RuneScape Forum Archive | Price Change & Summer Content

Apr

2014

River S0ng

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Sonofthunder said :
Who cares if the game is slightly more expensive? You people focus on the wrong things. Worry about taxes, health care, rent--things that make a measurable impact. Inflation is what it is. You guys make more money than you did five years ago. What's a couple dollars in the grand scheme of things? I spend that much every DAY on doritos. And I'm cheap!

But I mean, it's your choice. If you want to be miserable about everything, more power to you. Hope you never have any real problems.

Exactly! I'm just so happy to see others on this thread who feel this way. It's true, there's a lot more things to worry about than a few more dollars or whatever currency one uses. People spend that much on coffee a day, or a bit less, for those who frequent chain places or whatnot. One more thing you're right about, misery loves company, and they love to shout it out to everyone about how miserable they are.

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14-Apr-2018 03:40:10

Hamarr

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These days, I generally don't play any new content. I just do my three or four solo routines a day, and that's that. I like the POF idea, could go either way on the rest. But that doesn't matter. New content means something to someone. The more things that there are for people to do, and the more different styles of play that people have, the more interesting the game is. I don't care if I'm not going to go bossing, I still like seeing bossers standing around with all their bosser stuff as I bonfire. It's just another part of the world. The more content the better, whether I want to play it or not. So more power to Jagex for putting stuff in.

And the price? To me, it's insignificant for how many thousands of hours I've played this game. Even if it skyrockets to $2 a week, I get hours of something (enjoyment, distraction, mild achievement?) out of Runescape every day, for the price of one cup of coffee a week (a cheap cup, even). Sounds good to me!

Sure, I'd pay even more to get MTX to go away (or Darkscape to come back), but that's not going to happen so I just deal with it and play on.

So, yeah, I'm looking forward to the new stuff, and not worried about the price change. Glad to see more changes coming!! (but I'd like more bank tabs!!!)...

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14-Apr-2018 03:52:55

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2023

NeuralNet

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Solak wasn't suppose to be a summer update though. How many of these other updates are going to be Fall or next year updates?

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14-Apr-2018 03:53:54

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2023

NeuralNet

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Shooter Mann said :
player owned farm is stupid as ****

lower the game price back to $5 a month if you want to increase subs like it was years ago.
youre going to lose players when you raise the price and see a net loss.

This is totally possible. Obviously there is such a thing as economic equilibrium, and I think this is a bit over and Jagex will end up losing money by raising mem fees. I'll probably still pay, but I don't really think RuneScape is a $11/mo MMO and I'm sure this will stop many new players or returning players from subbing.

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14-Apr-2018 03:57:51

cizms shire

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Lol the only reason there's a price hike is because investors want to squeeze the life out of this game. Investors are ruining this game and the management are ignoring even their own staff and making bad decisions with the devs' time. Listen to the players, don't just say you are. A lot of players, over 50% of the friends I've mentioned the price hike to, are going to quit. It is the final straw. completely unjustified and a joke.

14-Apr-2018 04:02:40

aphoticMUN

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I love when I write a massive post and then it just doesn't show up. Yea you really need some extra money for better coders XD

100k minimum a month increase just from Rs3. Over 1m a year. Yea Jagex you need that so badly for the content you had already promised us and then a little extra lmao. The fact that it takes you 2-5 years just to release things (if you ever release them) makes me not want to play this game anymore to begin with. Now you want more money for your failures XD Laughable.
And yea,cut the servers in half but make Brazilians pay double the price for membership that makes total sense. People complaining about people complaining need to get a life. And people saying that inflation happens need to go back to high school and learn how to do some pretty basic math to realize that this is just Jagex reaching 200m thieving.

Transcendent has it right though, its easy to see why they are doing it now. Obviously this was going to happen after eoc release and the bot nuke. They sued multiple gold farming companies who I am sure got rid of any or most stocks they held on Jagex. Lost tons of players to eoc release, though did get back a large majority releasing os. They also lost all of the memberships per month for each bot that was perma banned. Plus all of their actual dedicated players are just pissed off with them lately. Rs3 is like 1/3 the size of players that rs2 was. I would rather Jagex just be honest with us rather than feeding us a whole bunch of inaccurate excuses that we all see through. Thanks @transcendent for that info though. I still dont 100% agree with what they are doing but at least it makes more sense now..
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14-Apr-2018 04:05:36

aphoticMUN

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I did my math horribly wrong dont even ask how lol. Its way worse than I originally thought.
So if I slip on membership, I will be paying $3.00 more a month. Last month there was 376,000 members on the hiscores. 381,000 in feb and 426,000 in January. Already there is 260k this month and we are only halfway through. If we use the average from January through March we get 394,000 paying members (this is for rs3 only of course).

Okay so there is different increases depending on the country of course but I will use the Canadian/American increase as I am Canadian and my husband is American and I know how much its increased for us. Its confusing because the pound, cad, usd and euro are all worth different amounts of money but have been increased to about the same $ amount. Though Brazil was doubled so wtf...
Anyways. $3 a month 394,000 monthly users is $1,182,000 a month or $14,184,000 a year. Of course this does vary because of what each dollar is worth and the increase in each country. But it gives you a pretty good rough idea of what we are looking at.

Just wanted to clear up my horrible original math haha, I used the hourly users for some reason like an idiot the first time and went wait.... that makes no sense XD
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14-Apr-2018 04:28:16

Dec

2006

Zulisian

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Sonofthunder said :
Who cares if the game is slightly more expensive? You people focus on the wrong things. Worry about taxes, health care, rent--things that make a measurable impact. Inflation is what it is. You guys make more money than you did five years ago. What's a couple dollars in the grand scheme of things? I spend that much every DAY on doritos. And I'm cheap!

But I mean, it's your choice. If you want to be miserable about everything, more power to you. Hope you never have any real problems.

As Much as I agree with inflation, this doesn't apply to everyone.

I worked in banking 5 years ago, and was rolling in spare cash. I quit, as it wasn't something I saw as my passion, I was depressed and not loving my work, I now work with children, primarily those with Autism and maybe other disabilities. Unfortunately, this sort of work is not "loaded with riches" with some months me earning less than a week of my wages at the bank.

Obviously my health, mental and physical matter more to me than the financial gain I would have returning to banking, but to say "you earn more than you did 5 years ago" not everyone does, and it's a blinkered perspective to say it in such a flat way.

Some people do jobs for the love and passion they have for them, sacrificing the money they would be earning in other jobs.

Also, as a new player, it would annoy me to see myself paying almost twice what other players are paying, because I'm new.

Obviously, having been a member since 2006 without a break, I'm on the original Grandfather rates, thus I only pay £3.20 (about $3-4) a month if I choose to pay monthly, I don't as I like supporting Jagex through the premier club scheme and enjoy the benefits I get back from it, but we're all playing the same game and I'd like to see a way for new members to earn decreased monthly rates, as most people picking this rate will be those unable to pay for the 12 months in one go. Mod Sayln: 22.10.16 - It was working as intended

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14-Apr-2018 04:30:23 - Last edited on 14-Apr-2018 04:35:11 by Zulisian

Dec

2023

Iceman3317

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It isn't about the damn price! I would gladly pay more, but what the hell are we getting? NOTHING! We are getting nothing an hardly any content to warrant another price hike.

I have said it over and over and over again, why the hell would I or anyone else pay the same damn price for a game that has far less content that others?

MMO are already dying because of Subs. With runescape, we are paying more AND getting SLAMMED by MTX. Not a single damn game other than runescape slams the players with both.

WoW, does sometimes, but it is once or twice a year and it is a mount or pet. WoW has never increased the price unless state requires it for taxes. Some people can even get WoW for 13 a month and they have content that will last them for years. With runescape we get content once a week that usually only only lasts for a few days before people have finished it. And what we do get that lasts for a while is content that only effects a fraction of the damn community.

Price hiking has nothing to do with complains, it is the lack of damn content. We are paying more for a game now with less content than we did back in the day for more content. So tell me, why the hell should I continue to pay for something that keeps going up for less content? Yeah I could quit, but that isn't the damn point.

Why would a new player pay the same monthly price for runescape when they can play something like WoW, or a free game and have far more content? Come the Sixth-Age, the world will need the World Guardian.

14-Apr-2018 05:55:42 - Last edited on 14-Apr-2018 06:03:56 by Iceman3317

Jun

2011

F4

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None of those updates would make me want to come back to RuneScape, and none of those updates are going to attract new players as they're all end game activities. Raising the membership is just a ploy to scare people from cancelling their membership and losing out on their grandfathered rates.

14-Apr-2018 05:56:52

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