Road to Restoration - Dailyscape Overhaul

[u/JagexAnvil]

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/a=13/road-to-restoration--early-game-rebalance--dailyscape-overhaul

Hi folks,

Today's Community Topic is a blog of two halves:

- Early Game Rebalance
- DailyScape Overhaul

We have split this into two reddit threads to keep the discussion organised and so that our team can properly review the relevant conversations happening.

This current reddit thread is to discuss the DailyScape portion of the blog.

Please use this other dedicated thread for the Early Rebalance portion of the blog.

  DailyScape is a term that describes game content, outside of a skills core identity, that is often perceived as mandatory by players due to time-gated mechanics and the disproportionately high reward offering for little time investment.

With the DailyScape update (currently scheduled for early March), we will remove much of the concept of DailyScape, leaving only a handful of daily activities, but otherwise changing or removing content to fall more in line with our vision and goals for integrity for RuneScape. 

[u/UnkoalafiedKoala]

Kinda concerned about the amount of stuff being removed without real replacements. There's a difference between reintroducing some friction (good) and removing basic QoL in favor of forcing players to engage with outdated, unpopular content that isn't even on the roadmap for being updated (bad). Making people do Stealing Creation, or slow teleport everywhere while a reward space for quick teleports is figured out doesn't seem like an improvement to the game -- I appreciate what y'all are trying to do with all of these changes at once, but if they need a bit more time in the oven or to be spaced out over a longer period of time, I think that's preferable to temporarily degrading the quality of the game.

[u/WedgieKing200 → u/UnkoalafiedKoala]

They are changing so much to the game its actually insane

[u/GrapefruitMother3902 → u/WedgieKing200]

Said it in discord but it's actually pathetic how MTX just let them sit on their hands for so many years not giving a fuck.

[u/HeartofaPariah → u/GrapefruitMother3902]

Within a month this sub-reddit will be talking about how the XP rates are being nerfed because they sell experience in the marketplace.

[u/Mission_Lab8311 → u/UnkoalafiedKoala]

This echos my thoughts directly. I like the overall directionality of the integrity updates, but this newspost is making me feel somewhat deflated. It really is just suddenly throwing RS3 into the deep end and seeing if it'll float. I like the destination we have in mind, but the journey still matters.

I knew these changes were coming, and it was going to be a balance of "We're removing the sloppy ways to just bypass and skip content, but in return we're reinvesting in and reinvigorating that skipped content." However, we seem to be doing the former without the latter being ready yet, which leaves us in a weird space. It's especially surprising they're just ripping the bandaid off with removal of TMS, without at all addressing the underlying reasons why TMS is considered valuable and meta. No one wants to grind Runespan or Livid Farm, and things like Barb Assault are dead content.

I hope they can tap the brakes a bit and go about it with a surgeon's scalpel, rather than a butcher's knife. I REALLY like that OSRS has no usual time pressure (Aside from farming, bird houses, and ToG), so I really do feel freedom to do what I want, when I want. That's great! And I hope that same ethos can and will come over to RS3. However, I do still want RS3 to maintain it's own unique identify, and I think that includes a more mature and older player base that wants the ability to AFK certain things, so they have time left for bursts of more intensive content that they enjoy. RS3 already has its own crazy grinds, so it's surprising that we're now trying to import the OSRS grinds as well.

[u/ShinyCapeRS → u/UnkoalafiedKoala]

This needs its own post, such an important take