FOMO in Early Access? Are you serious?

[Sterlander]

Really? Nobody wants FOMO bs. My enjoyment for a game goes down significantly if I feel I have to attend and play every single event for fear of missing out of rewards I'll never be able to get again.

Why are we starting FOMO holiday events already?? Really disappointing, just focus on finishing the game.

[Direct Miss]

literally takes like 5-15 minutes to get 1 hat, relax.

[Pyro3000]

FOMO in an MMO?

Nothing new. You could even treat the leaderboards as FOMO because they rank max level by date achieved.

It's a nifty holiday item. You can get all 20 in one day. The reason you aren't getting them is because you're making these posts instead of logging in and getting them.

Curious how this is somehow worse FOMO than locking in the subscription price or experiencing the game in the early access state.

[Variation]

in about 6 hours i have approximately 30 hats (still need 2 but have a fair amount of dupes i could trade) anyone that plays fairly regularly will complete the set.

[T2DAK]

I appreciate your comment, but I think the majority of the community is enjoying being rewarded for grinding. You can make new friends too by trading. Way better than the OSRS Christmas event. Now we just need it to snow :)

[weirdee]

I don't think the hats really took anybody away from game development.

[Sterlander]

Originally posted by Pyro3000:

FOMO in an MMO?

Nothing new. You could even treat the leaderboards as FOMO because they rank max level by date achieved.

It's a nifty holiday item. You can get all 20 in one day. The reason you aren't getting them is because you're making these posts instead of logging in and getting them.

Curious how this is somehow worse FOMO than locking in the subscription price or experiencing the game in the early access state.

Oldschool RuneScape's only FOMO items are the leagues trophies. The rest of the holiday items are recurring, meaning you can get the past 11+ years of Christmas items by playing the Christmas event that came out today.

Having holiday events be a one and done, be there or be square kinda deal just doesn't sit right. Nothing about the design philosophy Brighter Shores has had thus far aligns with limited time exclusive items.

[Pyro3000]

Originally posted by Sterlander:

Originally posted by Pyro3000:

FOMO in an MMO?

Nothing new. You could even treat the leaderboards as FOMO because they rank max level by date achieved.

It's a nifty holiday item. You can get all 20 in one day. The reason you aren't getting them is because you're making these posts instead of logging in and getting them.

Curious how this is somehow worse FOMO than locking in the subscription price or experiencing the game in the early access state.

Oldschool RuneScape's only FOMO items are the leagues trophies. The rest of the holiday items are recurring, meaning you can get the past 11+ years of Christmas items by playing the Christmas event that came out today.

Having holiday events be a one and done, be there or be square kinda deal just doesn't sit right. Nothing about the design philosophy Brighter Shores has had thus far aligns with limited time exclusive items.

OSRS brought back holiday items because the transition to RS2 wiped majority of players' inventories and required a way to bring them back.

[Sterlander]

Originally posted by Pyro3000:

Originally posted by Sterlander:

Oldschool RuneScape's only FOMO items are the leagues trophies. The rest of the holiday items are recurring, meaning you can get the past 11+ years of Christmas items by playing the Christmas event that came out today.

Having holiday events be a one and done, be there or be square kinda deal just doesn't sit right. Nothing about the design philosophy Brighter Shores has had thus far aligns with limited time exclusive items.

OSRS brought back holiday items because the transition to RS2 wiped majority of players' inventories and required a way to bring them back.

What? No? OSRS servers were launched in 2013, everyone had fresh characters. The inventory transfer from RSC to RS2 is now RS3.

They made holiday event rewards untradeable and repeatable because people had a disdain for FOMO, limited exclusive rare items. The rares situation RS3 has is actually a bad thing, not a good thing.

The OSRS devs have enforced this and manually removed or reverted items that would accidentally become rare items (like the Stinky Sock from a Halloween event a few years ago iirc)

[Pyro3000]

Originally posted by Sterlander:

Originally posted by Pyro3000:

OSRS brought back holiday items because the transition to RS2 wiped majority of players' inventories and required a way to bring them back.

What? No? OSRS servers were launched in 2013, everyone had fresh characters. The inventory transfer from RSC to RS2 is now RS3.

Good point.

OSRS brought back holiday items because the re-release of OSRS RESET EVERYONE'S CHARACTERS ENTIRELY and required a way to bring the holiday items back.

[Sterlander]

Originally posted by Pyro3000:

Originally posted by Sterlander:

What? No? OSRS servers were launched in 2013, everyone had fresh characters. The inventory transfer from RSC to RS2 is now RS3.

Good point.

OSRS brought back holiday items because the re-release of OSRS RESET EVERYONE'S CHARACTERS ENTIRELY and required a way to bring the holiday items back.

Yeah? And instead of having them be a FOMO thing, they give everyone all the untradeable rewards. You get a handful of party hats, pumpkins, christmas crackers, etc for completing the event, and JMods host events where they spawn millions of said items on the ground for players to pick up, making the stock of what would be limited rare items abundant in the economy.

FOMO is bad. Brighter Shores being an MMO gives it zero excuse to partake in it. It's coming from the Gower brothers, we should expect way better than what we just got.

[Pyro3000]

Originally posted by Sterlander:

Originally posted by Pyro3000:

Good point.

OSRS brought back holiday items because the re-release of OSRS RESET EVERYONE'S CHARACTERS ENTIRELY and required a way to bring the holiday items back.

Yeah? And instead of having them be a FOMO thing, they give everyone all the untradeable rewards. You get a handful of party hats, pumpkins, christmas crackers, etc for completing the event, and JMods host events where they spawn millions of said items on the ground for players to pick up, making the stock of what would be limited rare items abundant in the economy.

FOMO is bad. Brighter Shores being an MMO gives it zero excuse to partake in it. It's coming from the Gower brothers, we should expect way better than what we just got.

You would have hated the way holiday items were handled pre-RS2, then, when the game was heavily managed by Andrew Gower, the creator of this game.

[Sterlander]

Originally posted by Pyro3000:

You would have hated the way holiday items were handled pre-RS2, then, when the game was heavily managed by Andrew Gower, the creator of this game.

I do hate how holiday items were handled pre-RS2, yeah? I rarely hear the opinion of people thinking the way that was handled was ever good, lol. Why are you vouching for them to handle holiday items in the same old flawed way they were handled in RSC over 20 years ago?

All it ever did was generate problems for Jagex. Rares were (and still are) magnets for scams, RWT, and overall game rulebreaking.

[Pyro3000]

Originally posted by Sterlander:

Originally posted by Pyro3000:

You would have hated the way holiday items were handled pre-RS2, then, when the game was heavily managed by Andrew Gower, the creator of this game.

I do hate how holiday items were handled pre-RS2, yeah? I rarely hear the opinion of people thinking the way that was handled was ever good, lol? Why are you vouching for them to handle holiday items in the same old flawed way they were handled in RSC over 20 years ago?

Because I preferred that way? I was rather displeased when they redropped scythes. It made them less cool to have.

[Sterlander]

Originally posted by Pyro3000:

You would have hated the way holiday items were handled pre-RS2, then, when the game was heavily managed by Andrew Gower, the creator of this game.

Alright, let's start adding in other RSC-early RS2 mechanics. Anyone in the mood for bedrolls and captchas? How about random events that kill you? Dropping all your items on death? Eh? Any takers?

[Pyro3000]

Originally posted by Sterlander:

Originally posted by Pyro3000:

Because I preferred that way? I was rather displeased when they redropped scythes. It made them less cool to have.

Alright, let's start adding in other RSC-early RS2 mechanics. Anyone in the mood for bedrolls and captchas? How about random events that kill you? Dropping all your items on death? Any takers?

Yes, I'd take all of those. Fatigue was honestly not that bad and helps combat bots. Random events combats bots and gives little bonus rewards. Dropping items on death would make combat less dull. Also, make sure the items show to every player and disappear quickly again instead of that nerfed tombstone stuff.