Why Runescape 2007 Will Flop

RSC died because a mass ban wiped out the community right before jagex locked the game down for the next 3 years. Then a couple re-openings came up and they didn't go far because of the small community there was to begin with. Not to mention RSC f2p pking was really popular and a lot of people quit when that was taken away.

Nothing is going to happen to the 07 version unless jagex bans 90% of the player base then locks it down to rot like classic.

 

Did this really happen? I didn't know about any mass-banning I'll have to look into it, would of been a pretty dumb idea by Jagex seeming as they would of lost half of their player force and on that note money.

Please Jagex, don't fuck this up.

 

I think '07 scape will be a success if they get the price down. Not a lot of people are going to pay $5 or $15 extra on top of membershiip fees, they need this to be included with membership or have a f2p. Keep in mind back in '07 membership was around $5 a month. However I don't think this is going to happen as I think we will be lucky if the poll gets 250k votes.

 

RSC shouldn't be in the same category as RS2, period. You're comparing two things at different positions.

 

Addons are free, made by the community, If you mean expansion packs then yeah but that's like buying say, gta v after playing 4.

Only things you can buy for wow is maybe promotional pets or mounts but theyre ugly as shit and completly optional.

 

Oh I'm sorry about this. I did mean expansion packs, they're quite expensive just to play the game and get higher level and all that good stuff. Yes you can also purchase mounts. Bearing in mind I've never played WoW, my facts on it aren't all that accurate.

 

I'll give it a few months of being super active, but the market might last longer. Everyone tried classic when it came back out, but everyone soon gave it up when they realised how different it was. The only thing that might keep people on 07 servers is pking.

 

Ofcourse it is going to die out in the first few months, that is typical runescape.

 

Seems theres quite a few people blinded by optimism and nostalgia.

Oh well, we'll wait and see. Rs07 will quickly decline within months, especially if you have to pay extra, aka we won't get 500k votes which I am certain we will not get.

 

I totally agree with you. But I still hope 07scape will be back since I like it very much, better than the current one.

 

Don't be so negative, you don't know the future, stop trying to make everyone believe what you think lol, I will be playing (only if we get 250k tho).

 

I think 2007 rs will have more players then EoC the only thing I see holding it back is the fresh start aspect.

 

I don't think it will flop personally Rs2 was a lot more high tech then RSC and in all honest everyone who played in 06-07 knows it was the glory days, and alot of vets will return to the game.

 

I think that if 500k+ votes is reached that at least 10000+ players will be active on the servers. I know that I myself may make a return for these servers, and the fact that it is a fresh tart is a good thing. People should look at this as a great opportunity to become the best in a basically new game( yesi know its an old version, I was there) but in a sense this is a whole new opportunity to be the best of runescape 07. I loved the old runescape where pking was simple and fun compared to post 08 where it took perfect timing and skill. If enough people give the 07 servers a chance then they will prosper. Yes it will take dedicated people who are willin to skill and train to make it good.(but be serious there will be plenty of bots I'm sure) I think if enough vetran players knew about this then it would bring back thousands of players.

 

Sorry for the double, and typos(on phone) but we will reach past 250k and 5$ extra isn't bad, and honestly 500k isn't too far of a stretch it the 2nd day of voting. 750k is the only stretch.

 

lol no there isn't the only reason rsc didn't stay alive is because they no longer updated it and kept updating rs2 and they also pretty much did no work to the servers when needed which is what will happen to your servers over time they said exactly what they are telling you now about rsc then they changed their minds. You're simply being hopeful which in the great words of moral oral if you pray the answers yay if you hope the answers nope. IT WILL FAIL this hype will be dead within weeks\months of the new servers as the op said.

the mass ban you speak of wasn't that massive compared to the community at the time and compared to previous mass bans, and everyone that was banned had back-up accounts I'm sure and I disagree with the small community being the problem it was that they were use to the new gfx so the old gfx made them say "eww" on top of that lack of the newer weapons [ whips\specs and whatever else they had implimented since rs2 had came out] I say this because the servers were maxed out\close to it for each re-opening the people just didn't like the simplicity.

pking in general was popular but staking was more profitable not to mention people eventually got lvls which obscured their cb and made them harder to find other pkers so the pk scene was left to the maxed mains and pures.

either way rsc unfortunately was dying as soon as rs2 came out because that was what was being updated and so will the 07 servers due to the lack of updates it will have. rsc was promised every single thing that rs207 is being promised and I'll bet money that they are slowly taken away just like what happened to rsc. not to mention bots will have the economy fucked within weeks of the 07 servers being opened which is the only reason a number of people are even wanting the servers.

 

PS2 is the fucking best

 

I don't see 2007 servers failing anytime soon. In a year or two? Maybe, but not now.

Something that most people are forgetting about RSC is that registration was cut. No more people could join RSC, but they can with RS2. Also, the update from RSC to RS2 wasn't exactly a bad update. They updated the graphics, which were a lot better, and game play was practically the same, unlike EoC update. There is also the fact that 07 rs had a much larger player-base than RSC. A lot of these players will return for a couple months to relive the better days of Runescape.

I don't see us getting 500k+ votes, so people that want to play on 07 will have to pay $5 extra (we will probably get 250k). This $5 will give Jagex, or whatever corporation that runs rs nowadays, an incentive to keep up the servers.

Lastly, botting will not ruin the economy for Runescape 07. There is no way that we will get 750k votes, which means that there will be no f2p. No f2p= no goldfarmers. There will probably be a few players who will buy membership for 2-3 accounts to bot, but that is nothing compared to the army of bots that those Chinese goldfarmers had. Botting would actually be somewhat beneficial at the beginning since it would get the economy moving. Imagine how long it would take to get a large circulation of gp without botting.

 

I gave the servers months because of the cancelation of joining rsc. not many are going to want to play a game that doesn't really matter My guess is when the economy dies to the bots the servers will die as well and it wont be long before jagex slowly removes them as they did with the rsc servers [ which only lasted months maybe a year or 2 [ its been a while lol] before they started killing it.

and rsc\rs2 were completely different even more than eoc to the 07 servers, you had to stay in combat for 3 rounds, items\skills\training in general became extremely easy combat triangle got totally ruined with rs2 as well as well as ranging you use to have to be at a distance from your opponent and many other things.

07 only had a bigger base because
A. its picked up all the ex rsc players as well as new ones over the years
B. botting was very heavy back then and most were botters\multi accounts

you do realize that we have 18% [136k votes] needed and day 2 of 14 is just now getting over within a hour or 2 of this post right? at this rate even if there is a decent drop in votes we will get the whole 750k votes but thats not likely to happen for a few days because there are many people who haven't even logged on to see the poll yet as its only the second day.


and no gold farmers are you kidding me? if there is money to be made there will definitely be gold farmers\bots look at wow the botters on there pay 15-20$ [dunno exact price] per month and make no more than your average runescape botter. and a fyi there aren't that many chineese gold farmer companies most own multiple websites and try to set the price of gold. The others are sites from people on sites like sythe that sell gold I myself back when it was more profitable ran a bot farm of over 100 accounts.

and to show it will be profitable: bot making 300k\hr running 12hr a day = 3.6m per day times that by 30 days and you get 108m which when sold for .25 is more than enough to cover the fees of membership + put a few dollars in their pocket. and thats a low figure back then there was several 500k-1m+\hr methods of botting out there.

 

I think that is a terrible comparison; first a foremost because everyone gets a 100% fresh start on this game. Its like giving everyone the chance to start the game as they know it, like when the game was first released. We will now see who are the best trainers, and pkers.