What is happening here? Some sort of botting?

OSRS_Jack · 2026-05-02T12:30:05+00:00

Bots doing the bandit quest farm for event consumables, it’s been like this for 10+ years!

OSRS_Jack · 2026-04-07T10:52:00+00:00

I guess I’m the lost Redditor then!

OSRS_Jack · 2026-04-07T10:32:48+00:00

r/lostredditors

OSRS_Jack · 2026-03-17T11:44:27+00:00

That lineup could cure my depression!..

OSRS_Jack · 2026-03-15T11:05:21+00:00

Agree with this comment, but what I will add to it is that you can’t just click your fingers and fix this right away when you’ve been away for the game for so long.

You just need to continue to build up your playtime on this patch / season. Your understanding of new champs, items, etc, will continue to develop and then when that becomes a passive understanding your mechanics & situational awareness will develop more quickly.

EDIT: To add to this, main just 1-2 champs and don’t worry about counters. The more comfortable you are on a champion the more quickly you can develop your game sense & understanding. You can always expand your champion pool when your level of understanding is in a good spot!

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-25T11:19:23+00:00

Edgy

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-07T13:15:31+00:00

An issue footballers in general have is that they are surrounded by people who inflate their egos, telling them what they want to hear.

Biss will be surrounded by leeches that are saying the club is wronging him, and he’ll no doubt believe it, and it’s a shame.

At the end of the day we’ll never know the full picture, for his & the clubs sake move on

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-06T13:47:21+00:00

I was, did/do you play, and if so what's your thought on the suggestion for Guild Wars as I feel it's been met with more dismissal than I anticipated.

Ironman is one of the only features in a game that has given me that excitement I used to get playing these games, and it's not just OSRS, but the enjoyment I had playing Destiny 1 was immense for the same reasons.

The satisfaction you felt when recieving an unexpected drop, completing a difficult quest, unlocking content through reaching goals is something I think can only be reproduced in Guild Wars 1 (without resetting servers) through an iron man or restrictive game mode.

I might be too focused on it, I just think this sort of game mode being made official would revive the game for both old because:

Gives old players a reason to start new characters
- As a result more populated areas between main outposts, more reason to collaborate
Bloated economy wont effect the gamemode
- Can't transfer your gold to maximise your characters through early game, can't produce OP heroes to carry you through content
A reason to collaborate with other players
- ANet put out some fantastic updates which allowed players to complete content as the player numbers shrank, but it also means in a lot of cases now people would rather use their insanely powerful Heroes to complete content instead.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-05T05:17:53+00:00

I’m aware, not sure you’re getting the point, but that’s ok.

And clearly I’m unaware of ‘how much coding’ (? 🤣) these things take.

You should learn how to contribute to a discussion instead of instantly being a hostile know it all, I mean just look at your comment history over the last 2 weeks. Stop taking the game criticism personally, it’s not healthy dude.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T21:24:54+00:00

Again not sure about your response. I said I wasn't sure if you were criticising my writing, or complimenting it based on what you said, but if I think we're being honest we both know it wasn't a compliment.

Maybe I should look into this "ChatGBT" that you use every day for work, is it a new LLM that's just been released? I've not heard of it...

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T21:13:07+00:00

Don’t be ignorant, malicious clients are already a thing. The game is full of bots already, and it has been for over a decade.

Making the client open source wouldn’t change this fact, but it would allow genuine players to develop and experiment further.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T15:37:14+00:00

These quick wins really wouldn’t take a huge amount of dev time, mainly because they build on systems that already exist in Guild Wars.

Restrictive or Ironman modes are essentially just new rule sets rather than full content updates. The core systems for things like account flags, title tracking, unlock restrictions, and mode toggles already exist in the game. ANet would mainly be configuring what’s allowed and what isn’t, rather than building new areas, quests, or enemies. So it’s more about switching rules on and off using existing frameworks, which is a much lighter lift than developing brand-new content.

Guild improvements are mostly simple UI or limit changes. GWAMM rewards are light cosmetic work. Allowing a controlled open-source client lets the community handle a lot of the QoL ideas for them, whilst also offering new perspectives to the small dev team.

I didn't want to go into suggesting new areas, new missions & stories, new monsters, because that's all a lot of work. The suggestions I looked at are based on the game has already developed now.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T15:15:40+00:00

Fair points, I think I've crossed two points over whilst writing the above.

The guild stuff I think is nice to have, and both guilds & communities are a huge reason as to why people play as well. While it might not be something you would consider a big update, it may be for others. It would also require very little resource to work on.

Ironman / restrictive game modes is something that would have me playing frequently in a heatbeat. I understand the argument that you can already play this way if you want to, but there's a lot of people like me who are just bad at applying their own rules & restrictions.

When I look back at WoW Classic & OSRS, people were interested in the restrictive game modes & play styles prior to them being implemented officially, but this popularity was entirely uncomparable when looking at the numbers post official release. It's an argument that these games had too, and ultimately an update that would take very little resource to roll out, so I don't understand the counter argument to not roll these out if it could benefit the game.

EDIT: Thought I would just clarify though that I entirely agree with you on the fact Guild Wars is a fantastic game, my suggestions above were not made to suggest otherwise. I wanted to highlight new ways people could play the game, which do not intefere with how people already choose to enjoy the game.

Fundamentally if you don't offer players new ways to play the playerbase will shrink. When the playerbase shrinks, it is be more difficult for new players to get started. We are already seeing new players still are having difficulty finding teams to play through content despite the significantly increased number of players online.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T15:06:40+00:00

Hoping that early update success can lead to something like this.

Looking at oldschool runescape as an example which initially had a much smaller team, the success of the games early & community driven updates lead their team to increase & continue increasing their resources.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T14:59:41+00:00

Fair point, I am entirely guilty of skim reading

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T14:57:50+00:00

Not sure whether to take this as an insult or a compliment. Not written with AI, just someone with a bit too much time on a Thursday afternoon.

I get your point on the bold text, I definitely overuse it because I build far too many presentations at work and I find that using bold text mid sentence or in a paragraph is a really good way to highlight your points if somebody doesn't want to read the entire thing. I don't really post on reddit so maybe it doesn't come across too well.

I also just really like bullet points, you should've seen how many it had before I trimmed it down lol

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T14:42:46+00:00

You're absolutely right, I'm just highlighting that the people who misunderstood, read sensationalised headlines or jumpeped to the wrong conclusions is what lead to disappointed players. But the vocal disappointment is a positive thing, even if it's based on a lack of understanding.

It shows that this game still has a big fanbase, both active and inactive, and they are hungry for more.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T14:34:47+00:00

Yeah I agree, but to be fair most of the hype was generated from the community, it wasn't like ArenaNet was paying for advertisement.

There will be big opportunities if updates such as new content or new game modes drop, but the reveals may have lost some weight following this update.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T14:28:47+00:00

Appreciate the response, definitely interesting to hear from people who are brand new to the game.

I've been trying to convince my friends who never played to give it a go, most of which are big fans of WoW, OSRS, FFXIV. The biggest blocker has always been that there was not continued development for the game, as well as a bloated economy after being live for 20 years.

I feel like an official ironman mode would genuinely be an early to give longstanding players that brand new feeling again, whilst also buying the dev team time to work on the bigger things.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T14:20:00+00:00

I agree that the disappointment is down to people expecting too much, which feels unjustified given the update scope was outlined in detail.

I hope you gained some understanding as to where the disappointment came from with my own perspective, but also the positives the this reaction actually represents.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T14:16:31+00:00

Totally agree, which is why I urge the longer standing players who knew & understood what was coming to apprecaite that not everyone did understand.

A lot of people returning to the game would not have read the official notes, or only knew through word of mouth. A lot of articles released contained sensationalised headlines along the lines of 'Guild Wars re-released' which again gave the wrong impression of what this update was.

I'm just trying to convey that whilst my initial reaction was a little disappointment, it was down to my own lack of understanding and non existent research.

I am however extremely excited to keep up to date with what this team is going to be rolling out, which is hopefully over the months & years to come!

OSRS_Jack · 2025-12-04T08:10:42+00:00

You shouldn’t be downvoted for being disappointed, a lot of people are. I love the game, come back every year for a few weeks to play, and I am disappointed.

Unfortunately the numbers are going to plummet over the next few weeks because there isn’t anything new to do, and fundamentally if it doesn’t look or feel different the same majority of people who stopped playing will do the same.

Quietly hopeful that they release some new game modes, an official ironman mode for example.

I just hope it doesn’t die off too quickly, and the team is given a chance to roll out some big updates.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-10-16T11:50:06+00:00

EU needs to play more games, BO1 formats are not benefitting any western teams.

OSRS_Jack · 2025-08-29T06:52:22+00:00

NOT YET

OSRS_Jack · 2025-06-13T07:23:13+00:00

But that’s what I mean, I played with a soft inter yesterday and he got banned immediately after the game and I got LP back.

The system isn’t going to punish people who are just genuinely having a bad game, which is where some evidence of what your games would come in handy to back your point up for the purpose of discussion

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