Runescape 2007 Servers

[TonyBest]

Jagex have recently announced that they have managed to recover a full backup of what the RS servers were like back in August 2007, but before they can go ahead and put the development time into bringing back 2007 servers they are holding a vote to determine if people want the servers or not. The vote itself will consist of 4 levels based on the amount of votes they get within the 2 weeks of voting time.

If they get 50k votes for 07 servers they will bring it back as a seperate system (much like RSC) but it will cost an additional $15 for membership fees. It will also receive no updates but will be maintained for maintenance.

If they get 250k votes or more, they will bring the RS servers of 07 back with a small development team and a charge of $5 more to the membership fee instead of $15. This point also has minor maintenance and a possibility of adding some anti-bot measures if its necessary.

If they manage to get over 500k votes the 07 servers will return with no extra membership fees, a dedicated development team, some updates and possible anti-bot measurements

But... if they get 750k votes within the 2 week period they will bring the old 07 servers back with the benefit of EVERYONE being able to play the free portion of the servers. It will receive the same treatment as the other options with the addition of regular members only polls to determine what updates are top priority to appear next on the servers.

The vote itself is members only and will run from Friday 15th February for 2 whole weeks.

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[Kardan]

This annoys me, not only have Jagex just gave into everyone that was complaining, but there isn't an option to vote 'no', only yes.

[TonyBest]

The voting system works in the same way as the poll from the return of the Wildy and Free Trade. If you don't wish to approve of the newly revived 07 server coming then you can simply ignore the poll entirely.

[Kardan]

The voting system works in the same way as the poll from the return of the Wildy and Free Trade. If you don't wish to approve of the newly revived 07 server coming then you can simply ignore the poll entirely.

Which means it isn't really a poll because there's no options

[TonyBest]

You got a point there, ah well its more of a survey with only 1 option.

[Zak]

Doubt I'll vote. What's the point in going backwards?

[TonyBest]

Thats what i've been saying the whole time, whats the point in going back to a time in RS when it was hard to train, no real money making methods, starting from scratch (which will happen in these servers), no Grand Exchange, no God Wars Dungeon and the best armor simply being Barrows.

[Kyle]

What's the point? I never understood why people continued to slog away on RSC when it had its own dedicated server either. Yes, okay, there's a small close-knit community but isn't that what forums and other chat mediums are for? They're clearly in dire straits if they're actually even considering such a dramatic time warp, and charging extra money for less features to boot? What on earth.

[TonyBest]

Actually the membership fee extra only applies if they do not reach 500k votes, Heck I doubt they would even get 50k to proceed with this idea at all, why go back when RS has to go forward.

[Chris]

I kind of like the idea, I enjoyed runescape the most during that period so it would be nice to go back and visit it. It'll definitely be interesting to see the results of this one.