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Jim Gym
Nov Member 2021

Jim Gym

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Some suggestions on where to take your advertisement in 2015..

Years back I recall you advertising on Mini Clip for the first time, bringing in literally thousands of players. Statistically the majority of mini clips playerbase was very young at the time,leading to some social issues in Runescape but I digress, the game needs new blood. Many websites are just as popular today, mainly catering to apps however it is still a large group of gamers who could have interest in oldschool.

Possibly look at linking with some popular gaming sites, or perhaps becoming stable on Xbox1/ps4 built in browser - selling a "kit" with a mouse and small keyboard, 3 months membership, etc.

Players that find and enjoy Runescape on another website, will want to go to the "main" website, its only logical.

Personally I think oldschool Runescape should be branded as a retro game, you could get various internet figureheads involved on social media sites. Paying 50-100 random people a small amount per post to advertise in various places online would also work wonders.

Also - you need to advertise the crap out of free to play! im sure you can get a 3-4K f2p solely playerbase, if you advertise. Many people would make level 3 skillers, pures, etc solely on f2p, we need to get the message out to these people.Every new fan tells his friends, and his friends tell their friends, and it repeats itself.

Lastly, I think it is time for voice chat functionality for Runescape 3 and Oldschool. Even a jagex hosted TS/Vent server that is advertised in game would suffice. Players could meet up, chat, trade, boss etc. When a voice is involved players will be more likely to form connections with others making for a stronger playerbase.
--voice chat functionality would talk alot of legal stuff to put together, warning screens, disclaimers and what have you but it is something that is becoming mainstream in video games and for jagex to stay on the cutting edge the time is now

16-Feb-2015 17:06:51 - Last edited on 16-Feb-2015 17:26:06 by Jim Gym

EPIC iMime
Nov Member 2023

EPIC iMime

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Just hoping for:

A: No cosmetic items, keep the game clean.
B: No spins or treasure hunting
C: HD
D: Possibly 2012 pre-eoc moving (animation) mechanics. (If players agree, if not then ditch the idea.)

Nothing big and basically regular stuff. :P

17-Feb-2015 12:39:16

The Beak

The Beak

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EPIC iMime said :
Just hoping for:

A: No cosmetic items, keep the game clean.
B: No spins or treasure hunting
C: HD
D: Possibly 2012 pre-eoc moving (animation) mechanics. (If players agree, if not then ditch the idea.)

Nothing big and basically regular stuff. :P

"Regular stuff"

I agree with the top two as I think everyone is against these, but HD and 2011/2012 animations? You do realise these will be a HUGE overhaul on the game and the 07 team have already stated they'll not be updating graphics or animations as it's too big of a project to take on. Also I think I speak for the majority (correct me if I'm wrong) when I say no to HD and updated animations.
Let the drops commence!

18-Feb-2015 11:16:14

epiclegacy77

epiclegacy77

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with the grand exchange coming out as a buy/sell option it will cause merchers owning the game even with buy/sell limits. this will cause prices to raise skyhigh and cause pvmers/pkers/etc to die off cause of ridiculous prices small scale and big scale, so you have to reopen the poll for artisan and tell why it needs to pass the reason is because if it were all economy based getting what you want would be so freaking expensive due to merchers raising the prices and the ge will cause that on a mass scale so for a balance they need player skilled items from artisan pertaining to gather/forging etc bonuses such as giving you boosts through them etc like a triple harpoon catch three sharks at once this will make it to where people that go out and do stuff instead of price gouge all day have a chance but slight drawback they have to go do it themselves but thats ok cause economy still plays a roll. like void over other gear but slight drawback less defense so economy still has a part but its not the very best gear ingame, but gives people that do stuff on their own a chance at the game, artisan has to pass or something that boosts player skilled items for all the gathering/forging stats etc and player skilled weapons have to pass or i think there will a huge dropoff in player activity due to excessive prices on things small scale and big scale pertaining to weapons/and all the stats and what their made up of we rlly need more loot respective mobs and rewards on a wide scale for more balance as well

25-Feb-2015 11:19:53

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