Someone needs to just step up to the plate and spend 2.5 million dollars on members accounts to get the 300,000 votes needed for tier 3.... I would do it but my mom said I can't.
They don't think we will get 750k votes, in fact they know for sure that we will get nowhere near that. This way, they ensure that anyone that wants to play on the 07 servers will have to pay for them.
If this was Jagex before IVP bought majority shares, and Andrew Gower was still in charge, the 07 servers would be free to current members, like they did with the RSC servers after RS2 came out.
I've been a member in years past when Runescape was enjoyable to play (like this old school you speak of). The new updates and drastic changes to the quality of the game was my reason for quiting. If Old School RS was to come back I would play again, definitely. But I'm not paying to be a member just to vote, wasting money on something that's not definite or something that will be more expensive when it's up and running for that matter.
This is real funny, "I love this game can't wait for 2007, Ohhhh the best years of R.S ever, and ofc I will buy membership when it comes out". "But I will not pay $5 bucks for membership now to make sure we get the votes hmmmmmmmmmm". I perfer Jagex to give all f2p access to vote to make it even more inaccurate as it already is from multi-acc owners voting more then once
Complaining about it isn't going to do you any good, Jagex made this decision based on the profits they are currently gaining, honestly if you can't see it from a companies perspective than just don't bother.