

On 25 January 2015, it was announced a poll would be coming to decide if full F2P should be introduced alongside membership bonds.However, on 7 June 2013, they announced that OSRS will remain free of extra charge.



There have been many changes since the poll ended click here to view them. Note: The green shading in the table above only shows the vote mark reached on 1 March 2013 and the features that would have been given according to that vote mark. Regular membership polls to decide new content Although the vote count only reached 449,351 and not 500,000, Jagex decided not to charge the additional fee of five USD for the first six months (excluding the free month) however, on 7 June 2013, they announced that OSRS is here to stay and there will be no additional fee. Regardless of the outcome, any voter will get a free month of Old School RuneScape game time. The amount of votes can be seen on the official vote page. Old School RuneScape was in four different levels, each with increasing vote requirements. Jagex allowed players to vote for Old School RuneScape on a referendum, promising a set of features for every vote mark level reached. 2 Core differences between OSRS and RS3Ģ007 servers of RuneScape were originally announced in early 2013.Old School RuneScape is rated T for Teen by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, 16 by Pan European Game Information committee, and Restricted to 15+ by the Australian Classification Board. All players, regardless of achievements in other versions of the game, begin Old School RuneScape on Tutorial Island with a new character. However, any accomplishments, such as stats, items and quests, are separate and non-transferable. Old School RuneScape works similarly to RuneScape Classic in that players can use their main accounts to access both games. The game quickly saw player counts equalling those of RuneScape 3. Currently, Old School RuneScape is running both free-to-play and pay-to-play servers, and players can create new F2P accounts for free without having to pay for membership.ĭespite it having originally been stated that servers would take one to two months to be opened following a successful poll, on 22 February 2013 as part of an Early Access scheme, Jagex opened over 50 Old School RuneScape servers and gave a month of free Old School RuneScape membership credit to it to all of those who had voted in the poll. It has since remained open without any additional charge. Although 500,000 votes were needed to allow no additional membership fee, Jagex stated that the first six months of Old School RuneScape will not have any additional charge. The poll ended at 00:00 UTC on Friday 1 March 2013 with the final tally of votes at 449,351. The poll, which ended 1 March 2013, decided, among other things, whether an additional membership fee would be charged for access to the game. This version of the game was announced in a news post on 13 February 2013, which was followed by the opening of a poll to determine community interest on 15 February 2013. Old School RuneScape, also known as OSRS, or 2007scape, is Jagex's official term for a previous version of the RuneScape game that was introduced from a backup of the RuneScape source code as it had been on 10 August 2007. However, for mobile version of the game, see Old School RuneScape Mobile.
