2007 Old School RuneScape Servers are coming BACK!!

Hey Guys, I wrote up this little report, and was planning to post a video of it. But with time being short I thought I would just post it here. - Liv.

Old Runescape from the year 2007 is being brought back to life after 6 years of being dropped.

SoWre3ked released a petition that showed Jagex how much the players wanted old Runescape back.

Over 45,000 players signed the petition. with over half a million players finding solace in RS private servers, 
this petition was the voice that possibly pushed Mr Gerhard to listen. 

On the 13th of Feb Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard has released a post that would rock the RS community to its core.
Which would see Runescape land itself in yet more controversy after the EoC had failed please a majority of the community, and seeing more than a majority of loyal players quit.

Mr Gerhard says in his post that they would bring back the old Runescape that players so loved as long as the community voted limiting it to paying members.

The poll in where paying members vote also spilts the community with more and more f2p players feeling left out with no say in the matter.
Many disgruntled f2p players had been spamming the the forums explaining why they should vote.

This news has spread amongst the runescape YouTube community and several other communities prompting
players of the past to support and vote in favor of bringing back the old servers.

Why 2007 and not 2006 servers? JaGeX states that the last back up of the game was august 10th 2007. 
a few days short of the release of the God Wars Dungeon, the Grand Exchanged was released in November later that year.

"..a real pker knows how to pk without the use of fancy god armor and weaponry"  says one player on the official forums.

There are 4 tiers in which Mr Gerhard has stated in which will bring better features.All tiers reached will become a separate game from the EoC.

Tier 1 has 50,000 votes Runescape 2007 servers will come back but with the additional payment of and extra $15 on top of the current members fees. with no updates only critical maintenance.

Tier 2 if the community manages to get 250,00 votes, an extra $5 on top of the current members fee, a small development team support, basic maintenance and the possibility of anti-bot technology

Tier 3 votes reaching 500,000, there will be no extra fees, a dedicated team for bug fixes and regular maintenance and anti-bot technology.

If votes reach Tier 4, 750k votes, no extra fee will be paid, a small portion of the game will be available to all players including free to play community,  a dedicated developmental team, continuous maintenance  anti-botting technology, and members polls to vote what content to bring into these servers.

The poll was released on the 15th of Feb and has already reached over 226,000 votes. 

Runescape's original help website Tip.it released a poll of its own TWO DAYS before Mr Gerhard released the news to the public about bringing back the 2007 old servers.

Options seen in the Tip.it polls can be seen in Mr Gerhard's poll.
The question that was asked was:
How much would you be willing to pay to play on a 2007 Runescape server?.

The results so far:
43% of the voters not wanting to pay the extra fees. 
14% voters would pay an extra $5
2% voters would pay $15 extra for 2007 servers. 
7% didn't mind what they paid, 
14% would play if it were free and a 
19% said they would NOT play on the 2007 servers.

Players are urged to vote for the re-release of the 2007 RS servers before it closes on the 1st of March 2013. Those that vote will also get their first month free. 

Servers will go live 22nd Feb 2013, Mod Mark said it would probably be very late in the evening.

So will you be voting for 2007 servers returning or will you continue with EoC?
Or will you be doing a mixture of both?

Livy.