Jagex allowed other features from the 500,000 vote mark to be introduced in the game. The following table shows the features that were introduced into OSRS.
Content updates will be decided upon by regular polls.
#REDDIT OLD SCHOOL OR NEW RUNESCAPE FREE#
Free portion of the game will be open for everyone. Maintenance will be done on a regular basis.Some content updates, anti-bot technology added if necessary.Possibility of modern-day anti-bot technology over time, if needed.No major updates, only critical bug fixes.
The first level requires 50,000 votes, and is the absolute minimum amount of votes required to guarantee the Old School RuneScape release. There have been many changes since the poll ended click here to view them. Note: The green shading in the table above only shows the vote mark reached on 1 March 2013 and the features that would have been given according to that vote mark. Regular membership polls to decide new content Although the vote count only reached 449,351 and not 500,000, Jagex decided not to charge the additional fee of five USD for the first six months (excluding the free month) however, on 7 June 2013, they announced that OSRS is here to stay and there will be no additional fee. Regardless of the outcome, any voter will get a free month of Old School RuneScape game time. The amount of votes can be seen on the official vote page. Old School RuneScape were in four different levels, each with increasing vote requirements. Jagex allowed players to vote for Old School RuneScape on a referendum, promising a set of features for every vote mark level reached. 2 Core differences between Old School & the live gameĢ007 servers of RuneScape were originally announced in early 2013.As a result, an economy and money supply has had to emerge from nothing since release. All players regardless of achievements in other versions of the game begin Old School RuneScape on Tutorial Island with a blank character. Old School RuneScape works similarly to RuneScape Classic in that it can be played with the same account that one plays the main version of the game, yet stats, items and quests are separate and non-transferable. The game quickly saw player counts equalling those of the main version of the game. The poll, which ended 1 March 2013, decided, among other things, whether an additional membership fee would be charged for access to the game.ĭespite it having originally been stated that servers would take one to two months to be opened following a successful poll, on 22 February 2013, as part of an early access scheme, Jagex opened over 50 Old School RuneScape servers and gave a month of free Old School RuneScape membership credit to all of those who had voted in the poll. This version of the game was announced in a news post on 13 February 2013, which was followed by the opening of a poll to determine community interest on 15 February 2013.
#REDDIT OLD SCHOOL OR NEW RUNESCAPE CODE#
Old School RuneScape (sometimes referred to as 2007scape) is Jagex's official term for a previous version of the RuneScape game that was introduced from a backup of the RuneScape source code as it had been on 10 August 2007.