As a F2P'er who has never had membership, I say that F2P'ers deserve absolutely nothing, now and for all time. Sure, we view ads. But on the other hand, we increase their server load. Since revenue from ads is probably almost nothing per person, I say that Jagex doesn't 'owe' free players any money. Either it balances out, or it's a small difference, and that's nothing compared to 5$ a month. Some people are saying that new content is necessary to get people to see what the game is like. I doubt that, we don't need new content to see what the game is like. We already get half the game world and 3/4 of the skills- that's the bait. That was enough to captivate a player years ago, and I seriously doubt that adding a new dungeon or quest would appeal that much to a new player now. "36 quests instead of 35? Meh." The only purpose a full chunk of content for F2P would serve would be to stop F2P'ers complaining about updates for a short while. And when you finish Dragon Slayer, and unlock 'teh 1337 rune pl8body', then you're basically done with the game unless you're interested in doing a lot of grinding and minigames. All the annoying things- lack of bankspace, severely limited minigames, please realize that these aren't design flaws, they're intentional, to get people to become members. I'm seeing a lot of "I want more content because I'm bored", or "I want X type of equipment since I've been using the best F2P equipment for ages." Both ways to get you to sign up. Usually the only way F2P will get full content would be for holidays. I guess that proves that Jagex isn't a heartless corporation- first they give F2P tons of content for no charge (more than almost all MMORPGs), and they even give them occasional holiday stuff that probably takes a while to make, though they have no reason to whatsoever. And for the people complaining about bad rewards- the horrible rewards are the entire point. They're watered down so you can sign up to be a member to get the good stuff.
