Free-to-play



Free-to-play, also known as F2P, is the free version of Old School RuneScape where no payment to Jagex is required to play. Players who play the free version of Old School RuneScape are known as "free players". This is in contrast to members, who pay a fee for access to a much larger map and a multitude of skills, items, quests, and activities, which are not available to free players users. Furthermore, free-to-play access to Old School RuneScape is currently very limited. There was one "F2P weekend" in Q4 2013, and there is a two week limited F2P period currently going on as of May 27 2014.

Although there was a free game available at the time of the back-up, Old School RuneScape hasn't fully implemented F2P. Currently F2P access is going through a trial period.

The 2013 vote to bring back Old School RuneScape promised to give the option to play the free version of the game completely free of charge if the poll reached a minimum of 750,000 votes (a number that was probably as large as the vast majority of  RuneScape' s community at the time), but there were not enough votes to bring the free version back. The end vote came up to be 449,351 votes.