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Zombielv86

Zombielv86

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Hello.

I am an ex-player who stopped paying/playing around 2-3years ago. I was disillusioned by the nature of the content introduced to RS (which focused on OP weapons, the destruction of the RS economy via the GE, and general babying of the ingame population). I was further disheartened following the introduction of the SoF and new combat system. Rants aside, as a player who started in 2003/2004 and practically had a separate life on RS, I almost cried seeing this after dozens of failed RSPS.

Everyone should support this. 2006 era RSPS attracted hundreds of thousands of users to sit around and wait for servers that, in some cases, did not even reach fruition. The audience is there, and the simplistic structure of 2007 RS has a strong appeal that is NOT to be ignored in any form. It provides a challenge and game feel unique to itself. As MMG stated, rebooting 2007 would be an easy transition with a large audience (which we have) and maintenance will be simple given that no updates are needed.

Regardless of whether or not you would personally enjoy servers of this nature, please know that there are others, like me and hundreds of thousands more, who will enjoy the feel of 2007 RS. Debate the merits of the actual game as you will, but what matters is that the audience for this is very much present here. The reintroduction of 2007 RS will be marked by the joyous return of thousands of ex-players, and perhaps with the introduction of a similar amount of new ones.

It is only logical, as such, to support this as a RS player so that the RS audience may replenish and grow with the readdition of something so simple, yet so powerful.

14-Feb-2013 00:02:02

Runite Red

Runite Red

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" I am concerned about the allowing only members to vote. I doubt a majority of your current paying RuneScape members even played the game in 2007 so they aren't likely to care all that much.

A members only vote means that the chances of this actually succeeding will be slim to none and even if its gets 50k votes nobody is going to want to pay $15 for a older version of a game.

Please show us that you are serious about this and allow non members who have played a certain length of time to vote as well as the members.

As a player from Runescape 2001 I would love to see this implemented. "


Me too buddy, sport them ears :)

14-Feb-2013 00:02:26

N1te

N1te

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STATS RESET, NOT ENOUGH MEMBERS FOR 750k VOTES, 5*-15* EXTRA(on top of mem fees) to play the server..

B-B-BUZZZKILLLLLLL

******* jagex are greedy little ******* they are mad that they failed after eoc

14-Feb-2013 00:02:27 - Last edited on 14-Feb-2013 00:03:03 by N1te

Galahad Sir
Feb Member 2006

Galahad Sir

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It's not about the game from 2007. That game is dated and no fun.

It's about the community from 2007. The community was wonderful. People worked together to have fun, rather than being at each other's throats, and scamming was not allowed, instead of becoming the best moneymaking method like it is now.

You can't bring that back with a backup and an old server. Jagex have to look at their policy of inviting back all the former rule breakers when IVP took over, and of giving botters and hackers and cheaters free reign, and what that's done to the runescape community.

They have to look at micropayments and changing to allow people who don't believe in fairness to buy their way ahead, making a community of haves and have not*.

I want the community from 2007 in the game from 2013.

I fear that fracturing the community further like this will only lead to yet more dead content. There is precious little reason to get the best stats/weapons/equipment now, except to boss, which you only do to get the best equipment... Runescape needs endgame content, a goal to work towards like perhaps being the best in the world at something (League of Legends has this attraction in spades), but if half the pvp community go play on "Classic 2" because they want to relive their glory days because they can't be bothered learning or getting good at the new game, then even things like the Clan Cup can no longer be seen as goals to work towards. You play, you max, you quit will be the norm.

Please don't split up the community even further, and please *DO* work towards making the Runescape community as good as it was in 2007.

Finally, yet again, Jagex have failed to learn about one sided polls. It's just like the wildy sham vote. If you don't let people vote "No", it's not a poll.

But like the wildy sham vote or customised classic servers, Jagex will do whatever they have already decided, and manipulate poll results to support it. No point voting really.

Thank you for reading.

14-Feb-2013 00:02:32

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