World 2, What is it?

[blazed you]

If you want people to actually care about World 2, you need to market it as a re-release of "The Battlescape", build up more hype backed with more advertising. As of right now, I've asked around and nobody even knows or cares about BS anymore.

Agree with this, more emphasis should have been put around World 2 being an entirely new server. A much better job could also have been done hyping the new server up for existing/returning players.

Would I, as well as probably hundreds of others come and play if Wilderness was active? YES. Proven to be home of like 30+ Clans in the past, you need to market towards the clans scene. The clans that server hop right now are in the hundreds of members, you bring one and a domino effect of more clans and players will follow.

There isn't currently an existing eco based server that has an active wilderness because pking just isnt as active as it was years ago. Marketing the game towards the clan scene may seem like a good idea to you since you're a part of it, but most RS and RSPS players now are ironmen and skillers. There's more marketability in designing a grindy eco based skilling server than there is a pk server.

With the release of W2 there's nothing to stop Palidino converting W1 into some kind of semi-spawn PK server to cater to the Pkers, but I don't see why he'd do that when it would never be able to compete content wise with the other PK servers.

Or are there other things stopping clans joining this game aside from an active wilderness?

How many times does this need to be said, as it's been said by hundreds of people over the last few years. There was nothing ever wrong with Battlescape 1, or 2. It was Pali going inactive that KILLED IT. 3,4,5... were less popular but still held active PK/PVM player base, but slowly ran downhill.

Agreed but the RSPS community has changed a lot since BS1 & BS2, so what made Battlescape active then probably wouldn't now.

Decision for W2 was made, but it's just being released in the dark, and nobody will care.

Any suggestions you have for how to market the game better?