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 Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 3:16 am
Ironclad Pen xXxLadyAngelxXx UndeadBovine II This may be late but I can shed some light on this. Jagex has to be really a**l about anything that can be related at all to real life, whether it was on a Role Playing server or not 'Adopting a Child' could be interpreted as a real request. I know you are probably not going to like that explanation, but that's just how it works. Thats really ******** stupid :/ Jagex needs to stop treating it's members like babies. After all, there's an age limit for a reason, even though it's not completely followed and there are ROLE PLAYING worlds so people can ROLE PLAY. Yes it's ridiculous, yes he obviously wasn't trying to really adopt someone. But if something like that did happen then Jagex could get in big trouble for it. Sometimes they have to make themselves look stupid to the players so they can be protected.
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:35 am
What we think: This person didn't do anything wrong.
What Jagex and Mods thinks: POSSIBLE PREDATOR ATTACK!!!
Jagex can't really afford to risk such things, Role Playing or not. If something happened to these "daughters" Jagex and Runescape would have a terrible reputation beyond control. It's not that Jagex doesn't notice, it's because they can't risk the gaming community of Runescape for all of us. Stop looking at it so straight forward and try to look at it from their angle.
Runescape is the #1 MMORPG on Internet Browsing. That means many people can simply open up the internet and access it without complicated installing. Such things are easily accessible to many people, including predators and kids. Any person skilled enough to use a keyboard and understand comprehension can be behind any character on Runescape. When you think of someone who has all 99 skills, you think of a young player who has a lot of time on their hands, correct? Wrong. The Old Nite (my personal hero) was a player on Runescape who was in his 70s that had all 99 skills in the original skills. Who's to say a old person like him loved Runescape? That could have been anyone! My point is, anyone that can access the internet can easily bypass the age limiter. Simply just type in a fake birthday and off you go.
Just think, what would you do if you saw a stranger offering candy to a little kid? Your first reaction would be to help the kid and get it away from the stranger. We don't know if this stranger is this kid's parent or not, but it still feels a little unsafe so you help anyways. Now imagine that in Runescape. Someone could be "joking" around and actually may be a predator waiting to do something bad out of Jagex's reach. Just think, what if this wasn't Runescape, and it was just a normal chat. There's no difference; both have chat and both can contain possible predators.
As a Player Moderator I encounter things like this a lot. Most of us think about the safety of the entire community, and so forth we do whatever to protect our gamers. Like I stated before, Jagex cannot even risk a micro-predator attempt. Just imagine if you didn't know about Runescape or gaming, and you were the parent of these "daughters" who were at a young age. Would you be safe with them pretending to be "daughters" to someone else on an online game? For alot of us, it might be hard to say the right answer because we're not into parenthood yet.
So next time someone posts something like this just remember all of this; Predators, parents, Runescape, and the safety of younger players.
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 9:57 am
UndeadBovine II Ironclad Pen xXxLadyAngelxXx UndeadBovine II This may be late but I can shed some light on this. Jagex has to be really a**l about anything that can be related at all to real life, whether it was on a Role Playing server or not 'Adopting a Child' could be interpreted as a real request. I know you are probably not going to like that explanation, but that's just how it works. Thats really ******** stupid :/ Jagex needs to stop treating it's members like babies. After all, there's an age limit for a reason, even though it's not completely followed and there are ROLE PLAYING worlds so people can ROLE PLAY. Yes it's ridiculous, yes he obviously wasn't trying to really adopt someone. But if something like that did happen then Jagex could get in big trouble for it. Sometimes they have to make themselves look stupid to the players so they can be protected. I can kinda see how they would but honestly they could easily plead out of it. They game is based on a mid-evil time period where people can act like warriors, and kill monsters for gold or become artisans. In no way do they support nor encourage human trafficking or abduction. THE PLAYERS decided to use the game as a medium to talk about what THE PLAYERS planned to do. Hell, if Jagex got in trouble, they could turn around and act like victims because some people abused their game and brought slander upon them. I'm not sure how that would work in the UK but I know it's been down in America.
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 10:10 am
Ironclad Pen UndeadBovine II Ironclad Pen xXxLadyAngelxXx UndeadBovine II This may be late but I can shed some light on this. Jagex has to be really a**l about anything that can be related at all to real life, whether it was on a Role Playing server or not 'Adopting a Child' could be interpreted as a real request. I know you are probably not going to like that explanation, but that's just how it works. Thats really ******** stupid :/ Jagex needs to stop treating it's members like babies. After all, there's an age limit for a reason, even though it's not completely followed and there are ROLE PLAYING worlds so people can ROLE PLAY. Yes it's ridiculous, yes he obviously wasn't trying to really adopt someone. But if something like that did happen then Jagex could get in big trouble for it. Sometimes they have to make themselves look stupid to the players so they can be protected. I can kinda see how they would but honestly they could easily plead out of it. They game is based on a mid-evil time period where people can act like warriors, and kill monsters for gold or become artisans. In no way do they support nor encourage human trafficking or abduction. THE PLAYERS decided to use the game as a medium to talk about what THE PLAYERS planned to do. Hell, if Jagex got in trouble, they could turn around and act like victims because some people abused their game and brought slander upon them. I'm not sure how that would work in the UK but I know it's been down in America. Just to add, if you owned Runescape, IF an abduction occured, and it happened because of YOUR Code of Conduct, how would you feel?
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Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2010 2:12 pm
Cosplay-4TW Ironclad Pen UndeadBovine II Ironclad Pen xXxLadyAngelxXx UndeadBovine II This may be late but I can shed some light on this. Jagex has to be really a**l about anything that can be related at all to real life, whether it was on a Role Playing server or not 'Adopting a Child' could be interpreted as a real request. I know you are probably not going to like that explanation, but that's just how it works. Thats really ******** stupid :/ Jagex needs to stop treating it's members like babies. After all, there's an age limit for a reason, even though it's not completely followed and there are ROLE PLAYING worlds so people can ROLE PLAY. Yes it's ridiculous, yes he obviously wasn't trying to really adopt someone. But if something like that did happen then Jagex could get in big trouble for it. Sometimes they have to make themselves look stupid to the players so they can be protected. I can kinda see how they would but honestly they could easily plead out of it. They game is based on a mid-evil time period where people can act like warriors, and kill monsters for gold or become artisans. In no way do they support nor encourage human trafficking or abduction. THE PLAYERS decided to use the game as a medium to talk about what THE PLAYERS planned to do. Hell, if Jagex got in trouble, they could turn around and act like victims because some people abused their game and brought slander upon them. I'm not sure how that would work in the UK but I know it's been down in America. Just to add, if you owned Runescape, IF an abduction occured, and it happened because of YOUR Code of Conduct, how would you feel? I wouldn't feel guilty. I'd be upset that some lowlife abused my game for his/her own personal relief but I reiterate; I DO NOT support NOR encourage illegal acts. My game is for entertainment only. I can't physically stop them from committing the act, all I can do is hinder them from talking about it. And if I do that, they'll just go somewhere else. BESIDES they were on a role playing world. Unless specific details like names, ages, address, or some form of "code words" were used, I wouldn't have even bothered with that report. There isn't enough evidence to suggest that the people involved were ACTUALLY trying to adopt someone.
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Posted: Sat Jul 10, 2010 2:52 pm
Ironclad Pen Cosplay-4TW Ironclad Pen UndeadBovine II Ironclad Pen Jagex needs to stop treating it's members like babies. After all, there's an age limit for a reason, even though it's not completely followed and there are ROLE PLAYING worlds so people can ROLE PLAY. Yes it's ridiculous, yes he obviously wasn't trying to really adopt someone. But if something like that did happen then Jagex could get in big trouble for it. Sometimes they have to make themselves look stupid to the players so they can be protected. I can kinda see how they would but honestly they could easily plead out of it. They game is based on a mid-evil time period where people can act like warriors, and kill monsters for gold or become artisans. In no way do they support nor encourage human trafficking or abduction. THE PLAYERS decided to use the game as a medium to talk about what THE PLAYERS planned to do. Hell, if Jagex got in trouble, they could turn around and act like victims because some people abused their game and brought slander upon them. I'm not sure how that would work in the UK but I know it's been down in America. Just to add, if you owned Runescape, IF an abduction occured, and it happened because of YOUR Code of Conduct, how would you feel? I wouldn't feel guilty. I'd be upset that some lowlife abused my game for his/her own personal relief but I reiterate; I DO NOT support NOR encourage illegal acts. My game is for entertainment only. I can't physically stop them from committing the act, all I can do is hinder them from talking about it. And if I do that, they'll just go somewhere else. BESIDES they were on a role playing world. Unless specific details like names, ages, address, or some form of "code words" were used, I wouldn't have even bothered with that report. There isn't enough evidence to suggest that the people involved were ACTUALLY trying to adopt someone. Unfortunately it's like I said in my previous post, it's just a matter of possibility and not actuality. Jagex doesn't have time to deal a huge amount of time in 1 case. They've got +1million accounts to deal with unfortunately :/
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 7:54 am
Cosplay-4TW Ironclad Pen Cosplay-4TW Ironclad Pen UndeadBovine II Ironclad Pen Jagex needs to stop treating it's members like babies. After all, there's an age limit for a reason, even though it's not completely followed and there are ROLE PLAYING worlds so people can ROLE PLAY. Yes it's ridiculous, yes he obviously wasn't trying to really adopt someone. But if something like that did happen then Jagex could get in big trouble for it. Sometimes they have to make themselves look stupid to the players so they can be protected. I can kinda see how they would but honestly they could easily plead out of it. They game is based on a mid-evil time period where people can act like warriors, and kill monsters for gold or become artisans. In no way do they support nor encourage human trafficking or abduction. THE PLAYERS decided to use the game as a medium to talk about what THE PLAYERS planned to do. Hell, if Jagex got in trouble, they could turn around and act like victims because some people abused their game and brought slander upon them. I'm not sure how that would work in the UK but I know it's been down in America. Just to add, if you owned Runescape, IF an abduction occured, and it happened because of YOUR Code of Conduct, how would you feel? I wouldn't feel guilty. I'd be upset that some lowlife abused my game for his/her own personal relief but I reiterate; I DO NOT support NOR encourage illegal acts. My game is for entertainment only. I can't physically stop them from committing the act, all I can do is hinder them from talking about it. And if I do that, they'll just go somewhere else. BESIDES they were on a role playing world. Unless specific details like names, ages, address, or some form of "code words" were used, I wouldn't have even bothered with that report. There isn't enough evidence to suggest that the people involved were ACTUALLY trying to adopt someone. Unfortunately it's like I said in my previous post, it's just a matter of possibility and not actuality. Jagex doesn't have time to deal a huge amount of time in 1 case. They've got +1million accounts to deal with unfortunately :/ It wouldn't TAKE much time. Set one guy down, have him read over the conversation, then look to see what world they were in. If it seems like they were actually going to do something bad; punish. If not, dismiss the charge. If the conversations were short, it wouldn't take any time at all.
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Posted: Mon Jul 12, 2010 8:09 am
what I wanna know is why my brother is playing big daddy.
Dammit Wafer, Plasmids don't level up your attack OR Magic!!
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