
Regardless of the outcome, any voter will get a free month of Old School RuneScape game time. The amount of votes can be seen on the official vote page. Old School RuneScape was in four different levels, each with increasing vote requirements. The servers were based on a backup of RuneScape that was created on 10 August 2007. Jagex allowed players to vote for Old School RuneScape on a referendum, promising a set of features for every vote mark level reached. History and release Ģ007 servers of RuneScape were originally announced in early 2013. 2 Core differences between OSRS and RS3.
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While Old School RuneScape is not rated by the Entertainment Software Rating Board, the equivalent rating would be Teen. Old School RuneScape is rated 16 by the Pan European Game Information committee, and MA15+ by the Australian Classification Board. All players, regardless of achievements in other versions of the game, begin Old School RuneScape on Tutorial Island with a new character. However, any accomplishments, such as stats, items and quests, are separate and non-transferable. Old School RuneScape works similarly to RuneScape Classic in that players can use their main accounts to access both games. The game quickly saw player counts equalling those of RuneScape.
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Currently, Old School RuneScape is running both free-to-play and pay-to-play servers, and players can create new F2P accounts for free without having to pay for membership.ĭespite it having originally been stated that servers would take one to two months to be opened following a successful poll, on 22 February 2013 as part of an Early Access scheme, Jagex opened over 50 Old School RuneScape servers and gave a month of free Old School RuneScape membership credit to it to all of those who had voted in the poll. It has since remained open without any additional charge. Although 500,000 votes were needed to allow no additional membership fee, Jagex stated that the first six months of Old School RuneScape will not have any additional charge. The poll ended at 00:00 UTC on Friday 1 March 2013 with the final tally of votes at 449,351.

The poll, which ended 1 March 2013, decided, among other things, whether an additional membership fee would be charged for access to the game. This version of the game was announced in a news post on 13 February 2013, which was followed by the opening of a poll to determine community interest on 15 February 2013. It is also commonly referred to as OSRS or 2007scape.

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Old School RuneScape is Jagex's official term for a previous version of the RuneScape game that was introduced from the August 2007 Archive of RuneScape, a backup of the RuneScape source code as it had been on 10 August 2007. Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Android, iOSġ.5 GHz Processor, 256 MB RAM, 128 MB 3D Graphics CardĬomputer (Standard inputs): Keyboard & MouseĬomputer (Optional): Touch-screen (requires a touchscreen monitor or laptop screen) For mobile version of the game, see Old School RuneScape Mobile.
