Rune HQ - RuneHQ - Runescape HQ Fan Site
The Rune HQ web
site (also known as RuneHQ or
Runescape HQ) has to
go down as what would be considered one of the biggest three
Runescape fan sites
on the internet along with Rune Tips (Tip It) and Runescape
Help (Zybez & Runescape Community). Rune HQ was created by
MrStromy but along with its forum helpers is maintained by a
team of over 50 helpers. Rune HQ was created in late 2003
and has been quite a successful Runescape fansite since its
creation. Its content and services have for that three year
period been of a very high standard and generally been
fairly up to date. Rune HQ has a large range of Runescape
information, resources and
services available for free to all its visitors
including:
Forum
Auction House
Chatroom
Newspaper
Clan
Quest Guides
Skill Guides
Guild Guides
City Guides
Maps
Item & Monster Databases
Calculators
Dynamic Sig Maker
Dynamic Underbanner Maker
Bit of Rune HQ History
Whilst Rune HQ has a wealth of information and a number
of volunteers working and maintaining it, the site itself
hasn’t always been financially stable. In late 2004, early
2005, Rune HQ was having a lot of difficulties with covering
its own costs due to its own popularity and has ever since
been advertising for donations from its users in the form of
PayPal donations in addition to running Runescape gold
selling sites in their Google Ads, something that has become
almost the norm for most Runescape fan sites in the as a
result of little advertisers in the industry other than
Runescape gold sellers. In addition to this they have for a
long time been affiliated with the Runescape Gold Making
Guide; Runescape Guide – which for the large part has been
criticized for charging too much money for the guide and not
offering much useful information on making Runescape Gold
that wasn’t already available for free on many Runescape
forums and sites, including its own.
Rune HQ Cons
Probably Rune HQ’s biggest deficit has for a long time
been the lack of support and warm friendly service. The site
is renowned for having very tight restrictions and little
flexibility in user’s ability to communicate on their forums.
This has lead some to suggest that Rune HQ whilst in general
offer great information services has lacked general
hospitality which has lead many visitors to become loyal
members of other rival Runescape forums. Despite this
somewhat cold and seemingly inconsiderate nature, this is
more a testament to Runescape HQ’s true size that it need to
so heavily regulate user’s activities to streamline their
processes.
Rune HQ whilst not the first Runescape fansite on the
scene definitely has cemented itself as arguably the biggest
and fastest growing
in the industry and it no doubt feature as a prominent fan
site whilst the game itself continues.
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