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The forgotten art of convenience Anonymous 09/13/2024 (Fri) 20:52:23 Id: 3f5a6e No. 1013849 >>1055521 >>1077267 >>1077893 >>1078555

So I got a sudden urge to play Runescape (2007scape, it should go without saying) again after however many years. Didn't have anything spectacular in mind, mostly just wanted to fuck about in Lumbridge, murder a few chickens, chop a few trees, basically just live out the experience of being a noob again for shits and giggles. Now, back in the day, all you needed in order to start playing was to go to the website, open the game, click "new account", come up with a username and a password, and you were good to go. Upon trying to set up an account, this was my experience: >Game is no longer browser based, you have to download a client to even run it >Click to make new account >Game opens up my web browser >Have to enter account info there, can no longer do so in the game window >Click to make new account >Get redirected like, 4 times >Have to fill out captcha not once, but twice >Have to give an e-mail address, game no longer accepts usernames >Don't feel like giving my actual e-mail address >Make throwaway Gmail account >Enter it in >Webpage decides I've put in "too many requests" and blocks me from finishing the process >Attempt to finish signing up on my phone browser >Blocked on there as well >After an hour or so, decide to try again >Get redirected multiple times, again >Have to fill out multiple captchas, again >Finally am able to finish creating the account >Open up client >Enter in the email I just signed up with >"New accounts must use the Jagex Launcher" >Have to download an entire launcher, alongside the client, in order for the game to allow me to connect >Decide it's no longer worth it and give up the attempt When and why did simple convenience become such a no-no in the gaming world? Why is all this bullshit involved with something as simple as setting up an account, that benefits absolutely no-one and serves no purpose but to hinder and infuriate people who just want to play the fucking game? It's not just Runescape, either. Almost every game you come across now requires some sort of sign up that requires forking over email addresses, signing up for special accounts, whatever. Then, years later, these companies have a security breach, and whoops, all your accounts and e-mail addresses or whatever are out there in the hands of whomever, because these companies apparently absolutely NEEDED to have them, for some reason, just to let you play a 30 year old game for a few hours. And before anyone starts saying "It's to deter bots", no, no it absolutely is not. Anyone who has ever played free to play Runescape for more than 5 seconds will tell you that free to play is absolutely filled to the brim with bots, to the point where the game becomes borderline unplayable for legitimate players on more populated worlds. Anyone who has played for any length of time can tell you that Jagex absolutely, positively, does not give a FUCK about getting rid of bots or doing anything to solve or address the bot problem. Anyone trying to tell you that all these extra steps are some attempt on their part to try and deter these people (who probably have automated programs that do the entire signup process for them anyway) is completely delusional. So, I guess the TL;DR version of my post is: What is the point of all these extra steps in the signup process for pretty much everything? Why is a simple username and password not sufficient anymore?

>>1055521 >>1077267 >>1077893 >>1078555

Anonymous 12/30/2024 (Mon) 00:55:18 Id: 3c05b1 No. 1055461 >>1055480

>>1055323 It's like every fucking sperg has an alliance to see who's the most thinskinned faggot, they're aware yet they don't want to be left out.

>>1055480

Anonymous 12/30/2024 (Mon) 02:54:26 Id: 4a26ac No. 1055480 >>1055530

>>1055461 Jenna Sterling in xer 2000 pound glory supplexing a 90 lbs petite amateur women is pure entertainment, moreso than back in xer game review era.

>>1055530

Anonymous 12/30/2024 (Mon) 05:50:19 Id: aa3f9d No. 1055521

>>1013849 (OP) >download game >have to agree to EULA >have to close multiple seasonal event popups that haven't been actually active in years >have to find and install mods to make it not run like shit >have to find and install QoL mods cause the game maker was into CBT All while having to wait through company logo intros every time on startup

Anonymous 12/30/2024 (Mon) 07:11:44 Id: 3c05b1 No. 1055530 >>1055715

>>1055480 He looks like a tranny Uncle Fester.

>>1055715

Anonymous 12/30/2024 (Mon) 14:03:08 Id: b09c02 No. 1055582

>>1055323 no. just pirated counter-strike: source and zombie mod is alive and well.

Anonymous 12/30/2024 (Mon) 20:27:12 Id: 3e30a6 No. 1055715

>>1055530 >He looks like a tranny Uncle Fester. Uncle Molester.

Anonymous 03/05/2025 (Wed) 03:19:46 Id: 4cc51b No. 1077247

>tfw you try 2004scape thinking it's convenient and it forces you to login with discord It was nice to relive my childhood, but wow this game was even more grindy back then, no surprise my child self never had the patience to get high stats. No one-click smithing/cooking, gotta click each item one at a time. No good ways to train prayer. Jagex is probably going to shut this down eventually, I'm not very optimistic on the game staying alive for long even with character exports and being open source.

Anonymous 03/05/2025 (Wed) 03:50:35 Id: fec75f No. 1077262

>>1055312 Was excited to see a dark mode as themes were mentioned in features, but it doesn't actually have dark mode since there are multiple elements that STAY light mode. I hate when applications have theming, but multiple things remain white as they aren't affected. Tixati does the same shit.

Anonymous 03/05/2025 (Wed) 04:30:58 Id: aa42db No. 1077267 >>1077271

>>1013849 (OP) >The forgotten art of convenience I literally just pirate every game I own. I haven't bought a game since 2014, and that was only to have the extra content for MGSV: Ground Zeroes in my free copy of MGSV. When you pirate, you just install and then instantly play the game. Then you uninstall it if you need to and reinstall it again later without worrying if your account 1. still exists 2. counts the extra installation as a "separate license" and demands you pay for it again. It's only forgotten if you let it be.

>>1077271

Anonymous 03/05/2025 (Wed) 04:54:07 Id: e9cd57 No. 1077271 >>1077272

>>1077267 But that's harder with online games. The real solution is to only pirate and ignore online games entirely.

>>1077272

Anonymous 03/05/2025 (Wed) 05:03:18 Id: aa42db No. 1077272 >>1077273

>>1077271 … Right. The only game I still play online is Space Station 13. I played L4D and Portal 2 online, though. Wow, that's actually it, I guess. Can't think of anything else. I'm no newfag; I've been playing games since the '90s. Just never online until relatively recently. Internet's not the best here.

>>1077273

Anonymous 03/05/2025 (Wed) 05:04:21 Id: e9cd57 No. 1077273 >>1077289 >>1077297

>>1077272 Online vidya was always a stupid idea. If I wanted to interact with real people, I wouldn't be playing vidya in the first place.

>>1077289 >>1077297

Anonymous 03/05/2025 (Wed) 06:28:23 Id: 1679b9 No. 1077289

>>1077273 You're autistic anon.

Anonymous 03/05/2025 (Wed) 07:31:54 Id: d076b8 No. 1077297 >>1077900

>>1077273 The first games ever made were multiplayer: Tennis for Two, Spacewar!, Pong and so on.

>>1077900

Anonymous 03/05/2025 (Wed) 20:07:51 Id: 9036fc No. 1077470 >>1078010

I tried to get back to Runescape last year. I realized how freaking time consuming the whole game is and in the end is all for stuff to show off to other people who don't care. Even Clue scrolls, which was my favorite activity, felt horribly dull.

>>1078010

Anonymous 03/07/2025 (Fri) 08:16:20 Id: 304162 No. 1077893 >>1078006

>>1013849 (OP) >Don't feel like giving my actual e-mail address Anon, do not take this personally, but are you usually actually using an e-mail with your real name? And I agree, Launcher shit needs to stop. At least they do not demand a phone number... yet. Unlike certain others. I"ve completely stopped playing such games before they made it even gay

>>1078006

Anonymous 03/07/2025 (Fri) 09:39:34 Id: 7f1ffc No. 1077900 >>1077955 >>1077957 >>1077963

>>1077297 The first game ever made was masturbation and it's single player. If it wasn't a game then it wouldn't be considered "playing with yourself".

>>1077955 >>1077957 >>1077963

Anonymous 03/07/2025 (Fri) 13:57:55 Id: 304162 No. 1077955

>>1077900 Do you usually play with women or men?

Anonymous 03/07/2025 (Fri) 14:10:59 Id: d076b8 No. 1077957

>>1077900 Actually, the first games were parents playing with their children or children playing with their siblings, but back then "playing" was just them training for survival. You see these behavior in all sorts of animals, from dogs to lions, and of course, monkeys and proto-humans. <but how do you know this was before masturbation? Because to masturbate you would first have to grow up, to develop such urges, and by then, you had already played with your parents/siblings.

Anonymous 03/07/2025 (Fri) 14:42:24 Id: 9036fc No. 1077963

>>1077900 You didn't had to bring up you are a chronic masturbator.

Anonymous 03/07/2025 (Fri) 18:17:10 Id: 3f5a6e No. 1078006

>>1077893 >Are you actually using an e-mail with your real name Oh god no, I'm not that retarded. I have a handful of gmail accounts that I use. One for work / my bank / a handful of other IRL things, one for a handful of online accounts that I use fairly regularly or for IRL things that I don't feel like giving out my regular e-mail to, and then I'll use throwaway accounts for anything else or anything that I don't feel like giving my legit e-mail for. My IRL / "professional" e-mail does have my name attached to it, but I only ever use it in a handful of places where everybody already knows my name anyway, and I never use it for online stuff like games, websites, or anything like that.

Anonymous 03/07/2025 (Fri) 18:19:57 Id: 4cc51b No. 1078010 >>1078012 >>1078026

>>1077470 You're supposed to play this game by 'afk' or multitasking or something. Personally I haven't had this work too well, it severely hurts my productivity. The game isn't afk enough for that unless you bot.

>>1078012 >>1078026

Anonymous 03/07/2025 (Fri) 18:29:12 Id: 3f5a6e No. 1078012 >>1078026

>>1078010 Really, it depends on what you're doing. Some things are way more AFKable than others. What hurts it the most is the lack of variety, pretty much everything about the game encourages you to do the same things over and over for hours on end, and the novelty of doing something different wears off quick. Probably the most attention I've given the game at once was when I was going for the quest cape, since there's at least enough variety there to keep it from getting boring or repetitive.

>>1078026

Anonymous 03/07/2025 (Fri) 19:36:33 Id: 9036fc No. 1078026 >>1078041

>>1078010 I know this. I played the whole RS2 golden era or whatever that shit was. I even tried the new stuff in RS3/OSRS and it was heart breaking how everything was walled by some god forsaken grind. Worse is the tile/tick based boss stuff. >>1078012 I got my first Questcape when WGS. Good times. I found the grinding insane.

>>1078041

Anonymous 03/07/2025 (Fri) 20:41:03 Id: 3f5a6e No. 1078041

>>1078026 The worst part is, anything that ISN'T behind an enormous grind, is instantly rendered completely pointless by the littany of bots farming the absolute shit out of it. Like for example, sharks used to be worth ~1200gp apiece. As soon as Jagex released that minnow fishing minigame in the fishing guild that made sharks easier and faster to get than traditional fishing methods, the price of them damn near halved. I can only imagine something similar has happened with blood runes with all the changes they've made to runecrafting since I stopped playing that sounds like it has made the grind to 77 significantly easier. It makes all the work you did feel completely pointless, or that doing the thing you worked so hard for isn't even worthwhile anymore.

Anonymous 03/08/2025 (Sat) 18:15:59 Id: 4cc51b No. 1078259

Since we're on the topic of convenience >2004scape >have to craft/smith/cook your inventory 1 at a time >no rune packs, have to buy runes 10 at a time and world hop to avoid paying more from price increase

Anonymous 03/09/2025 (Sun) 12:22:40 Id: f785f1 No. 1078374 >>1078383

>>1055323 Sorry to wax philosophical here, and to potentially sound blackpilled, but is there even a way to return 'to the old days' without a time machine? Can we really ever recreate the conditions that made the pre-2007 internet possible again? Look at the way malls and arcades used to look. Look at the stores and how clean they were. Is it possible? Has trust been eroded beyond any hope of repair? Let's get hypothetical and say we could remove all black people from society, would that fix things? Or are the problems much more deeply embedded that things need to become a blank slate again?

>>1078383

Anonymous 03/09/2025 (Sun) 13:50:30 Id: ddf5d4 No. 1078383 >>1078454

>>1078374 Nigga what the fuck does this have to do with video games. Isolated placed online still exist online. Also consider you yourself have changed at would shit up the setting. Purify yourself before you taint those spaces with your dicourse poisoned behavior. >Let's get hypothetical and say we could remove all black people from society, would that fix things? Black people existed before 2007, anon.

>>1078454

Anonymous 03/10/2025 (Mon) 00:47:13 Id: f785f1 No. 1078454 >>1078458

>>1078383 >Nigga what the fuck does this have to do with video games. The post I was replying to was discussing how the population of people on the internet changed dramatically, as you know, after 2007. It was tolerable for a few years afterwards but clearly has only gotten worse and trust has been eroded until you're left with the bloated carcass infested with vermin now. >Isolated placed online still exist online Like this website, yes. I understand that, but the problem is that it's isolated. By design, I understand, but back in the glory days, you didn't need to employ methods of isolation, you left the door open like you would in a 100% white neighborhood without worrying about a nigger robbing your place or stealing your car. >Black people existed before 2007, anon. Unfortunately, yes. But they've multiplied since then. How come so much footage from before 2007 showed little sign of niggers?

>>1078458

Anonymous 03/10/2025 (Mon) 00:59:57 Id: f3856d No. 1078458 >>1078459

>>1078454 >how come so much footage from before 2007 showed little sign of niggers Because cameras were expensive and smartphones weren't popular yet.

>>1078459

Anonymous 03/10/2025 (Mon) 01:02:29 Id: f785f1 No. 1078459 >>1078491

>>1078458 Don't be coy. You know as well as I that niggers weren't as ubiquitous to society as they are now. Not just from amateur video, but from movies, TV, news broadcasts, et cetera.

>>1078491

Anonymous 03/10/2025 (Mon) 01:25:23 Id: e8f66d No. 1078465 >>1078522

>>1078376 >Literally killing all nonwhites would do that. You know damned well why malls collapsed. Meanwhile in China...

>>1078522

Anonymous 03/10/2025 (Mon) 03:46:37 Id: 3123b9 No. 1078491 >>1078569

>>1078459 Their population has remained relatively steady afaik. Its hispanics that have grown far more rapidly in the US population. >Not just from amateur video, but from movies, TV, news broadcasts, et cetera. If you're talking about controlled media, the answer is obvious.

>>1078569

Anonymous 03/10/2025 (Mon) 08:41:17 Id: 13915c No. 1078522

>>1078465 I once went to China (Hubei, mostly Shijiazhuang) with a friend on a visit to their family, and man, the Chinese love the color red.

Anonymous 03/10/2025 (Mon) 14:55:37 Id: eab10a No. 1078555

>>1013849 (OP) That's so they can sell your information to advertisers so they can target you

Anonymous 03/10/2025 (Mon) 15:28:27 Id: 04acda No. 1078569

>>1078491 The blacks MAY have remained steady population-wise, but they definitely shifted in location. No longer holed up in the boonies and never daring to venture far from their projects or shitty neighborhoods, now they infest the cities and some erstwile majority-white cities.

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