On March 17th, 2014 we received an update titled “Mahjarrat Memories”, which is a high level mini-quest that gives some insight into the upcoming Fate of the Gods quest.

I was surprised at how many players were upset with this being a Completionist Cape requirement as well as that this took an upwards of five hours game time to finish.

Personally, this was one of my favorite updates of the year so far. This update reminded me of a classic RuneScape piece of content. Where you have to apply a long amount of game time on something to achieve rewards that are both cool and helpful. To me, this actually felt like a grandmaster quest (disregarding the six hours of siphoning divination memories); visiting a bunch of “retired” areas, having the latest skill and lore tie into the equation, and even the rewards felt a little more “grandmaster quest-like”. I honestly thought that the rewards from this were better than the rewards from the last few quests that we’ve had (which only means that the rewards from Fate of the Gods will be epic). The fact that players complained about something like this is remarkable to me. I couldn’t have been happier while doing this mini-quest. Now-a-days, too many people are caught up with “getting their Completionist Cape back” and “finishing the newest content as fast as possible”, although it’s great to have, it takes away the appreciation for cool updates like this. I can guarantee that half of the players who finished the mini-quest today didn’t read through any of the chat-box.

I really dislike what the Completionist Cape stands for in some players eyes now, it’s merely a token of an elitist that shows off to other players. It makes players; rush through content, become unappreciative and feel like everything being put into the game is a grind. Next time something really cool like this is put into the game, please try to enjoy it. Don’t just look at it as “another thing to do to wear my cape”.

Just because this piece of content was a Completionist Cape requirement (remember, all mini-quests are - except for The General’s Shadow) and it takes a long time to complete, doesn’t mean that it’s a bad or “worthless” update. Everyone expects everything to be handed to them for free or in a very little amount of time and that just isn’t right. You have to work hard for what you want, and honestly, I wish we had more updates like this one. This mini-quest ties in with the next quest that we’re expecting called “Fate of the Gods” which will finally give us more information on Zaros, everyone’s (my) favorite God. I’m truly excited for the rest of the updates this month and I think that “Mahjarrat Memories” served its purpose being to give more background information about what’s to come and to get people hyped up and ready for the next big quest.

Oh, and this guy is a straight gangster.