Hey everybody! Decided to try my hand at a little speculative MechScape writing. It’s my first one, So please go easy on me! All constructive criticism welcome!
You arrive in Lumbridge, Just created your character. You start to think, Wow, This seems a good, free online game! You manage to find yourself to the goblins by the toll gates. Bash! You hit a few goblins and kill one. Pick up these shiny little gold coins. A player comes up to you, Gives you some free gold to get started. He shows you around and you meet some other cool people. Suddenly you start to think, Wow what a great community! If only this was true. Lets rewind and meet the real Runescape players. The ten year olds that make Runescape’s community, Well um Unique to say the least.
You arrive in Lumbridge. You’ll instantly see bots, trolls or people attacking each other. Now if you can’t stand this, You would have given up by now. But no, You decide to venture on thinking it’s just a bad server or bad time e.t.c Over you head to the goblins, By now a few people have asked you to drop your items and hit alt + f4 as it’s an “Item Duplicator.” Obviously the newbs will fall for this, But the experienced ones may carry on. By now your level 5 and decide to invest in some armour. You see a guy with some shiny steel and PM him to ask if you can buy his armour. A typical conversation will go like this:
Me: Hey,
Them: ????
Me: Mind if I buy your armour?
Them: h0w mch $?
Me: I’ll give you 5k (Lets imagine it’s worth 500GP)
Them: F*** u, i pai $50000000 for it, f ur mum, i repotd u.
So by this time you decide enough is enough, You log out and never log back in.
So why is the community like this? Well through out my time playing I’ve noticed a few groups of people or reasons for this poor community.
- The underage users who can’t handle being wrong or just have poor language and behaviour skills.
- High levels who are probably also underage that think their opinion is better and they know everything.
- The P2P people that expect a perfect game with no bugs. These people generally moan about everything.
- Spammers. This only really applies on the forums.
- The idiots
I’m sure there are loads more types of people, But this is all I’ll include for now.
So now to see their impact on the community. Well the underage users are just kids that are like 10 years old that can’t handle loosing. They will typically type things like:
Plx $ for me, i p0r
The kids also will get annoyed with people who are attacking the same monsters e.t.c Often resulting in cursing and nasty behaviour. So why aren’t these people banned? Well Jagex seem pretty lenient when perhaps they should start perm banning people quicker. Perhaps this would be a heavy handed way of fixing the community, but it would definitely help. The problems with these people on the forums are the same. With the poor typing, low quality of posts and begging..
Now I’ll start by saying the majority of high levels are fun players that will try and help low levels. Obviously with all communities, You have the ones that spoil the lot. Some high levels will go around boasting and just showing off. In the forums though, This is more of a problem.You will have high level F2P users saying their opinion matters more and you should listen to them e.t.c These people aren’t a huge problem, they are just arrogant and annoying.
Now for the spoilt P2P users. Once again, I’m sure the most part of the members are good, honest users that work WITH Jagex not against them. However you get the odd few who will complain about every single update. Yet they never seem to have a better idea. They will moan, whine and may call Runescape a waste of £3 a month when the amount of content for that little a price is second to none. However these moaning members rarley visit free to play worlds, So some of us are safe!
The spammers. Don’t we despise them all. The people that flood the in game chat with rubbish or just post absolute crap on the forums for the sake of a post count meter. For me, These are the biggest causers of havoc on the forums, Which is why RSOF are often regarded as one of the worst forums out there.
For my last point I’ll deal with the idiots. They provide us with some laughs on the forums, I’ll give you that. But in game, they will walk around, Beg and ask where do I get money e.t.c
So now I’ve had a look at the people that give the Runescaping community a bad image. It’s all well and good highlighting the problems, But how does Jagex go about solving them? This is a particularly important aspect with MechScape. If, Like Runescape, it has poor community members, It will never achieve it’s full potential.
Obviously there is the easy option of banning all these people. This could take a lot of Jagex staff having to review lots of cases. Meaning more staff are needed.
I have decided to scrap this article as it seems there are enough rants about the community e.t.c
Don’t worry, I will be trying again!
