Urahoe

Jan 17 2006, 04:14 PM | Post #16

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They ban accounts such as 0 0 o o0 oo00o yet they let me play..

Im not complaining and can see their reasoning.. Just a little wierd

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vadeka

Jan 17 2006, 04:41 PM | Post #17

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jagex pisses me of like hell these days... thats why i gave up members and im now waiting for jagex to get better or else im going to wow

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Baakalor

Jan 17 2006, 05:01 PM | Post #18

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QUOTE(Loggy @ Jan 16 2006, 05:17 PM) [snapback]40364[/snapback]

What of the honest ones, that have played a long time - getting banned? That's just bull.

That's the thing that gets me right there. I know there have to be honest players that chose a name like that just because they thought it was cool or unusual. For them to get banned is just flat out wrong and JAGeX really needs to rethink that policy.

How can you ban someone for a name AFTER you've already let them choose it? My RS name has a '1' in it. Or is it an 'l'? Since it's not always clear between a 1 and an l should they ban me as well?

JAGeX made a mistake. They need to admit it and fix it.

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firenimmo

Jan 17 2006, 06:37 PM | Post #19

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QUOTE(Makoto @ Jan 16 2006, 09:56 PM) [snapback]40340[/snapback]

I'm not about to promote lying, but then again the form doesn't ask for an exact birthdate. I'll leave that in the open.

Jagex has changed in half a decade...they used to be so close with their community. Now, everything is getting the cold shoulder in the name of a few pence.

Thoughts?

Disagree completely. In the earlier years of Runescape there were very few players (one server initially), and the Jagex staff often socialised with players, as they depended on their input to develop the game, both for the purposes of keeping their existing fanbase, and attracting more users (which eventually led to the release of the members service). Nowadays their active players at a given time often exceeds 150,000, and there are over 110 game servers. Direct interaction or 'closeness' is virtually impossible. User opinions are best gauged by large-scale reactions to updates, or polls, which Jagex are probably now far better setup to analyse. I'd also say Player Moderators are one way of closeness to the community, rarely before had Jagex ever got players into a role like that, except (as rumoured) a select few. This feature somewhat bridges the gap, but having the same situation of 'closeness' isn't going to happen, because it can't, however much you or Jagex want it to. A few pence? There are well over 200,000 Members accounts, that's far beyond a few pence. Of course Jagex is bothered about money, they're running as a business, with a lot of employees and expenses. To do otherwise would be a pretty bad move.

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Arguous

Jan 17 2006, 06:49 PM | Post #20

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QUOTE(Baakalor @ Jan 17 2006, 09:01 AM) [snapback]40440[/snapback]

That's the thing that gets me right there. I know there have to be honest players that chose a name like that just because they thought it was cool or unusual. For them to get banned is just flat out wrong and JAGeX really needs to rethink that policy.

How can you ban someone for a name AFTER you've already let them choose it? My RS name has a '1' in it. Or is it an 'l'? Since it's not always clear between a 1 and an l should they ban me as well?

JAGeX made a mistake. They need to admit it and fix it.

Yep, I'm starting to think baking stuff in rl is more fun than playing runescape. Time to log out and get a life. Forget about the game cause Jagex is getting cold and too big for their britches. Lemme save that 5 bucks for some sugar, flour, eggs...

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Loge_05

Jan 17 2006, 08:26 PM | Post #21

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With an age restriction hopefully they'll prevent the idiots who spoil the game for us. The older is usually the better, means more mature gaming and forum discussion.

As for RSC, it was gone already. But perhaps Jagex could just have made a more clear distinction between 0 and O, instead of banning names?

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coolier

Jan 17 2006, 08:43 PM | Post #22

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jagex cant see if ur liening abbout ur age you just can say that your working on your daddy's creeditcard but if they know it that ur lie u will be banned i guess

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gnomer15

Jan 17 2006, 09:45 PM | Post #23

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QUOTE(coolier @ Jan 17 2006, 03:43 PM) [snapback]40477[/snapback]

jagex cant see if ur liening abbout ur age you just can say that your working on your daddy's creeditcard but if they know it that ur lie u will be banned i guess

The age I believe is 13, not 18. I also don't believe it is right to ban someone on basis for their name alone. If they have a problem with letters being undistiguishable between others, that is their problem. It has ALWAYS been a problem, you think that they would have gotten on the ball already and changed things. Though I understand that changing part of the code to change the font may be quite difficult, but thats why they have employee's right? They need to be thinking in the best interest of their CUSTOMERS, not only themselves.

Fire: I totally agree with you on the fact that they are a business, and they do need money. The cost of severs are quite substantial, let alone all the employee's they have to pay. I think that $5 per month, especially for someone that holds a job, is not that much at all.

This post has been edited by gnomer15: Jan 17 2006, 09:49 PM

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Axis Of Evil

Jan 17 2006, 11:04 PM | Post #24

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I think Jagex shoud stop being lazy and ban the actual "oooOOO000" players who are doing things wrong then to just ban them all. It's just not fair on the honest players.

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Swej

Jan 17 2006, 11:23 PM | Post #25

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Maybe jagex had a lawsuit because of the age thing?

dont ban the players, offer them a chance to change their names or be banned. I hate it when an autoer has a name like 0oO53EO0o its hard to report

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Reville

Jan 18 2006, 01:24 AM | Post #26

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Personally, I think they should ban people who are under the age of 13, & ban accounts with names like 'imhot' or 'imsocexy.' (pffh..conceited )

I mean, my RuneScape name is Reville oo9.. am I going to get banned now because I have an 'o' at the beginning of my name?

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chipmonkey4

Jan 18 2006, 02:23 AM | Post #27

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this is crazy....and not cool....<.<

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Mystik Bunny (Tentiaus)

Jan 18 2006, 05:22 AM | Post #28

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I dunno i definiltly agree with the new age limit cuz i'm tired of seeing all the freaking little 10 yr olds out there, but the mass banning based on names kinda pushes. They are making a wide generalization because they are very lazy people. Plus i think they earn much more then we think off this humble game. I once journeyed to the jagex corporate site and found some intresting info it said, officially about 2.8 million people play and something like 70 percent are paying memebers. thats 2.8mil x 5 and even in Rs where the value of 1 gp is nothing thats quite alot so.... yes i assume they are extremley rich not to mention the coroportion does have other games and the game engineers that work for them don't get paided that much. Oh and btw before i forget Jagex is hiring but you have to live in cambridge. Perhaps someone can go apply and voice this to Andrew Gower i'll help pay the plane ticket .


(I was debating weather this disclaimer was nessecary or not but decided to put it anyway here it goes. This is in no way meant to insult your inteligence. *clears throat*. In no way was the last sentence in this short paragraph meant to be accepted as truth i will not give up any cash to you and I do not mean to imply in any way that you should go appy to this job if you didn't want to in the first place.)

A little off topic i know but i don't have any of you guys added in game so i can't ask there but whats the link to mayhem makers i think my newby shall apply

[Loggy Edit: You had that last part as a seperate post and it was pretty much spam so I put it in this one for you.]

This post has been edited by Loggy: Jan 20 2006, 03:19 AM

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thorny

Jan 18 2006, 09:18 AM | Post #29

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there's a lot of discussion of Mayhem Makers (a huge pure clan, best there is) about this...

as you know, many pures have trick names, names to prevent others from looking their stats up, etc.

i believe it's wrong to do such a thing, as many pures are honest and don't scam, as if they need it, most are 2 rich for their own good.

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Loggy

Jan 20 2006, 03:16 AM | Post #30

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QUOTE(Swej @ Jan 17 2006, 06:23 PM) [snapback]40495[/snapback]

Maybe jagex had a lawsuit because of the age thing?

dont ban the players, offer them a chance to change their names or be banned. I hate it when an autoer has a name like 0oO53EO0o its hard to report

Yes, they could have had a lawsuit - Catatifish showed me a law in America that says people under 13 can't join a site like Runescape.

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