Alex 43 wrote:
Or rather build up a bit of a relationship with the community staff at Jagex. Invite them for a Skype interview on rsbandbUpdate on a topic not yet discussed on RuneHQ or whatever else there is. They've been extra-keen on interacting with the community, and RSBANDB is, in their eyes, a "silver" fan-site.
Let's bring it up to gold, eh?
We would have to drop all ties to any game other than Runescape to become Gold.
TBH, the whole 'Jagex supported Fansites' thing has seemed like a publicity stunt for Jagex ever since creation. "Platinum are known as go-to resources" yet RS Wikia, the largest source of RS info, is only a Silver. RHQ and Tip.it are the only anchor sites that are platinum.
But switching from that...
I'd have to agree with the general consensus that the reason BnB is/has shrunk is because Jagex has screwed over RS and caused players to quit playing. Subsequently they no longer have a reason to be active on BnB unless they are interested in something else here(i.e. PC Gaming).
Also, Alex makes a good point. 9 years ago most of us were kids. Now we're all adults except for the new blood. We don't have the time we used to as 10-15 year olds and we don't like the same things. Many of the things in RS just aren't neat/cool/challenging/etc anymore. Most of us play other games as much if not more than RS.
Regarding Reddit: I don't know. I've never been on it and don't plan to. I'd rather a couple dozen people I know than hundreds I don't. BnB + RW is good for me.
What do you like about RSBandB? Community, close-comradery(usually), everything in general.
What don't you like? When we fight about petty things....
What are we missing (that other sites don't have or that we could do better than other sites)? I'm just being honest on this one, most other RS Fansites do not have any or hardly any support for RS OldSchool. That's just a fact. We had(and I know you still have backups of them) some really good tools for that era. We could certainly do that better than other sites. I know Shane doesn't like OSRS, but you asked what other sites don't have: OSRS support. And what you could do better: OSRS tools(we used to have some good tools and had some in development that we unfortunately never got released). So there is #3, honestly.
Where would you like us to go in the next year? I think we either need to be content where we are, add support for OSRS, or branch out into other games. We're never going to be high on Jagex's popularity list so we should just do what works for us. Maybe more broad PC Gaming support? Honestly I think supporting(even if its only a little support) of more games would be better. Maybe make a thread asking people to post what games they play. Might find we have a few dozen for a game we never knew.
In all honesty, I think sticking to only RS will pull us to the grave. I know people will disagree with that but that is my honest opinion based on things I have seen over the course of my 9 year RS Career.
Random: I just noticed I've been writing for the Informer for 6 years as of today!