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Dilbert2001 said :
Obviously there have never been any "riots" over the last few price hikes. People have never been "mad" or else they would not have kept playing and paying through all these increased prices. Only more players played and paid. The real world official financial reports clearly reflected the facts.
The core play to win elements of MTX have always been in OSRS too the past years since the gp of both versions are freely convertible. Literally, RS3 players can dominate OSRS economically if they want to thanks to MTX in RS3.
To say "go play OSRS because it has no MTX" is just an escapist apporach. OSRS MTX haters should realize they are and have always been dominated by pay to win players from RS3.
The last price increase almost had no major negative reaction. This one did. I think the difference is two fold:
1) USD $11/mo is psychologically a "premium" price. It's double digits, and it makes the membership fee "comparable" to games like WoW. It now invites comparisons between different MMOs that didn't exist before. It doesn't feel valid to say "but RS is cheaper", technically it still is, but not enough for people to care because of the psychological double digit thing. RS low cost was ALWAYS a selling point of the game.
2) Lack of major updates. RS had a really bad last year, even Jagex admitted this. The level of updates has gone down dramatically. There used to be a time where we'd get 1-2 new skills and something like 20 new quests per year. Combine this with a rise in MTX promos and a price increase, it really feels like the value players used to get from RuneScape is diminishing.
Combine these together and you can understand why the reaction is so negative compared to past price increases.
Do you know where do people go for a "riot"? If you don't it is not that hard to do a search anything. Nobody "rioted" over price at all.
Dilbert2001 said :
Obviously there have never been any "riots" over the last few price hikes. People have never been "mad" or else they would not have kept playing and paying through all these increased prices. Only more players played and paid. The real world official financial reports clearly reflected the facts.
The core play to win elements of MTX have always been in OSRS too the past years since the gp of both versions are freely convertible. Literally, RS3 players can dominate OSRS economically if they want to thanks to MTX in RS3.
To say "go play OSRS because it has no MTX" is just an escapist apporach. OSRS MTX haters should realize they are and have always been dominated by pay to win players from RS3.
The last price increase almost had no major negative reaction. This one did. I think the difference is two fold:
1) USD $11/mo is psychologically a "premium" price. It's double digits, and it makes the membership fee "comparable" to games like WoW. It now invites comparisons between different MMOs that didn't exist before. It doesn't feel valid to say "but RS is cheaper", technically it still is, but not enough for people to care because of the psychological double digit thing. RS low cost was ALWAYS a selling point of the game.
2) Lack of major updates. RS had a really bad last year, even Jagex admitted this. The level of updates has gone down dramatically. There used to be a time where we'd get 1-2 new skills and something like 20 new quests per year. Combine this with a rise in MTX promos and a price increase, it really feels like the value players used to get from RuneScape is diminishing.
Combine these together and you can understand why the reaction is so negative compared to past price increases.
Do you know where do people go for a "riot"? If you don't it is not that hard to do a search anything. Nobody "rioted" over price at all.
16-Apr-2018 17:31:36
