I agree with eels. Sorry. I also believe Jagex crunched their numbers well - if there are free servers AND they are adding more it is only because it makes profit, not because thye are nice and wish ppl all over world to enjoy the game at their (Jagex's) expense. Many of those that mentioned 'free' game also appear to forget that free servers aren't just ad revenues they also generate new, paying players. It's true that Customer Support is not an easy job. So what? I am unaware of ppl being rounded by Jagex at gunpoint to support their clients. I worked at Tech Support myself, and I MUCH rather do that than be a miner or policeman or a waiter ....or work outdoors. I quit smoking recently and, even tho' I cut right down towards the end, smoking cost me about 4x as much as 2 rs account (for myself and my son), so relatively $5 pm isn't a lot of money. Neither is $10 pm. It's a kind of money that doesn't get noticed in most monthly budgets (unless one is a child earning very, very little). However, 10 cent ph does not appeal to me either. I pay maybe 5 times as much for satellite channels, but that is MUCH better value for me, as in my household satellite gets a lot more use than runescape. Therefore, I think comparing runescape to cable or dial-up internet (!!!) was like comparing apples and oranges. You need to compare like with like - rs compared with current, or at least recent, online games! And then, unless you're really unaware of current market, rs comes out very poorly against the competition. Compare it to, say, Eq - game that is well past it's best days, in fact I'm not sure if it's up anymore. Graphically and scope-wise insanely superior to runescape @$10pm (twice the money) How about Guild Wars? 1 payment for, again, vastly superior game and free server use. For what it is, really, @ $5pm runescape isn't cheap. And the problems seems to be (from what I read) that everyone is reporting everyone else for anything. This is because they are mostly children that want to be mods and believe the more reports they do - the more likely it will be they will become one. Original poster - I hope not only you become a mod yourself, but become a senior mod - selecting and training pmods so at least they have an idea of what it is thats reasonably expected of them.
