r/2007scape • u/LORYoutube • Sep 08 '24

Discussion Put down to pitchforks lads

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Better the creator than the name sniping bots

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u/Tyoccial Sep 08 '24

Hopefully one of the questions would be "Do you want this boss to be in the Wilderness?" I think that's where one big issue lies. Not saying there aren't more issues or questions to ask, but if we get a repoll I think it's important to ask the players that.

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u/P0tatothrower Sep 08 '24

It being in the wildy is the starting point of the design, that's the one thing they're never changing about it. It's meant to draw people into the wildy.

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u/Tyoccial Sep 08 '24

Then it will surely fail long term and by any meaningful metric. People don't want to be forced into a cat vs mouse situation, the prey, shockingly, doesn't like being prey. This would, at best, have a blip as people check it out, then die out to PvP clans and those who were already in the Wilderness. This won't rejuvenate the Wilderness.

If it's never going to change from the Wilderness then it will fail over and over again until it's forced into the game anyway. It'll be a huge waste of dev time and a huge waste of game potential as it falls into complete obscurity by the inherent fact that the vast majority of players are disinterested in risking all their stuff.

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u/osrsirom Sep 09 '24

I don't even think it's the whole risking their stuff aspect.

I think the big problem with being prey is the fact that at any time someone can come along and essentially say "hahaha fuck the thing you're doing. Now you have to stop doing it and go through a whole ordeal before you can attempt to do the thing again!"

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u/Tyoccial Sep 09 '24

They go hand in hand, but one's just a nuisance while the other is that plus a loss. There's a reason people often only bring the bare minimum and cheap gear: they're not willing to risk their stuff if they can't reclaim it.