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    Quote Originally Posted by OmegaDivider View Post
    Hey-lo everyone, peeked around a bit and didn't see anything about this here so I thought I'd just tell everyone that they have opened up 2007 servers!

    (I honestly didn't know where to put this though) Currently, only members can play them, but if 750,000 votes or so are reached, then it will be free for all (with member benefits like before and all that) Thought you all may like to know since well, it was extremely fun back then.

    Currently nearing 350k votes, and I believe voting just started yesterday or so, and lasts till' the 1st of March. Here's to hoping.
    They did the same with classic, and it was members only. It ended up staying very tiny, and I think it closed down soon after opening..

    I still to this day hate the game, even though I played it around 00' or 01'.

    I highly doubt they will get enough active players if they keep their older versions Members-only. I also highly doubt it will reach the amount of likes to make it be F2P with membership. That being said, don't expect it to stay up long.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Viney1 View Post
    They did the same with classic, and it was members only. It ended up staying very tiny, and I think it closed down soon after opening..

    I still to this day hate the game, even though I played it around 00' or 01'.

    I highly doubt they will get enough active players if they keep their older versions Members-only. I also highly doubt it will reach the amount of likes to make it be F2P with membership. That being said, don't expect it to stay up long.
    what's there to hate? closest thing to ultima there is, honestly.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Viney1 View Post
    don't expect it to stay up long.
    Actually, this is Jagex. A company which cares about its playerbase. I wouldn't be surprised if the original Runescape Classic server is still running. Ha! It is. With 101 players online

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phenoca View Post
    Actually, this is Jagex. A company which cares about its playerbase. I wouldn't be surprised if the original Runescape Classic server is still running. Ha! It is. With 101 players online
    I was wrong about Classic, haha. I haven't looked at their site in years. Jagex is good at getting money from kids (and parents). ^^

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    Quote Originally Posted by Viney1 View Post
    They did the same with classic, and it was members only. It ended up staying very tiny, and I think it closed down soon after opening..

    I still to this day hate the game, even though I played it around 00' or 01'.

    I highly doubt they will get enough active players if they keep their older versions Members-only. I also highly doubt it will reach the amount of likes to make it be F2P with membership. That being said, don't expect it to stay up long.
    Uh... you cans till play runescape classic and its never shut down, they simply only open up registration for it every 6 months or so.
    http://www.runescape.com/classicapplet/playclassic.ws

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    Quote Originally Posted by tiger1526 View Post
    Uh... you cans till play runescape classic and its never shut down, they simply only open up registration for it every 6 months or so.
    http://www.runescape.com/classicapplet/playclassic.ws
    Is it still member only? Hmm

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    Well then, in the hours since I've posted this thread, 10,000 more players have voted, bringing it up to 352k, looking hopeful, but I do hope they make the smarter move and make it Free with membership regardless.

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    If 2007 Runescape opens for free members, I would definitely give it another chance if not just for nostalgia. Jagex has already made a lot of money from these votes as you have to be a member to vote, pretty smart move.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Phenoca View Post
    Actually, this is Jagex. A company which cares about its playerbase. I wouldn't be surprised if the original Runescape Classic server is still running. Ha! It is. With 101 players online
    Maybe 7 years ago Jagex cared about its playerbase. They sold out to a bigger company that only has intentions to milk the game for every penny possible. The squeal of fortune has made RS pay to win, and its the worse type of pay to win, you have to gamble (with real money) to even do it! Caring about their playerbase? What a joke. Even this RS 2007 servers just seems like a money grab.

    Sure none of that stuff is in RS 2007, but how long will that last?

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    Eh...the whole point of having the 2007 Servers is because they messed up the current ones and the player base didn't like that. Putting anything like that in the 2007 servers would just cause these players to leave, again.

    Considering that every one of the voters need to be a member to vote it seems like there is a lot of potential money in just leaving OldScape, OldScape.

    Again though, if they make it F2P with Membership again, it may just stay extremely healthy.
    And on an off note, 390k Voters, 110k more and the OldScape server gets Weekly Maints and a Dedicated team. :3

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    As long as they don't add in too many updates, it'll remain much more popular than the EoC version of Runescape. Everyone playing on the 2007 servers seems to be of the mind that it is much better than the EoC version. The chance to start right there at the beginning is such a major deal with any MMO. With a game as old as Runescape, a lot of new players feel like they can never "catch up" (sort of like Eve) and also miss out on all of the "hey, remember back in X when Y happened?" conversations.

    That all of course relies upon people keeping their rose tinted glasses on and a steady influx of new members, otherwise it will dwindle away as I'm sure most 12 year olds now don't want to play a game with graphics like that of 2007 Runescape and a game as harsh either.

    It will be interesting to see how it is getting along in 3-4 months time when the novelty has worn off.

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    From what they were saying, it will probably be UI updates for the most part. Content is not on the slate just yet. Some 07ers are asking for the graphics be brought back up to what they are at on EoC which is not game breaking in the least, and could probably get new people into it as well.

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    Personally I prefer newscap. That being said I am a casual player at best (while traveling on the laptop), and I do miss being able to scam people while trading face to face.


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    In all honesty I don't mind it staying members only. Not only will we see a boost in member populations it'll keeo the lazy kids who bot away from the classic server. No it won't stop the gold farming sites, but less kids the better.

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