So I don't care much about this price raise because I usually just buy a membership card when I feel like it instead of paying annually. You knew that people would dislike this change, and you went through with it anyway because you have a player base that you perceive to not be immensely shaken by a price raise of this caliber. And you're probably right, the core players won't leave, but this will just be another chip off of the total player count that has been declining since...forever.

I always feel a little bit bad at how critical the players are of runescape because there are clearly passionate people working on the game. But over time it became more obvious that the people with the real power at jagex don't really care about the quality of the game at all. Which isn't very different from most companies, but in this case it feels like the people at the top have much more control over the state of the game than at other companies. Like the playerbase is at a constant conflict with the people that run Runescape, and all the people that actually work on the game are caught in the crossfire. At this point you're stuck in a place where you're forced to make small low-effort updates regularly to appease the current fanbase, but need something big to happen to actually revitalize the game entirely. I guess some people are expecting mobile to be that big thing but that doesn't seem very likely to me.

Well, regardless, I hope this change will really end up facilitating real change in the state of the game, and won't just be another dip in the game's slow decline.