[*Sam*]

I'm a patient person so I just sit back and relax. I generally adapt over time to the changes and after awhile I often change my mind and like the changes.

[Maxman]

*Sam*, on 02 November 2009 - 07:06 AM, said:

I'm a patient person so I just sit back and relax. I generally adapt over time to the changes and after awhile I often change my mind and like the changes.

Good way to be optimistic to Jagex's updates, or change. Every update doesn't necessarily mean the world's changed, so it shouldn't be such a dramatic discussion. Yes, other updates like the Wilderness and Duel Arena is a difference, but updates (modern-wise) shouldn't be so dramatic and we should... just adapt to change.

Honestly, the only big concern right now for RuneScape are the PvP Worlds. 76king is a loose system for the economy and most players. It's so easy to get money now, it's crazy, hence all items rocketing up in price. That should be the only concern on RuneScape right now. Even though change happens, we need to adapt and post our opinions to help RuneScape the best MMO out there.

This post has been edited by Maxman: 02 November 2009 - 10:26 AM

[Christmas]

Maxman, on 02 November 2009 - 11:24 AM, said:

Even though change happens, we need to adapt and post our opinions to help RuneScape the best MMO out there.

Agreed, change is inevitable. This doesn't mean we don't affect it. Society(and more specifically the Runescape community) is the change. Sorry for the cliche, but without us the change doesn't happen, or it is controlled by a select few. If one wants the change to come in the way they like it, then action is necessary. Discuss, petition, work for how you want change to go.
~The

[bolshevik]

Maxman, on 02 November 2009 - 11:24 AM, said:

*Sam*, on 02 November 2009 - 07:06 AM, said:

I'm a patient person so I just sit back and relax. I generally adapt over time to the changes and after awhile I often change my mind and like the changes.

Good way to be optimistic to Jagex's updates, or change. Every update doesn't necessarily mean the world's changed, so it shouldn't be such a dramatic discussion. Yes, other updates like the Wilderness and Duel Arena is a difference, but updates (modern-wise) shouldn't be so dramatic and we should... just adapt to change.

Honestly, the only big concern right now for RuneScape are the PvP Worlds. 76king is a loose system for the economy and most players. It's so easy to get money now, it's crazy, hence all items rocketing up in price. That should be the only concern on RuneScape right now. Even though change happens, we need to adapt and post our opinions to help RuneScape the best MMO out there.

It always helps to have a positive mindset in life, making it so you can change and get use to the additions in certain aspects of life. However, not everyone can do the same, moving on as easily as you have suggested. When one aspect of someone's life [not talking about Runescape specifically] is changed, maybe a large part of it, even a positive attitude can't always make it better. I know personally that losing something, and then trying to use something in its place as a substitute, doesn't always make it better. Change isn't an easy thing to deal with, even with a positive attitude like you have suggested; it can be dealt with over an elongated period of time.

[Shauly-]

Depending on the change, I mostly adjust to it. Unless its something dramatic then in which case you might have to jump around it, change the change in it, or make due.

[Murdoc]

Bolshevik, on 25 October 2009 - 01:36 AM, said:

Arno, on 24 October 2009 - 04:59 PM, said:

Bolshevik, on 24 October 2009 - 10:23 PM, said:

Change is never completely easy for everyone, some may state that it is, but when a large part of your life goes different suddenly, you don't say "It's all good," it takes a while to cope with it.

While that is true, anyone who considers Runescape as a large part of their life has other issues than the inability to deal with change.

Some people might, but that was not what I was trying to infer with that statement as a whole. However, addiction can and probably makes Runescape a large part of someone's life, making it so when they have to get rid of it/leave, it's a big change to them.

Whilst Bolshevik is nonetheless true . . . you don't have to see the term 'life' in his initial post as reference to our physical time-bomb of a body literally, but also as a way of representing what we hold dear within the game of RuneScape itself. Hence why the big upheavals in the staking and wider PK'ing worlds was met with such hostility. Not necessarily because the protesting players saw one or both as an intricate part of their existence, but instead as favourite aspects of their casual gaming pursuits in Gielinor itself.

As for myself, it depends on what type of change we're talking about. Though I may show displeasure at little things such as the make-over of individual items or whole groups of them, I soldier on because I come to terms with the fact that the advancements are purely aesthetic - or something shallow like that. But when there are big overhauls to the scale of the elimination of free trade and other such features that I'd rather stay the same, I don't go down as easily. It usually takes a hell of a lot of persuasion to get me going again. Though people may start banging on about how I'm being purposely obtuse, kicking up a row for the sake of it, unable to see that the general future of x and y is more important as a result, I don't really care. I'm selfish, and if something I like gets killed off, I'm going to sulk and that's that. Call me pathetic, but that's just how I roll.

This post has been edited by Lord Murdoc: 08 November 2009 - 03:47 PM

[Toffkat]

Lord Murdoc, on 08 November 2009 - 09:46 PM, said:

Bolshevik, on 25 October 2009 - 01:36 AM, said:

Arno, on 24 October 2009 - 04:59 PM, said:

Bolshevik, on 24 October 2009 - 10:23 PM, said:

Change is never completely easy for everyone, some may state that it is, but when a large part of your life goes different suddenly, you don't say "It's all good," it takes a while to cope with it.

While that is true, anyone who considers Runescape as a large part of their life has other issues than the inability to deal with change.

Some people might, but that was not what I was trying to infer with that statement as a whole. However, addiction can and probably makes Runescape a large part of someone's life, making it so when they have to get rid of it/leave, it's a big change to them.

Whilst Bolshevik is nonetheless true . . . you don't have to see the term 'life' in his initial post as reference to our physical time-bomb of a body literally, but also as a way of representing what we hold dear within the game of RuneScape itself. Hence why the big upheavals in the staking and wider PK'ing worlds was met with such hostility. Not necessarily because the protesting players saw one or both as an intricate part of their existence, but instead as favourite aspects of their casual gaming pursuits in Gielinor itself.

As for myself, it depends on what type of change we're talking about. Though I may show displeasure at little things such as the make-over of individual items or whole groups of them, I soldier on because I come to terms with the fact that the advancements are purely aesthetic - or something shallow like that. But when there are big overhauls to the scale of the elimination of free trade and other such features that I'd rather stay the same, I don't go down as easily. It usually takes a hell of a lot of persuasion to get me going again. Though people may start banging on about how I'm being purposely obtuse, kicking up a row for the sake of it, unable to see that the general future of x and y is more important as a result, I don't really care. I'm selfish, and if something I like gets killed off, I'm going to sulk and that's that. Call me pathetic, but that's just how I roll.

Eh, I don't talk here much, if ever, but this is something I want to say...

I agree with everything in the above quote; I believe change is necessary, yes - without it nothing could improve - but that doesn't mean I have to like it. Change is something, much of the time, I dislike, if not outright hate, though I more often than not get used to it in the end. I'm one of those people who dread growing up and things I loved a few years ago, I would prefer it if they held onto the charm they held for me when I was younger so I can go back and remember easier times.

Uhm, I don't think I'm explaining myself very clearly. I began playing RuneScape nearly 5 years ago now, on the recommendation of a few friends when I was 9. I loved it and was addicted to it for a few months before playing a few times a week for two years. Then I drifted away from it and went back about less than a year later, and drifted in and out of it for about 6 months, during which time I got a membership. They'd revamped some places, etc. etc. but it wasn't too different from what I knew. Okay. Then I drifted away again and went back again some time later, when they'd implemented the Grand Exchange. I disliked it, and missed the way people actually spoke in banks and you had to talk etc., but I got used to it, I could live with it.

But recently I've been wanting to get back into RuneScape again, and I feel it's a completely different game to what it used to be. Everything seems less quirky and bright, all the random events you had to be paying attention to the game to spot are gone, as is the wilderness... I don't know, it just seems to be a further and further cry from the game I loved 5 years ago. Ehh, maybe I'm rambling and this doesn't make much sense to anyone but I just had to say that change is something everyone has to adapt to and deal with, but not something everyone can stand or likes.

Call me what you will, a disenchanted teen or whatever, but I want my childhood preserved, everything seems to go by too fast these days.

ASDFGHJKL I'm depressing myself XD.

[Sirkyles]

Change is all just perspective. When they remove one thing, they add another. If you tell yourself that you will enjoy the new aspect, and that it is an improvement on the old then everyone would be happy. That is what I do myself. Yes the wild was fun, but it was also fun the explore the new wild and fight revenants. It all depends on your point of view. If you tell yourself that there will be something you like about the change, then go and find it, by doing this you will enjoy the change.

[Kinky Pie]

I'm generally prett adaptable, little changes on sites and games usually don't upset me too much. Nothing will ever stay the same, so I try not to expect it to.

Change just... happens. It's always a matter of opinion which no one hardly agrees on, especially on games and websites. Administrators, and game designers try and improve their games, but sometimes their ideas contradict the player's idea of improvement.

Sometimes I just to look at the adaption as a new adventure, something new to figure out instead of doing the same old, it does get frustrating if a feature was removed that you enjoyed but... that's just... the way it is?

[bolshevik]

Change tends to be one of the more harder aspects of life that people have trouble getting use to. When you take one element of a person's life, and turn it completely around very quickly, that person will wonder what actually happened, and they'd probably rather hold on to the familiarity of their past feeling. It's something that is crucial to life in the sense that without it, life would simply stagnate and civilization would cease to exist after a while. Albeit this sounds like a dreary representation of what despising change and not wanting to conform to it, but that's what ultimately happens if a large amount of the population feels the same. Change is key to pushing forward a society, and even though it comes off as something hard to get use to, it tends to take time [more than anything else], to actually cope with the difference, and move along with it in the back of your mind.

[Setanta]

I do not react to the idea of change very well at first. But when it actually happens I tend to deal with it better than some people. I adapt and move on. Dwelling on something that is gone wont get you far and neither will constantly staying with the same things. It is like taking off a bandage, there are two ways to do it; slowly and painfully peeling it off or doing it quickly, feeling only a moment of pain. Which would you prefer?

This post has been edited by Setanta: 10 November 2009 - 03:27 PM

[[Rob]]

Change is everywhere. I personally don't like it but without tolerating change where would be? Probably sitting in some caves trying to make a fire.

[iLauren]

Change is different for everyone, especially in what it's regarded to. Anymore, there are few things I enjoy doing on RuneScape. Recently, JaGex fixed (haven't checked yet, they just claimed so) an issue regarding a mini-game I couldn't bring myself to bring because of the horrible updates. Such changes would never cause me to get mad or rant about it, but it would bother me just enough to the point where I might be irritated.

Again, adapting to things quite easily is the key to surviving most things. Animals have to do it, so why shouldn't we adapt to such a thing like RuneScape?

[Amherstclane]

Hi everyone,
There are none of the major changes have it is really affected me. I never went into the wildly, never used duel arena. Usually I like change, it feels nice to know I am not in a static community. I find that I mostly like the changes brought into the game, but that I also sometimes wish rs was back to how it was in '05-'06 for some reason.

Thanks for sharing this post

[Seon]

I personally like updates to Runescape, it adds more variety (usually). IRL, I usually like discovering new things, but sometimes I like the original a whole lot better. I'm not afraid of change (IRL or not).

[Rjgreyman]

Adaptation is the key to success.

While I do believe voicing my opinion is important for updates I feel damage the game, I get along regardless of what happens next.

That's the best benefit of a rounded player and a lack of interest in merchanting - pretty much nothing fazes you.