one thing i noticed how does it go from 9.99 to 12 ? so now an hour of work an minimum wage doesnt pay for membership anymore? if its gonna increase that much we should at least get more keys in treasure trail a month
Oo-Death-oO
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Isn't the reason you run TH promos 8 days a week to avoid having to raise membership prices?
The active player base has dropped from years ago so raise prices to try and increase revenue yet its just going to lower the rate at which new players join the game.
Then there's players like myself who take breaks every once in a while for several months because new quality content isn't released frequent enough to keep us from getting bored. I mean just take this week's edgeville clean up, literally 3 minutes of gameplay, I was extremely disappointed.
I hope this price increase is used to hire more developers to create quality content more frequently and not simply because you want more money. People spend their money on products, not just because. If the latter, I guess I'll be taking another break with hopes of maybe coming back in a year to have enough stuff to keep me busy for a month or two.
The rate hike is only on membership fees. TH has nothing to do with it and not changed at all.
Active membership base is actually going up... however, I am not sure about it in a couple of years... which I predict it will drop in tandem with the dying MMO genre, especially the subscription based ones. So you see subscription rates keep going up in all the pay-to-pay/freemuim games. The problem is MTX contributes <40% of Jagex revenue but it is easily >50% in all their peers. Not enough MTX revenue is the reason to blame the subscription rate hike.
10-Apr-2018 19:39:56
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10-Apr-2018 19:41:36
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Dilbert2001
Ah, I was wondering when the new shareholders would be making changes. Well, here it is. I suppose we should soon see an increase in MTX and a further decrease in content and quality.
Here, I'll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret!
Dilbert2001
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Oo-Death-oO
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Isn't the reason you run TH promos 8 days a week to avoid having to raise membership prices?
The active player base has dropped from years ago so raise prices to try and increase revenue yet its just going to lower the rate at which new players join the game.
Then there's players like myself who take breaks every once in a while for several months because new quality content isn't released frequent enough to keep us from getting bored. I mean just take this week's edgeville clean up, literally 3 minutes of gameplay, I was extremely disappointed.
I hope this price increase is used to hire more developers to create quality content more frequently and not simply because you want more money. People spend their money on products, not just because. If the latter, I guess I'll be taking another break with hopes of maybe coming back in a year to have enough stuff to keep me busy for a month or two.
The rate hike is only on membership fees. TH has nothing to do with it and not changed at all.
Active membership base is actually going up... however, I am not sure about it in a couple of years... which I predict it will drop in tandem with the dying MMO genre, especially the subscription based ones. So you see subscription rates keep going up in all the pay-to-pay/freemuim games. The problem is MTX contributes <40% of Jagex revenue but it is easily >50% in all their peers. Not enough MTX revenue is the reason to blame the subscription rate hike.
Lol, keep telling yourself that kid.
Here, I'll give you this strawberry if you keep it a secret!
Bold strategy of trying to attract new players Jamflex.
Why would anyone now start RS when for the same price you can go play WoW, FF14 etc?
Sip
Yep, RuneScape was a good game.
10-Apr-2018 19:44:30
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10-Apr-2018 19:45:45
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BiggerDuck
Therok
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You obviously haven't been around long enough to realize that costs go up...for everything...and everywhere, both on the production side, and as a result, on the consuming side.
Which is completely fine, but when the production side decides to make content that has you stand next to 4 buildings and press a hammer and the building is fixed /end content (edgeville cleanup) and then spend the rest of the day on new TH content it becomes a bit disappointing.
wow raising the price again? money grabbing w**kers i remember the days it was under £5 a month. what is the need for this rise most people have played runescape over other pay to play MMORPGs because this is cheaper. now its relatively more expencive then others. over the years you'v only worsened the game and put in more buyable options. what are we getting for this price rise?
if you just left the game alone several years ago you'd still have 500k+ players but no you got greedy for a mediocre simple game that could easily be a free phone app by now.
A few points:
1. Real Life - When your currency looses value exports become cheaper - RS - USD price for gold memb was much higher than GBR price
2. Real Life - Economies are struggling to achieve 2 % growth for years; negative interest rate in Japan, near 0% in the USA - RS - 10% price hike
3. When something costs more it is of higher quality so if we are to invest more real money in RS the value of RS items becomes more valuable in terms of real money. I would like to see scamming in the game addressed due to higher cost of everything. Trade between players should occur in 2 stages: there should be a middle section in the trade window with a checkbox to confirm that these are the agreed items of the trade and items in the middle section could not be changed by players except by cancelling the trade because they were put there by the game not the player.
4.I will give an example - update of wildy sword done by someone who doesn't play the game. All new devs should learn to ask the question : Is this content used in a repetitive and daily manner? If the person doesn't know how something functions they can create a thread and ask the players for suggestions for lets say a week before proceeding with updates. Better management is needed because breaking something that wasn't broken and wasting time to repair it wastes our money. All that was needed was to add rightclick Edgeville tele to the augmented wildy sword instead we got a version that breaks the most common functions of the sword - rc and warbands.
5. For the new price of RS pls hire an outside graphics studio and beautify the whole of RS3.
6. I hope we are not paying for OSRS's content.
7. Better TH updates pls.