RuneScape gets a graphical update :o

[Ellie]

Anyway. Since this thread's completely off topic anyway, here's why I like RuneScape.

> Hundreds of quests
> Unique, in depth storylines (such as the God stories)
> Challenging! (I.e. getting stuck on quests such as Desert Treasure)
> Different types of areas (Viking lands, icey mountains, troll homelands, firey dungeons, whatever)
> The soundtrack (there's what... 400 different songs so far?)
> It runs on almost any computer, whether PC, Mac, Linux
> Don't have to download it
> Doesn't slow down my PC at all, even on high detail
> 10 million active players (i.e. have logged in during the past month) unlike WoW, which has 10 million players -in total- counting inactive players
> There's constantly like 100,000 people online
> Jagex are friendly, helpful, etc
> Jagex actually have a sense of humour, and a good taste in comedy (i.e. all the Monty Python references)
> It's British, which is instant win
> Never got any viruses from them -ever-
> They don't charge very much for membership:
- - > RuneScape: £38.40 a year
- - > Guildwars: £30 for the game, £30 per campaign, £20 for Eye of the North (i.e. £110 so far and counting)
- - > World of Warcraft: £108 a year (if you buy the 60 day timecards ~ £18.00 each) PLUS £10 for the game PLUS £20 for the expansion PLUS however many expansions are coming out after that
> Friendly interface
> Friends play it, easy to chat with them without having to download some cruddy program
> The Grand Exchange absolutely pwns
> They actually deal with macroers and real-world-trading!
> They have a really extensive user guide (the Knowledge Base)
> Their forums are programmed by themselves (as is their whole website)
> Their website is ultra secure
> The enemies are actually challenging and different
> Many ways of training combat
> Skilling can be fun (if done right)
> Pretty much any age can play it (can be seen as good or bad really)

 

[kire]

Wyatt, I deffenitly agree with you!
It's all I have to say

 

[Dann Woolf]

Anyway. Since this thread's completely off topic anyway, here's why I like RuneScape.

> Hundreds of quests
> Unique, in depth storylines (such as the God stories)
> Challenging! (I.e. getting stuck on quests such as Desert Treasure)
> Different types of areas (Viking lands, icey mountains, troll homelands, firey dungeons, whatever)
> The soundtrack (there's what... 400 different songs so far?)
> It runs on almost any computer, whether PC, Mac, Linux
> Don't have to download it
> Doesn't slow down my PC at all, even on high detail
> 10 million active players (i.e. have logged in during the past month) unlike WoW, which has 10 million players -in total- counting inactive players
> There's constantly like 100,000 people online
> Jagex are friendly, helpful, etc
> Jagex actually have a sense of humour, and a good taste in comedy (i.e. all the Monty Python references)
> It's British, which is instant win
> Never got any viruses from them -ever-
> They don't charge very much for membership:
- - > RuneScape: £38.40 a year
- - > Guildwars: £30 for the game, £30 per campaign, £20 for Eye of the North (i.e. £110 so far and counting)
- - > World of Warcraft: £108 a year (if you buy the 60 day timecards ~ £18.00 each) PLUS £10 for the game PLUS £20 for the expansion PLUS however many expansions are coming out after that
> Friendly interface
> Friends play it, easy to chat with them without having to download some cruddy program
> The Grand Exchange absolutely pwns
> They actually deal with macroers and real-world-trading!
> They have a really extensive user guide (the Knowledge Base)
> Their forums are programmed by themselves (as is their whole website)
> Their website is ultra secure
> The enemies are actually challenging and different
> Many ways of training combat
> Skilling can be fun (if done right)
> Pretty much any age can play it (can be seen as good or bad really)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAno.

Take off those rose-tinted glasses and look again.

 

[Ellie]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAno.

Take off those shit-tinted glasses and look again.

(If you use crappy comments like that so can I.)

 

[Erichermit]

Dann Wolf, is you would like to disagree with Wyatt's points, please actually disagree with them instead of just laughing and saying no.

Actually take one of his points and SAY why it is not a valid point, because I read through it can agree with most if not all. Of course,  you're welcome to list a bunch of stuff why you DON'T like it, but if you end up like some idiot I saw on youtube who had "Top 10 reasons runescape is gay" and 6/10 of those points was that "Runescape is gay" (Runescape is gay because RUNESCAPE IS GAY? Wow there's some sound logic. *rolls eyes*) then maybe I'll actually consider your opinion as the opinion of someone with at least maybe half a brain.

 

[Dann Woolf]

Dann Wolf, is you would like to disagree with Wyatt's points, please actually disagree with them instead of just laughing and saying no.

Actually take one of his points and SAY why it is not a valid point, because I read through it can agree with most if not all. Of course,  you're welcome to list a bunch of stuff why you DON'T like it, but if you end up like some idiot I saw on youtube who had "Top 10 reasons runescape is gay" and 6/10 of those points was that "Runescape is gay" (Runescape is gay because RUNESCAPE IS GAY? Wow there's some sound logic. *rolls eyes*) then maybe I'll actually consider your opinion as the opinion of someone with at least maybe half a brain.

I'm going to ignore everything you just said because you spelled my name wrong.

 

[mawk]

Keep up the shitty spam comments and you're up for a warning. Just thought I'd let you know.

 

[Xpspriterstakecharge]

to be honest the only times I do login is when they do f2p updates

 

[Prexus]

http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart1.html

Wyatt, how do you assume Runescape has over 10million active users when statistics gathered by professionals taken from the actual sales records of the companies state otherwise?

Also, when Blizzard posted their numbers for MMOGChart.com's statistics, it used (paraphrasing)Subscriptions that are active (not-cancelled) that have been billed within the last 31 days, have a non-expired timecard currently assigned to the account, or have been logged into within the last [i think] 7 days.(/paraphrasing) the Accounts logged into within the last 7 days. part is to account for the asian market which doesn't have recurring subscriptions but instead pays per hour.

I'm not going to lie, Runescape does have a huge following (http://www.mmogchart.com/Chart7.html) second only to WoW, but to make ludicrous claims regarding its subscriber base that are entirely made up is a poor way to argue your point.

 

[Ellie]

Wyatt, how do you assume Runescape has over 10million active users when statistics gathered by professionals taken from the actual sales records of the companies state otherwise?

Because that chart shows just subscribers, not all players. So read before you speak.

but to make ludicrous claims regarding its subscriber base that are entirely made up is a poor way to argue your point.

There's a difference between made up and misinformed. I took my data from Wikipedia (perhaps not the best place, I know) but that doesn't mean I "made up" my stats. And from jagex themselves:

RuneScape.com accepts advertising from reputable advertisers around the world. RuneScape, the game, has over 5.4 million active players. These players have logged-in in the last 2 weeks. RuneScape.com has over 10 million unique users a month, according to Media Metrix.

These stats are also from a "big company", Media Metrix (http://www.comscore.com/).

This only counts free members (as the stats are drawn from their ads, which aren't shown to members).



Even if WoW gets more subscribers, they still have around the same player base (~ 10m).





Websites all quote different things. Figures I found say RS has 1 million members (confirmed by Jagex last year), 10 million active users (confirmed by Jagex on their website) and 40 million accounts (which seems reasonable).

Adventure Quest currently has 51,114,566 players in total.

The games aren't really comparable, same with RS and WoW. They're aimed at a completely different playerbase, etc.

 

[Prexus]

So if they aren't comparable why did you compare them?

You can't really count the non-paying accounts when comparing a P2P MMO vs. a Subscription Content MMO, so if you are going to compare them you can only use the paying accounts.

 

[Ellie]

This pretty much sums up the extent of the graphics update:

http://www.runescape.com/img/varrock/de ... ad_old.gif[/img]http://www.runescape.com/img/varrock/devdiary/diary08/head_new.gif[/img]

http://www.runescape.com/kbase/view.ws?guid=diary08b

 

[kire]

They're really good compared to the old ones.
And the in game screen is much more tidy and understandable

 

[bananawithjoy]

While I guess the graphics do look much better now, for me, its not going to change why I quit in the first place: repetitive gameplay (click, click, click), a truly horrible, immature community, and Jagex, the company who treats their players like 10 year olds (who legally can't play the game).

What particularly gets me is the change in the Gower brothers (heads of Jagex). Back in the early days of runescape, they'd happily go onto IRC to chat with their members, or post links to fansites on the runescape website (Such as here).
Fat chance of any of that happening now.

 

[Erichermit]

While I guess the graphics do look much better now, for me, its not going to change why I quit in the first place: repetitive gameplay (click, click, click), a truly horrible, immature community, and Jagex, the company who treats their players like 10 year olds (who legally can't play the game).

What particularly gets me is the change in the Gower brothers (heads of Jagex). Back in the early days of runescape, they'd happily go onto IRC to chat with their members, or post links to fansites on the runescape website (Such as here).
Fat chance of any of that happening now.

God I miss those days. I remember when a post was made by one of the Gowers stating he made an account for fun and started running around saying he's Andrew (or Paul, I forget which one) and nobody believed him, so he was going to go kill some chickens instead.

I understand why they changed though, you can't maintain that personal relationship as well when your corporation has grown so large, but I liked it so much when announcements were to us personally, instead of like speeches.

 

[Ellie]

That was the best day ever At one point, a player mod was actually chasing Andrew around (in game) and was going to ban him, for lying about making the game.

Jagex now has over 200 employees now though. While I'd like for it to have stayed as it was, with 199 employees who'd be pretty pissed if you said the wrong thing to the wrong people, and investors now who he needs to keep on his side, it's just not wise...

 

[Erichermit]

The event I was referring to actually was before RS2 and thus there weren't any player mods, but I didn't realize he did it again. That cracks me up XD. I think it's nice that he finds time to be humorous actually.

But yeah, they can't still be silly with investors and such to worry about.

 

[serrated_colon]

the only thing i ever played this for was wildy pking
everything else sucked without playing months to get to level 100, man i loved owning until you die, then getting money to get NEW equipment own and then die again.
also once i was a lvl 26 pure ranger and i beat a lvl 52 dude fairly in duel arena, didn't win anything though

when they removed that and the limit i immediately quit the game

 

[bananawithjoy]

Jagex now has over 200 employees now though. While I'd like for it to have stayed as it was, with 199 employees who'd be pretty pissed if you said the wrong thing to the wrong people, and investors now who he needs to keep on his side, it's just not wise...

Touche.
Although I heard that Jagex had 400 employees (Is true, actually: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagex).

After seeing the new interface in full screen mode, I'm more convinced about the positivity of the update. After all, Jagex is pretty much relying on this to save runescape from dying (After the removal of PvP in the wild, I've seen 150,000+ online much less often than before), and they're hardly going to release it if it doesn't do just that.

 

[Jking]

PEOPLE SHUT THE FUCK UP i know you are entitled to a fucking opinion but don't need say the same fucking thing over and over again you've got the fucking point across jeez!!!!

and to the dumb asses saying that its just click, click, click yes it is. but think about it if the graphics sucked would you still play if it was special attacks no you wouldn't. think about it special attacks would be horrible with bad graphics either jagex understands this and is releasing the graphic update before announcing a change to the attacks or they really are just retards and not planning on making the game more dynamic.

yes i actually did just call around 40 people dumb asses (you really are)

THINK BEFORE YOU POST!!!!