Rob
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I offered to pay the costs associated with them keeping a server running, not to buy the game from them.
Though Classic is an old game, the cost to actually purchase the game from Jagex would likely be in the millions (which I obviously don't have).
As far as a source code release; that was actually the original plan.
In 2009, a project had been started to make Classic open sourced, downloadable, and allow players to build onto the game and do their own thing with it.
This, in my opinion, is a great compromise.
Unfortunately, as stated in the thread, the idea was scrapped because it wouldn't make them money.
Thanks for the feedback!
I think the player run server idea has a lot of potential. I can totally see why Jagex didn't want it back in the day, would be kind of a slap in the face to old players having cheats-enable servers running at the same time.
With the jagex-ran servers gone, and classic not existing anywhere (legally) in any form, seems like it would be a good time to look back into that idea.
What really surprises me is that Jagex didn't take you up on your offer. Jagex followed the MTX lootbox trend, the cardgame trend, attempted the MOBA trend with TFU, the idle game trend with that one RS-themed game, the zombie/streamer bait trend with dimension of the damned...
You'd think they'd attempt the crowdsourcing trend to upkeep Classic before they shut it down. Let people contribute to it if they thought it was worth keeping. It's a shame.
You'd think they'd attempt the crowdsourcing trend to upkeep Classic before they shut it down. Let people contribute to it if they thought it was worth keeping. It's a shame.
Probably because it would be more work than it was worth.
You'd think they'd attempt the crowdsourcing trend to upkeep Classic before they shut it down. Let people contribute to it if they thought it was worth keeping. It's a shame.
Probably because it would be more work than it was worth.
This is the same jagex that made their own wiki before shutting it down, made the runemetrics system before shutting it down, etc etc.
Offering a game from when the company was still competent is worth a lot more than anything else they've worked on in the past 5 years, so quit your lying.
You'd think they'd attempt the crowdsourcing trend to upkeep Classic before they shut it down. Let people contribute to it if they thought it was worth keeping. It's a shame.
Probably because it would be more work than it was worth.
This is the same jagex that made their own wiki before shutting it down, made the runemetrics system before shutting it down, etc etc.
Offering a game from when the company was still competent is worth a lot more than anything else they've worked on in the past 5 years, so quit your lying.
Sadly, Telcis is right on that one.
On a financial level, even if Classic was bringing in 5-10k worth of subscriptions per month, that's pennies compared to the millions the comanpy makes without it.
My biggest issue with the closer was more on a moral level.
I will advocate for it to return for the remainder of my RuneScape days.
On a financial level, even if Classic was bringing in 5-10k worth of subscriptions per month, that's pennies compared to the millions the comanpy makes without it.
My biggest issue with the closer was more on a moral level.
I will advocate for it to return for the remainder of my RuneScape days.
so quit your lying.
Its not lies, its an opinion based off speculation. Jagex would have looked into the options before taking action because that is common business practice.
We can retrospectively see their choices and speculate why they went that way.
worth a lot more than anything else
Mui please look up the words "subjective" and "objective". What you are posting here is a subjective opinion. If we were to treat it objectively. Then it would be by the revenue that has been brought in, which has steadily increased since RSC. So you would be incorrect.
CoolBeans568
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Rob
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Sadly, Telcis is right on that one.
On a financial level, even if Classic was bringing in 5-10k worth of subscriptions per month, that's pennies compared to the millions the comanpy makes without it.
My biggest issue with the closer was more on a moral level.
I will advocate for it to return for the remainder of my RuneScape days.
Well have fun with it landing on deaf's ear.
It's been this way for well over a decade, Draco. We've kept it up way back then, and we'll keep it up now.
