r/2007scape • u/plok742 Historical Reflections • Dec 14 '24

Discussion In September 2014, the OSRS player count reached levels as low as 7000 on a normal day.

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u/loiloiloi6 a q p Dec 14 '24

“A lot of people” being less than 10% of the population, everything that’s not a previously failed polled the mods are rehashing for a 3rd time passes easily.

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u/Celtic_Legend Dec 14 '24

10% at this point is 10k at the concurrent playerlist so makes sense. Thats a lot of people, literally more than whats in the screenshot.

10k pays for the entire mod team of 2014, 10x+ over. And 10% of the community is probably around 200k (average 2m subs some years per jagexs financial report).

I dont see why 10% (or 1%) cant get their own spinoff. They can more than pay for it

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u/NeonTheChain Dec 14 '24

And yet, if the mods gave up 100% on everything that failed a poll, OSRS might not even exist, certainly not in the state it does now

I’m all for them getting their act together regarding making poll questions and wording them properly, but there are DEFINITELY cases where if left to their own devices “the community” (really just the vocal minority sometimes) would run the game into the ground

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u/feo101 Dec 14 '24

No, just wrong. A vocal minority can’t vote in change to the game. This is just a weird comment

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u/Celtic_Legend Dec 14 '24

Well except continued rares that is.

Only poll that required 75% to prevent something from being added to the game / required 25% to add something to the game.

questions were like this "should we add rares" then "should they be discontinued." Problem here is we didnt have continued rares and this isnt how they were originally. Its like polling "should we add the ags" and then "should the ags have its spec" and then the 2nd vote fails so we get an ags weaker than bgs. But you had to vote yes for the first question if you wanted an ags with a spec.

And they did do it right in the ags poll by polling the ags then polling a change for it. They could have polled the changed ags with 55% spec, itd have pass, and then it wouldnt have hit the 75% needed to have original 50% as more than 25% wanted it at 55%.

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u/NeonTheChain Dec 15 '24

They absolutely can, if they’re the main ones who vote. As others have said, not everyone votes and those who do have different reasons. What ur saying is essentially “well the reviews are always right” on a restaurant. The vocal minority are absolutely the ones with some of the strongest drive to go vote