I have played RuneScape since 2003. The last time I payed for membership with real life money was in 2011 before the release of EOC when the game was more enjoyable and affordable. I return now and then, I am fortunate enough to be one of the players who actually had achieved stats while the game was more enjoyable that are good enough to secure the in game wealth to buy bonds to fund membership. The thing is with a price at $11 a month, people are not going to want to buy membership. This further alienates new players, this along with the difficult to understand default interfaces, abilities, and unnecessary features that making starting out as a new player more of a chore than an experience are why Old School has a better player base. The only result of this is going to be less people buying membership and sticking around on rs3 because of the value not being there, and your streamers using their revenue to purchase bonds and gain more in game wealth and have more content to show on their channels, resulting in more revenues for them, but loss of interest of the rest of your playerbase because of how alienating something such as this is.
Players are not going to want to return for mobile with these ridiculous prices scaring them away. Players are not going to want to join with these ridiculous prices scaring them away. The only players that will remain are the current ones, and as players lose interest, there will not be a cycle of new players gaining interest. You are losing your number of customers by catering to the customers who are willing to pay the most and offering them the ability to pay to have an advantage above all other players. What will you do when you have scared away all of the people willing to pay a reasonable amount to enjoy a game because you would rather milk the few rich players, and now these rich players, mostly streamers and youtube content providers, will have interest in their content diminished, and thus also leave the game. STOP IT.
11-Apr-2018 08:30:27
