 13+ (if it isn't already :shock: ). This will cause the older, higher lvl players to quit. Once that happens, rs probably won't be a place i'd want to spend my time in.

 

 

 

I really don't care if Jagex manages to release 3 updates a week. At the end of the day, it's the community that usually decides how good a game is.

[WookieeMania12]

note: laughs may be taken...

 

 

 

 

 

Hello! Welcome to Runescape 2012! Here we have the dds spec re-done years ago as so many people complained! Why don't we have a look at the great community of RS '12!

 

 

 

player1: 0mfg! n00bs, wh!p r 1k! go to hell!

 

 

 

player2: stfu! rep0rted XD

 

 

 

 

 

Runescape has grown to be a teen-base with more than 12-million people play RS. With a great community and game-play, we can tell that this game is great!

 

 

 

Why not? Business is booming and people are just as happy to answer questions!

 

 

 

player3: wer is fally

 

 

 

player4: lol, u noob

 

 

 

player3: 0mg! I h8 u m8!

 

 

 

People are always happy to have fun times in wildy.

 

 

 

player5: k no hitting, potting, eating, or I dont get ur stuff,

 

 

 

player6: I'm gonna use what I want to use; this is the wildy

 

 

 

 

 

Player mods are very happy answering the most intelligent of questions 24/7.

 

 

 

player7: can u gimme phr33 st0ff jagfit

 

 

 

mod1: no, I can't

 

 

 

player7: r u dead

 

 

 

mod1: I wish I was.

 

 

 

player8: hey, wazz dat thingie next to ur name

 

 

 

mod1: It's a sign I'll commit suicide.

 

 

 

 

 

RS '12 is a great game with an intelligent community :ohnoes:

[highlanders]

2012 = end of teh world?

 

End of Runescape? :mrgreen:

[pati]

How can you debate on something that doesn't exist?

 

Future is good description of a phenomenon that in fact does not exist. Almost everyone thinks that the future exists! Future only exists in gestation. What the imaginairy future will bring is as certain as getting the winning lottery ticket. Making plans and stuff does not mean they will actually happen. We can have large expectations, but what if the future turns another path? A path that nobody had expected. Ofcours you can think/dream/discus of what the future might bring but stay realistic what is possible, not the other way around. How runescape will look in 5, 10 years or more isn't interesting. What interesting is, is how runescape looks now. Because it's real.

[Hi9im8Here7]

We're speculating here. I'd rather have a gloomy prediction that gets proven wrong than be in the dark when 2012 rolls along :anxious:

[pati]

We're speculating here. I'd rather have a gloomy prediction that gets proven wrong than be in the dark when 2012 rolls along :anxious:

 

please don't tell me you believe that 2012 thing?

[Hi9im8Here7]

The topic of this thread is rs in five years. 2007+5=2012 :uhh:

[WookieeMania12]

The topic of this thread is rs in five years. 2007+5=2012 :uhh:

 

 

 

yep, so interesting to point that out when a lot of people have RS '12 :)

[pati]

The topic of this thread is rs in five years. 2007+5=2012 :uhh:

 

sorry, just thought you were one of those end-of-the-world believers

[Chazimcgee]

I believe Jagex will release Runescape3. This may be another online son of runescape or it may become a pc cd-rom that you playon your pc using an internet connection.

 

 

 

They may change the name for the new game.. :thumbsup:

 

 

 

Anyones thoughts? :P

[Hi9im8Here7]

I believe Jagex will release Runescape3. This may be another online son of runescape or it may become a pc cd-rom that you playon your pc using an internet connection.

 

 

 

They may change the name for the new game.. :thumbsup:

 

 

 

Anyones thoughts? :P

 

 

 

That might happen when the situation degrades so much no one will want to play rs2.

[Benny_4]

While I can see your points I don't think that RS will be gone in 5 years. I think that we (the good players) can still revive the game in due time. This is from a best-case-scenerio from the players' point of view.

 

 

 

From the view of a buisness (e.g. Jagex) RS will be going stronger than ever. 13-year-old Billy will tell his friends of all the "fun" RS can offer. Billy and all of his friends will buy membership. Autoers will comprise half to 2/3 of the membership of RS.

 

 

 

The economy will be in a worse than that of the US after 9/11.

 

 

 

Future Chat Window at World 1: Fally East

 

Player 1: seln oak logs 1k ea

 

Player 2: i just got 40m after i scammed this dude

 

Player 3: buyin lvl 126 acct $50

 

 

 

I really don't want the game to go down this road. I, as I think most people do who've been playing this game for awhile, have a certain sentiment attached to this game. I've been playing since 1999 and I certainly will be angered if autoers and Billy ruin this game.

 

 

 

Unite! Save RS!

[ssjim826]

I think that RS2 is "dead" already and has been for the last year. I would give it another 2 years at the most before Jagex realises this and bings out a new version (or even another game entirely). The problem, IMO, is that Jagex are slowly making the game too easy just to satisfy the "children" who want everything immediately. Soon it will be "click" .. "click" - Congratulatiosn you are now level 99 in skil X.

 

 

 

If Jagex want to save the game they should go back to the original ideas of the game. The original ideas of the game were to take a character with no skills whatsoever and develop that character, OVER TIME, into a well-rounded and competant character within the RS community. NOT lets see how much money we can make (which seems to be the driving force of most of the more recent players).

 

 

 

IMO in order to improve the game, and thus increase its lifespan, some drastic measures need to be taken. Some of the things I wouild like to see happen are :

 

 

 

1) remove the "rares" from the game - these are not part of the original idea of the game, but were created in error by Jagex.

 

 

 

2) remove all the mini-games - these are, in a lot of cases, a quick experiance gain and, to be honest, detract from the role-playing aspect of RS. I cannot think of any other game of this genre that has these type of "in-game" games. If you want to go play these sort of silly mini-games there are plenty out there on the internet.

 

 

 

3) restrict trading to buying/selling in in-game shops and buying from player owned shops - this would immediately remove the aspects of the game that cause things like luring and scamming and thus, in the long term make the game more attractive. It would also get rid of beggers, as you would no longer be able to give free stuff and it would make the beggars actually work for a living.

 

 

 

4) increase the number of long hard quests, whilst at the same time making quest rewards better - what I am talking about are quests in the format of Recipe for Disaster. The format of the RFD quest, where you require different skill levels, etc for each part, if expanded would encourage players to "go back to the basics" and start increasing their skills again.

 

 

 

5) expand the wilderness - in fact I would even go as far as saying bring back the RSC idea of "wilderness" everywhere, with a few "safe" spots. However, linked to this players should have the ability to choose what items they wish to keep (up to a linit, of course) when they die.

 

 

 

6) remove all links between P2P and F2P - in other words common items (eg logs, weapons, armour ect.) in each version are unusable in the other.

 

 

 

7) less updates, but better quality updates - I would rather have 1 quality update a month than weekly updates of dubious quality.

 

 

 

Before you start to flame me, I know some of these are contentious and would, in reality not happen (for various reason), but just consider how much better the game would be if they were implmented. I also realise that some of the suggestions would make the game "harder", but if that detracts a few of the immature "I want everything NOW" players who, in the RS community, really cares (apart from Jagex, who want to make as much money as they can).

 

 

 

RS2 is dead - long live RS3!!!!!!!

 

 

 

Dude u couldnt have said it better. I think they should change it like that (that was RSC style) its is way easier now just look.

 

 

 

Rs2:

 

*chops yew tree*

 

you cut down a yew log

 

you cut down a yew log

 

you cut down a yew log

 

you cut down a yew log

 

you cut down a yew log

 

you cut down a yew log

 

 

 

RSC:

 

*chops yew tree*

 

you cut down a yew log

 

*chops yew tree again*

 

your axe slips and falls

 

 

 

i like the RSC one better, its way more challenging

[i_trollz_u]

runescape 2 will come to an end eventually...like everything else does. But It will be more around 15 years, not 5. But that's where runescape 3 comes out....

[d3nic]

Well, i've looked about and i haven't seen a topic about this, so i've decided to post one here, as of course, all ideas are open to debate.

 

 

 

This thread is debate what you think Runescape will be like in five years, and is it anything like you imagined five years ago.

 

 

 

Personally, in five years time i think Runescape will be non-existant.

 

 

 

Why? To many pures, to many skillers and to many drop-traders have made the game seem alot bigger than it really is. I mean, there may be over 3million registered accounts, but how many people have more than 1 account? ... Alot, i had 4.

 

Look at the Hunter and Construction highscores. All the good/experienced players have not bothered to level them. Most of the people around my rank have maxed out melee stats, but haven't been on since farming was released. -

 

 

 

Lurers and scams have resulted in many players qutting. Drop-traders and low-level pures are ruining the fun for f2p-players... When i started there were a heck lot more players in the f2p worlds than the members world, and now, theres just as many p2p players, just alot less f2ps.

 

F2p is the foundation for members, and JAGeX have chosen to neglect the updates, resulting in a less of desire to play.

 

 

 

In 5 years time i think the rare market till be out of control. To many drop-trading stakers will be banned for bug-abusing at the duel arena, forcing the price of rares so high, that people will no longer see a point in playing.

 

The lack of response JAGeX had to lurer and scammers has casued a large concern for players to bother becoming members, as they see no point in paying money to lose.

 

Higher level players are feeling kicked in the teeth as JAGeX's new updates are making level 99's even easier to come by - Pc, Pyramind Plunder, new Penguin course, so they see little incentive to carry on playing a 'childs game'.

 

Because of this, it wouldn't surprise me if Runescape slowly slipped into nothing.

 

 

 

Feel free to add, discuss and give out your points of view about what you think will happen to Runescape in five years time.

 

 

 

It'll just become RSC all over again... 2 worlds, endless amount of botters, kids talking crap all over the place. Nuff said.

 

 

 

Maybe jagex will just bring a complete new MMO out?