"Also, I never said that a [insert timeframe here] server would fail right away. I meant that without updates, which is necessary in order to keep it a certain way, it would fail just as Classic failed."
A viable plan would be to offer both RS2 and RS3 (maintaining and upkeep on both games).
Without updates, of course games die.. this new RS3 would be totally dead without updates too.
Classic has the few players it does.. because Jagex CHOSE to not update it. CHOSE to close it and not let new peeps join it.
Jagex doesn't have to choose anything. So, even if they CHOSE to offer both RS2 and RS3, they could also CHOOSE to update both games and to allow membership on both games.
Games don't need to be updated in the same manner.. the change in cb is a distinguishing factor now.. in RS3 they most certainly -should- move forward with their plans for RS3.. it could become a game that many people enjoy.. somewhere down the road.
But when you have this level of interest.. in a prior iteration of your game.. RS2.. and you choose not to take advantage of it.. you are committing business suicide.
You basically have people waving money at you and begging you to take their money. People who would likely pay DOUBLE membership fees, for the choice to play RS2.
It's 2 entirely different games. They should both be run that way.
Choosing not to offer both RS2 and RS3.. is choosing to make plans to do one of 2 things:
1. To take RS offline.. for good.
2. To merge with Nexon, and the RS client would then be downloadable from them.
I say 2 is the most likely scenario.. because IVP has their fingers in both pies.. and a history of one company absorbing another.
It's all on jagex atm, the CHOICES, are theirs to be making.
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity" -Martin Luther King Jr.
08-Feb-2013 10:49:00
