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There's going to be an official poll going up soon, and the players can decide what Jagex will do with Prestige.
I was all for prestige until I did a bit more research and realized that it's not that great of an idea as it is right now.
Prestige is essentially a huge slap in the face not only for the dedicated players who have 200m exp but also for any player who has more than the 13m exp needed to get 99. Prestige will put all those players, despite however many hours you put into training a skill, all on the same level again. All those hours you spent getting more exp have now gone to waste because when you reset and gain a prestige level, you'll be at the same prestige at 200m as someone with 13m. Just think if you could prestige at level 50, and you spent so much extra time getting 99, but now suddenly you were on the same playing field as people with level 50 because that extra exp you got doesn't count for anything more. That's what it's like right now.
Now Jagex could change this to make extra exp count towards more prestige so that people with 200m could start with higher prestige than those with 13m, but this was never mentioned in the devblog.
Additionally, Jagex stated that while the old hiscores would still be present, the default hiscores would be the prestige system. So no, you can't completely turn off prestige when your default ranking is based on prestige, despite the fact that you can turn it off in game.
There are changes that could be made to make prestige better, but at the moment I think it's a big endeavor that hasn't been thought out very well. If it's implemented right now, Jagex will definitely see their player base go down, and I for one would not like the player base to dwindle more than it already is.
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I was all for prestige until I did a bit more research and realized that it's not that great of an idea as it is right now.
Prestige is essentially a huge slap in the face not only for the dedicated players who have 200m exp but also for any player who has more than the 13m exp needed to get 99. Prestige will put all those players, despite however many hours you put into training a skill, all on the same level again. All those hours you spent getting more exp have now gone to waste because when you reset and gain a prestige level, you'll be at the same prestige at 200m as someone with 13m. Just think if you could prestige at level 50, and you spent so much extra time getting 99, but now suddenly you were on the same playing field as people with level 50 because that extra exp you got doesn't count for anything more. That's what it's like right now.
Now Jagex could change this to make extra exp count towards more prestige so that people with 200m could start with higher prestige than those with 13m, but this was never mentioned in the devblog.
Additionally, Jagex stated that while the old hiscores would still be present, the default hiscores would be the prestige system. So no, you can't completely turn off prestige when your default ranking is based on prestige, despite the fact that you can turn it off in game.
There are changes that could be made to make prestige better, but at the moment I think it's a big endeavor that hasn't been thought out very well. If it's implemented right now, Jagex will definitely see their player base go down, and I for one would not like the player base to dwindle more than it already is.