Nicely put. The OG client is a thing. Not to RuneScape players who play 12 hours a day for cheap RuneScape gold the past five years but logging for the very first time in 15 decades. Exactly, and people time in 15year RuneScape players are the ones Jagex should hook for RuneScape to develop. It is a decision to 19, if they choose to switch to something like RL later then. OSRS has to feel familiar to bring back anyone. Completely disagree. You are implying they need to boost their CAC to concentrate purely on bringing in fresh RuneScape players when people may not be the biggest gain to their profit. I will not make a claim because I have not seen their financial numbers and numbers but I would really like to see if the"sweaty" players burning bonds or membership for numerous accounts (main, ironman, HCIM, Leagues, etc.) don't really out weigh their revenue derived from new RuneScape players.
You sound like somebody who'd only be interested in lining up investors pockets and also the upcoming years profits instead of growing RuneScape for everyone. I'm reacting to a discussion being had about OSRS and Jagex as a business. If you think the people who turn off OSRS and may flip the switch do not care about profit then you are being naive. OSRS is a mature product (think dish soap, deodorant, coffee grinder, etc.) that has minimal significant changes to it but continues to earn money.
Offer a"heritage" client and a"upgraded" customer, maybe? Simply spit balling here, I concur with most of the points, however if Jagex desired to make RL an official client they could still provide the old client (or at least a skin of it). That would help ensure the nostalgia or anything else it is that you enjoy about the vanilla client is available while also giving new RuneScape players access to your client with additional usefulness, without needing to be concerned about the dubious nature of 3rd party customers in RuneScape. I agree that having choices is best. It comes to keeping two clients is money spent for minimal cash returned and the money, and likely is not worth the expense/headache. There's a reason firms with larger games than Jagex simply provide one customer, and if they offer you a heritage customer, it is only supported for a limited timeframe.
Buying something since it is better out is. Google buys all of the time to startups that are fresh. If someone made something for your game purchasing but and creating it like if it was your virtue is great. Google has infinity capital. Google purchases start-ups to swallow them into Google until they grow their legs and it competes in certain centre with a Google service. In the software area, first to market is important, and if Google does not score the applications, Facebook will and then possibly use it in order to compete against Google. Microsoft used to do exactly the exact same thing.
It is not important to Jagex as they own RuneScape and the space and RL isn't competing. It's not necessary to invest the capital as it does them no harm to only leave it.These are very exact points. You are also making the assumption that buying RL is a significant cost. The comments regarding the source lend more to the notion of a trade being approved with nominal expenditure as a partnership and absorption of RL. The potential goodwill from a significantly modified client for a number of other gamers (not you as you have said ) could very easily be worthwhile a reduction of buy old school runescape gold profit. Moves are made for PR and advertising functions.
