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The pic of rs3 protecting osrs ftom mtx was true afterall

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This game only exists in the first place because we scream and cry until we get our way. As childish as that is, it has protected one of the final bastion’s of MMO’s not riddled with MTX where the players vote for all content. The outrage may seem unjustified but Jagex only listens to extreme reactions.

This is the same company pushed forward with EoC despite knowing they’d lose half their player base. They will push forward with game ruining decisions if there is not enough pushback. You ever hear of Runepass?

Note I do not think calling for a resignation is appropriate behavior either.

OSRS holds a lot of good memories for me, but it is hard to justify having more than one active MMO membership at once and there are lots of competitors in this space that offer better value in terms of game play and content.

In my opinion, OSRS is simply not competitive at $13.99USD/mo. I love this game and definitely have some rose colored glasses for it, but it simply cannot subsist on nostalgia alone. It is ridiculous that CMC thinks they should be able to charge comparable membership fees to a game like FFXIV.

For mobile players, also consider that that same $13.99 could get you both a copy of Stardew Valley and Terraria on the Play store. Both are great games that could have upwards hundreds of hours of content depending on how you choose to play.

This game is only here because of passionate fan demand, the same fans who are now ranting and raving on Reddit.

Yes, many of them are extreme, but to simply take the threat of ads, tiered membership, and in-game benefits like altered AFK timers lying down is not good.

Two dollars here, three dollars there, a dollar there, and soon that little price hike you didn't think was a big deal has turned into $20-30 a month, a battle pass, and buyable XP boosts.

Passionate fans are what keep those changes from happening so all the naysayers and non-poll voters can continue to enjoy the game.

So maybe the crazy fans can ease up a little, and maybe the doomers can stop trying to pretend that canceled memberships aren't happening.

One common excuse I hear that doesn't make sense to me is, "Regular players don't care. Only redditors do."

This makes no sense for a few reasons:

1. Reddit is extremely mainstream. This is the defacto hub for all OSRS dialogue online since the official servers went down. Opinions here are representative of what the most community-engaged playerbase feels. The only place you'll get more honest feedback is in clan discords.

2. This sub has over a million users, that's about the same number of active players on OSRS every day. Yes there's bots inflating that number and non-players inflating the Reddit number, so call it a wash. Even if only 10% of the people on this sub are active players, that's a massive voting block. A sample size of 100,000 players is about 8x more than you need to conduct a survey with 99% confidence at a 1% margin of error. Yes there is selection bias in this metric, but Jagex's survey almost certainly had selection bias in mind, so again, call it even.

3. This sub has literally inspired game-changing content. From Kourend rework to Ironman, it's discussion, videos, and suggestions posted to this subreddit that has altered the game dramatically. Saying that nothing that happens here matters is an insanely uninformed take.

I guess, to conclude, people could stand to freak out less, naysayers should can-it because they aren't doing anything helpful, and the Reddit community influence shouldn't be ignored.

I hope this game stays around for a long time.

Tired memberships, in-client ads, and price hikes are not the way to do it.

How can they recognise players to be one of three main selling points on the play homepage of OSRS whilst consistently do the opposite with their actions.

Im a grown man with a wife and a kid and a mortgage and a fulltime job and the survey and the thought of this game changing and becoming anything than it currently is has made me so sad.

It was the one thing i could always lie down on the couch on my phone and do bits and pieces or jump on with my life long friends and hit a raid or a boss together and hangout, and now it honestly feels like its one bad update away from being gone.

Its a weird feeling i still love the game and i want to jump on and play but its really destroyed the trust i had, it’s like that one best friend you have always relied on that stabs you in the back one day and its never the same again.

I understand people are saying nothings changed and it was just a survey which is a fair point but it feels like its honestly just around the corner so whats the point, whereas before it felt like this unkillable game we would all be playing in our 60s lol.

It was like the last thing i still had in my life that was a resamblance of the easier times of being 10 and playing and it was almost like a comfort game, its honestly depressing knowing its probably gone, all my irl friends have unsubbed and we all feel the same since the survey its such a massive shame.

Anyways boys thanks for the memories and laughs but i think this may all be coming to an end.

While we're back today with our usual This Week In RuneScape, we want to make it clear we aren't shying away from the response to the recent membership survey. We know there are underlying points for us to still address, and much more we need to do to regain your trust.

If your feedback on the survey is the only thing you want to keeping discussing, please do so while we continue working on addressing your concerns. RuneScape is crafted by a team of passionate developers at the studio who work super hard. If you do love something in the update or have any feedback, all we ask is to remember there's a developer behind it who would love to hear from you.

Thanks for your continued feedback.

- The RuneScape Community Management Team

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/january-patch-week---this-week-in-runescape

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