Negative reviews made to scare people away from the game and force negative opinions of the game on others.

[Himmelbees]

I looked at most of the negative reviews and it seems that people are only negative review bombing to scare newer people away from RuneScape. If you don't want microtransactions, play ironman mode. It's never benefits anyone to force beliefs and opinions about this game onto any new person trying out the game. Those who say bad things about the game are only saying it out of hatred and disguised as constructive criticism.
Most negative reviews are made by old school runescape players who don't know how to move on. They are blinded by nostalgia and hate anything do to with microtransactions. Many people claim RuneScape (3) to be pay to win. I say it's a lot more pay to skip. If people detest the company Jagex for what they have done to the main game (EOC, MTX, other modernisation attempts), it's their loss. Most people who don't recommend RuneScape 3 are not most of the time open minded, the negativity towards certain mechanics of the game overrides most logic it seems. There are ways to ignore the invasive mtx in the game, which is ironman mode. Enjoying the game in a mode that encourages self-sufficiency is often the best way to enjoy the game.
So few people who don't recommend the game can be logical and reasonable, but that's a rare trait amongst the majority.
I hope you all enjoy the game. It's meant to be individual choice if you find Runescape 3 amazing, not choices influenced by other's opinions or beliefs. Feel free to look at all reviews, just
report only the negative reviews that lack logic and reason, negative reviews are mostly easy to ignore.
Have a great day and don't let anyone influence your opinion and choice, you are free to like either RuneScape 3 or 007 RuneScape or both versions.

[chancan]

People are posting negative reviews because they dislike the game and want to share their experience. Just because someone doesn't like something, doesn't mean there's some kind of conspiracy going on you nut lol

[Shrek]

Mods ban most of the negative reviews, what are you talking about?

Originally posted by Jhallan:

and don't let anyone influence your opinion and choice, you are free to like either RuneScape 3 or 007 RuneScape or both versions.

This is exactly what you do promoting this game

[Himmelbees]

Originally posted by Flint Lockwood:

Mods ban most of the negative reviews, what are you talking about?

Originally posted by Jhallan:

and don't let anyone influence your opinion and choice, you are free to like either RuneScape 3 or 007 RuneScape or both versions.

This is exactly what you do promoting this game

Hi
Did not know that the mods banned most of the negativity. I was just a little concerned about review manipulation. Thanks for letting me know.

[Kaos]

Dude what? The total reviews are 86% positive.
Hell i would be suspicious if there WASN'T any bad reviews.

Let people decide for themselves.

[ptp]

Don't worry about negative reviews , they are like 3 complete sentences by new steam accounts. If a new players really wants to check the game out they don't even check the steam review to be honest. I never watched any reviews for Forest, GTA , etc. In the end old school community makes themselves look like fool , their game is being mostly botted on and Runelite client uses cheat plugins to give gameplay advancements. Oldschool isn't the same oldschool anymore.

[Himmelbees]

Originally posted by ptp:

Don't worry about negative reviews , they are like 3 complete sentences by new steam accounts. If a new players really wants to check the game out they don't even check the steam review to be honest. I never watched any reviews for Forest, GTA , etc. In the end old school community makes themselves look like fool , their game is being mostly botted on and Runelite client uses cheat plugins to give gameplay advancements. Oldschool isn't the same oldschool anymore.

True.
Both versions of the game: RuneScape 3 and Oldschool are flawed in their own ways.

[chancan]

Originally posted by ptp:

Don't worry about negative reviews , they are like 3 complete sentences by new steam accounts. If a new players really wants to check the game out they don't even check the steam review to be honest. I never watched any reviews for Forest, GTA , etc. In the end old school community makes themselves look like fool , their game is being mostly botted on and Runelite client uses cheat plugins to give gameplay advancements. Oldschool isn't the same oldschool anymore.

Why are you lying through your teeth mate? Almost every negative review is a giant, detailed wall of text

https://i.imgur.com/D5j7mQ1.png

[Terry]

Reviews should only be an accurate representation of the game or current state of affairs, nothing more. If Jagex did something that a lot of people disagreed with, then a dip in reviews is justified. I'm pleasantly shocked it's on 87% positive currently considering some people's relationship and feelings towards RS3 and it's MTXs. But I'm glad despite this, people would still recommened the game to others. I wish nothing but the best for the future of RS3 and OSRS. Jagex have talented people who care for the franchise, but the business decisions they have made in the past doesn't help

[Kaos]

Originally posted by ptp:

Don't worry about negative reviews , they are like 3 complete sentences by new steam accounts. If a new players really wants to check the game out they don't even check the steam review to be honest. I never watched any reviews for Forest, GTA , etc. In the end old school community makes themselves look like fool , their game is being mostly botted on and Runelite client uses cheat plugins to give gameplay advancements. Oldschool isn't the same oldschool anymore.

Yeah yeah... 3 sentences....

https://steamcommunity.com/id/whateverrrrrrrrr/recommended/1343400

For the record i am playing RS3 on steam and enjoying it.
But was still able to give that review an upvote.
Please stop Gatekeeping.

[Strong Hoov ✅]

Originally posted by johnny_m_j:

Originally posted by Doosh:

People are posting negative reviews because they dislike the game and want to share their experience. Just because someone doesn't like something, doesn't mean there's some kind of conspiracy going on you nut lol

Exactly.

The OP is a mindless fanboy who wants us to report negative reviews. I don't take advice from braindead zombies.

It's people like (You) and that mindset of yours that brings bad press to new games...

[chancan]

Originally posted by Strong Hoov ✅:

mindset of yours that brings bad press to new games...

I would argue that most people will find that a brony presence is worse press to games than anything johnny just said

[Xautos]

Review bombers will be dealt with accordingly, don't worry about the negative reviews at this point. Wait for a few months to get a better idea of where Runescape is at.

[johnny_m_j]

Originally posted by Strong Hoov ✅:

Originally posted by johnny_m_j:

Exactly.

The OP is a mindless fanboy who wants us to report negative reviews. I don't take advice from braindead zombies.

It's people like (You) and that mindset of yours that brings bad press to new games...

Because I appreciate opinions from both sides, and don't want us to go back to the 1930s-40s, where certain opinions were banned?

[Runy]

Originally posted by Jhallan:

I looked at most of the negative reviews and it seems that people are only negative review bombing to scare newer people away from RuneScape. If you don't want microtransactions, play ironman mode.

"If you don't want Jagex exploiting people, stick your head in the sand and don't talk about it!"

Nah bud, Jagex exploiting people sucks and just ignoring it doesn't fix anything.

Originally posted by Jhallan:

It's never benefits anyone to force beliefs and opinions about this game onto any new person trying out the game.

Oh, so people shouldn't make any reviews? They shouldn't give positive reviews either?

Originally posted by Jhallan:

Those who say bad things about the game are only saying it out of hatred and disguised as constructive criticism.

Realistically I have an amount of hate for Jagex abusing children with unregulated gambling. It's also constructive criticism, and I've spent years giving Jagex constructive criticism.

Some, I'm sure, are just doing it out of spite - but similarly many are only giving positive reviews because they're scared that they might scare off new players and they're desperate for their game to survive.

Originally posted by Jhallan:

Most negative reviews are made by old school runescape players who don't know how to move on. They are blinded by nostalgia and hate anything do to with microtransactions.

Have you considered that, y'know, RS3 used to be the game they played? It's not a matter of, "ewWW look at that game over there with MTX!" OSRS isn't constantly clowning on any game with MTX, they're clowning on the game that effectively spat in their face and destroyed the game they knew and loved all to make a pretty penny with MTX and because they couldn't be more considerate and thoughtful with EOC - instead of listening to the community they forced it through and lost a huge portion of the community for doing so.

Originally posted by Jhallan:

Many people claim RuneScape (3) to be pay to win. I say it's a lot more pay to skip.

Which is still very much not a good thing and has deteriorated the feeling of accomplishment for many quite significantly.

It used to be that we, for example, had competitive high scores. Now the mainscape highscores are pretty much meaningless - and even the ironman highscores are kind of tainted because the difference between a person who abuses grouping in the supposed-to-be-solo gamemode messy things and, frankly, most people don't want to be an ironman so it's not really the same scale and it's less fun for that fact. Oh and there's also been elements that let you spend money to obtain an advantage in ironman, too. Oopsies.

Originally posted by Jhallan:

If people detest the company Jagex for what they have done to the main game (EOC, MTX, other modernisation attempts), it's their loss. Most people who don't recommend RuneScape 3 are not most of the time open minded, the negativity towards certain mechanics of the game overrides most logic it seems. There are ways to ignore the invasive mtx in the game, which is ironman mode. Enjoying the game in a mode that encourages self-sufficiency is often the best way to enjoy the game.

If you meet a really nice person who is great looking, interesting, kind to you, and also beats their kids you're not suddenly going to think well of them. You're going to think, "What a horrible person." Same thing happens here, Jagex has made what I would describe as a really fun, exciting, beautiful game that is absolutely art . . . And they exploit underage children with unregulated gambling services . . . So . . . Yeah, that does override the positive things I feel towards RS3 because I just think that's so awful and it should change.

Sure I can ignore the MTX in game, but . . . Does that mean Jagex doesn't take advantage of people? No. And ironman has MTX, quit acting like it doesn't.

Originally posted by Jhallan:

So few people who don't recommend the game can be logical and reasonable, but that's a rare trait amongst the majority.

Realistically I think a lot of people could be more logical but see no reason to bother. People suck at giving reviews, again, the positive reviews also suck mostly.

The issue isn't, "mean bad review bad." It's, "God, people suck at giving reviews."

Originally posted by Jhallan:

I hope you all enjoy the game. It's meant to be individual choice if you find Runescape 3 amazing, not choices influenced by other's opinions or beliefs.

Ah, yes, "make individual choices (but also listen to my points). Don't let anyone influence your opinions or beliefs (except me)."

You are attempting to sway people's opinions, while also saying to not let your opinions be swayed. It's ridiculous.

People should get lots of feedback and not turn a blind eye to criticism. If there's a lot of negativity directed towards something there's usually a reason for it and in this case, there very much is.

Originally posted by Jhallan:

Feel free to look at all reviews, just report only the negative reviews that lack logic and reason, negative reviews are mostly easy to ignore.

Y I K E S my dude. Are you going to report the positive reviews that "lack logic and reason" too? If not, you're just being a hypocrite. If so, then say that too.

Originally posted by Jhallan:

Have a great day and don't let anyone influence your opinion and choice, you are free to like either RuneScape 3 or 007 RuneScape or both versions.

Again, people should let their opinion be influenced by others. That's the entire point of reviews. That's kind of the whole point of being a human is to interact with others and shape them and be shaped by them.

People should remember to also make their own decisions, and not too heavily weigh the opinions of random people, but this whole "don't let anyone influence you" stuff, as you might put it, lacks logic and reason.

[takes_reign]

One just needs to read reviews, both positive and negative, with a critical eye. It shouldn't be hard to separate the genuine impressions from agenda driven ones. Also, one can explore outside of Steam to get a wider set of reviews to consider. If there was an attempt at review bombing the disparity in view from other sources would likely expose it.