Anyone going to be playing Fresh Start Worlds?

[BlazedBob]

I'm going to play it for a sorta fresh experience where people are noobs and the G.E is wiped and hey you could sell those tokens to people for alot of money and then give it to your main or keep as a trophy.

Even if you don't get any serious milestones you can atleast contribute toward the economy and who knows maybe make some new friends.

Your thoughts?

[Castyles]

Are they f2p or p2p?

[BlazedBob]

Originally posted by Castyles:

Are they f2p or p2p?

You need membership

[BuzzardBee]

It's a cash grab by Jagex. Membership and the player base has been dwindling for years in RS3. The only thing holding the game afloat these days are the myriads of alt accounts created by runners looking to capitalize on anything that can be sold or traded for ridiculously large amounts of money in the game. Till now, these alts, which are really nothing more than legitimate bot accounts, have been making their owners very rich indeed.

And while Jagex has stated that Fresh Start Worlds (FSW) is targeted at new and returning players, this is hardly the case as new players are constantly trying and quitting the game because the early game, even the tutorial, is so overwhelming and confusing, they just give up on it altogether. Imagine playing that same game at an accelerated xp rate and told they can participate in a league-type run for the first 99 and 120 in skills, they can breeze through quests and early game content and then be brought back into the main game after four months with a bunch of rare tokens that can be exchanged for rewards and that these tokens can be traded and sold to other players for well over the gold limit cap in Grand Exchange -- this is tailor-made for the alt runners and Jagex knows it.

As for returning players, those coming back after numerous years away, don't want to start over again from scratch. They'd rather not play at all than face doing all those quests again. They want to pick up where they left off. They too are somewhat overwhelmed at all of the changes since the last time they played. Speed running through all of the early and mid-game would do nothing toward making any of it comprehensible. These guys are not the target audience either and again Jagex knows this.

[Snakeman]

I haven't played since i got the max cape, Looking forwards to coming back

[Snowskeeper]

Yeah, players have been asking for something like this for over a decade, now. I wish it'd just come in the form of being able to create multiple characters on one account, but who knows, maybe they'll finally cave and start looking at that, as part of the avatar refresh program or whatever.

[BuzzardBee]

Originally posted by Snowskeeper:

Yeah, players have been asking for something like this for over a decade, now. I wish it'd just come in the form of being able to create multiple characters on one account, but who knows, maybe they'll finally cave and start looking at that, as part of the avatar refresh program or whatever.

They might, but only if they could find a way to make money off it.

[DevilDaRebel]

I want to, but it does seem like a FOMO cash-grab.

[Espionage724]

I had some interest until I read it requires a new account with membership.

[BuzzardBee]

Well, it got screwed up and probably won't be the last mess either. So far, some players couldn't log in at all to the six FSW worlds while others could and so they got an unfair advantage. Because of that, they'll be rolled back, but apparently in order to do that, Jagex needed to take ALL of the worlds offline so now NO ONE can play at all.

And those "few minutes" have now turned into a promise to come back in about 3 hours. Maybe.

[The Commendatore]

Nah.

[DALIAUZERIS]

Nah, waste of time for me personally.

[John Columbo]

Hell no.

Mainly because I have no interest in starting over and replaying content I've completed before, but I also don't want to create a new email, a new account, and a new membership, just to fight a bunch of whales alt accounts over resources (and help artificially inflate the membership numbers).

Once those few whales that the company owners keep telling JaGEx to cater to start losing interest... well, that's gonna make yesterdays failed launch debacle look like a pleasant memory by comparison...

[Red Leaf]

I haven't really played since rs3 came out. but if i were to play i wouldn't bother making a new account as it'll just burn you out least that's what happened to me when ironman and group ironman came out for osrs. My suggestion would be don't bother.

[Snowskeeper]

Oh, they didn't even give you the ability to create a new character on the same account; they're just

Giving you the option of starting a completely new account in a fresh environment

lmao no nevermind; all interest gone