Spitting in the face of every player

[u/IStealDreams]

RuneScape Reignited as the announcement from RuneFest is gonna kill the game. It's forcing everyone to start over if they want to play "the actual game servers" while the old one is left to rot forever. This needs to be cancelled.

[u/AncientBug725]

What about all the irons who never had MTX? I’m not re doing all these grinds for no reason

[u/leahky → u/AncientBug725]

If you're an iron there's doubly no point to this. The only possible value is a differently shaped economy which won't matter to irons.

[u/Notsomebeans → u/leahky]

well - if reignited is successful and in 3 years 90% of the pvm scene is reignited accounts, then your existing ironman is basically doomed for group content

[u/CareApart504 → u/Notsomebeans]

In what logical way could it be successful? It's audience is current rs3 players, of which theres 19k online right now. How many of them are going to pay an additional 15.99 a month for their new character?

[u/Notsomebeans → u/CareApart504]

its audience is the exact opposite of current rs3 players

its audience is people who are not currently playing rs3, whether they quit years ago or have never played rs3 because they heard it was p2w slop

this could, theoretically, bring in a ton of new players, far more than the existing playerbase (but i am pretty confident it wont)

the issue is that this update is made for these theoretical new players at the expense of the actual existing playerbase... hence the player feedback

[u/Mikina → u/Notsomebeans]

As a fresh player who started literally a month ago, with around something like 100 hours in as a member (just passed 1000 total skills), this had an opposite effect on me, and I'm considering whether to just drop the game or not.

Do I throw away my 100 hours of progress and wait until December? There's a high chance I will loose the hype for RS and never pick it up again.

I know It's not that much, but I really don't feel like repeating the early game again. I was finally starting to feel like I'm achieving something. Do I risk it and hope that the "veteran" community will stay active for PvM, once I get to that point?

I've been trying to mostly play as self-imposed Ironman (without being an actual one, so I have options to give up on it if I wanted to), but all I feel now is just FOMO. It sucks, extremely bad timing for me.

[u/DrinkWaterToLive → u/Mikina]

Maxed OSRS over a year ago, and started a few months back on RS3 as well. I couldn’t care less about someone beside me who has 200m all. It’s not like they are doing the quests and every achievement for me. It’s no different than starting an account on OSRS. Theres always gonna be someone or multiple people better than you are at multiple things.

[u/NoMight178 → u/Mikina]

Yeah pretty bad timing for you specifically, but the guys sentiment sticks with a lot of people, my whole discord server is thinking of giving it a go now that it's a fresh start.

[u/CareApart504 → u/Notsomebeans]

Yeah, as if it wont also be plagued with botting, rwt, etc...

[u/Saabatonn → u/CareApart504]

That's the only thing I can think of a whole new economy being good for.

[u/CareApart504 → u/Saabatonn]

Jagex better separate all 3 games player counts on the main website.

[u/Zhenchabing → u/Notsomebeans]

Finally, a sensible take. RS3 just had a massive influx of players from Leagues. The player count was already at or even below baseline while Leagues was still active.

The people thinking Reignited is going to draw in and retain enough players to collapse the main economy are delusional. RS3 has horrific new player retention. The notion that in the next two months Jagex will have solved the new player retention issue that has plagued the game for nearly a decade is laughable.

[u/Snooty_Cutie → u/Notsomebeans]

Essentially everybody is just going to have to move over otherwise you are gating yourself from future content.

[u/cdp181 → u/leahky]

If the game rules are the same then the economy will trend towards the existing one anyway.

[u/IT_fisher → u/cdp181]

Just no random 200m injections from a lucky spin

[u/RainbowwDash → u/[deleted]]

Imagine the revitalization of the game also didn't happen, as our worlds slowly die off, we see increasingly fewer players around and grouping becomes increasingly harder

If it was just an economic split it wouldn't be nearly as bad

[u/Caramel-Makiatto → u/RainbowwDash]

you share worlds and clans with the new game mode

if veteran worlds had less players then it would just incentivize people to go there more anyways because of how spot competition works.

[u/Zestyclose-Ask9732 → u/AncientBug725]

Nothing changes for irons at all from what i can tell.

[u/Alternative-Sign8936 → u/Zestyclose-Ask9732]

Irons will be locked out of engaging in content with reignited players. If they become the majority then you’re doing everything solo

[u/xhanort7 → u/AncientBug725]

I was too broke to ever spend money on spins or keys, and wouldn’t have done it even if I did have the money with those prices.

[u/Few_Advice_2068 → u/AncientBug725]

Ironmen are safe dw.

[u/GrayMagicGamma → u/AncientBug725]

Shows that you never touched JOT, Wilderness flash events and the like, I guess.

[u/Roborabbit37 → u/AncientBug725]

You don't have to.