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Opinion: Lack of high-level content

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Opinion: Lack of high-level content

Opinion: Lack of high-level content
Type Opinion
Videos 1 (first 2023-07-30, latest 2023-07-30)
Main source A Plea To Jagex (OSRS)

Opinion: Lack of high-level content is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2023-07-30. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says a big chunk of the OSRS player base feels disregarded and neglected, not just for weeks or months but for years, and he frames the video as an appeal to Jagex to listen to the concerns of himself and the community.1
  • Gnomonkey says that although the community has a polling system, high-level players still feel unheard, and their main forms of contact with Jagex are still Reddit and Twitter.2
  • Gnomonkey says he has personally been told many times that his thoughts do not matter because he represents a small portion of the community, and that most of his friends at a similar skill level have given up reaching out and moved on to other games or quit.3
  • Gnomonkey defines high-level content (HLC) as content with mechanical depth, such as the Inferno, Chambers of Xeric and Theatre of Blood, which are significant to the speedrunning community and offer rewards like kits and the Infernal cape.4
  • Gnomonkey says Tombs of Amascut, Desert Treasure 2 bosses, Corrupted Gauntlet, Muspah, Nightmare, Phosani's Nightmare, Nex and the Fight Caves are wrongly labelled difficult or high-level by Jagex and lower-level players, because in his view they need minimal practice and have straightforward mechanics.5
  • Gnomonkey says the most recent truly challenging content release was the Theatre of Blood, five years before this video, so high-level players had been deprived of updates for half a decade.6
  • Gnomonkey argues the high-level community inspires others, produces guides and entertainment through streaming, and acts as free advertising and a testament to the game's health from a corporate standpoint.7
  • Gnomonkey says the endgame player base has been completely ignored and cries out for quality-of-life changes, and that many speedruns are hampered by things that could be fixed very easily.8
  • Gnomonkey collected feedback in his Discord asking whether people were happy with the state of the game, what their priority would be, what makes the game fun and what makes it unenjoyable, to show that high-level players exist and care; he kept the feedback channel open after the video.9
  • Gnomonkey says he has over 13,000 hours in Old School RuneScape and a similar amount in RS3, and that the feeling of excitement about new updates now feels like a distant memory and he is hesitant to get hopes up for announcements.10
  • Gnomonkey says he wants OSRS to flourish like it did in 2017 and 2018, and asks viewers to spread the video to anyone who might listen.11

Revision history

Date Video Change
2023-07-30 A Plea To Jagex (OSRS) Page created: 11 statements (opinion)
## References

  1. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 0:00 ↩

  2. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 0:17 ↩

  3. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 1:03 ↩

  4. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 1:39 ↩

  5. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 2:03 ↩

  6. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 2:30 ↩

  7. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 3:02 ↩

  8. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 8:40 ↩

  9. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 24:25 ↩

  10. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 29:10 ↩

  11. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 30:05 ↩

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