"13 December 2007 - A Word About Our Updates"

Even though this week has been one of the toughest ever for everyone involved with RuneScape, it has been tough for so much longer than one week. Bots, gold sellers, scammers: these are all problems that both us and you - the players - have had to put up with together in recent months.

These occurrences were becoming so frequent that they seriously threatened RuneScape. A solution was needed as soon as possible, so we had to come up with the one thing that would successfully stop real-world traders – stopping unbalanced trade. It will be tough for law-abiding players, but it will also be tough for us, as we will certainly not be gaining money or members with this update. Instead, we are doing this for the good of the game, which is as dear to our hearts as it is to you.

Soon, the hard part will be over and done with. The unbalanced trade changes will be made in January and we certainly don’t plan any more hard changes in the foreseeable future. Together, we will deliver an enormous blow to real-world trading, and the game has already seen a dramatic reduction in their numbers.

We have always planned to release the real-world trading updates and then improve them further by listening to your feedback. We were also aware that the updates may not have been perfect the first time around, or that they may not have functioned as an ideal replacement for what we have changed or taken away. This is not a reason to roll them back or remove them, but it IS a reason to keep improving them until they DO work as a full replacement.

The hard choices we have made are the best ones for the game, and we must not do anything that allow bots, gold sellers or scammers back into the game. What we need to do is build on these first, large steps and use your feedback to make improvements, so that they better fit your needs and activities.

We would really like you to make your feelings known, not in a negative manner that offers no potential solutions, but with constructive criticism and suggestions that we can draw ideas from. For example, if something is broken, don't just demand that we put it back to what it was - instead, tell us your ideas to make the new system work. In summary: we would like you to think about how we can make life in RuneScape more enjoyable for you, while ALSO keeping out real-world traders and bots.

It’s going to take a lot of patience and effort from all of us. Saying that, we have not been sitting around hoping for you all to come up with ideas. We have been putting together a plan. This is a schedule of ideas for improvements that will build on a number of our changes: the Grand Exchange, new player-killing games (including other dangerous ones), LootShare, Assist System, trades and so many other things that we have introduced to combat real-world trading. We aim to have the most important improvements ready in time for the unbalanced trade removal in January, and to continue adding more throughout the start of next year.

We are currently assembling the best ideas from the Forums and our own staff. We will release another newspost early next week, listing the improvements we plan to make to address your concerns.


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Discuss

 

I already read it, they are only posting that on thier website to make everyone stfu about the updates, and guess what? People wont stop talking about it till they put it back, but they ruined the following
Drawbacks:
No more pking members
no more Wilderness
no more merchanting
no more skillers (theres no more point)
no more macros,this also means bots! (now economy will fall Gj)
no more RWT
This is the cold hard truth, Jagex would rather punish RWT and macros, then Reward runescape players. So everyone should quit runescape, or as long as those fags at jagex are still there.
only people addicted to runescape will stay.

 

Im so sic and tired of this game, honestly I think theres other games much better to play... for example WoW... Ive played wow for a long time as well as runescape and its pretty awesome... So ima quit RS for now and see what happens in the future...

 

I dont play wow, to many pricks on it for me, im going to stick with silkroad online...
At least the creators on that know where the line is! and they dont fuck everything up!

 

Honestly I think this is a first in any MMORPG, it makes history. The first MMORPG to fail after doing pretty well, number of players decrease within the hour! Economy falls!

Rs = dead.

 

Rest in piece runescape, 1998-2007. been playing since febuary 12, 1999.
It used to be such a good game..at least they didnt fuck up classic...yet...

fix it do this code

 

lol fhk andrew!!!

haha, because of these words, so many are going to quit.

and now rs2 will become rsc (just a thought) lol.

they will be so poor!

and i h8 these dumb noobs now!


and if they roll back i dont even care now, i hope no one will fall their trick if they loose alot and make rollback.

and i got especially mad over this


"IT HAS BEEN A TOUGHT WEEK" omfg!

what dont u think it has been this too for us.!


all change to wow! wow 4 life!!

 

As in the words of Hattah

That shit is fucked up

 

It's time to be Abandonedscape..

 

I had a hard time reading that kingezz lol.. anyways i might as well give it a little longer