virtual economies
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Twitter Banned Runescape’s Account Because It Thought An 8-Year-Old Created It
Earlier this week, the official Runescape Twitter/X account got banned. It’s since returned, but the reason behind its temporary ban was that someone at the social media company thought the account was created by an eight-year-old kid, which would be a violation of Twitter’s rules. On Monday, the official Twitter account for F2P MMORPG Runescape—with…
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Popular Fantasy MMO Ditches Battle Pass After Players Revolt
Runescape’s new battle pass didn’t last very long.
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Runescape Fans Stage Protests, Jagex Reverses Controversial Modding Decision
Only 24 hours ago, we reported on a decision Runescape developers Jagex made that saw a major mod blocked from release just hours before it had been due to go live. That decision led to protests among the community so severe they spread in-game.
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EVE Online Facing Second ‘Summer of Rage’ Fan Outcry
In the early days of June 2011, the playerbase of EVE Online joined together in revolution and war. The enemy was not a diablocial space-tyrant, or an army of NPC spaceships waiting to give battle, but the company that created EVE, CCP Games. A recent expansion, Incarca, had launched with a slew of overpriced microtransactions…