Member only hiscores

(by Returnfate)

And why should they support the f2p game in the same way they support a members game?

F2P brings in little revenue from advertisements, while members brings in more than 60% of revenue. The less Jagex cares about f2p game the more money they can make. Now I know you might counter this arguement and say "It is all about the money." But as a gaming company who's intent is to make profit and create jobs for people to live by is and was it ever for the players?

(by Gohan)
We all accept that which is why we are fine with them not giving F2P new stuff. But taking something away from them that they have had since it started is uncalled for. Also the less they care about F2P the less money they make in the long term due to small F2P playerbase which makes for small number of people that would get P2P. If they were actually thinking the best way for them to make money is to improve F2P to increase number of players and thus increase the pool of people that may buy P2P. Noone immediately buys P2P for runescape without playing on F2P first.

Sigh. This is the EXACT bad mindset that some members have (first quote).

It's like Gohankuten says, taking away something from F2P that has been there since the feature in question began, is totally uncalled for.

And FYI Gohan (), I'be been a member since day 1, I've never been F2P myself, mainly because I wanted access to all the skills, but I still feel inclined to stick up for F2P players where RS is concerned because the free version hardly ever gets updated.

JaGeX stand by what they said - F2P is not a demo - but is this true? By removing something from F2P that they have always had access to is a step in the wrong direction.