Would runescape be better fully P2P?

F2P is what made me a member today. Although I do not believe they advocate members enough as I was lvl 97 combat before I switched over and man I never went back! Removing f2p is not in the best interest of jagex as less people will try the game out resulting in less sales.

 

Tell me, would you be playing RuneScape now if there was no F2P option to begin with? Nobody's going to buy membership for a game that they don't even know how to play yet.

 

No simply because the lack of new users would make the game slowly/quickly die.

A 'free trial' is not enough to get you into RS (or at least it wouldn't be for most people).

Additionally, if they reduced the amount of F2P servers what motivation does a new player have if every place they go is crowded with bots/other players?

RS would not succeed.

 

This.

Obviously, thats the reason they have f2p. They will never change that

 

yep, but I play mostly on f2p on my legit accounts and bot on p2p.

 

jagex wouldnt remove f2p because that means less players which means less money for them

 

Nah, I like how you can still have fun with out paying. It would get rid of all of the bot infested worlds though as people are less likely to bot throwaway accounts if they are forced to pay for membership.

 

less money from free players..? Yeah makes perfect sense!

 

Well actually, they still make money from F2P players. You know those ads at the top of the page, yeah. Click those, you make them like a tenth of a penny.

No F2P = Dead RS.

 

Who ACTUALLY clicks on those ads?

 

i'd have to say No aswell.. as previously stated F2P is a great intro to the game for newer players, and lets not forget throw away bots/accounts in f2p =P

 

Not really.. maybe in some years when rs has more players but atm no.. They would lose much money because people cant test it and we need those f2pers! They get us basic skilling stuff like yews ans lobsters lmao

 

they still get paid to have those ads up there.

 

F2P ftw.

 

You can play in F2P even while your P2P, so it rounds down to you guys being too cheap to afford around 30 cents a day to pay for P2P?.....