I quit osrs a few years ago because I felt jagex was once again ruining the game. Now I sit back with my popcorn and watch jagex fuck up time and time again.
I'm hyped for Oldschool oldschool runescape though
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Yeah, it’s what happens when things get bought by Private Equity.
I cancelled 3 memberships I have had since ~2016 over this shit.
Ditto. Cancelled two this past September/October when they asked how much you’d be willing to pay if MTX was removed, then promptly raised membership prices and made MTX purchases worth even less (keys to USD ratio). Been playing since 2003 but fuck everything they’ve become.
Damn $32.50 a month for the full tier? That puts them way above every other MMO.
Jagex asks membership money per character.
WoW is cheaper and even gives you 60+ character slots.
It's like the guy in a trenchcoat selling gas station drugs in a dingy back alley. Gets you hooked at the same price you'd get the "caffeine" pills from the station, then when you come back for more they're suddenly 2-3× the price. It's just good business.
Everyone I know who actually pays to play Jagex games acts like it's meth or heroin...
Not trying to shame folk that do, but the only other times I've seen that level of video game addiction was early days WoW.
pretty much everyone I know who plays osrs is extremely addicted, anecdotes of course but I've never seen anyone have a normal relationship with this game
Everyone I know who actually pays to play Jagex games acts like it's meth or heroin...
It's pretty far from that, but it is absolutely an abusive relationship and has been for some time.
It's pretty far from that
Ehhhhhh, what I said was partly hyperbole and partly very small sample size. My comment was not intended to imply a rigorous scientific study into the behaviours of paying Jagex players. I know 4 people who pay a subscription, all 4 spend all their free time either playing or watching other people play. It's incredibly difficult to get them to talk about something other than what their character has been doing or they hope to be doing in the future.
The last price hike was really the final straw, but I still have a grandfathered subscription. If any of this goes through, I will cancel and will probably never return.
What is even suggested in the survey is absolutely absurd.