Originally Posted by
Battle614
It is the nature of most servers to lock the most OP gear & items behind some kind of grind. If you allow all of that to be easily accessed then what's the point of grinding and that impacts player retention. Combat was far from horrible, I know you are saying whatever you are out of spite but this was proven completely untrue various times from various Pkers who actually play OSRS. The reason it seemed broken was mixing OSRS items with turmoil. Turmoil itself is an extremely overpowered prayer which is why Jagex attempted to compromise by adding damage soaking. 614 was the era where this was not present causing absurd max hits. We have tested out combat without turmoil and all our accuracy & maxhits are extremely accurate to OSRS. We've tested this numerous times.
I can agree that management did not do the best job at keeping the community updated and informed about what was going on but in our defense, we were dealing with a lot. Our struggle to retain players shifted our focus completely which is why we were not as transparent as we needed to be. This project was never made for money. I started this project a year ago. paying all hosting/graphics/etc out of my own pocket for a full year. Even when we released and made some money none of that was taken and instead we kept feeding it back into advertisements. This project's purpose was to create something unique and different in the high-revision scene which has not been done. Unfortunately, doing this was not accepted by traditional 614 players who only want what they have been use to for the last decade. OSRS players that we tried to appeal to also did not want to join due to OP mechanics/systems such as curses & summoning. Leaving us with an extremely small and niche market.
Yes, as stated in our discord post I will be issuing refunds you will just need to DM in discord.
Tons of money was spent on advertisements, $6,000 does not even include the money I had paid prior to the release and what was paid out via OSRSGP. As sad as it is for this project to go out the way it has we have learned a lot, made new friends/connections and are still motivated for the future. This server was always a risk going in due to the nature of its type but we always knew that.
"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."