Squeal of Fortune – Extra Spins

Runescapers are spoiled. RS has an insane amount of content to the point where a good probably quarter goes almost completely unused, simply because "there's better things to do." To say this update in particular stagnates things for another week just proves that; most MMOs update what, bi-weekly? Monthly? And usually then it's just a patch to fix what's wrong with the already existing content. As people have also said, many other games have microtransactions, for a lot more advantageous things than fairly useless spins.

Being "spoiled" has nothing to do with it. Frequent game updates and improvements are among the benefits Jagex lists as incentives to purchase membership, and we have every right to complain if we feel we're not getting what we pay for.

More importantly, I'd like to see the game flourish. Good updates will bring in more players, which is an improvement in and of itself. This update does the opposite.

You're getting a whole lot for the price you pay for a membership to RS, and while I'm not saying it robs you from the right to complain, people go way overboard over something that's not even a big deal. I really don't see how it's "detrimental" to the game, besides some people getting upset that other people can get more experience than them by spending money.

And yes, there is a lot of unused content. There are quests which are played through only once. There's content that doesn't draw enough people to make it worthwhile. And there's content that just isn't that much fun to begin with. Sometimes these things are hit and miss, but at the very least we could say there was a legitimate effort to improve Runescape. You can't say that with this. The sole purpose of this update, no matter what anyone tells you, was to line the pockets of Jagex's investors. They don't care what effect it has on the game, as long as it makes them richer.

I don't see what "effect" this has on the game other than, like I said before, people with some spare cash that want to spend it on a game getting more exp than those that do not. Unless you take your experience more seriously than you should (Runescape is still a GAME), then I don't see the issue. And Jagex is a business...they're supposed to make money.

Finally, what other companies do with their MMOs is irrelevant. Runescape got to where it is today on a different business model, and Jagex absolutely did not have to resort to tactics such as the ones employed in other games. They are going against the principles that made them successful in the first place, and their users are becoming less and less interested in their product.

They didn't "need" to, but if they can make themselves a little more money while not really changing anything, personally, I don't have a problem with that. Apparently enough users are still interested for them to keep spending time developing new content as well.