Thursday, April 26, 2007

Runescape Guides and Bloggers

Runescape has a significant amount of people who write constantly about the game, either through providing guides or certain indviduals providing an insight into the average players mind. In an equal world everyone would have their voice heard and their good work appreciated. Sadly the world is not equal.

Due to the popularity of runescape it has attracted a number of people who hover like vultures trying to drive web traffic to their sites - mainly to get people to pay for runescape money. Unfortunately, people pay money over for runescape coins and then risk their account as Jagex catch many people via that method.

The popularity of runescape has also attracted a lot of spam bloggers who are constantly updating daily to generate more buzz for such shops. It annoys me that I am trying to get a group of bloggers together who are interested in promoting the game and associated runescape guides without any secondary agenda of funding an activity that breaks Jagex rules. However, the only active bloggers I come across are generally the people that are working together to cross promote their sites.

I guess I could say I am appealing to all honest runescape players, that is the players that play within runescape rules, for them to make a stand and help me form a network of runescape bloggers that have an agenda to help promote legitimate runescape help.

Requirements would simply be:

  1. People wrote about the part of runescape that interested them the most
  2. People regularly updated the content - at least weekly would be good
  3. People within the network helped each other through advice on writing technique or on other technical issues with whatever blog platform or content management system was used for the website or blog.
Those three requirements would be simple to achieve if people were willing to help establish such a network for runescape players. If anyone does want to help form such a group then please get in contact via the contact form on my main runescape help site.

People who are interested can either want to write runescape blogs or simply become a runescape guide writer to help develop my main site.

***Update***

I let my main site expire when Jagex announced EoC so it no longer exists. To bring it up to date would have required a substantial overhaul and a large time investment. Since then, Jagex have released 07 runescape servers and a friend has started a dedicated wiki type site for 07 runescape at http://www.07runescape.com. I am sure he would appreciate any help updating information for that site to ensure it becomes a valuable reference for all 07 runescape players.

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