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The fact that so many player have left the main game to play this 2007 version shows that there are underlying issues with the game in it's current state. A lot of people quickly cast this blame on the EoC update, but the declining player base has been falling for years. Most veteran players it seems have left due to the money grab tactics and pay-to-win attitude which has become increasingly and unwillingly shoved down player's throats. This includes a wealth of unnecessary free xp from pointless events to attract more short term membership as well as the ability to purchase in game xp and items using real world currency. Multiple rank 1 players have left the game citing these exact reasons. These are the updates that cause veteran players to leave.
01-Mar-2013 14:12:17
Yay!
This is great
This is great
01-Mar-2013 14:33:24
@Repeat3d
It's free whilst you have a membership subscription to the main game, so there's no additional payment...not yet anyway.
In 6 months time Jagex may well have implemented a method to pay separately.
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It's great to see a 6 month (plus/minus player demand) period where 2007 is free to play; I might actually play it from time to time. However, it will never take over the modern game for me because the only thing worse in what we currently have is Jagex and their money-making schemes.
What does that mean for **** games? If one can survive without microtransactions then the other most likely can. By microtransactions I mean primarily those involving real items and advantages like the entire SoF and the new pets in Solomon's store. Alternatively, Jagex will just end up putting microtransactions in everything even against player demand; that's what they've been doing for the last 18 months anyway.
I will continue to play RuneScape in its updated state, but the current player numbers on oldschool gives two clear messages:
1) People will play a game if it's not full of additional payments and pay2win transactions
2) The bots really are bad...The players ingame counter remains consistently insanely high even though half of most players' friends list is probably "Oldschool #" most of the time; Mine certainly is.
So yeah, remove mtx and bots and then you've fixed the game in 2013, making it the year from players for certain
It's free whilst you have a membership subscription to the main game, so there's no additional payment...not yet anyway.
In 6 months time Jagex may well have implemented a method to pay separately.
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It's great to see a 6 month (plus/minus player demand) period where 2007 is free to play; I might actually play it from time to time. However, it will never take over the modern game for me because the only thing worse in what we currently have is Jagex and their money-making schemes.
What does that mean for **** games? If one can survive without microtransactions then the other most likely can. By microtransactions I mean primarily those involving real items and advantages like the entire SoF and the new pets in Solomon's store. Alternatively, Jagex will just end up putting microtransactions in everything even against player demand; that's what they've been doing for the last 18 months anyway.
I will continue to play RuneScape in its updated state, but the current player numbers on oldschool gives two clear messages:
1) People will play a game if it's not full of additional payments and pay2win transactions
2) The bots really are bad...The players ingame counter remains consistently insanely high even though half of most players' friends list is probably "Oldschool #" most of the time; Mine certainly is.
So yeah, remove mtx and bots and then you've fixed the game in 2013, making it the year from players for certain
01-Mar-2013 14:33:39 - Last edited on 01-Mar-2013 14:34:02 by Epthelyn
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