Runescape's Christmas 2010

- by Stefan
It's that time of year again where Jagex does almost nothing... wait, that's all year.

It's "Christmas" in Runescape and here's how we see it.

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Every player automatically gets a "Golden Cracker" (picture right) in there bank, or by talking to Diango in Draynor Village if your bank was full. It's like the legendary Christmas Cracker of Runecape's Christmas of 2001, just golden. The original Christmas Cracker gave a player a Party Hat when pulled, which came in six different colors, are very rare, and very expensive now days.

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This new "Cracker" gives the player that has it a golden hammer when pulled. (We aren't going to pull our "crackers". We are just going to store our in our banks in hopes of them going rare and becoming tradable like the Christmas Crackers of 2001. But we aren't counting on it.) The golden hammer is really a granite hammer colored gold and pink. If you ask me, it looks like a big Lego block on a pole.

<- Here's a player holding a "Golden Hammer".

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It gets worse.

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There is a quest located in "Daemonheim" (picture top) this year that will reward you with another emote that turns you into a snowman with a shield, and the snowman twists around in half once, then that's it. You also are rewarded with a hat... oh, sorry... it's a crab. :\

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Don't believe me?

 <- There's proof. What the crab has to do with christmas is nothing. What they are trying to do by setting the event in Daemonheim is get you to play the stupid dungoneering games, which was supposed to be a "skill" that they made without prior fan support. To make a long story short it was a ridiculous waste of time and hardly any player even does it. The crab is one found in the Dungoneering dungeons.

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We didn't do the quest this year, nor did we do the Halloween Event quest this year either. Because we are sick of quests. We want Runescape holiday events to be so much more and we aren't supporting Jagex's laziness by participating. If they aren't going to do the holidays right, then we won't do what they want.

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If you do the quest this year you get to join in on the "Heimland Games" which really we don't even care to know what it's like. We have read a few things about it and it sound silly.

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Back to the "Golden Cracker". We thought that they did this for nostalgic purposes. Or maybe they felt generous. But upon "examining" the "cracker" I found out otherwise...

Honest translation: "We wouldn't have even made this for you if WE hadn't won this award."

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Jagex stated that they had named 2010 the "year of hard work". Honest translation: "the year of pretend hard work".