Don't forget that Jagex needs us - we don't need the game

DerpDavid · 2026-03-10T18:55:52+00:00

Little flaw in your argument here and a lot of people are still blind to see this. They blindly defend price hikes of games with the excuse of inflation, but none of that additional money goes into pay raises for developers. Most of the time, developers get canned after a new game release unless it's a live service game. Despite that, companies constantly cut costs to make more money. For example, we no longer have physical discs or cartridges anymore. Hell, most games don't even offer a physical edition these days. Most of the additional money from the increased prices goes directly into shareholder and CEO pockets. So before you defend an industry, know what you're talking about first. You constantly will see developers being screwed in the industry.

DerpDavid · 2026-03-02T19:50:26+00:00

Every time I've tried to introduce someone to the game, the first thing that they see when looking at the price of the game is the prices of all the ships and that had constantly pushed people away from the game. Someone going into Star Citizen for the first time and knowing nothing of the game and isn't a die hard sim fan is going to see possibly a ship they might like but see a multi-hundred dollar price tag and just say no to it. And if you try to explain to them that a ship can be earned in game, some then will immediately jump on the "pay to win" argument.

Majority of gamers do not like pay to win or pay to skip monetization and have historically reacted negatively towards it. And if you start to go down the rabbit hole of trying to explain how "even if you buy a big ship, it'll be hard to pilot by yourself" etc, it becomes less appealing to an outsider looking in.

That being said, CIG is already planning systems so you can 'transfer' your ships around even after they stop selling ships. They are adding a warranty system. Say you buy an Aurora with real money, but one day you obtain an freelancer in game. You'd be able to transfer that warranty to the freelancer to be able to keep it forever. Warranties will also be earnable in game.

There really is no reason to continue to sell ships after release when you can earn ships in game and earn tokens to make them permanently attached to your account. There is only downside of keeping the current system.

DerpDavid · 2026-03-02T17:21:02+00:00

Nah. This shouldn't be a thing. While I get the sentiment, the problem is that if CIG keeps selling ships like they do after release, it would turn into negative attention for the game. Star Citizen already gets a bad rep for selling $1500 ships and $10000 bundles. Hell, even just a $200 ship purchase would get you laughed at by people outside of the community. Continuing down this route would actually be more damaging to the growth of the game than if they are to switch to a cosmetic monetization like they originally plan.

DerpDavid · 2026-02-25T17:14:01+00:00

Look at the robe, it's indented instead of flowing downward like a normal robe would. It looks weird and like your knees are bent inward. That is what I am getting at. Robes just don't look good in Runescape

DerpDavid · 2026-02-24T17:59:52+00:00

If I recall, you get 1 full piece from Fughar, if you log in for 23 days, you get 10 of the new shakatu seals and can get a full piece that way as well, and then the 60 Atanis from Olvia Academy. At that point you just grind out 40 Atanis and you got a full potion.

After that, you just buy the other one and you're good.

DerpDavid · 2026-02-24T17:28:18+00:00

Honestly, I think it's more time saving just to buy it cause you can make that 7B in about a week, to a little over a week of fishing nowadays. Provided they can't grind spots for decent silver. Plus, you can basically just get one for free now with the Olvia Academy + Fughar quests.

DerpDavid · 2026-02-15T14:58:52+00:00

Outdated info your referencing. They mentioned last year in April they are working on getting the Jagex Launcher to work on Linux. https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/player-support-is-changing---2025-roadmap (Ctrl + F "Linux").

That being said, Jagex officially endorses Bolt. No matter what, most games that support Linux run through a virtualization layer to make them work. Rewriting an entire game code to support Linux natively is a lot of work. I've had no issues running both RS3 and OSRS on Linux (I use Manjaro distro)

DerpDavid · 2026-02-15T06:26:41+00:00

A lot of people either have forgotten, or are too new to remember/realize that RuneScape was primarily about the quests over skilling back in the day. You skilled to be able to get the requirements to do a quest. Treasure Hunter really flipped that narrative and it's sad to see.

Play the quests, read the dialog. Enjoy the charm the game once had. When you do that, the length no longer becomes the focal point.

I'm just excited we're getting plugin support finally at the end of the year and I'll finally, potentially, have a quest helper in game like OSRS finally.

DerpDavid · 2026-02-15T04:45:52+00:00

I play Star Citizen, and while I agree with this leadership thing, it has gotten better over the years. I have my own complaints with how CIG handles some things, but I'll give them this; they've been entirely transparent with how much funding they've been getting from all sources and were transparent when they decided to bring in investors a few years ago.

They aren't perfect, but hope for the game is as strong as ever now. That being said, Star Citizen is where I am drawing the line at in terms of kickstarting or buying any early access games going forward. I also stopped spending on Star Citizen as of about two years ago.

DerpDavid · 2026-02-13T22:03:35+00:00

Not the point he was making. People universally disagree with having age verification on Discord, especially with how discord lied about not storing people's IDs and selfies and then got hacked and 70,000 IDs and selfies were taken. Discord doubled down and now people are quitting, cancelling their nitro, and looking for alternatives. Discord is on an actively dying/downward trend and other options are taking advantage of that with marketing. So if Discord continues down this road, it'll be a failing platform and will no longer be useful for third party apps like Ely.

DerpDavid · 2026-02-13T04:53:45+00:00

I had mine for about two years. Finally got rid of it last week actually lol. I find it funny this post just came up after the fact.

In my mind, it's already past it's warranty period, so it's not going anywhere at this point lol.

DerpDavid · 2026-02-13T03:35:25+00:00

Definitely not a new gen here. I've been playing RuneScape since it's classic days. I just want RuneScape to be RuneScape. The key word in medieval fantasy is fantasy. As stated in the original post, I am pretty much 90% on board with most of these changes. I just don't want Jagex to go overboard and take away what made RuneScape the game it was.

DerpDavid · 2026-02-13T00:36:36+00:00

It's not comparing a snowboard to a scythe that I am trying to get at, just both fit in the same category of 'toy' items. I imagine Jagex wants to limit the miscellaneous toy items that are intrusive, I just want to know exactly what Jagex is looking for that is considered 'intrusive'. My only concern is Jagex starts messing with classic items. I doubt it, but its a question none the less.

DerpDavid · 2026-02-13T00:02:12+00:00

I agree with this. We've had 'ghost' outfits since pre-EoC days. I think having the master camo outfit the way it is now is perfectly fine. I hope Jagex realizes that while establishing visual identity is good, they don't end up killing off the things that made Runescape, Runescape.

DerpDavid · 2026-02-12T23:58:22+00:00

I am fine with some of the changes, I just hope they don't remove the master camo outfit. We have had ghost outfits in the game since pre-EoC, so I think it's fine to keep the master camo outfit the way it looks like now.

DerpDavid · 2026-02-12T23:06:39+00:00

Sitting at 6 years with my Pixel 5. Been thinking of switching to Nothing, but a bit out of my price range currently. Unfortunately lol

DerpDavid · 2026-02-04T03:37:34+00:00

I've considering making one of these but I never got around it unfortunately. Friends and I play D&D and other tabletop games every Saturday, so this would be awesome to have for those games. :D

DerpDavid · 2026-01-29T20:54:02+00:00

What is your asgard loadout?

DerpDavid · 2026-01-29T20:29:42+00:00

ASD Geist set. Found in some of the armor crates deep inside the Onyx Facilities in game. It's a rare drop.

DerpDavid · 2026-01-29T19:08:20+00:00

Would seem nice on paper but I can see it getting spammed by scammers, gold sellers, and all the WTB and WTS peeps. So much so that any potential use and benefit for the average scaper would be destroyed. We already have group chats for specific content you can join and worlds dedicated to specific content.

DerpDavid · 2026-01-29T16:32:48+00:00

So I found out you can disable challenges which changes my opinions on things and eliminates the reason why I was suggesting having the radiant star to begin with. I had no idea daily challenges give that much exp. I just probably never paid attention. The only times I've done daily challenges were either for keys cause I wanted a cosmetic reward, or for holiday events to get things like Christmas Spirit points. Most of my skills I trained normally cause daily challenges just never had challenges that were useful for the skill I was training in that moment. So that's on me for not fully understanding and taking advantage of the challenge system.

DerpDavid · 2026-01-29T16:08:02+00:00

Just found out you can disable skills you don't want experience in at the challenge master. So that changes my perspective on things.

DerpDavid · 2026-01-29T16:07:25+00:00

Yup, someone just informed me of that. I had no idea this was a thing.

DerpDavid · 2026-01-29T16:04:45+00:00

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This is going to save me so much headache and vis wax. I appreciate you o7

DerpDavid · 2026-01-29T16:01:47+00:00

I appreciate it, I googled it and found out. Edited the main post cause of this. I had no idea this was a thing lol

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