What's the beef against Runescape?

[Psybur]

Why does everybody here hate Runescape? I have played it and it is a decent game. IMO it is more fun than the Molecular Blue release of planeshift... Why is this game hated so much?

[Joeyguy]

1. It\'s boring and repetitive. Keep playing, you\'ll stop liking it quite quickly.

2. You have to pay $5/month to do anything remotely interesting.

3. The people. Horrible beggars and n00bs, scammers, and general idiots. The people make the game, you know. I remember playing my first MMORPG, Dark Ages, and thinking about how nice the people were. I wondered if MMORPG players were, in general, a good crowd. Then I played Runescape and witnessed the horrible stupidity of it\'s members. Blegh.

Runescape is a bad game, through and through. Jagex\'s best creation is still, and will always be Vertigo, my favorite Java arcade game.

[Kiern]

Because people keep making topics asking about it.

Oh yeah, and also because it\'s everything a rpg should not be and should not even come close to being compared to Planeshift (thus it not being liked on these boards)...but I won\'t go into that.

Dark Ages was great.

[Zyphon]

I pretty much agree with Joeyguy. A few additional flames )

1. Absoluetly no roleplaying. \'Nuff said.

2. Too Tedius. Oh comon, I don\'t want to have to mine over 1000s of copper minerals just to gain one skill point :O Plus farming is takes too long, aquiring resources takes too long...etc etc etc.

3. No variety. Iron longsword, Bronze longsword, Steel longsword, Mithril longsword, Rune longsword. Next. Iron Helm, Bronze Helm, Steel Helm, Mithril Helm, Rune Helm. Blah.

4. The worst of all. No Teamwork. What\'s the point of an mmorpg if you don\'t even interact with other players(like #1) and the fact that there is only 1 on 1 combat.

5. People who don\'t pay money have unfair disadvantages, and don\'t get access to too many important and significant things.

6. Community is a piece of horseshit.(Like Joeyguy said)

7. I usually don\'t complain about Graphics, but the game-that-not-will-be-named\'s just drags the whole package down.

I have to admit, I have played it for a couple of weeks and was interested about being able to cook that cool berry pie but it got boring real fast.

-Zy

[@The-game-that-will-not-be-named\'s Fans: Don\'t be offended if you are in its community, I wasn\'t pointing out specific members. Just that the majority.]

[fireofsoul]

A problem is that its addictive. . . i played it for 2+ years and now regret every single minute of it, and wasting 40 NZD being a member *Hangs head in shame*

[DepthBlade]

My urges to stand up and do what is right have faded away because all of past flames over this topic...BASICLY THE BEEF IS THEY ALL HATE IT, FOR NO GOOD REASON! SO since they hate it we all have to! You have no choice in this matter! Conform!

[acraig]

RS is a fun game and is good to kill time. If you like it or hate it then complain elsewhere.  We are not here to badmouth anybody or any group that has obviously worked hard on their own projects.