An RPG for the ages

[hlaalumember]

Okay everybody i have a new RPG for you guys. It is called Runescape. Im willing to bet that 90% of you know of it already. I would like a seperate forum for it. who here agrees? For those of you who dont know Runescape is an online MASSIVE Multiplayer game to be found at www.runescape.com
I would like to personally thank the members of JAGEX for starting this wonderful game. It is a true Rpg that has strategy its own built in chatroom (THE WHOLE GAMES ONE) and it is truly immersive and addictive. I must have spent two whole months of my life without break or sleep or eating on that game! I would like to advertise it. If you agree on the new thread please say so. and if youve heard of it and played it tell me if you like it as much as i do.
Staff please let me know if you agree

[dragon wench]

*shudder* My son plays that game...

Some of it seems quite cool and varied, but there are problems with it.
For a while players could teleport people to the wilderness just so that they could kill them and loot their bodies..
Also.. that game is *very* vulnerable to account hacking.

Anyway... I suspect this will likely get moved to GB Discussion or one of the RPG forums.

[Darth Zenemij]

Probably not, I think that it is a fairly small game...

[dragon wench]

Originally Posted by Darth Zenemij

Probably not, I think that it is a fairly small game...

No... it's *huge* And apparently you can go into any visible area.

The only way it could be described as "small" would be the graphics which are roughly similar to BG2 or IWD.

[oozae]

Originally Posted by Darth Zenemij

Probably not, I think that it is a fairly small game...

It's very big, even Oozae from his backwater province has heard of it.

[fable]

Too many MMORPGs to cover as it is. We need a few that are very popular, and I don't think this is one of 'em.

[Aegis]

Considering there has been a lack of Xandax, I'll fill in:

MMO's are a funny breed for forums, in that it is hard to attract traffic for a specific one, outside of the primary forum for it. This is often because the MMO community sticks together in a single location. The reasons for this can vary, but it definitly causes other forums for said MMO to suffer in traffic, in many cases that traffic being non-existant.

I would rather see a thread where people discuss here, than a fully fledged forum. We have forums that are highly underused as it is, adding another to that list would only reflect poorly, I feel.

[Maharlika]

... from SYM to the GB Discussion Forums.

[Faust]

I'm not big on most MMORPGs having their own seperate forums, as is. There are so many these days and so many other places to discuss those games (i.e. most MMORPGs have very active server specific boards, and developer run boards). It just doesn't seem worthwhile. Moreover, it doesn't seem to speak to Gamebanshee's peak audience, which is largely made up of single player role playing game fans. Also, from looking at the existing MMORPG forums here, most don't seem to get much traffic. If there were going to be more MMORPG specific forums, I'd rather see them made for more prominent MMRPGS like Everquest and Everquest 2, CoH, etc. Again, I don't that is particularly necessary either.

[Xandax]

Originally Posted by Aegis

Considering there has been a lack of Xandax, I'll fill in:
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hehe can't a guy get some sleep every once in a while

Well - I see Aegis already have stated some of my views.

MMOG are different from "ordinary games" in the way communities are build, because people play on a few larger official servers, instead of being spread out over multiple smaller ones with "normal" multiplayer games (and naturally single player games).
Thus, when it comes to MMOG the communities consist of fewer and larger segments, this is because people that play together are likely to post together. MMOGs are much about socializing.
Thus it is very unlikely that a forum will attract MMOG activity unless it is the "community" as a whole which moves there.
This is because there is likely already official/semi-official forums for the game, combined with the fact that guilds usually have their own private forums as well. You post with the people you play with in MMOGs basically.
These forums, both official and semi-official, often also have game-representatives on them posting, gathering information - yet again this is something GB can't do yet. It requiers a significant portion of the userbased for this to happen

There are many more aspects as well, which a site as GB could cover: Strategies, questhelp, "speccing" and so on
But this requiers attracting people to post, which leads back to the first point.

I think the current MMOG forums are a good indicator of what kind of traffic that you can expect in new MMOG forums.
The only way I see "we" could "compeete" with others are if somehow a segment of a community (a server for instance, where multiple servers existed) moved here "as one".

I'm generally opposed to creating new MMOG forums, because I think they for the most part will be rather underutilized.

[The Chosen One]

Runescape is boring ''run-around'' game, very alike Darkstone. It should not be even classified as an RPG or alike.
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[arno_v]

I have played it for a while, but it's quite boring. There aren't really intresting quests and the only way of becoming a better player is spending much time in this game, it's not really skill based, it's just how much you played it. I think *real* RPG's are more fun, since they have more depth and the graphics are also much better.

[Xandax]

Lets not turn this into a discussion about RuneScape as a RPG or non-RPG or similar, or whether some find it boring or not.

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[arno_v]

OK, then I'll just add that I think that it's totally unnessesary to make a new forum. Like Xandax already said most people who enjoy those games stick to the bigger official/semi official boards.

[The Chosen One]

I agree with arno_v.
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