Mod MMG Transcript

[jarjar45678]

Here is the transcript of what Mod MMG said:
(According to http://forum.runescape.com/forums.ws?16,17,518,62095456)

Cool, we still have lots of votes short before we can bring it back
Well at least 90% want it back I mean
Yes I want to see the same numbers we got for the petition in 24 hours on the referendum
We need over a million to be statistically relevant
Now that people have to log in there cant be any vote rigging
Yes the original petition was not ideal but wanted to see if 10 percent
Thats a good idea Forsaken Mage, we can look into doing some type of game wide broadcast in the new year.
We've been listening carefully to player feedback on this matter
Yes agreed, Ms Toxicity, the decision will be based on the referendum
The petition just gave us an idea of the size of interest
No we wont bring it back unless we have enough votes in favour
So I doubt it will be before the 14th but I could be surprised
Yes I would like to see a similar number of votes on the petition
We could bring it back really quickly, in days in fact, but the players
should decide
The content already exists, we would be bringing it back
Yes it would take a while to move some minigames and quests
but the entire team would get on the project so it could be done quickly
But it's not given, I've seen this community surprise me often
We could get 500K votes of no votes in the new year
Yes old fashion drop parties will be brought back
We can deal with bots as we have been
We are shutting them down left right and centre, plus we
detect them rather easily
Yes. (He was asked if the update would be applied to all worlds)
Wouldnt be the same if it didn't.

Thanks Tox, and we naturally won't stop improving our anti bot technology
You will be able to transfer like in the old days, anything you want (I thought it was against the rules? - Moe)
You mean accounts?
That is still against the rules
Mod accounts cannot trade with
any other accounts
I dont personally have a problem with people helping out their siblings
but that's up to the rs team to decide
Look free trade should be free trade in my book, botting, cheating, etc
Should be dealt with accordingly
And people punished for botting, hijacking, etc
I would rather focus our efforts our efforts on stopping cheating that worked out
If you transferred some cash to a friend, sibling or other account
Don't you agree?
Well only if we bring back free trade of course
Nothing has changed right now
Absolutely right gary (Question about the rules was answered here)
No we still need a lot more votes Mars (Asked about 90% wanting the change, isn't it likely to happen?)
550K is not enough of the player base to bring it back.
Good Idea Meal! (Idea was a banner on homepage for wildy/FT)
I would say we need in excess of 1M votes on the referendum
Yeah thanks Elmo
No I dont want to put barriers in place Meal
If people just want to play the game they should be ablet o do so
Well in the new years all our members are entitled to win up to $10K per month
As part of our 10 year celebration
No Kortho (Was asked about worlds without wilderness)
Yes Indeed (Asked about future big tickets)
Yes indeed Tox (Runefest 2011 plans)
We have even bigger plans for Runefest 2011.

Thoughts?

 

[Joana]

Thank you for the transcript. I've been reading the topic and I kind of agree with what EosWild said. This is probably a marketing campaign to get more votes so they get more money from ads. Jagex isn't (probably) that stupid that they wouldn't do something that 90% of the RS active population wanted.

 

[ZerkieLot]

There has just been a video posted of Mod MMG speaking in his clan chat earlier today, he mensioned that the wilderness will be only brought back if theres 1-1.5M votes + Voting yes..

 

[Classics]

http://www.youtube.com/user/Jiblix#p/a/u/2/4BSc8V6CRho

^ can watch them there.

And If he really expect 1.5M votes I don't think we will be able to get that many.

 

[I PK AFK I]

unless we start making accounts and voting...?

 

[Im P2p]

We need over a million to be statistically relevant


The difference between 600k or so and 1000k would still end up at the majority yes.
Even if everyone voted no, the MAJORITY would still be yes.

Idiots.

 

[Macgregor]

Some of the reading got confusing as its all answers to questions, does he say that transfering money between accounts is actually agaisnt the rules?

 

[WowImGod]

They're not going to get 1M votes... And they know this. I don't think they realize their old fan base are in college/university now.. They're not going to come back like they think they are. And the economy is ruined, all the coins that have been brought into the game from PvP statues, its ridiculous. And all the botters.. Oh my.

 

[oblivion9032]

They probably won't get that many votes as others have said. I found it interesting that he seems to be okay with transferring between accounts so we might not have to worry about that as much anymore.

 

[Dingo212]

I think they will release it on first week of January as per 10th year celebrations.

The whole voting thing and making people vote (1 million) is all about letting people know (who quit) and making them come back. Their goal maybe to make 200,000 come back for this.

This might include people making new accounts for staking and pking (and getting memebers)

 

[Duddy_Crow]

It's all a money making ploy. If they can get at least 200,000 people to get new memberships at ~$7 per month that's 1.4m USD per MONTH. Seems like they're about to bank if you ask me

-Dud <3

 

[Jaaqqoo]

So if we dont get 1m votes in 10th of January, this update wont happen?
And if it does not happend much people quit and there is like 30,000-60,000 playing only daily.. so why fuck jagex thinks they would get more money if they dont do this update and lies to voters...

 

[Dingo212]

It will happen regardless lol. They probably flunked alot of money into Mechscape thingy and wants a steady income before launching that. That should come out next year too.

 

[p i e]

They're not going to get 1M votes... And they know this. I don't think they realize their old fan base are in college/university now.. They're not going to come back like they think they are. And the economy is ruined, all the coins that have been brought into the game from PvP statues, its ridiculous. And all the botters.. Oh my.

I'm 19, full time university and coming back for the staking >_<

 

[FieryK0]

Haha, regardless, if everyone stops voting now, there would be no way they wont bring it back. They decided on bringing the wildy back before the votes began. This is all to make us think we have an opinion and that give a damn. Where were our opinions when we had riots in 3 separate worlds at a time all full?

No they've lost too much money/players from taking the wildy down, there bringing it back now and they just wanna milk it out of us before they do bring it back.

 

[Reeser]

It will happen regardless lol. They probably flunked alot of money into Mechscape thingy and wants a steady income before launching that. That should come out next year too.

They scrapped Mechscape and worked on Stellar Dawn instead didn't they? Correct me if i'm wrong.

 

[blindkilla]

Hes kind of hoping to high to get the 1 mil votes. On the first phase people were voting 20+ times each, hence the high numbers. With phase 2, people are still voting multiple times each, although now it's only 2-5 accounts per person.

It probably will hit 1 mil, but wont get close to 1.5.

 

[dsj]

Very interesting read, should clear up questions about how fast Jagex can instate the updates. Looks like we still have a ways to go, everyone keep voting! Though tbh, if we got say 900k votes, I would be VERY surprised if Jagex didn't go through with the update, the player backlash would be enormous...

 

[WowImGod]

I honestly hope it is on the 1st..

 

[iLikePaper]

Ooh, I hope they bring it back, so the possibilities are endless.. We might not have it back after all, keep voting guys!