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Great appreciation and respect goes out to all the J-mods who put time and effort into maintaining Runescape 3.
It’s been a crazy ride through hundreds (if not thousands) of updates over the years, from patch notes to new bosses, to new skilling content. The game itself has seen many highs and many lows; one being the state at which RS3 is at now with declining player base and the constant bombarding of micro-transaction (MTX) promotions. We know this is a problem and we know you know it too.
Corporate, investors, and MTX financiers are all to blame for the state that the game has been thrown into. This is a game that is meant to turn a profit by charging a membership fee to provide content that your audience ACTUALLY WANT to consume. Not by targeting a small audience of fiscally-irresponsible individuals for their parents’ life savings. All that this accomplishes is short-run gains and long-run losses, of which they are suffering the consequences of now. But....they know this too and are just postponing the inevitable. Fukong are in serious debt and are middle of a game integrity crisis with the English Parliment. From here on out, MTX promos will only get more overpowered to overcompensate. They are doing whatever it takes to skim off every dime that they can before selling off their biggest revenue producer.
This game, the game that has captured the imagination and attention of millions for almost two decades. It’s become a blessing and a curse to be such a long-running successful video game. Investors and corporations have abused the trust of their consumers and have changed the way that the game is played; from work-for-your-wealth to pay-to-win.
You guys, the J-mods, are the ones behind Runescape’s true success. You guys are the ones that continue to make the game still playable for the few of us still left. For that, you all deserve a golden gnome award. You come in every day to work, put up all of the memes, all of the 🦀$11🦀, all of the “He” and you make it into something actually productive, and quite witty.
I know that your contracts will never allow you to respond to a post like this, and that’s ok. Just please keep working hard even though times are bleak. You all are the true heroes.
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