if runescape can have 5 million subs

how comes game like eq2...ff11....and even eq can only get 500k max subs...

and over 2 million of rs players are paying subs...

because the game is a bowser game and you don't have to download it.

Kid's are afraid to download games off the internet.

I highly doubt that those 5 million are -paying- subscriptions.  The game is free with the option of subscribing for more content.  On top of that, it is only $5 a month, so that might have something to do with it.

It would be very difficult for a larger budget game to get by on $5 a month for subscriptions these days.

Runescape doesn't have bad game mechanics, a interesting recruitment method(basically runescape will be around longer than WoW), and well above average quests.   that's about all the good you can say about it.

Originally posted by Sheista

I highly doubt that those 5 million are -paying- subscriptions.  The game is free with the option of subscribing for more content.  On top of that, it is only $5 a month, so that might have something to do with it.

It would be very difficult for a larger budget game to get by on $5 a month for subscriptions these days.

i said 2 million paying subs...5 million free + paying

oh wow.  2 million might not be a lie after all.

if you total up the number of members playing right now there are 107,000.  even if you do conservative guestimation that only a tenth of the player base is on right now that puts you with a million subs.   that also means that the community isn't nearly as cheap as you'd imagine for a F2P since a little under half of the playing people right now are subscribing.

Originally posted by paulscott

oh wow.  2 million might not be a lie after all.

if you total up the number of members playing right now there are 107,000.  even if you do conservative guestimation that only a tenth of the player base is on right now that puts you with a million subs.   that also means that the community isn't nearly as cheap as you'd imagine for a F2P since a little under half of the playing people right now are subscribing.

thats why im baffeld  :)

    Well if you really must know, Runescape has been around for a lot longer than ffxi and wow, and for most of us it was our first experience with MMORPG.

if you quit runescape you can go back and you don't have to download anything

you don't have to wait hours to find a party, you can do pretty much whatever you want whenever you want to

runescape isn't a bad game

the graphics aren't sub-par anymore, they're pretty decent for a browser based java game..

if you're bored and have nothing to do you can go online and boom theres runescape- sign in and waste your time

PKing used to be the reason a lot of people played, pking got me out of shoplifting because it gave me the same high and i wasnt going to get arrested for doing so(little fun fact about me)

ALSO adding to this runescape costs 1/3 of most subscription based mmo's if you want to go that route and if you give up the subscription you can still play for free..

there aren't 15 expansions.. @ 20-50 dollars each
Jagex might not be much better than $OE but they don't try to market unfinished expansions, they constantly release new content for no more than the usual subscription rate
They put a lot of fun minigames into runescape, they are fun, too bad none of them are freetoplay
I'm not a PR, i think jagex has the same problems a lot of companies have, they silence you on the forums if you say something bad about how they do things, they don't listen to their customers, they don't hire professional GM's
pretty much their GM's are a bunch of whiny tattletales they handpick to enforce their rules for them

Originally posted by Rajai

    Well if you really must know, Runescape has been around for a lot longer than ffxi and wow, and for most of us it was our first experience with MMORPG.

if you quit runescape you can go back and you don't have to download anything

you don't have to wait hours to find a party, you can do pretty much whatever you want whenever you want to

runescape isn't a bad game

the graphics aren't sub-par anymore, they're pretty decent for a browser based java game..

if you're bored and have nothing to do you can go online and boom theres runescape- sign in and waste your time

but still..its a bad game..i never really got into it..it was my first mmo..but only played it for a week...cos i got bored....

it's not a bad game, it's a bad 'general' community.

Britney Spears sold 50+ mil CDs, why? Because someone liked her music.

As mentioned, you can play in your browser. So my guess fall on the schoolchildrens sitting alt+tabing around the world.

And off course more serious players.

It has very fun quests too.

Originally posted by Sheista

I highly doubt that those 5 million are -paying- subscriptions.  The game is free with the option of subscribing for more content.  On top of that, it is only $5 a month, so that might have something to do with it.

It would be very difficult for a larger budget game to get by on $5 a month for subscriptions these days.

runescape has the best marketing ever.   here have this for free, once you get bored with you extremely invested character you ARE going to pay so you can do the 'fun' stuff we have over here.

Originally posted by Housam

if runescape can have 5 million subs

 

how comes game like eq2...ff11....and even eq can only get 500k max subs...

 

and over 2 million of rs players are paying subs...

A couple reasons I'm throwing out there.

- It's a browser game, so you wouldn't get a virus/etc. as easily as a downloaded game.

- It's decent

- It has an active forum

- It's mainly free. Yes, you can pay for membership, but that's for more stuff. Sort of benefits. If you don't pay you still get a lot.

- It has several things to do.

- Graphics don't suck, but they're not incredible either.

- Several other reasons as well.

The website looks like doo doo for a game that has 2 million subscribers.

It only has about 1.3mil subscribers but ye its still alot.

Originally posted by tralla

 

Originally posted by Sheista

I highly doubt that those 5 million are -paying- subscriptions.  The game is free with the option of subscribing for more content.  On top of that, it is only $5 a month, so that might have something to do with it.

It would be very difficult for a larger budget game to get by on $5 a month for subscriptions these days.

Did you even bother to read the op ?

 

Did you?  Both the headline and the first line stated 5 million subscribtions. The fact that the last line said 2 million doesn't reduce the confusion.

Originally posted by Bluefix

 

Originally posted by tralla

 

Originally posted by Sheista

I highly doubt that those 5 million are -paying- subscriptions.  The game is free with the option of subscribing for more content.  On top of that, it is only $5 a month, so that might have something to do with it.

It would be very difficult for a larger budget game to get by on $5 a month for subscriptions these days.

Did you even bother to read the op ?

 

 

Did you?  Both the headline and the first line stated 5 million subscribtions. The fact that the last line said 2 million doesn't reduce the confusion.

5 million suscribers in total.. 2 million of which pay...so the orher 3 million are free players...not confusing at all...

Originally posted by Bluefix

 

Originally posted by tralla

 

Originally posted by Sheista

I highly doubt that those 5 million are -paying- subscriptions.  The game is free with the option of subscribing for more content.  On top of that, it is only $5 a month, so that might have something to do with it.

It would be very difficult for a larger budget game to get by on $5 a month for subscriptions these days.

Did you even bother to read the op ?

 

 

Did you?  Both the headline and the first line stated 5 million subscribtions. The fact that the last line said 2 million doesn't reduce the confusion.

I will say it to you aswell.. Did you even bother to read the op ?

from op:

"if runescape can have 5 million subs

how comes game like eq2...ff11....and even eq can only get 500k max subs...

and over 2 million of rs players are paying subs..."

What part of "PAYING SUBS" did you not get ?

wow.. this forum really is the greatest :D