A lot of people are overreacting, but downplaying the implications of the survey is also a bad idea. /u/why_did_I_comment Old School RuneScape!

This game is only here because of passionate fan demand, the same fans who are now ranting and raving on Reddit.

Yes, many of them are extreme, but to simply take the threat of ads, tiered membership, and in-game benefits like altered AFK timers lying down is not good.

Two dollars here, three dollars there, a dollar there, and soon that little price hike you didn’t think was a big deal has turned into $20-30 a month, a battle pass, and buyable XP boosts.

Passionate fans are what keep those changes from happening so all the naysayers and non-poll voters can continue to enjoy the game.

So maybe the crazy fans can ease up a little, and maybe the doomers can stop trying to pretend that canceled memberships aren’t happening.

One common excuse I hear that doesn’t make sense to me is, “Regular players don’t care. Only redditors do.”

This makes no sense for a few reasons:

1. Reddit is extremely mainstream. This is the defacto hub for all OSRS dialogue online since the official servers went down. Opinions here are representative of what the most community-engaged playerbase feels. The only place you’ll get more honest feedback is in clan discords.

2. This sub has over a million users, that’s about the same number of active players on OSRS every day. Yes there’s bots inflating that number and non-players inflating the Reddit number, so call it a wash. Even if only 10% of the people on this sub are active players, that’s a massive voting block. A sample size of 100,000 players is about 8x more than you need to conduct a survey with 99% confidence at a 1% margin of error. Yes there is selection bias in this metric, but Jagex’s survey almost certainly had selection bias in mind, so again, call it even.

3. This sub has literally inspired game-changing content. From Kourend rework to Ironman, it’s discussion, videos, and suggestions posted to this subreddit that has altered the game dramatically. Saying that nothing that happens here matters is an insanely uninformed take.

I guess, to conclude, people could stand to freak out less, naysayers should can-it because they aren’t doing anything helpful, and the Reddit community influence shouldn’t be ignored.

I hope this game stays around for a long time.

Tired memberships, in-client ads, and price hikes are not the way to do it.

This game is only here because of passionate fan demand, the same fans who are now ranting and raving on Reddit.

Yes, many of them are extreme, but to simply take the threat of ads, tiered membership, and in-game benefits like altered AFK timers lying down is not good.

Two dollars here, three dollars there, a dollar there, and soon that little price hike you didn’t think was a big deal has turned into $20-30 a month, a battle pass, and buyable XP boosts.

Passionate fans are what keep those changes from happening so all the naysayers and non-poll voters can continue to enjoy the game.

So maybe the crazy fans can ease up a little, and maybe the doomers can stop trying to pretend that canceled memberships aren’t happening.

One common excuse I hear that doesn’t make sense to me is, “Regular players don’t care. Only redditors do.”

This makes no sense for a few reasons:

1. Reddit is extremely mainstream. This is the defacto hub for all OSRS dialogue online since the official servers went down. Opinions here are representative of what the most community-engaged playerbase feels. The only place you’ll get more honest feedback is in clan discords.

2. This sub has over a million users, that’s about the same number of active players on OSRS every day. Yes there’s bots inflating that number and non-players inflating the Reddit number, so call it a wash. Even if only 10% of the people on this sub are active players, that’s a massive voting block. A sample size of 100,000 players is about 8x more than you need to conduct a survey with 99% confidence at a 1% margin of error. Yes there is selection bias in this metric, but Jagex’s survey almost certainly had selection bias in mind, so again, call it even.

3. This sub has literally inspired game-changing content. From Kourend rework to Ironman, it’s discussion, videos, and suggestions posted to this subreddit that has altered the game dramatically. Saying that nothing that happens here matters is an insanely uninformed take.

I guess, to conclude, people could stand to freak out less, naysayers should can-it because they aren’t doing anything helpful, and the Reddit community influence shouldn’t be ignored.

I hope this game stays around for a long time.

Tired memberships, in-client ads, and price hikes are not the way to do it.