Prestige

[Beric]

I voted yes. I'm not interested in highscores, but being able to optionally reset my levels would be fun for me. Also great for the game's economy. 

[Memphus]

No Prestige Mode:

 

Prestige Poll Results

We polled, you answered!

Over 60% of you voted against the addition of the Prestige System to RuneScape. While it's clear that many of you want to see aspirational content and competition at the higher end of the game, Prestige isn't the form that you want to see it in. Mod Pips will be posting a more detailed breakdown of the voting soon, but the result is pretty clear. The Prestige System is not going into the game.

Update: Mod Pips has posted the detailed results in the Future Updates forum.

Personally, I’m pleased with this outcome. I’d much rather start from scratch than release something that doesn’t work for the players it’s supposed to please.

We’ve also had a lot of feedback from you all. Most of it was really constructive, such as "I would have voted for Prestige if..." or "I didn’t vote for Prestige because..." or even "Instead of Prestige, why not implement..." Thanks so much for this, and keep it coming. Even if you don’t see a JMod respond, that doesn’t mean we’re not taking note of it. Devs and players working together: this is what we meant by "Made by You".

So, what happens next?

We’re going to re-evaluate both our goals and our implementation in light of what you’ve told us. With your feedback at the fore, we're going to think of new ideas that meet your expectations and fit in with the way you want to play RuneScape. Whether we come up with a single system or a choice of multiple systems, we’ll work with you to decide what goes into the game. We’re definitely not abandoning the idea of aspirational content, but we want to make sure we do it in a way that you're happy with.

Mod Jack

[Dan G]

Yeah I saw. I'd like to know the statistics of the peoples' stats who voted for either option.

[Beric]

Yeah I saw. I'd like to know the statistics of the peoples' stats who voted for either option.

Here: http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/forums.ws?16,17,919,65190716,goto,1

[Dan G]

Yeah I saw. I'd like to know the statistics of the peoples' stats who voted for either option.

Here: http://services.runescape.com/m=forum/forums.ws?16,17,919,65190716,goto,1

 

Oh! I should lurk more.

[Memphus]

I love the breakdowns.

 

In general, the more 99's, the less popular Prestige was

Players with 1 or more skills at 200m: 86% said no

Clearly, those to whom the update was targetted at, was a strong NO. This is why I voted no. Only those to whom it would not affect seemed to really support the update (obviously because they wanted to take advantage of the market fluctuations it would cause). Runescape's playerbase is already dwindling enough due to bullshit like SoF and Bonds. The last thing we need is another update that causes multiple players to quit but 0 new players to join. The prestige update would do just that: Add 0 new players to Runescape.

[Rafi]

it would have been nice for the economy to try to make more items and resources have actual value, but I'd feel so bad for the people who waste away their life getting 200m xp across skills.

[Naturalhunta]

wow so whe u re-set you cant make anything you previusly were able to once 99.... nutttz

 

it will help out the noobs if items for low lvl crap goes up

 

if they add like prestige gear like rune set (p) and have it look bamf would be sickkk, i miss rocking my rune set