Warren wrote:
As Jagex is there to make as much money as possible, not to make a good game, rather a sellable product, I don't see the problem. I don't see why my members money should be spent to benefit and support services for those who do not pay. They have every right to take away features from the freeloaders of RS if it will increase their profit margins. Your ad views pay for servers. Not hiscores. I have no idea why they should care about F2P players as they make absolutely no money from them. Their revenues come from the paying members, and as a member I don't pay so they can pay attention to those who don't.
Wow, I've almost convinced myself by writing that. But I do actually have a problem with it, especially because they go out of their way to make the point that F2P is not a demo, rather a standalone game. And they try to win the best free game award things. Therefore, they are stripping away a service that every other game has and that they have had since the beginning from there game. Not their free game, their standalone game. Also because removing former members from the hiscores as if they never existed.
But to say they are going to loose 25% of their players because of no highscores? Yeah, I highly doubt that. And if you play for the hiscores, you play for the wrong reasons anyway.
On my above bit though, it's interesting to have a "the more money you have the harder you have worked in life therefore the more privileged to a better life you should be" attitude and not like it if one bit of your money pays to help people who actually need it, but in something that doesn't matter (i.e. a game) paying members money should be used to better F2P services.
In actuality I don't care that any of the money I pay goes to running, maintaining, etc. a list that includes people who don't pay anything. I hate that my money goes to stuff like loyalty points and stuff though, things designed for making them money and not bettering the game. Make actual content plz don't give me benefits for being a member for x months in a row. I was a member nearly 3 years in a row, stopping only because you banned me, where are my loyalty points, oh wait I don't have any because you don't get them unless you've signed up for it or something.....
If they get rid of the F2P service/ stop updating it, they won't do near as good. Nobody wants to pay for a game like this before they get to try it out. Dungeons And Dragons Online was a P2P game when it came out, and almost got shut-down because they didn't have enough players. They released a F2P version and is now one of the leading online RPGs.
If Jagex didn't care about F2P, they wouldn't have enough players. THAT many people aren't going to go buy a membership for this.
If Jagex stopped updating F2P altogether, then it would pretty much be a dead game. Seeing as they say it's not a demo, but a standalone game, then they just gave up on it.
People in F2P has to do the same grinding for Xp, and requirements for the few things in F2P to do. They should be acknowledged for their Xp, just like a P2P player. At least do what's been suggested and make a section for F2P and P2P.
Or, set filters for players to use to show some players and not some others.
They said they're doing this to "clean up" the hi-scored? This is not a good way to do it.