Off the bat. This post will probably be extended. My apologies, please try to buy RuneScape gold keep with me. Although this post is extremely critical of recent modifications to RuneScape — real and suggested — I want to stress that I’m thankful for all the hard work Jagex employees have put into RuneScape. I appreciate attempts and your passion. However, Jagex’s hard work does not obviate certain concerns I have for the near future of RuneScape. As a community we must be worried about the proposed slayer upgrade. Not just because of the update itself, but what it implies to development choices.
I believe we’re in a dangerous crosswords — (a few of) the warning signs: meta-shifting Slayer updates, Ezscape, and unpolled, large PvP upgrades –which reflect a disconnect about where Jagex sees the future of RuneScape, and also in which the gamers want RuneScape to proceed. I fear Jagex has lost sight of what OSRS is; that is about from the company that gave EOC to us. Since the Reddit community is aware, there has been backlash from the Slayer upgrade. Criticisms have focused on a plethora of issues, but maybe the biggest is that using the 15% damage/accurate bonus of the Slayer Helmet into a boss-only Slayer Master, could be incredibly overpowered and could forcefully shift the entire PvM meta.
Rather than address this foundational issue — that this update is too big, too meta-shifting, too much buff — Jagex, at a tone-deaf response, has focused on smaller”concessions” (more on this later). Jagex’s approach is not malicious by any stretch, but it is an example of”losing the forest for the trees.” This update cannot and shouldn’t be viewed as a collection of suggestions that are discrete to be viewed in vacuum.
Well, let’s think foundationally: what’s OSRS? As most know, OSRS is significantly more popular than RS3. There are many reasons for this, however, most basically, it comes to nostalgia (for childhood); and also a series of extremely unpopular changes in RS3. The changes include, most notably EOC, trade removals and wilderness, as well as a general drive towards Microtransactions, EzScape, and DailyScape. In other words, the achievement of OSRS could be viewed as a backlash against RS3: and, more specifically, a backlash against many changes.
It’s unsurprising, then, that in OSRS Jagex has polled many of the changes that are in-game that are most critical. They want to avoid the pitfalls that resulted in RS3. Given the backdrop of the failures of RS3, I write to remind we want CONSERVATIVE updates, that do not fundamentally change RuneScape. Mind you, that doesn’t mean”no new upgrades ” New content is required to maintain RuneScape new and people. People are weary of content which lacks an feel: content that is overly meta-shifting and overpowered. The projected Slayer update ventures in this land.
