User blog comment:Mike Kivail/Old School Roleplaying server/@comment-1036724-20130228005448/@comment-1036724-20130228021450

As promised, here is said list. 1. Many characters will likely end up looking similar due to the small amount of equipment, clothing, and hairstyle options available in 2007. 2. Many animation-related luxuries that we have in the live game are nonexistent, such as sitting, performing various emotes, and weapon drawing/sheathing. 3. Everything is ugly and generic. Sure, some people missed that aspect about RuneScape, but as far as I can tell, said people are few and far between in our section of the community. 4. Smaller map. Taverley and Burthorpe are tiny, depressing little hamlets now, not the large, life-like towns we have in the live game. Many other lore-heavy locations are missing or incomplete, which brings me to my next point... 5. The lore is incomplete. There are innumerable amounts of lore missing from 2007 that we're so used to having around in the live game. This also makes for a lot more lore-bending/breaking, because some people may be under the impression that such-and-such event never occurred, and would then abuse it for their own advantages. 6. It would split up our community, which is already small enough as it is. Think about it. Our community is comprised of 200, maybe 300 people at the most. Say half of them left to roleplay on '07Scape. There would be a drastic drop in public and private RP activity for both sides of the split community. Take a look at what the F2P group did, when some of them broke off to roleplay on World 20 for whatever asinine reason they did it for. At least two months later, we stopped hearing about World 20 RP. Why did that happen? Their already tiny community split into an even smaller pair of communities that were forced to re-merge in order to keep activity going.

Think about what you're doing and quit while you're ahead.

All credit goes to Ellen and Nathan for the ideas, I merely expanded on them and paraphrased what they said.