Nexus Response to "Emails"

[Beav3r]

Wow it would be a miracle if NeXus did win the case and their demands.

Scroll down to page 26 and view the hilarious demands: http://www.impsoft.info/10-29-11 Filing.pdf

That would be very nice, but very unlikely to happen.

 

[Yaniij]

Oh man i would love it if jagex had to apologize on the main page to all the bots.

 

[Determinate]

I am with Pockets on this one. Their demands are way too lofty for them to succeed. I am sure they will have to go through several rounds of revisions before a court would hear them, because you can't order something that is implicitly against the ToS of a company. I am really excited about this court case though; I am studying to go into corporate law and this is the kind of thing I want to do.

If their original demands are outrageous then they can bargain 'down' from there to something more moderate - which I would assume is the exact thing they had been hoping to reach from the beginning.

 

[JayGunner]

This is honestly a fantastic idea to focus on the 'grinding' aspect of the game instead of just outright banning and breaking zillions of bots. The goldfarmers still need to go, as they ruin the game for EVERYBODY, but bots will always come back and will always be around and so Jagex needs to start thinking of other solutions to these problems, this being a great place to start.

A very large portion of the botters out there are just casual Runescape players who can't be fucked to sit there hours of a day grinding boring repetitive activities in order to advance through the game. And to be in a position where you can have lots of fun in RS and participate in many of the most fun activities, you need to fill all sorts of requirements before you can get there, which forces everybody to partake in these activities to play the game whether they like them or not. For example, I am trying to get Turmoil on one of my accounts right now and am almost there. To achieve something like Turmoil, you need to spend countless hours grinding repetitive skills just to have the levels needed to meet the quest requirements.

Yes, it makes Turmoil a challenge that is only undertaken by the more 'elite' players in the game, but it is still boring as hell and most people would be encouraged to bot when they don't have the time required to sit there for dozens of hours just to achieve anything in RS.

Which leads me to my point - If Jagex focused more energy on tackling these sorts of issues alongside their bot-nuking campaign, I think it would be a great way to discourage the use of bots by encouraging players to achieve these skills legitimately by themselves. If they spice the game up a little bit and make it more fun for people to level their skills, my guess is that you would see a significant decline in the 'casual' botters, as people would be much more likely to want to train the skills up themselves and would get some sort of enjoyment and satisfaction from doing so.

This.

I totally agree that focusing on the 'grinding' aspect of the game would be a monumental help in increasing the overall joy from playing the game. I work a lot, and I find it hard to put the time aside to train the really boring, and (in my opinion) pointless stats just to get where I want to be.

Effigys, I believe, were a good implementation of Jagex to reward players with a bit of extra exp in certain skills. Though, they aren't good for fixing the grinding problem. It's intersting to speculate what they will do to combat this problem, as well as future updates to thwart bots.

OT: I'm not sure if what Jagex did was even illegal. Obviousy, Jagex tricked the system somehow, but I don't think it should be on them that the court/PayPal failed to get their paperwork straight and gave them the information they wanted. Even if it was illegal, I highly doubt most of those demands will be met. I don't know much about legal issues, though. Just interested to see where this goes. ^_^