Contact Editorial To contact our editors, email tips AT or post to Kotaku Australia, Level 4, 71 Macquarie St, Sydney NSW 2000.Essentially, we take the mess of info coming out… Got a game you think we should be looking at? Contact or send it to: Kotaku AustraliaLevel 4, 71 Macquarie StSydney NSW 2000 So, uh, what exactly is this ‘blog’ thing? We’d love to say it’s some magical technology developed in secret by Thomas Edison parallel to his work with electricity, but it wasn’t. If you’d like to contact Kotaku with suggestions, comments, or product announcements, you can email us at Kotaku Australia is published by Allure Media in association with Gawker Media. Sure, you could mosey over to the US site, but you’d miss out on all the juicy gaming goodness that’s relevant – and important – to you. The Australian edition of Kotaku is focused on taking all this fantastic news and crafting it into a tasty treat for all you Aussies and Kiwis. Whether it’s the latest info on a new game, or hot gossip on the industry’s movers, shakers and smashers, you’ll find it all here and nicely packaged at Kotaku. They’d be one in the same in every lexicon on the planet if it were humanly possible. “RuneScape has a long future ahead of it, and we intend to make that an ever-better experience where players have more influence on how the game evolves.”Īnd so, “we will not be releasing another Hero Pass after Underworld ends on December 3rd,” “we have done this to recognize questions it raised that do not reflect our direction for the game,” and “if we pursue a new reward-system, it will be built with players and not involve Content Buffs with Membership/paid disparity.” Power to the people. “Every single player of RuneScape-whether currently active or taking a break-matters,” it decided in its October blog. The feedback stacked until Jagex got the message. “The constant in-game pop ups are intrusive, most of the cosmetics are lackluster at best, who is this battle pass even for?” “I’m a whale and I hate battle pass,” said one Reddit post on the Runescape board with over 1,000 upvotes.

It didn’t help that this one was so lackluster, though. Jagex tried pacifying fans on September 6, writing in a blog that it was “looking to work towards areas where we can make this system better for everyone,” but players maintained they were disturbed by a battle pass in any form. As a player of 16yrs of grinding, I am out. “Jagex have always been controversial in their updates, mostly due to their cash grabs through microtransactions, and the latest update takes the cake,” a negative review with 160 “helpful” ratings as of this writing says. Their anger erupted with Hero Pass’s debut in September, and, according to recent negative Steam reviews, people who have been playing RuneScape for 15, 16, or even 20 years decided to give it up. The Hero Pass was meant to give players a new event every three months in which they would do things like earn points for cosmetics-so, your typical battle pass, but players already couldn’t stand RuneScape’s increased reliance on microtransactions in its Treasure Hunter loot boxes. They initiated it immediately after Jagex debuted the Hero Pass, which tacks onto the $US80, 12-month, premier membership tier that unlocks every RuneScape area and gameplay mechanic.

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