The-Game-That-Shall-Not-Be-Named

[Jakob]

Originally posted by Merdarion
...Well TGTSNBN must be kinda horrible (never played it), It is full version and has the standard of a Tech Demo? Now I can imagine why it shall not be named...

TGTSNBN wasn\'t always as bad.  In the begining it was good.  The community was nice, and everyone was mostly equal.  As time progressed, the \"Members,\" who paid $5 US currency per month began to get more and more and some devoleped a superiority complex towards free players hereafter called f2p.  This was the begining of it\'s decline.  The company who produces TGTSNBN began to get greedy.  Originally for every update that f2p got, members got one or two.  As time went on f2ps got less and less, and members got more and more, firmly creating an unintentional(?) caste system.  It also began to bring out what I call the Micro$oft complex.  Jagex LTD., the responsible company, seemed to care less and less about the f2ps because they got very little ad revenue from us (they didn\'t check their ad people very well, and they were pretty bad).  The second version of TGTSNBN came out  It was codenamed RS2 at first, but then the old one became know as RS classic.  And it was good for the PR(Public Relations) department because free players got about 7 things that members had held a monopoly on as well as about 3 weeks with free access to one part of the forums.  Then things got back into the normal swing.  Members had about 5 times the land and items and bank space and twice as many skills and abilities.  I think alot of people you see posting about paying for PS are conserned about this type of thing.  That is the story of TGTSNBN and it\'s collapse from goodness.  The lack of non\"member\" anything is the reason that it is considered so pathetic by some, the graphics by others and little to no depth to others, besides the race for levels that was discussed in the gamergod interview about PlaneShift and what it will not be.  I see alot of people asking about it, and it needed to be said, so that people know what others are talking about with the game that shall not be named.
Just one tangent though...
RS really pales in comparison to PS in every conceivable way.  between the couple of cities currently available in CB there are at least as much things available as are available in TGTSNBN, excepting a few things such as fish, archery ect. in the 9 cities accessable to f2ps in TGTSNBN.  It may be interesting to note that members have access to 21 cities and about 30 or so more quests in those lands.  All but that last little bit is about the most unbiased account I can give, as I was a member of RS almost from the beginning.  It\'s still pretty biased.

[Black_rose]

well of course rs is worse then ps,

p is 2 letters above r (pqrs) meaning we are better,



that game had serious flaws, i must admit. they failed to keep players interested.

[Moogie]

How random. But interesting.

For those who don\'t know what the censored game is called, it\'s Spoonscape (R00nescape ... Runescape).

[Jakob]

I stayed with it for as long as I did only because my friends played it.  There was no good alternative at that time.

[Black_rose]

well, their was diablo which is the best their is for hanging with friends, not d2 but just plain diablo. it only takes an hour or two to beat the game

[Jakob]

We didn\'t know that.  But like I said, what was once good and exceptable became what is now known as RS.

[Black_rose]

... they never really update the size of the map, they just keep adding more and more quests. i remember when runecrafting cameuot. it took them 4-5 days to get to lvl 99

[Jakob]

lol, except they added 2 new islands.  1 of which seems to be ruled by monkeys and is called ape atoll or something like that, and one called misselania...

[davo]

ok rewnscape is the worst game i have ever play (with its reasons of coarse) im not trying to sound biased here.

mainly because of all the little inmature anoying children that play that game.  they walk around calling everyone noobs because rewnscape is the only place they get the power to do so, and the only way they win in life so they soak it up whilst they can.  basically there is a lot of loosers that play that game.

im not calling people that play rewnscape loosers of coarse.

[Syzerian]

I heard that Jagex actually make more money from f2p because of the ads.
I too was only playing because friends played but when Dungeon Siege came out I couldnt be convinced to go back .
RS is ruined by the people that play since the good mmorpgs are the ones with good communitys. Its scary that this kind of thing can happen to any mmorpg. The community will be doing fine and then the little kiddies will move in and constantly annoy the older players and eventually they just get fed up and leave. It can be worse in mmos that have a monthly fee because of the kiddies that can afford to pay (Ive even experienced this in star wars battlefront).
RS is quite a good game its just what Jagex is doing to it and the community which turn alot of people away.

[Harkin]

last time i ever played this was because my friends at school were, only difference i was a different kind of player.. haha instead of fishing for hours on end i got my mining and smithing up to 60+ before i quit, gave my account away to a friend who sold it for $5 that bastard... i had members for 3 months, members wasnt all that great except making and going through 1,000,000 pretty quickly, i remember funny things that happened... well anyway back then i had very low standards to MMORPG\'s then i subscribed to Anarchy Online and look at me now

[Jakob]

Originally posted by Syzerian
I heard that Jagex actually make more money from f2p because of the ads.

then you would think they would care more about us...

[Icefalcon]

I played RS for a long time. It was pretty much my first MMORPG, so I thought it was great. You could actually talk to other people while playing an RPG. Awesome. After about a year of that, I started looking around, playing betas and other free games (never payed a cent for a mmorpg), but I kept comming back to RS because of all my friends there. After a few betas, I realised that these non-full version games were far better than the full version, supposedly advanced RS. I wandered for a long time, searching for the perfect game until I finally stumbled upon Planeshift. Yay...

RS skill system is, well, at least they have a variety of skills. Its not a hack-n-slash, but for some reason, when you are cooking or mining, it feels exactly like hack-n-slash. :rolleyes: click...click...click...

[Couatl]

Yep. This is what you get when 12 year old 1337 speaking noobs take over a game, the company forgets who their customers are, all with the repetitive monotomy of click-click-click ing to gain levels in everything.

[Watcher]

Just my comments

Jagex does not make a lot of ads on f2p because people rarely click on them, two Jagex does actually listen to players that?s why they have a poll every month sometimes about what players like in game

Which is your favourite Guild?

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The Champions Guild      808 votes / 6%
 
The Cooks Guild      469 votes / 4%
 
The Crafting Guild      617 votes / 5%
 
The Fishing Guild      1284 votes / 11%
 
The Heros Guild      1465 votes / 12%
 
The Legends Guild      2870 votes / 24%
 
The Magicians Guild      898 votes / 7%
 
The Mining Guild      1479 votes / 12%
 
The Prayer Guild (Monastery)      228 votes / 1%
 
The Ranging Guild      1479 votes / 12%
 

And usually they will expand on that guild or create a new guild based the foundations of the old one (taking lots of skill to get into ect)

The reason that the graphics are not very good is because of the simple fact that not everyone has broadband and the fact that it is made using java.

A lot of free to players are whiny gits (no offence to anyone here) but they complain about everything and every time a skill or a quest comes out they complain, take for example the new skill Slaying. Ok it may not be original but the tasks to raise your slaying level involve killing lots and lots of creatures, f2p training spots are already crowded to bursting.

Most of the money that f2p makes through ads (which as I said before is very little) is probably used to buy new servers for them.