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Remember that major combat overhaul I’ve been talking about? Earlier this month, Jagex’s Mark Gerhard revealed that the update is coming late in the summer. In fact, the update is going to be such a significant change to RuneScape, the largest since RuneScape made a major engine update in 2004, that Jagex has seen fit [...]
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Jagex Leak: Combat System Overhaul Icons
May 9th, 2012 
Omali In case you don’t play RuneScape, earlier this month CEO Mark Gerhard responded to player criticism over the controversial Squeal of Fortune with the following message: …it should be evident that we just gearing up for our most exciting and biggest content year ever……….. including a complete upgrade to the combat system later [...]
Jagex Announces May Madness, Madness In May
April 20th, 2012 Omali [Update] It appears I was right. There is a countdown on the RuneScape forums that is leading toward the 28th. If metrics from Google searches here at the MMO Fallout office/Dunkin Donuts are anything to go by, last year’s bot nuke in RuneScape did its job: Destroy injection/reflection bots at the time. As Jagex stated then, this [...]
RuneScape Involved In Telstra Phone Fraud
April 18th, 2012 Omali Jagex’s MMO RuneScape allows players to pay for subscriptions via several methods including by credit card and by calling a telephone number, receiving a PIN, and having the membership added to their phone bill. But the subscription-by-phone method has become the target of a police investigation after dozens of Telstra customers were wrongly billed during [...]
RuneScape Credit Card Fraud Warning: Squeal of Fortune
April 2nd, 2012 Omali Having your account stolen in RuneScape just became a lot more dangerous. A very serious concern has arisen with regard to Squeal of Fortune, and Jagex’s method of keeping storage of user payment details. Jagex stores credit card information for recurring subscriptions, and uses that same card to purchase Squeal of Fortune spins. While the [...]
Jagex Introduces Microtransactions In RuneScape
April 2nd, 2012 Omali When Jagex introduced the Squeal of Fortune, they did so with the premise that the mini-game was balanced. Powerful and expensive rewards were relegated to untradeable and extraordinarily rare chances, and each player was only offered one spin per day (two for members). Today, however, Jagex has reversed years of outspoken anti-real money trading policies [...]
RuneScape Free Trial Returns?
March 13th, 2012 Omali Last month I posted an article about a 14-day membership for new accounts. The trial was unannounced and held rather ambiguous requirements as to who could participate (at the time it appeared to be UK-only), and remained unmentioned by Jagex until later in the month when Mod Hippo posted to announce that the trial had [...]
Incoming Bot Nuke: March 2012
March 9th, 2012 Omali Jacmob is the creator of RSBuddy, one of the major bots back in the day. Why is he important? Following the bot nuke, and the shuttering of RSBuddy, Jacmob was hired by Jagex to work on anti-bot solutions. In a post on the RSBuddy forums, Jacmob talks about an upcoming March 2012 bot nuke: It’s [...]
The Jagex Contest That May Have No Winner
March 6th, 2012 Omali Jagex has a simple contest running on their website: All you have to do is post on this thread with your avatar set to your character wearing a tattoo from the recently released Squeal of Fortune. Do so, and a random person is picked each week for three weeks to win lifetime membership to RuneScape. [...]
Jagex Previews New Armor
March 5th, 2012 Omali Ever since Jagex launched the High Definition RuneScape a few years back, many of the game’s assets have fallen behind in terms of visual quality. Over the past few months, Jagex have been slowly upgrading the more popular equipment sets, and this month (possibly this week) the developer is set to release upgraded versions of [...]
