They lie - The forums were actually opened to freeplayers yesterday.



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Very nice for those who have the levels. Might produce some complaining from those who don't.

It's a decent requirement; hopefully will breathe some life into the official forums. However I do have concerns with certain sections such as clans - will clans now need to specify they are member-only? May cause a few issues. Also already there have been many suggestions for more free content.

There has been a rumor that some of those asking for free content are members who are just trying to make f2pers look bad.
I'd think 15Mil+ would be better.

Looks like a firestorm will be brewing soon when members arue they have no right to be there, however...an average of 72 levels in each skill is what Jagex calls the high mark and I cannot disagree, in freeplay it shows it is not a throwaway and they have time invested.

Good move on Jagex' part

In my opinion any Freeplayer who has over 12.5m XP has earned the rights to use the Forums, so I'd agree that this is a good move by Jagex, and hopefully will help to build the diversity of the Topics/Posts in the RSOF

Finally free players can use forums!
Aaarrrrggh!Don't have 12.5 m exp !
Good job Jagex

I think that this was a good move on JaGeX's part.
12.5m is a pretty good req.

Undecided. I agree that more mature f2pers SHOULD get forums, however most f2p accounts are just throwaways. 12.5mxp is not enugh really - 15m?? I sincerely hope this doesn't mean f2p get more updates, they should pay. Yes, we were all f2p once, but most of us payed to become a member - one of the perks was forums access.

12.5M xp is almost enough for a 99. If you had a f2p account with a 99 and nothing else, would you call it a "throw-away" account?

Just keep on downgrading members features Jagex.

Watch next month.

"We here at Jagex felt that the RuneScape Map was not big enough for our free players so we have now opened up Catherby and Seers Village."

Hell yeah.

I always hated how you had to pay money just to access forums. The only argument I've gotten was "ITS 4 AVOIDIN SPAMERZ!", and that's just mods being too lazy to take care of things and clean up messes. People who don't have the time to waste getting 12.5 million XP or have 5 bucks to throw away are getting a bad deal here, and it's because the mods are paranoid that people will make multiple accounts to spam with, and are too lazy to bother with it.. This is why I've always thought the official forums were horrible.

Despite this, at least F2P does have a chance to access the forums. Too bad it's easier to just shell out 5 bucks rather than spend months getting that much XP.

Hmm...im level 75 and cant acces

Oh well, time to start training!

I agree with the filter for levels but do we really need to have it that high?

Maybe above 70 cb or all skills equal to 2k? I don't know

this is a really good idea, expecally the the part of having a cert amount of exp and not a combat lvl so skillers could get in to . as for the ppl who can't, to bad, i mean i don't want a bunch of noobs spamming the forums and the only of the reasons it isn't happening now is cause ppl who r mems usually have played for a long while, and ppl with this amount of exp would have bean playing for a while to.

and now for the "fixed thanks" emoticon since sal's doesn't have a "ty jagex" one

All skills 2k?

I think thats impossible in f2p and hard as hell for p2p

Finally
12.5M xp is a high enough standard for F2p, the xp per hour are way lower for a lot of skills.

The RSOF is up in arms about this. It's funny that most of them are saying stuff like "dum f2p wil just spam forums omg."

I've seen numerous spam on the forum from F2P demanding that P2P content should be F2P,
One even demanding P2P be kicked from the forums.
I don't mind the mature players, its just the immature "noobs" I'm worried about.

~Darth

You know P2pers do that all they time. Like in topics: OMG I WANT WILDY BACK NAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And the chances are, that topic starter was P2p.

I am shocked by the abuse that I have received simply for allowing access to the runescape forums. I anticipated there would be mixed reviews, but some of the criticism is harsh if not just hurtful.

Oh god. Look at rants. They (P2P) are saying F2P are spamming the forums. Are they one to talk (6/6/06, 12/10/07, ect)? Plus P2P expects all content to be pay 4 usage, however as Mod MMG has said he see's F2P as the GAME itself (Which means they (F2P/P2P) get treated seperate BUT equally), and members as an expansion pack.

Average of lvl 72 or 1 lvl 99 skil....

Hehe, I can use the forums again. I like the update although I feel it's a bit too low on the total xp needed. I think they should have made the requirements a little higher tho as 12.5m can easily be reached by getting 99 cooking or firemaking.

EDIT: Well I just spent some time on the forums and good god. F2P is getting attacked left and right by members as if someone who is f2p is a lower class of human. The open hostility is astounding, I mean members are flaming f2pers who make simple posts saying they shouldn't be allowed on the forums. I don't see what they have to be so angry about. Jagex wants feedback from those who play the f2p game and it's not like it's hurting members in any way. Members pay to get more and regular content updates in the game, the forums were just a way to trade certain things and voice their opinions. Now they're acting as if it's their right to be the only people allowed to tell Jagex what to do with their game when F2P also plays the game albeit for free and with a lot loss features.

I only wish the same level of maturity that you and my fellow slam members have shown would transpire onto the runescape forums.

What about me?!?!?! I have almost 11 mil xp, but I spend most of my time merchanting!... Great, now I have to go skill, till I'm mad! Oh wait... Anyways, I think that it should be about 10 mil, because some players just train combat, or one or two skills etc.
~Vincent

Hehe, it was a great update in my opinion! the Xp requirement could of been a little bit higher, but it seems to be working fine as it is I actually think I might be addicted to it now lol, I alredy have 50 posts!

Robertkills1
AKA
Santa

Wow didn't notice this . 43M exp ftw, I'm going to go spam on there now

JK (about spamming).

+1

About time I get to use the Forum.

yay i get to use the forums i think
do i have 12.5 mil xp???
*wait a minute*
I never use the forums...

Can finally sell things in f2p without having to find buyers or going to ge =p

Ah, and so the F2P community is worse than the P2P community. . .?

Now there is going to be more segregation.

I hope everyone will learn to accept this update on the forums.

i think thos is a win win win situation,

1. you get more PoVs (Point of Views)
2.People are going to train more (in f2p magic the perks stop at lvl 59 and the only one left is teleblock)
3. the separate economies will mix toether (f2p and p2p) and p2pers wont have to depend on p2pers alone to get f2p stuff, the forums make it easyer for mems to buy off of fellow mems and f2pers.

good move JaGex, good move.

Stop complaining that free members can use the forums now, you wouldn't like it if you had to pay to use sals every month.

level 72 on everything? So basically only players who have just about maxed every skill and are almost out of content?

I haven't seen a Wildy thread for some time now.
I looked up the player and he didn't have any Member skills in the Hiscores.

~Darth

how do i find out my total xp????

I don't think allowing experienced freeplayers on the forums would be "downgrading"?

Watch next few seconds.

"OMFG 2 mny freplay updats! i RAGEQUIT rs members!!!11"

Look on the Highscores, if its not ranked, you've still got a long way to go to 12.5 million xp.

i don't use the rs fourms its really lacking a lot of things...

the requirement could be a little higher many players could get that exp training in one day

Great update. 12.5 mill exp wil keep away most of the idiots. However, they will be members who don't like this so they'll spam the hell and make it look like there f2p, so not all the spamers will be f2p.

I have 7.5 mill exp so it'll be a while before I get 12.5 mill exp, but it's a good time to start heading towards 99 cooking.



You have no chance in f2p to do that. I know you can get 200k exp and hour by burning yew logs but's thats very expsive, but it only 4.8 mill for 24 hours work.

They should've done it long ago.

As a member, i was always wanting to hear the opinion of free players about the updates, recent and future.

I just like a little conversation

~I

That's why it's called high level. You need at least like 9 months of experience really. I have been playing Runescape for two years on this account and 35Million exp.

I'm glad I can post, but I won't. When I was a member, I don't think I ever posted on the official forums

Some people will be unhappy and let their voice be heard, but it hardly matters, as it will likely die down completely within a month. However, I think Jagex probably could have made the integration a little slower, perhaps starting with 30 million experience and working down to control and ranting. I hope Jagex doesn't decide to lower the experience requirement further, I think if freeplayers should have a voice on the official forums it should be a moderate one.

I think members should remember that although there is plenty of people with immaturity, inexperience, etc. in freeplay worlds, most of them cannot post on the forums. So don't worry about it

It'll be nice to hear some new voices on thr fourms for a change. All this flack about f2p spamming is rediculous.

Omg, f2p are ranting that they should have more updates, and members are ranting that f2p are spamming, but it seems members are ranting more, get a long ppl

Much higher than I expected, still, hopefully they'll have some good input into the community.

Great job JaGex! The 12.5M exp proves quite hard, so hopefully only mature or dedicated people will be on the forums.

However, if you ask me, this is just some advertising for th P2P content. All the F2P people who havn't been a member before will be jealous on all the stuff P2P have (because loads of people talk about P2P stuff, don't they?), therefore they will want to go P2P instead of F2P, THEREFORE MORE MONEY FOR JAGEX

Hope you see my point