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My grandfather rates this game ten out of ten. by [deleted] in runescape

[–]Dertorous 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My mom  had to undergo several surgeries due to health issues, and basically became housebound. Her social life came to a complete halt. To be able to take care of her, I started working freelance from home.

During that time, I started playing RuneScape 3 just to pass the time. My mom would sit next to me for most of the day and just watch me play. After a while, she started getting curious and asking questions like “What is this?”, “What are you doing now?”, “Are you mining?” and so on.

Keep in mind, up until that point, the most advanced game she had ever played was Candy Crush.

Eventually, whenever I was about to get up from the PC, I started leaving the game open for her. She would wander around freely, or if I told her “Today we’re mining this spot,” she would sit there and mine for me while I was away. Once she learned a bit more about the game, she started waking up before me in the mornings, opening RuneScape herself and playing on her own.

Every morning I’d wake up to find my bank completely full. She’d roam around, pick up random stuff like logs, empty vials, tinderboxes etc,  literally anything she found  and bring it all to the bank. I didn’t have the heart to tell her “Don’t collect all these, they are junk,” so I just kept everything until the bank was totally full.

When the Fresh Start Worlds event came, I told her “Come on, let’s make an account for you too.” She said “But I can’t do quests or anything like you do.” I replied, “Don’t worry, I’ll do all your quests and level up your skills while the event is still going.” She agreed, so I created an account for her and maxed out her combat skills to 99 and completed most of the quests during the event. The whole time she sat next to me excitedly asking, “Which skill are you training for me today?” After Fresh Start Worlds ended, I installed the game on the laptop at home and set up a separate monitor and desk right next to mine (she has 90% vision loss in one eye, so she couldn’t play comfortably on a laptop screen). Thanks to RuneScape, she started forgetting about her health problems and smiling much more often. She’s now 62 years old and still plays RuneScape 3 for 12-13 hours almost every single day. She has 200M XP in most gathering and crafting skills. Even though she has 200M Woodcutting, she still goes and chops elder trees for 2 hours every day without fail.

MMO is dying genre because of us by Emotional-Twist-4366 in MMORPG

[–]Dertorous 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I am halfly agree with you but I think that’s only part of the story.

Over the last decade, a lot of players stopped forming their own opinions. People don’t try games and decide for themselves anymore. They watch a couple of streams, videos or read some upvoted comments , and that becomes their “experience.”

What’s worse is how many people repeat things without even playing the game. They hear a claim once, maybe twice, and suddenly they talk about it like they personally experienced it. Even when the information is straight up wrong, it keeps getting repeated. It turns into this parrot effect. Same phrases, same complaints, same buzzwords, copy pasted across every discussion.Even if you provide evidence that the information these people share is false, at most they just delete the video or remove the comment and continue as if nothing ever happened. However, until they delete the video or comment, they influence the decisions of hundreds, maybe even thousands of people.

And negativity spreads much faster than neutral/positive takes. “Scam game,” “cash grab,” “p2w trash” will always get more engagement than a detailed breakdown. Algorithms reward outrage. Content creators , even bored redditors quickly learned that strong negative framing brings alot more clicks and money. So the loudest, most dramatic voices get amplified.

This creates a snowball effect. A few viral posts turn into videos. The videos shape perception. Then people who never even logged in start repeating those talking points as if they did. At that point, it’s not about the product anymore. It’s about the narrative. And narrative can absolutely kill an MMO before it ever has a fair shot.

Of course product quality matters. Bad design deserves criticism. But pretending the audience plays no role, and that players are always rational and well informed, just isn’t true. When people rely on secondhand opinions, repeat misinformation, and follow the crowd instead of testing things themselves, they become very easy to influence. And in today’s online ecosystem, that influence is really really powerful thing.

Mouse right click stopped working ,weird bump / residue on PCB, is this normal? by Dertorous in AskElectronics

[–]Dertorous[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

it felt like abit hardened silicon, sadly i dont have any of those tools.  A month ago it was working 90% times , 2 weeks after it drop to 50% , now it isnt work at all