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God Broly

God Broly

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Do you mods know that you'll get A LOT of people playing Rs again if you let EVERYONE play in 07 server Rs AND if you take out EoC.. Your community lost a lot of people because of the EoC update. Obviously, no one likes it, so why not just make the regular server into the 2010 version?

27-Feb-2013 04:48:18

Hellboy45454
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Hellboy45454

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I quit my membership years ago. 2 days ago, I came across some comments online that they brought the old servers back, so I came and checked it out. I resubscribed just to play on the '07 servers. It's pretty awesome being back on the old servers, which is a million times better than the trash the game has become now.

Just wanted to say though, that if you actually charge a fee to play the old servers in addition to the (already overpriced) $7.95 membership fee, I will most definitely cancel my subscription again lol.

ALSO, I'm sure others have pointed it out, but theres tens if not hundreds of thousands of ex players out there who DON'T know about this update. If they all knew about it, I have no doubt the poll would easily have surpassed the 500k mark by now. I mean, it was just dumb luck that I even found out about it, and none of my friends irl who used to play knew about this either.

27-Feb-2013 05:20:17 - Last edited on 27-Feb-2013 05:26:29 by Hellboy45454

Dawgin It

Dawgin It

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First case:
We have a players who seems to believe that they will in some way be forced to play oldschool RS if they vote for it.

Second case:
We have past players who want to play oldschool RS, but seem to think that they will be forced to play EoC RS if they pay a membership fee so they can vote for oldschool RS.

Third case:
And we have players who want to use the downloadable client to play oldschool RS, and haven't been informed that the standard downloadable client only needs a few tweaks to make it work for playing oldschool RS.

In the first case I believe that nobody is going to force you to play oldschool RS, even if you do vote for it, but you will have the choice if you do change your mind, even if you don't change your mind about voting for it.

In the second case, players who only want to play oldschool RS will not be forced to play EoC RS, even if they pay a membership so they can vote for oldschool RS, but if they do change their minds about playing EoC RS the choice will be there.

For those in the third case, there is a Wiki page on how to tweak the regular downloadable client to work for oldschool RS, and JMod Philip started a thread (Quick find code: 317-318-465-64296343) for it, and has the link to the W**i page in his first post. If you do decide to tweak the client to work for oldschool RS there is a file that needs editing, please don't copy and paste the changes in, type them in by hand, trust me on this, i had to fix my oldschool RS client because of this issue.

27-Feb-2013 05:22:39

Coffee Ninja

Coffee Ninja

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I'd love to play the old runescape again. I started playing f2p somewhere 2005-2006, but I had long break after 2007. I started playing again (and upgraded to members) somewhere in 2009 and played for 2 years or so.

I don't like the current state of RuneScape so 2007RS would be the right option for me.

However, I don't want to pay extra and thus I'm not spending a penny on it until it's certain that there won't be any extra charge (=500k votes).

I wish Jagex would also let those vote who have had at least 6 months of membership in the past. That would add a lot of good votes to the counter.

27-Feb-2013 13:50:50 - Last edited on 27-Feb-2013 13:51:45 by Coffee Ninja

AlexBoyJr

AlexBoyJr

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it's not going to reach 500k votes so we have to pay extra. some members are so selfish, theres like a million or so members, just because they don't want to start over or they wont enjoy or use old rs, they won't vote. if you haven't voted yet, please vote cos i really don't want to pay £3 ($5) extra to play the old rs. i also find it silly that jagex are asking for so many votes to bring it back, i think the current 400k+ votes are already enough to sustain the old runescape and enough people will play. jagex stop being unfair, why do i have to stress over my money issues just to play the game...

27-Feb-2013 15:16:33

Wurmbait

Wurmbait

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To all those quitting cause they have to pay for the hated EOC:
You have to pay to play either EOCscape or the 07 OSR. Depending on the vote results, they may add an additional charge for the 07 OSR only. The EOCscape does not have an added cost. You are NOT paying for EOCscape you are paying for Runescape. That subscription let's you pick which version you want to play. If you like the 07 OSR(Old School Runescape) get a subscription(if possible) and vote for the 07 OSR.

edit:
There is NO added cost to 07 OSR if we hit the 500,000 vote count.So vote if you can.
The FTP players are out of luck cause there is no way to hit the 750,000 count at current vote rules. Unless the FTP players get a 1 month subscription to vote and then just let that subscription expire after the 750,000 vote, we will not meet that 750,000 goal so no FTP players on the OSR. :(

27-Feb-2013 15:36:32 - Last edited on 27-Feb-2013 15:43:31 by Wurmbait

Tomy Hun

Tomy Hun

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So I quit RS in 2009, well, I actually didn't quit like most people do, I just got bored, cancelled my membership and never came back to play. I had played for more than 4 years, on and off and I never said I'd quit forever but after a while even the holiday events got boring so I pretty much gave up on the whole game.

But! Sometimes I'd check out the Hiscores and some new updates (never actually in-game) and thanks to this I saw the vote and the whole Old School RuneScape dilemma.

I'm definitely not gonna pay 8 bucks just to vote. I actually don't really feel like paying at all for it. I would certainly try it if it were free. Because right now I don't even know if I'd enjoy it. I quit before all this EoC stuff so I honestly don't feel like losing all my 99 skills (Agility took forever, dang it!)

Anyway, I'll be sure to continue to check the Old School RS out even though I don't really expect it to be free. But maybe. Just maybe.

27-Feb-2013 16:19:43

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