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King Awesome

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Great news!

I am concerned about the short samples of time f2p tests cover. Two weeks may be long enough to attract a bunch of people, but it is hardly enough to get sufficient skills to enjoy the game very much. Two days certainly is too short, like starting up the car to drive to the next door neighbor's house, it gives inadequate time for savings or slow revenues to build and offset the startup cost.

Free to Play always had advertisements in the past, as you must certainly recall. Will OSRS F2P carry advertisements? I don't imagine using it solely to attract members would profit, but if it is a place for other websites to advertise, like in the old days, then it has a chance.

Further, I expect the majority of players on the f2p servers will be current or former members, who either want to explore, or who don't pay for membership for various reasons. They know about runescape already, and about membership, and about oldschool. They either will or they will not rejoin the paid community, and a couple of weeks of free play is not likely to push them over the margin. It is, however, ample time to tell them about Company X, who wants to sell them Widgets, and who wants to pay to use runescape as a vehicle to tell people about the amazing new Widgets for sale on another site.

Ultimately, the key to finding profit in free play is in selling advertising space. That's how it used to work, and it can work that way again.

15-May-2014 16:48:40

esmee 1997

esmee 1997

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I don't think you guys realize that banning the bots is just killing the game even more.

You're exactly the type of player that ruined it for normal players, because of players like you normal and honoust players left the game.

15-May-2014 16:54:55

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15-May-2014 16:56:48

Motor Boats

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That is not what I'm suggesting at all, if you read my post you'd realize that.

Considering I haven't botted on this game one bit, I don't necessarily support it, but if JaGeX cares so much about their revenue, they'll understand that banning bots who are training with gaining no gold isn't worth it, considering it's only making more people quit.

As I said, if you saw things the way I did, and yes, I lead a clan of 60 active pures, you'd understand where I'm coming from with this.

I could literally bring back 10-15 pures EASILY that were in my clan pre-eoc, but they don't feel like coming back because of the G-R-I-N-D you have to go on.
No one has time anymore to sit there and get their accounts within beastmode anymore, you don't find anyone like that.

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And LOL at kids pming me ingame, saying how my post is ********.
Proves to me how awful this community really is, no one knows how to respect anyone else's opinion, it's ridiculous.

15-May-2014 17:01:28 - Last edited on 15-May-2014 17:02:20 by Motor Boats

A Hill

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Yes!!

But we're not in the clear yet guys, we need to do everything we can to convince Jagex that F2P is a good idea :D

We have the power to make our game so much greater now so lets do out best, and then do even BETTER!


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15-May-2014 17:02:59

Ownage Omg

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What a great job you guys are doing getting rid of those horrible bots!
Cannot wait for this to happen though 2 weeks sounds really short :/

World themes are very important:
381 - Trade F2P
382 - Wilderness PK
393 - Clan Wars

Thanks for making this happen cannot wait to start pking again in F2P!
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15-May-2014 17:03:26

Np
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That is not what I'm suggesting at all, if you read my post you'd realize that.

Considering I haven't botted on this game one bit, I don't necessarily support it, but if JaGeX cares so much about their revenue, they'll understand that banning bots who are training with gaining no gold isn't worth it, considering it's only making more people quit.

As I said, if you saw things the way I did, and yes, I lead a clan of 60 active pures, you'd understand where I'm coming from with this.

I could literally bring back 10-15 pures EASILY that were in my clan pre-eoc, but they don't feel like coming back because of the G-R-I-N-D you have to go on.
No one has time anymore to sit there and get their accounts within beastmode anymore, you don't find anyone like that.

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And LOL at kids pming me ingame, saying how my post is ********.
Proves to me how awful this community really is, no one knows how to respect anyone else's opinion, it's ridiculous.

While your opinion may be logical it is not sound. Hence, no.

15-May-2014 17:05:22 - Last edited on 15-May-2014 17:05:55 by Np

Chaos ruid

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With the "chat throttling" just add a Chat Filter. It would solve so many problems requested this many months ago. Essentially you would be able to add a text filter and only the players who's text include that would show (Not Case Sensitive). E.g. Lob, Lub, Lb, Srk, Shak, Shark, Buy, [b], (B) So the above would only show players buying sharks and lobster. It would be purely client side.

15-May-2014 17:06:46

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