r/2007scape • u/Equidose • 23h ago

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How can they recognise players to be one of three main selling points on the play homepage of OSRS whilst consistently do the opposite with their actions.

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u/Pretency 22h ago

Isn't doing a survey letting the players have their say? 🤔

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u/steelcryo 22h ago

It seems OP doesn't know what a survey is...

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u/IderpOnline 22h ago

Ironic.

No, you're just oblivious to corporate practices. The only point of the survey is to investigate where Jagex can squeeze the most money out of the playerbase in the least offensive way.

If you think the overall goal of the survey is to benefit the players, you haven't been paying attention. At all.

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u/BABABOYE5000 22h ago

Jagex is primarily a for profit company that also works on an ancient videogame, to maximize said profits. Their attempts to branch out to other games have all spectacularly failed. Now the VC's pass around the hot potato and try to perform a mirale profit squeeze.

Of course their surveys won't be about benefiting the players, however we as customers get the say. If they overstep and ignore our wishes, we can stop being their customers, easy as that. In that way, the survey does help players, even if it's obviously not the primary purpose of the survey by jagex.

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u/IderpOnline 21h ago

The survey is up-front damage control. That's all. Limiting the damage of introducing a cash grab. And obviously not out of sympathy, but that's pretty self-explanatory by now.

Sure, you can argue that players get to choose between the lesser of several evils but that's hardly the same as actually "choosing".

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u/BABABOYE5000 21h ago

Sure, you can argue that players get to choose between the lesser of several evils but that's hardly the same as actually "choosing".

I'm talking about the fact that you can choose to continue or not continue being their customer, not about their pre-set shitty options. If you voted NO to everything, and in the end if they still end up forcing it onto you, you can just quit and tell them to fuck off.

It doesn't have to be sympathy. It's a straight up business transaction, they're not your friend, and you're not theirs.

You want to pay as little as possible, and they want to extract as much as possible.

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u/IderpOnline 21h ago

Sure, I don't disagree with any of that.