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Yesterday afternoon<Jan 9 2005>, in an unprecedented court hearing, a young boy of fifteen successfully won his lawsuit against Jagex, who run an online RPG game. The teenager claimed the game had effectively wasted two years of his life and rendered him unintelligent and unable to communicate with the outside world.

The boy's lawyer yesterday claimed "The game has an unexplainable attraction that convinces the player they are having fun, despite the fact that all they are doing is performing repetitive tasks to increase their statistics." He continued, "The game is actually a graphical nightmare and its gameplay is simple at best. Yet something, perhaps by subliminal means, forces the player - against his will - to play the game, and to believe that they are having fun."

The jury voted unanimously in the teenager's favour, who will receive five thousand pounds in compensation.

Jagex spokesman, Mr. P Hartnell, said "These claims are both ridiculous and embarassing. Clearly the kid needs to get out more - our games maybe fun but we do not force players to take part." When questioned about the alleged subliminal tactics, Hartnell refused to comment.

The teenager, who cannot be named for legal reasons, explained why the game had such a devastating effect on life: "You kind of get into a daily routine. You get up, you load up Runescape, and you play it. You can't go and do anything else because you want to get your stats up higher than anyone else." He elaborated further: "You end up repetitively increasing your stats every day. You want more, and more. You don't even talk to players on the game you're so involved. You end up entirely withdrawn from the world."

His lawyer told us more about how his life had been devasted by the game. "He never went out from his house except on special occasions, for 3 whole years. He didn't even go to school." When asked how his intelligence had been affected, he replied: "What intelligence?"

The future for Jagex Ltd looks bleak, as many more teenagers are already filing lawsuits against the company.

Source: http://www.cspacezone.com/forums/lofiversion/index.php?t19909.html


Lol.. 5,000 pounds aye?
Gives me an Idea :D

"The future for Jagex Ltd looks bleak, as many more teenagers are already filing lawsuits against the company."

Major crisis for Jagex coming up lol….

Nice find.

From: Runescapian
"The future for Jagex Ltd looks bleak, as many more teenagers are already filing lawsuits against the company."

Major crisis for Jagex coming up lol….

Nice find.

This was in 2005 lol :p

And thanks :)

When asked how his intelligence had been affected, he replied: "What intelligence?"

haha

His name is…… ZEZIMA!

It was a joke posted on a forum a couple of years ago (can't remember which, but it was one of those *many* general gamer ones with millions of people posting random crap all the time). If it were really true, I doubt SRL would have a money problem since a good 10 years funding could come out of just the devs suing them.

may sound silly but jagex are right… they dont forse you to play… but it is addictive as s~it

rofl, i cant believe the kid won. thats crazy.

The game has an unexplainable attraction that convinces the player they are having fun, despite the fact that all they are doing is performing repetitive tasks to increase their statistics." He continued, "The game is actually a graphical nightmare and its gameplay is simple at best. Yet something, perhaps by subliminal means, forces the player - against his will - to play the game, and to believe that they are having fun.

LMAO!

Haha, He owned Jagex!

Yep, figures, just another way for people to get money without getting off their asses and actually doing something in life. Seriously in twenty years people like this are going to be the downfall of society. They don't want to work, they don't want to talk to people, they don't want to do anything besides play some game or something of that nature. Kids these days hardly have any experience in working. Most kids these days either sit at home and do nothing, but play video games, and others sit around drink, smoke, and do drugs. Neither group accomplishing nearly anything.

Well I guess the old saying of we will end up killing ourselves may have finally become true. In ten years or so, I want to see any of these kids become an active part in the work force.

Yeah, teenage years are indeed supposed to be fun, but not doing anything besides playing video games and doing drugs is a pretty good indication that they probably wont be a big help to society.

Now I am not blaming this all on the kids, time to hit the parents side of things too.

Parents these days support their kids way too much. They pay for everything they want. Whether it be a new game system, new games, or just random amounts of money given to them. Kids don't have to work for anything, they just ask their parents for some money and they get what they want.

Also, parents have recently been blaming other people for their mistakes. Like the parents of the kids that plotted attacks and went through with attacks on their school etc. were blaming video games and video game companies for their games teaching these kids how to do these things, and embedding the anger into them. Now how can this be a video games fault when, every video game has a rating. Now if parents paid any attention to what their child was doing, they would notice that the games they were playing were rated M. Rated M, is recommended for people of 18 years and older, yet, parents are letting their kids play them at even age 7 and 8.

If you want someone to blame, blame the parents. Seriously not the game companies. The game companies are just putting it out their, its up to the players to actually play it, and its up to the parents and the players themselves to actually pay attention to what happens, so that cases like this don't happen.

Seriously do you think that the parents were paying any attention to the kid, if the kid never left the house, not even for school. Never left the computer, and was lacking any intelligence? I really don't think so.

Now I am not in favor of Jagex LTD. I am just in favor of game companies as a whole that face these lawsuits and the blame they get for cases like this and more extreme ones like the shootings that were blamed on games and such.

Parents blame video games because they don't have any experience with them. They don't know what they are. They usually have never played them, themselves.


Now I know, some of you may be thinking that I am a little young to be complaining about this, myself only being 18.

But I think I may be the end of the era of hard working people. I think the eventual collapse of society may be based off people like this. Just because they have no experience doing anything besides game.

EDIT: Whoops forgot something

His name is…… ZEZIMA!

I wouldn't actually be surprised if Zezima isn't an actual player, just an account that Jagex runs and manages to give the players a "role model" of sorts, meaning that is the character that they want to be just like.

mrklean i think that of zezima to i think that he is there so players eithen when there stats are quite high and they are bored but are close want to beat him

like the people who have oertaken him if they are bored and have stoped playing a zez gts 99 sumoning hebcomes number 1 now they might come on and over take him

From: Ciesson
His name is…… ZEZIMA!

umm zezima would need 5000000 and has been stuck init for 50years lol <—execration

lol zezima is nice really use to talk to him on his irc lol :S have pics too

From: mr.klean
Yep, figures, just another way for people to get money without getting off their asses and actually doing something in life. Seriously in twenty years people like this are going to be the downfall of society. They don't want to work, they don't want to talk to people, they don't want to do anything besides play some game or something of that nature. Kids these days hardly have any experience in working. Most kids these days either sit at home and do nothing, but play video games, and others sit around drink, smoke, and do drugs. Neither group accomplishing nearly anything.

Well I guess the old saying of we will end up killing ourselves may have finally become true. In ten years or so, I want to see any of these kids become an active part in the work force.

Yeah, teenage years are indeed supposed to be fun, but not doing anything besides playing video games and doing drugs is a pretty good indication that they probably wont be a big help to society.

Now I am not blaming this all on the kids, time to hit the parents side of things too.

Parents these days support their kids way too much. They pay for everything they want. Whether it be a new game system, new games, or just random amounts of money given to them. Kids don't have to work for anything, they just ask their parents for some money and they get what they want.

Also, parents have recently been blaming other people for their mistakes. Like the parents of the kids that plotted attacks and went through with attacks on their school etc. were blaming video games and video game companies for their games teaching these kids how to do these things, and embedding the anger into them. Now how can this be a video games fault when, every video game has a rating. Now if parents paid any attention to what their child was doing, they would notice that the games they were playing were rated M. Rated M, is recommended for people of 18 years and older, yet, parents are letting their kids play them at even age 7 and 8.

If you want someone to blame, blame the parents. Seriously not the game companies. The game companies are just putting it out their, its up to the players to actually play it, and its up to the parents and the players themselves to actually pay attention to what happens, so that cases like this don't happen.

Seriously do you think that the parents were paying any attention to the kid, if the kid never left the house, not even for school. Never left the computer, and was lacking any intelligence? I really don't think so.

Now I am not in favor of Jagex LTD. I am just in favor of game companies as a whole that face these lawsuits and the blame they get for cases like this and more extreme ones like the shootings that were blamed on games and such.

Parents blame video games because they don't have any experience with them. They don't know what they are. They usually have never played them, themselves.


Now I know, some of you may be thinking that I am a little young to be complaining about this, myself only being 18.

But I think I may be the end of the era of hard working people. I think the eventual collapse of society may be based off people like this. Just because they have no experience doing anything besides game.

EDIT: Whoops forgot something

I wouldn't actually be surprised if Zezima isn't an actual player, just an account that Jagex runs and manages to give the players a "role model" of sorts, meaning that is the character that they want to be just like.

A VERY mature post!

-Tsn.

HAHAHA this is hilarious that kids just a lazy idiot and the parents need to brush up on there parenting skills!! (Maybe not let there kid skip school to play on his computer which they probably bought for him in the first place…) Its a sick world… :D:D:D

Wow if i played for 3 years every day non stop i would have all the p hats and be lvl 138. However despite the subliminal messages, RS isn't fun enough for me to devote my life to it…Nothing is really…except maybe paintball ;).

That KID must be really stupid, Only took me a month to find SRL :D

Im surprised blizzard hasn't gotten tons of law suits, WOW is considered clinically addicting. People just need to learn to go outside and enjoy the day.

you have to admit tho; runescape is addicting

From: mixster
It was a joke posted on a forum a couple of years ago (can't remember which, but it was one of those *many* general gamer ones with millions of people posting random crap all the time). If it were really true, I doubt SRL would have a money problem since a good 10 years funding could come out of just the devs suing them.

No it's not a joke..

This kid actually sued Jagex, and he won…
Have a look for yourself ;)

rs is gay idk how people still in it no more pking guys goodness, i tried bh with my great pure 92 range 40 def/52 pray 83 str 82 mage= EPIC fail!

i made alot of rs pking vids but got deleted after huge virus. man just wish wild was back tho im in high school and i think i should have stopped playing a while back :P , but still in coding :)

YESSS IM SO GLAD HE WON!!! haha seriously though fagex is gay cuz they took out pking. i dont play the game anymore cuz bh sucks so bad. its no replacement for the wildy. i hope this motivates other people to sue jagex and stop playing rs so they either be forced to bring the wild back or go out of business. :P

From: fighter_pilot2013
This guy must be one rich lil b*** cuz too spend money on a lawyer to sue jagex for probly 20$ WTF!! OMFG!!!@!!@@! this is completely DUMB I would like to meet this kid and put him in an open field and GET my fully loaded 12 guage and tell him to dance XD :spot: :spot: :spot:

SUCK THIS! :f:

it says he made 5000 pounds. try reading the post before u make a dumb comment

Lol, that made my day

Completely fake. The only source I can find for that report is the link the op posted, nothing from any credible news source.

im still laughing, i dont know how he won.

Yeah…I'm starting to think this is fake too. As someone on the other forum posted (the 'source'), with this logic, anybody could sue an addicting TV Show, game, etc. There's no way the kid would have won. And Jagex also has a 'Responsible Gaming' section in the KB.

EDIT: OMG! I just noticed I got the tut writer cup :D Ty Admins/Mods :)

Looks like a very legit news source ….

Lmao thats mad funny imo but seriously i think reall WoW is just rediculously more addictive than rs but rs is still pretty addicting.

This is a faggot, "he didn't even go to school for 3 years"
wow how dumb can you get? hes just a nerd who died lost all his money then went nuts and sued JaGeX for it.

I used to play WoW and it REQUIRES you to play 5 hours + in one sitting to do a in-game raid, not an extra thing. In Runescape, the gameplay is very optional.

From: Runescapian
Yeah…I'm starting to think this is fake too. As someone on the other forum posted (the 'source'), with this logic, anybody could sue an addicting TV Show, game, etc. There's no way the kid would have won. And Jagex also has a 'Responsible Gaming' section in the KB.

EDIT: OMG! I just noticed I got the tut writer cup :D Ty Admins/Mods :)

Yeah after like 5 srl members congratulated you..

In this case I blame the parents they should have told him to get his butt to school and while he was gone take out hiscomputer and sell it I can not believe that the jury went along with this just because you do not have the ability to turn off the game does not make it the game makers fault for dong their job the whole point from the game programmers and designers is to make a game that you do not want to put down.

Now where did I put my lawyers phone number

From: Harkonnen

Now where did I put my lawyers phone number

Lol @ Harkonnen :)
First weeks, I googled for RuneScape cheats and voila I was here:)
That was the time Wizzup's essence miner was working.. :rolleyes:

EDIT: Totally fake :) Click

lol:spongebob:

From: high life1212
lol:spongebob:

Spam:spongebob:
WoW has even TV Commercials now (h) with Mr. T. from the A-Team who hacked the game and created an Night Elf Mohawk :spongebob:

Edit: Spongebob is funny :D:spongebob:

Most kids these days either sit at home and do nothing, but play video games, and others sit around drink, smoke, and do drugs. Neither group accomplishing nearly anything.

Hey! Let's not forget where do your gps come from! =D

That's why they have things that say "Take a 15 minute break every hour" ;)

Jagex got raped!!! take that

From: sgtbeil
Jagex got raped!!! take that

Ur post count is gonna get raped!!! take that!

wait so did we ever decide if this was real or fake… Bc I really don't see how he could've won that case

From: mr.klean
Yep, figures, just another way for people to get money without getting off their asses and actually doing something in life. Seriously in twenty years people like this are going to be the downfall of society. They don't want to work, they don't want to talk to people, they don't want to do anything besides play some game or something of that nature. Kids these days hardly have any experience in working. Most kids these days either sit at home and do nothing, but play video games, and others sit around drink, smoke, and do drugs. Neither group accomplishing nearly anything.

Well I guess the old saying of we will end up killing ourselves may have finally become true. In ten years or so, I want to see any of these kids become an active part in the work force.

Yeah, teenage years are indeed supposed to be fun, but not doing anything besides playing video games and doing drugs is a pretty good indication that they probably wont be a big help to society.

Now I am not blaming this all on the kids, time to hit the parents side of things too.

Parents these days support their kids way too much. They pay for everything they want. Whether it be a new game system, new games, or just random amounts of money given to them. Kids don't have to work for anything, they just ask their parents for some money and they get what they want.

Also, parents have recently been blaming other people for their mistakes. Like the parents of the kids that plotted attacks and went through with attacks on their school etc. were blaming video games and video game companies for their games teaching these kids how to do these things, and embedding the anger into them. Now how can this be a video games fault when, every video game has a rating. Now if parents paid any attention to what their child was doing, they would notice that the games they were playing were rated M. Rated M, is recommended for people of 18 years and older, yet, parents are letting their kids play them at even age 7 and 8.

If you want someone to blame, blame the parents. Seriously not the game companies. The game companies are just putting it out their, its up to the players to actually play it, and its up to the parents and the players themselves to actually pay attention to what happens, so that cases like this don't happen.

Seriously do you think that the parents were paying any attention to the kid, if the kid never left the house, not even for school. Never left the computer, and was lacking any intelligence? I really don't think so.

Now I am not in favor of Jagex LTD. I am just in favor of game companies as a whole that face these lawsuits and the blame they get for cases like this and more extreme ones like the shootings that were blamed on games and such.

Parents blame video games because they don't have any experience with them. They don't know what they are. They usually have never played them, themselves.


Now I know, some of you may be thinking that I am a little young to be complaining about this, myself only being 18.

But I think I may be the end of the era of hard working people. I think the eventual collapse of society may be based off people like this. Just because they have no experience doing anything besides game.

You stole the words out of my mouth. That's the exact same way I feel and believe. Rep for you.

Lawyer had the justice skill cape and jagex 1 defence

From: jose89
Lawyer had the justice skill cape and jagex 1 defence

nah, jagex hate pures, I bet they had like full drag, and lawyer used that out to beat them with his ancients and then koed Jagex with a Armadyl Godsword, and Jagex didnt safed becouse they didnt wanted to seem newbish, since lawyer recorded whole thing. Anyway, 5,000 isnt so big amount for them. And please dont read my post becouse i just came back home from party and dont think what im writing about. thanks.

Pretty funny stuff

/bangs head against wall

Do you people seriously believe this is real?

no but i still blame the kids parents lol

Blame all parents who are like this. My friend got an iPhone because he wanted one. How'd you mean, spoilt.