Runescape Membership

[abstract hound]

Suggesting Membership be based on days played and not a time period

[quasi stag]

not a game suggestion, but also it's not something they would do anyways

[severe pendant]

👎

[iron field]

1.5x rate for every hour over the login timer

[abstract hound]

I just feel like this would better serve the customers

[quasi stag]

only serves the casual gamer dads with 3 jobs and 7 kids who can only play 15 minutes a day

[severe pendant]

Frankly it would be a nightmare accounting wise because of how revenue recognition works, not remotely worth the effort it takes

[abstract hound]

how would that be a nightmare lol. you pay and its +365 credits or plus 30 credits etc

[severe pendant]

On the back end, revenue is recognized for subscription services as the subscription is used. For a service like Runescape, they basically have to do it on a 'every day we earn 1/365 of the yearly subscription price' kind of way. If they changed it so they had to account for players only using days of subscription at a time, it would collapse.

[coral nova]

Accountants unite!

[cursive shard]

Bankstanding would be so much more expensive then 😮

[static mist]

it would make people feel like they are missing out on memebership if they login, and would make people quit fast.

[solar hamlet]

I'm pretty sure on mobile you can pay for one day at a time.

[feral spear]

Not for or against this, but if they did this, wouldn't everyone be better off? Currently, a month of membership ticks down every day, whether you play or not. If buying 30 days actually got you 30 days of playtime, you'd be getting more than you do currently. It would run out faster for people playing more, but they're still getting more than they do now.

[solar hamlet]

No, because in practice it means raising prices for people playing every day.

[lapis perch]

The prices would most likely change to reflect whatever jagex considers the "normal daily playing time" to be. There is no way they'd sell 30 days of membership playtime for the same price as the current 30 days of membership as it would be a big loss financially.

[nocturne snow]

Less money for Jagex so it will be a no

[abstract hound]

uh.....it would in no way run out faster. nobody sits online and plays for 24 hours straight but you lose 24 hours each day.

[abstract hound]

prices may go up slightly but 30 days guarantees 30 actual ingame days

[pulsar sail]

the price would go up massively for anyone playing the game a lot. this also completely kills peoples enjoyment of just hanging out in the game, at the GE, talking to your clan or strangers, you are incentivized to log out the second you are not actively doing anything, all activities in the game now become only about efficiency since you are paying actual money per minute of playtime. Utterly destroys the social and chill aspect that makes osrs great, absolutely terrible suggestion imo

but yeah this wont ever happen anyways

[feral spear]

That's what I said 👍

[minor lodge]

This is absolutely not realistic and the wrong place to post anyways.

[lapis perch]

And that is never going through because it's a huge loss to jagex. Even if we generously assume the avg player puts in 8hrs a day then 30 days of playtime grants the avg player what is equivalent of 90 days of membership today.

The price would have to go up by a lot, not just slightly, for it to make them the same amount of money as today.

[vapid temple]

If this were a thing, most people wouldn't even touch the game unless they felt like they were able to play for the whole day.

If you don't want to worry about wasting membership to burn out then just get a month of membership, or buy bonds and redeem them when you're up for playing for a couple weeks.

[willow basin]

30 days is like half a year worth of membership for me and I play a lot more than the average person. If it costed the same amount as a normal month of membership then jagex would lose so much money

[tired sorrel]

This is like suggesting more MTX be added instead, they have to get revenue somehow

[clever spire]

This feels like a reaction to the recent ddosing

[abstract hound]

The price doesn’t need to go up honestly I don’t think it’s gonna raise the amount of active players or put more load on the servers. If anything it would bring in more money and players

[willow basin]

What would the price for 24 hours of play time be then? Or for 30 days?

[viscid nymph]

If the price doesnt go up then Jagex simply loses like 60%+ revenue over the course of a year

The average player does not play more than 8 hours per day, and therefor someone on a monthly membership suddenly gets 3x or more out of the same subscription. This directly means Jagex just burns their money for no reason, it would never happen. Especially with them being owned by a VC firm

[minor lodge]

You are basically asking for cheaper membership and that’s not happening whether that’s a good thing or bad thing. Given recent record high player counts, Jagex isn’t really in a rush to attract more players.

[boreal loom]

I do feel like if your acc is pre EOC, you should get pre EOC rates

[boreal loom]

I dont understand emojis, but i can answer questions 😂

[viscid nymph]

So someone who was f2p, hasnt played the game at all since or contributed to the health of the game/company in any way, should just get $5/month pricing? As opposed to paying the normal $14 or whatever is it like everyone else

[boreal loom]

Sure, if your account is 12+ years old why not? Why would a loyal player not get a discount like that?

[severe pendant]

Because that's not a loyal player, for one. That's someone who showed up 12 years ago, peaced out, then came back to ask for a pre-EOC rate for no good reason.

[coral nova]

Would put a premium on all those alts people made years ago and never came back to tho 😂

Hell, you could even invest now by making like 30 alts and selling them off after rates go up again lmaooo

[boreal loom]

Its an oddly specific, unrelatable situation for anyone tbh. If you haven't played your account in 12 years, you probably dont remember your username or password

[severe pendant]

The only situation in which prior pricing should be used in the future is when someone has a continuous membership, because that's the price they signed up for, so it's the price they get. As soon as they stop paying/playing, that's when new prices take effect. Not sure why this is much of a conversation, anyway, because either idea is still bad.

[boreal loom]

Makes more sense than this suggestion tbh

[viscid nymph]

Thats what they currently do... Grandfathered Pricing on monthly

[boreal loom]

Not exactly. I know they do grandfathered pricing. But if your account is from 2008 and you clearly have been playing off and on (skipping a few months here and there) theres an argument to be made that your account should be included with grandfather pricing

[severe pendant]

No, there isn't. When you stop playing and unsubscribe, you are sacrificing your prior payment terms for whatever new ones are available upon the next time you subscribe.