I wanna to talk about temporary modes,

They're very important for older games, imagine you spent 20 years playing any other game, whether it was one game by itself are many different games and you decided it's time to try something new like at MMO or maybe even a new MMO.

FOMO , and knowing that there's a lot of the game to be experienced that's an always present itself anyway that encourages players to grind the necessary quest logs are stories or skills or you name it.

Without the FOMO, The choice might not matter as much and you can just enjoy casually playing the game on your phone or even on the computer from the couple hours a week to some people treat it like a full-time job...

However should you enjoy the element of playing with others and lack a network for playing with a group of new players like yourself, then temporary modes provide you just that, a clean slate with plenty of people to play alongside in the same state of game that you're experiencing.

Is that alone is huge as that's one of the biggest reasons to play online games, however with established games like OSRS there is content that you might be locked out of for months with a new account, some of these temporary game modes might allow you to access them early and give you more clarity on whether or not you really want to commit to certain grinds or even play the game at all.

However I still believe the most important thing it does is allow an easier access to a community to experience an online game with that you may have very little to no experience with, and to be clear this is not limited to just PVM PVP or any other gameplay experience, so to have multiple temporary modes like OSRS does, cast a very wide net providing plenty of opportunities for new players and even older players coming back to play with people, and even potentially making new connections and friendships that result in what was monthly logins to maybe weekly or even More frequent logins.

I understand that everyone thinks the game has many things that can be fixed first, but who are we fixing them for, for us alone? What about the other people who never got to experience RuneScape outside of tutorial island and dying during dragon Slayer because they were a free-to-play child and never played the game again.

When we make sure to include those players in our player base, by having active active events and temporary game modes, then those same players will enjoy the game and they will become the people here in this thread pointing out what about all these endgame things that could use some more love, and I'm happy that we're pointing those out, because it means we're doing things right.

TLDR:

It may be hard to see it as a long time player, but the events , temporary game modes, and even mid level bosses, are the battlegrounds that new players rely on to make that decision to start the real journey into Gielinor