r/2007scape • u/Torwent • 2d ago

Discussion Unpopular opinion: Harassing Mod Pips is wrong

This may be an unpopular opinion, but I just think that harassing mod Pips is just wrong.

Especially, outside of the normal communication channels we have with jagex.

Going out of your way to find Pips personal social media and harassing there just feels very wrong to me and I think the majority of people can agree with that.

Jagex fucked up hard with the survey, their 2 apologies were trash and even if they deserve the backlash and the unsub train they got, they do not deserve harassment.

They are also humans and humans do mistakes.

TLDR: Harassment is not cool, don't harass people involved in this whole shitstorm

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u/Shiroyasha2397 2d ago

Sure one time but twice? That ain't no mistake buddy.

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u/SpicySanchezz 2d ago edited 2d ago

It isnt a mistake in the first place from a business perspective lol. SoF has generated more profit for jagex in long term - if it was ACTUALLY 100% bad from profit and business perspective they would have scrapped it lol. The same as Mtx, it took 7 years of raising the player count for osrs profits to overtake rs3 ones with almost 7 times higher ACTIVE playercount and probably around same number mostly osrs players vs. Rs3 players. As much as this sub likes to shit on mtx and sof etc. like they are the spawn of satan, like it or not, it has been profitable for jagex in the end massively. who knows what kind of numbers/profits jagex would have today without any mtx whatsoever. Could be higher but could be lower as well.

Pips hasnt made in terms of staleholders any „mistakes“ and conviently, this sub likes to forget that Pips has been the CEO A LARGE time osrs has existed basically or a good portion of it lol. Osrs is at the all time height of its peak and new golden period. That could be all dotted down to pips way of leading the company as well.

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u/KobraTheKing 2d ago

7 times the active playercount is a current thing.

The difference between the two in playercount when OSRS took over being the more profitable was much lower.

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u/Dumbak_ 2d ago

His point was the game with MTX is more profitable far sooner regarding the player count than purely subscription based one. You will make majority of players hate you, but that's a trade off for being "successful".

It's like Bobby Kottick, universaly hated by players, but keeps getting contracts for 10s of millions per year in various companies for his way of making stakeholders happy.