Octavian

Well, imo fixing the gaps the restrictions have cut may never replace an emazipate and self-confident players community as we were before, forming the game at our own rules. Maybe jagex integrated morst of these rules to make the majority still feel comfortable, but a game style organized from the base will always be different from a game style designed from the top to the floor. In easy words, the old runescape was closer to a free world, that has its own downsides but at least you are free. Maybe now some things are more fair, e.g. everybody is able to sell his products at a fair and stable price etc, you can make faster xp and faster gold, runescape has become more efficient. But this game no longer attracts me because after the changes I spent some months becoming more and more efficient in any aspect of the game, in the same way Stormveritas mentioned in the article "We Now Return to Your Regularly Scheduled Grinding". Then I became tired of this kind of work, because the social aspect is just gone. Instead of interacting anarchic and free, nowadays you have a simulation with nearly the same results (ware exchange via GE, lending system, mentor etc) and jagex is still fixing gaps that occur from time to time. But eventhough the game semms nearly the same, the feeling left while playing has changed, and I suddenly needed aims to continue playing, instead of just be happy while playing. The communities have lost a part of their earlier strength (including the market area, including clans and shops and friendships, which partially consist of exchange). What I'm trying to explain is runescape was a forest, where you could move relatively free, now there are roads where most people used to wander on but fences at the edges. I personally got bored of walking the roads and now am playing other games, it's a pity that the imho most unique part of runescape is gone, the very realistic, free economy. The wilderness besides. Instead there is just an authoritarian state left. Still, making the slight difference is difficult, because Jagex let us have most of our old comfort. (And btw I don't blame the company to willingly have cut our freedom; tp survive it seems to have been neccessary; still it's a pity.) Cheers Octavian p.s. sorry for some doublings in my text. edit: Interesting might be opening come RS classic servers to the public...

If you sell it to the rogues store in wilderness, I guess you can even make some profit out of it... Still, I'd prefer stringing yew longbows. :|