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Im Nate

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Nice to see you're working on bringing in F2p. I also like the two step verification (is it JAG)?

As far as the auto typing thing, that's not something I like. Wouldn't that just make the auto typing issue even worse as more people will do it? And if it gives any disadvantages compared to the typical auto typing software people simply won't use it, so any benefits to adding it would be lost.

It won't make it worse because as they said there will be filter options. Also this will allow them to ban people using auto typers because there's not reason to be using auto typers to spam the game up when jagex provides you with one that doesn't spam the game up. Maxed Sept 24th, 2015 - 134th to max

15-May-2014 18:19:49

Saxo
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I'm not sure if you're serious lol ?

It's unlikely that anyone is going to pay for OSRS after playing for 2 weeks. 2 weeks F2P isn't going to persuade anyone into coming back and it definitely isn't going to make any new player buy P2P. F2P is a longterm investment, not short term.

I realize that all IVP care about is short term results (Micro transactions) but they really need to look at the bigger picture this time round since they clearly didn't do it for RS3.

A limited F2P trial is a terrible idea if you want to try bring us F2P permanently. The only limitations here should be the amount of worlds.


All i'll ask you here, if RS was originally only F2P during a selective 2 week trial, do you think it would have gotten anywhere near as popular as it did now (and the activity now isn't even that great compared to 07)? No.

15-May-2014 18:25:04 - Last edited on 15-May-2014 18:39:11 by Saxo

esmee 1997

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I'm not sure if you're serious lol ?

It's unlikely that anyone is going to pay for OSRS after playing for 2 weeks. 2 weeks F2P isn't going to persuade anyone into coming back and it definitely isn't going to make any new player buy P2P. F2P is a longterm investment, not short term.

I realize that all IVP care about is short term results (Micro transactions) but they really need to look at the bigger picture this time round since they clearly didn't do it for RS3.

A limited F2P trial is a terrible idea if you want to try bring us F2P permanently. The only limitations here should be the amount of worlds.


All i'll ask you here, if RS was originally only F2P during a selective 2 week trial, do you think it would have gotten anywhere near as popular as it did now (and the activity now isn't even that great compared to 07)? No.

I agree, the first couple of weeks I played I didn't have any stat above lvl 60, but when you want to use a dragon scimiatar you'll need to have lvl 60 attack.
I can't imagine over 5% of the players back in 2007 bought membership within 2 weeks after the first moment they started playing the game.


Also, the main reason my friends before P2p back at the time was because F2p was so crowded, not even because of all that great new skills and items and stuff, but when you put up a massive amount of 6 new worlds from day 1 then you seem to expect like 12k online new players or something, that would be insane!

15-May-2014 18:32:14 - Last edited on 15-May-2014 18:41:58 by esmee 1997

Lord Speed

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This is one of the more exciting dev blogs I've read since OSRS released. It leads me to believe that the team at Jagex does see potential in this game and are willing to allocate more resources into bettering it. However, I'd like to add that botting is not just an RWT issue, it is an integrity issue. I hope the same effort is being made to stop all bots and not just ones that sell gold.

15-May-2014 18:32:59

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can i have the link to the auto typer please? will it be integrated in osrs in an update?

Yes.

And there is no link, for it isn't a third party website offering the autotyper but the autotyper would be integrated into OSRS like what you said.

15-May-2014 18:41:41 - Last edited on 15-May-2014 18:42:07 by Np

Saxo
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How to add F2P:
1. Cut the servers (saving $$ which can make up abit for F2P)
2. Add a limited amount of F2P servers (say 5)
3. Ads on f2p worlds, probably won't bring in a **** ton but at least it's something
4. Stick the game on Facebook, miniclip (is this site still popular?), etc.
5. Advertisements on facebook etc then let word of mouth do the advertising

I realize that a problem could be people cancelling P2P just to play F2P, but until F2P really hits off maybe F2P could only be available to new accounts? I doubt anyone is willing to retrain up a third time just to save $5 a month lol, not to mention how slow it is after like level 40-50 lol. maybe people will make some F2P pures or something but that's about it

I get some people might be annoyed that way, but really we're all paying $5 a month now so I don't think it would be a huge problem.

Also for the welcome pack.. I get that OSRS might be hard to get into at first so a welcome pack could help people stay around, but why should it come from other players? Just make the welcome pack off tutorial island better.

I don't think many people would be too angry if you got given iron sets, arrows/bows/leather, 100-200 trout, some crap ammy (like defence) and a few runes to get you like 10-15 mage. Adding onto this, some noted logs, raw fish, somecowhides and whatever else is needed for the basic skills to get a few levels.... Obviously all of this will be untradable and have an alch value of 0, but it will help those get into the game a bit easier... The welcome pack you currently get is complete garbage (wooden shield? short sword?)

15-May-2014 18:43:39 - Last edited on 15-May-2014 18:51:48 by Saxo

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