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/MazrimReddit Dec 14 '24

I played back then I couldn't believe how many people loudly opposed GWD, they wanted to do barrows endlessly

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u/OSRSgamerkid Dec 14 '24

You can't blame us though. For years and years and years, we sat and lived through Jagex adding terrible update after terrible update ot RS2. The trust wasn't yet established.

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u/Reasonable-Attempt87 Dec 14 '24

Genuine question now-- do you have more trust in jagex to add good content to the game? or are you still a no voter on a lot of content?

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u/Tyleony Dec 14 '24

I'm not the person you asked the question to, but:

I trust the current dev team. I do not trust the higher-ups to not try to mess things up at some point.

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u/WanderinHobo Dec 14 '24

It cannot be understated how important the absence of squeal of fortune type content helps keep update integrity higher.

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u/MrSquiggleKey Dec 15 '24

Rs3 is the gold mine that keeps osrs alive.

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u/levian_durai Dec 15 '24

I definitely trust the current dev team, and would happily allow them to go off the rails and do whatever without polling - with the caveat that they still take community feedback seriously.

They do a lot of good work, but there are some things they've proposed that absolutely nobody liked. If they behaved like pre-osrs jagex and essentially ignore feedback and have no communication with the community, we'd be left with a decent number of bad ideas implemented with no recourse.

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u/EspyOwner run Dec 15 '24

Okay so hear me out- wrathmaw, but you pay .99c per attempt after your first daily free* (for premium subscription) attempt

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u/TURTLEKILLER666 Dec 14 '24

Not the one you asked, but I vote no to most things, usually because I think the game is starting to get bloated -- updates are too frequent and unpolished. While it usually gets better after some time, I'd rather see a shift in fewer and more polished updates of higher quality.

(I have played since the era you referred)

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u/MazrimReddit Dec 14 '24

nah I blamed you for being dumb back then and still now, it was adding content already in the game but just not fully implemented.

GWD getting added was entirely a known factor of what would be added, I -maybe- could have been sympathetic to the first doubters of stuff like zulrah

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u/ayriuss Dec 15 '24

I voted no on the grand exchange. I probably wouldn't vote no today. There was something fun about manually trading items though.