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Since there seems to be a lot of Jagex-flaming, I decided to add in my bit. This concerns something that most of you people wouldn't give a second thought to, simply saying, "Who cares?" But me, and other authors from the Runescape Story Forum, DO care, and have a fight to pick with Jagex because of a stupid thing they did.
It was quite a while ago, a couple months. I had been writing in the story forum for quite some time, and had joined a few player-made guilds. These guilds were basically acadamies or schools, made to help developing authors to improve their skills. Some, at the same time, where also status symbols; some very respected and renowned authors were high in the ranks. There were different ranks with different requirements, such as, to be plantinum you needed, say 20 story posts, and good quality writing. These guilds greatly helped many budding authors in the Story Forum. Yet, for some unfathomable reason, Jagex saw them as a threat.
They rampaged through the Story Forum, locking/deleting any guild they spotted. On top of that, for NO REASON WHATSOEVER, they deleted other threads in which authors offered others the chance to have their stories rated. Jagex gave no reason for this act, whatsoever. In place of these guilds, Jagex placed a sticky at the top of the page. A SINGLE sticky. One thread, made as an attempt to make up for the many guilds they locked or deleted. And what was the sticky to be used for? Discussing stories. Discussing. Guilds gave help, and assignments to aid authors and improve their skill. Someone please, PLEASE tell me how discussing stories can help improve someone's writing. Please. What Jagex did was, in my view, rash and unneeded. They said the guilds were generating spam. SPAM. Oh please. Oh FRICKIN please.
Well, that is my rant against Jagex. I just had to get that out.
Discuss. =)
But don't flame. =(
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