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Girrocks
Oct Member 2021

Girrocks

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Do you guys honestly expect to reach 500k votes?

Five years ago Jagex announced that they barely received a million membership accounts and this was the peak of their members. This was when there was about 200,000 people logged in at any time in runescape. So about 1/5 members would be logged in.

Ever since then, the memberships have been going down significantly due to updates that people have not liked, EoC being the highest

Today, there are about 80,000 members on at any time in the day. So multiply that by 5, and you have approximately 400,000 members. This does not include bots. So that means theres about 350,000 actual players (being generous here) that are currently eligible to vote.

That being said, EVERY SINGLE one of those people have to vote and there will be still about 150,000 votes short. That amount of people is possible, but given the time duration of 2 weeks of veteran players to find out and buy membership and vote, it is almost a joke and nothing but false hope.

Jagex will reach the 250,000 vote mark. But they know it will not make the 500,000 mark. Like their new mentality reflects, they want more money. They will get that extra 5 bucks a month they want. And they will play on people's hope to strive for that 500,000 milestone by making old veterans pay right now for membership to throw it towards that meaningless goal. Its another way to get money out of you. By riding on your dream of free old servers. If they really wanted to do this, they would make the polls for both nonmembers and members, just like they did for old school pvp.

Also, in old school pvp there was about 1.3 million votes that were recorded of both members and nonmembers. Of these, everyone logged into every account they had both members and nonmembers (i had 5)... Given a community a broken community of players, now required membership, and not being able to use every account you had before, that 500k milestone is nothing more than false hope and a cruel joke by jagex.

14-Feb-2013 08:27:08 - Last edited on 14-Feb-2013 08:32:40 by Girrocks

Skaarjo

Skaarjo

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"Go beg somewhere else. this is discussing bringing back old runescape servers."

I seem to remember hearing a forum mod saying that this is an open discussion whether or not this should happen so everybody opinion matter since after all we are currently one community.

14-Feb-2013 08:27:50

Korn4life34

Korn4life34

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Why cant we just start the game as our same characters with stats remaining the same on both parts of the game, as well as keeping all existing items but since it will be two versions of rs and with this so called "save game" feat when you do something in either game your bank status remains the same in that version with no change to the other. shouldnt have to lose everything to get what should have never been taken away. That way the only items in the game would be the items players already have and the new ones that they could go PVM to get more items floating around this new server. After the release of these servers its going to be a while before you actaully get to pk due train,skill, and gain wealth (going to be harder waiting on restarts to get the game going). The grand exchange wasn't and isn't a bad update it's just abused. This is the only way i honestly see this working because how else would we get rares over into the server.

14-Feb-2013 08:28:42

Ape Rep

Ape Rep

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it will honestly max at 50k votes its not going to hit 250k im not going to pay an additional 15+ the regular membership fee so like $20 a month and take in to consideration that its going to take a year+ to max out cmb etc ur paying $240 a year get real gl with this l0l0l...id rather just play a rsps then pay $20 a month #joke

14-Feb-2013 08:30:48

Aussies
Jan Member 2023

Aussies

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I've just got a few questions which i would like an answer to.
1. If you choose to play the '07 version of the game you will be required to start again from scratch? No levels, No items etc.
2. Will there be a high score system?

14-Feb-2013 08:31:01

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