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- Nobiting, on 07/07/2008, -5/+181Pretty incredible considering the game is Java based and played within a browser.
- DragonForce4, on 07/07/2008, -22/+187the game still sucks though
- fromaworld, on 07/07/2008, -24/+144Okay... How did this get on the front page? Runescape is the game I always see pre-teens playing in the public library.
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -11/+115Runescape, lol.
- Samo89, on 07/07/2008, -8/+100almost makes me wanna play again to see if it rly makes any difference..........almost
- dood, on 07/07/2008, -6/+60http://digg.com/how
"Become popular. Once a submission has earned a critical mass of Diggs, it becomes “popular” and jumps to the homepage in its category. If it becomes one of the most popular, it qualifies as a “Top 10”. If a submission doesn't receive enough Diggs within a certain time period, it eventually falls out of the “Upcoming” section."
In short, it's not magic. People liked it, people clicked it. It's no big thing.
People act as though digg must be this news source specifically tailored for them, and for every article that comes up that they're not interested in, they must tell the world. I can't imagine what they do to newspaper editors. - zdiddy85, on 07/07/2008, -12/+65"Anyone else miss the 2d full world pvp version of Runescape?"
Honestly, I can't say I do. - trunks333, on 07/07/2008, -11/+63still looks like *****
- digitaldivinci, on 07/07/2008, -5/+52As a former player of about three years, I'm glad to see it advance to this level.
I actually miss some of the people I hung out with on there. - cforce05, on 07/07/2008, -5/+44in the end its still runescape....
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -6/+39Still looks *****, but since it's a browser game I'll give it a break.
- MWeather, on 07/07/2008, -0/+31How do you run Java applets in your browser without plugins?
- L4WL3RS34L, on 07/07/2008, -6/+36What happened to the good old version 8 years ago where everywhere was pvp. They completely ruined this game IMO.
- ExRe, on 07/07/2008, -0/+28The game kicked ass back before they started adding members only stuff. Around then was the time they started ***** everything up. They put in a limit so if you stood in one place for 5 minutes it would log you out (autominers are a requirement for the game I think, I didn't have that much time to waste).
Then they added the really ***** up stuff when mining where once you got a mineral it would take a while to "grow" back.
Anyone remember the day the tried putting on a word filter? They were threatening to ban anyone who swore and blocked out so much that you couldn't even say a sentence without hitting a filter. - sandiegodude, on 07/07/2008, -6/+34MMO? Haha, the only thing massive that I remember about it was the run to collect ore, then another run to smelt, then yet another run to forge. This game had so many lame time sinks. Wasn't even fun. The biggest laugh of all though is the "130 million registered players." Spambots and alts and freebie try-outs. How many actual regulars who pay the monthly fee though? I'm betting MUCH less.
- inactive, on 07/07/2008, -2/+29Rules of Runescape, #1: YOU DO NOT PLAY RUNESCAPE
- latova, on 07/07/2008, -15/+41Horrible timing, right after diablo III.
- maglob, on 07/07/2008, -0/+23I know what you mean, but its one of those games you wanna play again, you put it off for ages and ages, finally play it again for 10 mins, get bored and play something else.
- killscreenes, on 07/07/2008, -3/+27I really do too. After it changed to 3D, I stopped playing. It just wasn't the same.
- Runningflame570, on 07/07/2008, -0/+21Runescape has much bigger issues than just graphics, although congrats to them for finally surpassing the 1995 standard. Pacing is the biggest one, sure training skills can be fun...up to a point. Quests are all well and good also but why do you have to either buy a ton of runes or move as slow as heck across the map?
They should make the running speed the new walk and up the running speed, that alone would help a ton.
Jagex also needs to bring back PKing in the wilderness. After some time PKing or avoiding PKers was the only thing that didn't make you want to blow your brains out..especially around the Dark Knight Fortress and Lava Maze, great times there escaping PKers. - TH3W1R3D, on 07/07/2008, -7/+28Misleading... You can't play it unless your a full member...
- skipdog172, on 07/07/2008, -1/+22I do work on about 40ish libraries in Eastern Nebraska and yeah.... one of my duties is making SURE that runescape WORKS on all PCs(most of these small-town libraries have 8-12 PCs) including the ones donated by Bill & Melinda gates which can be a major pain(they have all these built-in user restrictions...takes way too long to get anything to work). But hey, at least it brings kids into the libraries....
- SilverWyrm, on 07/07/2008, -0/+18My thoughts exactly.
I don't have the patientce for that grind-fest, though. - Borgcube, on 07/07/2008, -0/+17Its an MMO. Without "hanging out" part, its basically a job.
- etx313, on 07/07/2008, -4/+21Why play Runescape when you can give your self a home lobotomy?
- styx31989, on 07/07/2008, -1/+14I can't tell you how right you are! When my computer was screwed up and I needed on the internet, I had to go to the library. The only problem is that you have to get there before the little kids, because they spend hours playing Runescape and hogging the computers! ***** bastards even told me that they have computers at home, and that their parents thought they were studying!
- backseatchris, on 07/07/2008, -1/+14I love how my account from 2001 is worth more now than ever. apparently all those "Holiday drop items" they used to have are now worth Hundreds of millions of coins. Im sellin them alllll.
- BrownManUPS, on 07/07/2008, -0/+12I played this game for like 2 years and my character still exists in game...but I haven't touched it in a while and I don't think a graphics update is going to be the breaker for me.
- herschman321, on 07/07/2008, -3/+15then what are you going to do, buy a car?
- jmp478, on 07/07/2008, -1/+13but one of the worse things was the graphics...
That and the 10 year olds constantly asking for free stuff. - xkingADROCKx, on 07/07/2008, -6/+17O RLY??
- ZeroFive1, on 07/07/2008, -2/+133ree goold plz lololol. cman i;monly lvl2
I don't like MMORPGs.
The PvP in WoW was pretty cool though. - bigfatdummy, on 07/07/2008, -4/+15Jagex sucks? They let you play a limited version of their game for free. You could play for years on the free version and max out all your skills before ever upgrading to add more content. Let's see Blizzard let people play WOW for years without charging them.
Teens play the game because its free. Many teens will have some trouble getting their parents to buy them a $50.00 game and then have a recurring charge of 14.99 a month. I am glad teens are exposed to this type of game for cheap/free. Hopefully, it will lead them into better mmorpg's in time. - Paradoxt, on 07/07/2008, -3/+13They need to redo some of the back-end stuff, rather than just update the graphics.
- alexismyhomeboi, on 07/07/2008, -5/+15Hmmm, should Blizzard do the same to WoW?
- durhamites, on 05/29/2009, -5/+14The last Runescape updates were awful and made some of the best players leave the game. I hope this helps bring some of them back.
- TehJoe, on 07/07/2008, -1/+10I'm a bit more inclined to play Runescape with this update, plus a lot of Members only things are coming over to the Free Side of the Force. THIS was what I was waiting for.
- Zuggy, on 07/07/2008, -0/+9One of the reasons I find this exciting, being someone who completely hates the game, is because it shows how quickly 3d engines running in browsers are advancing. Between this and Quake Live we can see that web applications aren't just going to replace office type applications but PC Games too
- Tribis, on 07/07/2008, -1/+9The brothers who founded the company are two of the wealthiest men in the UK. Someone is playing.
- PsychoDesigns, on 07/07/2008, -2/+10I was about to bitch about the graphics before I saw your comment.. not bad..
- rz8472, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7I don't miss the mining... was a veteran of those days where it meant clicking on rocks as rapidly as possible to get that coal; there was never enough coal.
- Andrwmorph, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7an e-car!
- FutureisDubious, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7Don't act like you don't play anymore. You know you were logged in earlier this morning.
- Depravo, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7I think they all moved onto Digg. =)
- bagelmaster, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7They need to also bring back the old trading system. This new 10k difference or whatever it is (haven't played in 3 years but I follow updates) is just retarded.
- Llanowar, on 07/07/2008, -1/+8I still consider it one of the best mmo's out there. (or well, it used to be anyway, the latest updates I've heard about suck big time)
Of course it's low graphic, doesn't have really interactive fighting, and very grindy. But, there is more to do there than on most games. The game doesn't consist of only fighting like most other games do. - ThReAtEnEd, on 07/07/2008, -1/+8not half of 130m, half of the total online players.
- InfernoX, on 07/07/2008, -0/+7You're an idiot... this is a browser based MMO for ***** sake as it stands the graphics it's able to achieve as is are amazing.
- Tyrghast, on 07/07/2008, -0/+6I quit playing the day it went to 3d.
- BlueCadenza, on 07/07/2008, -0/+6Wow you played back then?
As I replied to someone else above, pvp was the thing that made me play. Having the risk of losing all your things made it much more exciting. Having friends IRL and in clans and traveling in packs was awesome.
Not to mention the great guild wars. Battle of Varrock, battle of barbarian village, those were the days.
I tried returning to runescape some years ago and tried reviving the syndicate (the group of guilds that were the "good guys" against the messiahs), but people were too lame and its no fun being a clan without having someone to war against. My sad attempts were recorded in the offical rs clan history.
http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/rshistory/clan.html -
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