F2P in oldschool

In response to all of these posts (and many others that I have seen touting f2p for 07 as being the greatest move ever)

F2p is a nonexistent community. The numbers don't lie, less than 10% of the total amount of online players are F2P. The F2p game exists solely so people can log into their accounts without having to buy membership. Anyone who is a serious, consistent player will cough up the ~$5 a month to buy bonds and play the full version of the game. Look at the F2p-only worlds in 07 anyway- they are completely deserted. The only thing that f2p 07 worlds would do is allow people to mercilessly bot it.

 

sorry but your wrong...
I was always a f2p in rs since 2004. I even had a f2p clan.
times have changed...and alot sadly. The f2p numbers now have nothing to do to f2p'ers that runescape had in 2007, etc.
for example if f2p comesback, i will stop my subscription for sure. I pretty much enjoyed the game without the p2p content.
Also f2p had lots of pkers (now you see none because of the awsome eoc shit update)

 

If f2p is so great then why would 90% of active rs players pay every month to be on members servers.

 

Addiction, monetary gains, virtual socialising, escapism and many more.

 

F2P is basically a launching platform, and that is why Old School RuneScape would potentially reap huge benefits from implementing it.

Think of Old School like a country with a growth rate - its population will grow when births (sign-ups) outweigh deaths (quits) and fall when deaths outweigh births. The problem that P2P-only Old School has now is that many new players won't want to start an old game for $8/month or whatever they'll be paying in bonds/cards/etc. The number of births is negligible, so the growth rate has nowhere to go but down as a result. Implementing F2P would be a great business decision because new players could try the game any time they like, and many of those new players would eventually become paying members (like the vast majority of RS members in the game's history, myself included).

Also, in reply to this:

I'm going to have to dismiss what you said as a bit ignorant. Those worlds are only open for F2P-style PK'ing and nothing else, and besides, they're still only available to members. Obviously members aren't going to be the ones using F2P; they're already paying for more content, so they're going to use that.

 

You're so wrong, F2P in 07 was a huge part of the game.

EOC and RS3 makes it so you're now FORCED to get membership as they've shifted the game into such a direction.

 

f2p on 07 would give players that have possibly quit rs3 a chance to try out oldschool runescape. Back when you first joined runescape, I'm pretty sure you didn't buy membership before you finished tutorial island right? We've all done that and possibly played a few months, learned about the benefits, then bought membership. Same goes with oldschool runescape, there needs to be a so called "trial period" in which people get to try out the game for free before they'd want to purchase membership. Thats just my take on it.

 

I remember being proud to say i had 99's just on f2p...
mining? np powermining at alkharid or coal at mining guild :')

 

F2P is fun, but don't think I would partake personally. I like having the full range of the game to play if I were to play.

 

People don't want to play F2P Runescape 3. You can't just extrapolate that and expect it to work with 07. Who knows how many people would play Rs 07 f2p. At the very least it would add some players, which basically means it could potentially take away even more members of RS 3 from the already depleting rapidly player base.

Also, the fact that the player count is even close (an up to date game versus a version of the game six years old)...is embarrassing.

 

Everyone seems to be missing the picture that only ~10% of Runescape players are F2P... 90% of RS players already have access to 07, adding access for the other 10% isn't some magical cure-all to make the game insanely more popular then eoc.

The only logical reason for anyone to want F2p on 07 is if they wanted to bot farm the living shit out of it at no monetary risk, which, I would have expected as a response in the cheating forum, not in the 07 forum.

 

Alright, now I see what you're saying. I think though there are a good bit of people that are waiting in the wings for an announcement for F2p 07 scape. This might let people come to the game and build up some skills without having to pay a dime. I know my brother falls into this category. And hey, if I know one person waiting for it..maybe there are others.

Thanks for clarifying though..I see what you're saying now.

When I say waiting in the wings, I mean they're not p2p right now and don't play f2p Rs 3.

 

f2p 07 would bring in so many more clans, little pures into the game not to mention players. Look how many f2p rs3 players there are, i can near guarantee you 80% will jump on 07 to have a look and im pretty sure most of those numbers will stay on the 07 servers.

 

F2p will bring back f2p pking and a whole lot of other fun, and it will increase the population which will be good as well

 

Yes but were not taking into account the amount of people that already quit runescape 3 and are not willing to pay for membership on oldschool runescape because they are not sure if it will be worth it. Allowing f2p on osrs would allow for this "trial period" which I explained in my post above

 

i'm one of them, waiting for f2p...

 

Also to those that say people don't play RS3 in F2P.. there are full on clans with nothing but "pure f2p'ers" I know a couple myself.

Some people play F2P only. They either enjoy it more, can't pay for P2P or both. Don't be so quick to assume that because you don't do it that others don't.

I'd love to see it come around, as it will diffidently bring in new players.

 

Exactly, I feel like there are a ton of people waiting. Not everyone has the real life cash or in-game cash for Bonds. It may seem like nothing to us, may seem like everything to others though.

 

If F2P was implemented I would create a new account, get membership and make it a F2P-based pure.

I'm sure others would take my route as well. F2P pking was GOLDEN - pure, simplistic fun.

 

I was f2p for about 18 months before I decided to subscribe... Some of my other f2p friends had been f2p their whole life, and had several 99s (unbotted).
What you stipulate may be the way of current eoc main-game, but the fact of the matter is that it wasn't ALWAYS like this. Your '90-10' breakup of members to f2p (strictly legit players) was not always the case.. EOC changed everything buddy.