Steam Launch And RuneScape Growth - A Message From Mod Warden

We've wanted to scream this from the rooftops for a long time, and today is the day we can finally say it... RuneScape is coming to Steam!
Source: Steam Launch And RuneScape Growth - A Message From Mod Warden

Considering that everything pretty much requires membership.  I'm really interested to see how they're going to do this if the game is going to be a free to play game.  They're going to have to really hope people find F2P compelling enough that they may want to consider subscribing.

But make no mistake.  I think this is great.  I can't stress enough how happy this makes me that the game will be on the largest gaming platform in the world for everyone to see.   

But I am concerned that worlds with a player cap of 1500 are already struggling when there are 400 or more on the server.  Turning up the heat on a pot that's already boiling over sounds like a bad idea in my mind.

Honestly, Jagex needs to advertise the game more. There really is a low influx of new players so if this helps as a new source of advertisement I'm all for it. I don't think there will be such a massive influx of new players that the f2p servers will all get overcrowded. It will take some time and maybe they will eventually have to upgrade the servers... But they should have upgraded the servers for years already, so.....