I'm just gonna go and throw out a few paragraphs about it since I feel the need to. This is a rant, nothing more.
The general appeal of a reset to players that haven't been actively playing the game is understandable. It would be fresh start for everyone. It's benefits are blatantly obvious to everyone. However I do think they are far outweighed by the negative impact a reset has on the server.
Resets are usually brought up as a problem solver for whatever problem we have. Item oversupply? Reset. PvM not rewarding enough for you? Reset. Don't know what to do beyond leveling and gearing up? Reset. It most definitely has an effect on problems, however this is temporary. The actual solution for a problem could be applied without a reset and still work. It would leave us with some leftovers from when the problem existed, but that's something that is possible to have the playerbase clean up on it's own. If players don't want to do that it's not big enough of an issue to them.
Players themselves could help fix a ton of problems by simply organizing. Highscores don't feel competitive? Organize an event that has people speedrun something for direct competition. Too many items in the economy? Sink items by alching them. We don't have all that many tools to do this easily, but it's not impossible to do. And rather than a reset giving us more tools for this would also be an option.
Resets would also "bring back" competition. This is something I find a tad bit misleading honestly. You would have a few days of everyone being in the competition and then it would go back to there being a huge difference between the players in the top and everyone else. It will definitely be fun the first few days. If people do however enjoy just going through the maxing process again to be able to compete in the highscores then they can already do that. Yes, it takes a considerable time to get to the top. It will take a considerable amount of effort to stay there as well. Resets aren't going to change that at all, after a while you'd just have more people asking for a reset because they think they can't compete. I think there is plenty of room for competition in the current highscores. The amount of people that are maxed is still pretty low, especially for ironmen. If you want to compete you can, you just have to catch up, that's completely possible to do. If you think the bar is too high on normal accounts try ironman mode.
It's not strange that people would generally feel a lot better about themselves if there weren't so many people that are so far ahead of them. That's not something that should motivate a reset though. Because if you reset it once you will eventually end up with the same situation you were in before, except you'd have lost a bunch of loyal players due to the reset. It just seems like whining to me that people say they can't compete. I created my account in 2015 and I've been on the front page of highscores for quite a long time. It's possible, it just takes a bit more than being lazy.
Having resets be something that is impossible is something that prevents the playerbase from being insecure about the future of the game. If you've had a reset for reasons what stops a reset from occurring again in the future? If current problems are solved what stops new problems from being created? What would guarantee the old problem will be fixed in the first place? If resets are a possibility in the future that would seriously take away from people's motivation to play the game. It's an actual problem with deadman mode in osrs, which is evident by how much easier they've made it to get through the early stages of the game. I don't know why people are so hellbent on wanting to start over.
The argument that people against a reset are only out for their own benefit is weird to me. Wouldn't wanting a reset so you've got an equal start to people that have already played the game for an extensive amount of time be for your own benefit too? Isn't every single thing that's suggested beneficial to the person suggesting it? Why would anyone suggest something that doesn't benefit them in any way?
Even if you completely disregard everything I've mentioned a reset is still a risk. With the current playerbase we can not afford to take one of that size. Catering towards those that are already loyal to your server rather than those that have already quit is a logical choice.
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