Papa_EDS

I'm also an F2P player and agree with everything said below. I want to add that for many of us, maybe even most of us F2P players, that saving the $5 a month is trivial compared to getting a game that is more challenging even if somewhat more limited. Members get far more skills to train, more quests, more mini-games, more ways to train the F2P skills that exist, and nearly double the size playing map for their $5/month. They also do not have to look at the ads that F2P players suffer thru. But the challenge of getting 90+ skills in an F2P environment is what makes these limitations worth enduring. $5 / month is such a small amount that saving it is almost meaningless. It would also surprise me if the $5 / month made much difference to gold farmers and other parasites who sought to make money from Runescape at the expense of playability. If Jagex's bot removal is dependent on the bots all being F2P I'd expect to see bots back pretty soon as members. I don't know why Jagex couldn't just make hi scores restricted to those who've logged in within the past 30, 60, 90 (or u pick a number) days. I don't know what you'd consider an "actual" or "legit" reason, but I can give my own. I always considered playing Runescape as a non-member something akin to playing a game on hard mode: there's less things to do and less ways (but innovative ones) to do them. I see it as a kind of challenge. I'm not the only onethere's a whole pure F2P community composed of people who can pay for membership, but choose not to because of the vibrant community in which an active, constructive non-member can participate. The unique aspects of remaining pure F2P bind us together as a communitypeople make guides, videos, and even clans centered on F2P skilling, because it contains a whole different set of methods than the ones members use to level up. Thus, a community is born. In their most recent FAQ on this subject (16-17-732-63382107), Jagex pretends that such a community doesn't exist; that non-members should be categorically branded as bots. But that's not true. We do exist, and they're forcing us to dispense with what WE like about the game for their utilitarian process of assimilation. At the very least, they could have opened up the coding data to us so that we could create our own hiscore system. That way, the pure F2P community would at least have a ghost of a chance at survival. But they're even denying us that. I'm not even going to call it indefensibleit's just sad.

I think it would be nice if Tip.It had a HiScores list of its members. It can get each members hiscores from runescape and it can make two lists, one of all skills, and one of F2P skills only. It wouldn't be quite the same as RS's hiscores, but I bet the F2P lists would attract more F2Pers to Tip.IT, especially hi scoring F2P people.