firenimmo

Aug 3 2005, 02:43 PM | Post #1

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Taken from runescape.com:

We had planned on keeping RS-Classic around as a fun little nostalgia trip for people who wanted to see what the game was once like. However that idea is currently being spoiled by some irresponsible players who just see it as good place to cause trouble. We're not happy with this, so we are taking steps to clean it up so our loyal players can enjoy it properly. This is the first step in achieving that. You won't see it improve massively overnight, but this makes it much easier for us to kick out the troublemakers and make sure they actually stay out, rather than coming back. So in the long run there should be a big improvement.

If you wish to play for free we recommend you play our main RuneScape game instead. We would like to reassure our users that we have absolutely NO intention whatsoever of removing the free version of our main game.

The main version of RuneScape was designed from the ground up to have far better monitoring and protection systems. It is regularly updated anyway, and also being our main game means there is a bigger team looking after it. All this means it's possible for us to run and police a free version of the main RuneScape far more easily and affordably. So we've decided it makes most sense to make that our main free offering. You can expect the free version of the main game to continue to be available for years to come.

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Chrono

Aug 3 2005, 03:58 PM | Post #2

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owned rsc f2pers

This post has been edited by Chrono: Aug 3 2005, 04:10 PM

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Makoto

Aug 3 2005, 04:07 PM | Post #3

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So FINALLY autoers get what they got coming.

This means I can't PK on X Makoto X anymore

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Twilight Ray

Aug 3 2005, 04:10 PM | Post #4

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Wow, I actually didn't see that coming. I swear, they really are gonna do away with the whole thing, and I know everybody's said it, but it's true.

Off-topic:Haha one of the Runeweb god peoples double posted

This post has been edited by Twilight Ray: Aug 3 2005, 04:10 PM

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Vic

Aug 3 2005, 04:19 PM | Post #5

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Bah. I loved rsc. I hope they get rid of those nasty autoers. They ruin the game now. I went to a member world on my noob to goblin house near lumby. I close the door to it. 5 people just stand outside the wall following the goblin around the other side of the wall. I reported them all and took a pic. It was pathetic. Lol.

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Loggy

Aug 3 2005, 04:44 PM | Post #6

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Yeah... I hated how people just got on RSC to cheat and make trouble. Although this is unfair to regular RSC players, I think it had to be done.

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Deathbyape

Aug 3 2005, 04:46 PM | Post #7

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QUOTE(Makoto @ Aug 3 2005, 11:07 AM)

This means I can't PK on X Makoto X anymore

Same, now I can't use Jr

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Zaw1314

Aug 3 2005, 05:08 PM | Post #8

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i think its gr8, hardly any autoers, only about 50-300 ppl per world. owned! only thing is i cant use my tank mage anymore on classic.

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sk8r_207

Aug 3 2005, 05:16 PM | Post #9

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There will also be a mass ban following up this death of the free servers.

Quote from Anonymous RSC Forum:

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This is what andrew said:
To all the people complaining they can't get on their mule to transfer their items. Please go and read the rules. In particular read rule 8.

Note posting on the forums that you are angry that you can't break rule 8 anymore is effectively a confession, I don't think that is a very good idea.

Any other legitimate complaints you are of course welcome to make, and someone will look through the forums to see them. But complaining you can't break one of the rules isn't really very sensible.

We're not expecting you to subscribe extra accounts to transfer items. WERE EXPECTING YOU TO STOP BREAKING THE RULES! Please DONT subscribe your mules just to transfer items. Please play fair and don't break rule 8.

Suffice to say shutting down RSC free was NOT a decision that was made lightly. We've been worrying and trying to work out what to do with the mess that RSC has become for some time. To be honest we really wish we hadn't kept it around when we launched RS2 at all.

We thought it would be a fun little alternative, and good for a bit of nostalgia, but it's just become absolutely horrible. Nobody playing RSC could possibly say it was going well!

This is only the 1st step to sorting it out, and a big mass ban of macroers will of course follow. We figured it would be better to run it in a more limited form for our loyal players than to leave it in the appalling state it had sunk to before.

The alternative would have been to shut it down entirely which would have been a lot easier, but we're given it a last shot to become a worthwhile feature on our site, please don't make us regret that decision.

Either way you can't seriously expect us to have let it continue in the downward spiral and appalling state it was getting into before?!

All i can say is it sucks to be the people who auto and buy millions of dollars rsc for usd

This post has been edited by sk8r_207: Aug 3 2005, 05:26 PM

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Luckk13

Aug 3 2005, 05:30 PM | Post #10

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sigh, i just wish they would have spent a little bit of time fixing it, and it could have gone for ages

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Sin

Aug 3 2005, 05:44 PM | Post #11

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It was only a matter of time, I'm sure this will benefit the legit p2p rsc players out there.

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Ryan

Aug 3 2005, 05:53 PM | Post #12

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A good decision, but one they should've made long ago

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sk8r_207

Aug 3 2005, 07:20 PM | Post #13

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I have to say jagex is smart by doing this. There are like 10000 plus bankers with 10 million plus on them. All those people are going to pay for memberships to get there stuff back. As soon as they become members there will be more bans put on these people. 10000 x 5$ USD = 50000 USD.

On the downside, Jagex has totally ruined rsc pking. all the great pkers on rsc not legit but the ones who don't use acing bots have quit even though most of them have memberships.

Jagex is never going to truly stop the autoers though. There is already releases of the mudclient 202 source code. These cheating communitys will rise up after disabling the new "macro - detection system" thats is being disscused in these communities.

Personally I am a little mad because there won't be very good pking anymore. But i am going to get a membership and become "legit" if I am not banned in the mass ban following up on Jagex's actions towards the rsc f2p worlds.

This post has been edited by sk8r_207: Aug 3 2005, 07:24 PM

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Dilbert26

Aug 3 2005, 07:57 PM | Post #14

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I think it was a great decision. Too bad it wrecked the fun rsc pking on noob chars though. Jagex is also going to make quite a bit of money on this too.

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Loggy

Aug 3 2005, 08:38 PM | Post #15

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Will they? I dunno how many old f2p RSC players will p2p RSC. I personally wouldn't.

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