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"It was really not earning any revenue, but we'd invested so much effort towards this point and there were so many people playing," said Andrew Gower in one of the book's many interviews. "It was exciting to see 2,000 and 3,000 players enjoying the game at the same time, as well as a large number of players chatting on the forums and really enjoying RuneScape. I simply wanted to keep making it. It was fun even though it wasn't very profitable".
This is the reason why we had the free membership levels remain - they didn't intend to dissuade their players. As we've seen, it did work, and the game's popularity only increased. However, like The First 20 Years explains, RuneScape didn't reach its highs without a few blunders along the way.
Some of us who played the game regularly during the 2000s might have a difficult time with the very first version today, which is known as RuneScape Classic. The players could take on anyone, even each other. The graphics were very simple cheap rs07 gold. It could only fit about 1,200 players at a time without the game crashing.
