Uploaded February 2013 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION CRUCIAL INFORMATION BELOW:
Prior to my conversation with Mod MMG last night on Skype, I (and the Runescape community) thought the player-base was a lot smaller then it actually is. The true statistic is that there are 1.3 Million Active Member Accounts. Now, obviously, these accounts are not all logged in at the same time. The concurrent playerbase never reaches more then 80-90k AT A TIME, however, there IS an available player base to make this vote happen. 1.3 Million Members type "Runescape.com" and log in at least once per week, forcing them to see the post. This vote poll will get much more notoriety than the petition because its actually on the front page of Runescape whereas the petition certainly was not... I am confident that we will get 500k-750k quite easily, once those who are discouraged begin to see how quickly the poll numbers rise within the first few days.
One other major note to realize before you start wishing that the servers could be a different year: August 2007 was the ONLY USABLE VERSION of the game that they found. While I understand the merits of the arguments for almost every era of the game suggested, Jagex simply can not enact them. This isn't my opinion, this isn't what EVERYONE wants, but it is all that they have. If you are really this upset about the fact that its 2007 and not 2006 or 2008 or 2009 or 2010 or 2011 or 2012 and are considering abstaining from voting- Ask yourself the following question:
Would I rather have 2007 Runescape, or nothing but the EoC?
Please Vote on Friday, and i thank you for your support.
Forum Post By Mark Gerhard CEO of Jagex: services.runescape.com/m=news/2007---old-school-runescape-you-vote
Forum Discussion:
PLEASE READ DESCRIPTION CRUCIAL INFORMATION BELOW:
Prior to my conversation with Mod MMG last night on Skype, I (and the Runescape community) thought the player-base was a lot smaller then it actually is. The true statistic is that there are 1.3 Million Active Member Accounts. Now, obviously, these accounts are not all logged in at the same time. The concurrent playerbase never reaches more then 80-90k AT A TIME, however, there IS an available player base to make this vote happen. 1.3 Million Members type "Runescape.com" and log in at least once per week, forcing them to see the post. This vote poll will get much more notoriety than the petition because its actually on the front page of Runescape whereas the petition certainly was not... I am confident that we will get 500k-750k quite easily, once those who are discouraged begin to see how quickly the poll numbers rise within the first few days.
One other major note to realize before you start wishing that the servers could be a different year: August 2007 was the ONLY USABLE VERSION of the game that they found. While I understand the merits of the arguments for almost every era of the game suggested, Jagex simply can not enact them. This isn't my opinion, this isn't what EVERYONE wants, but it is all that they have. If you are really this upset about the fact that its 2007 and not 2006 or 2008 or 2009 or 2010 or 2011 or 2012 and are considering abstaining from voting- Ask yourself the following question:
Would I rather have 2007 Runescape, or nothing but the EoC?
Please Vote on Friday, and i thank you for your support.
Forum Post By Mark Gerhard CEO of Jagex: services.runescape.com/m=news/2007---old-school-runescape-you-vote
Forum Discussion:
