A fundamental difference between OSRS Survey and League Classic Council

Everyone loves the OSRS model and obviously Council is an attempt to replicate its success, but there's a fundamental difference between these two systems that is going to neuter if not fully invert the Council's effectivess:

>To participate, you'll need to be a member in Old School RuneScape with a total skill level of at least 300 and a minimum total play-time of 25 hours. A feature poll is considered successful if it has achieved over 70% yes votes when it closes.

1. You need to be a paid member.

This is going to be controversial, but it's the #1 thing that ensures the survey results align with the playerbase most critical for the game mode to survive: it's behind a paywall. While the membership is shared with RS3, it's not primarily serving as a means to coax RS3 players into trying out OSRS in pursuit of cosmetic rewards for their preferred game like the Classic Pass skin rewards are.

2. You need a significant time investment.

25 hours loosely translates to about 50 games played of League Classic. This is far more than is currently required to reach level 10 and acquire Council voting power. Further, OSRS is not offering RS3 rewards that will put you past this amount of playtime, while League Classic's modern rewards do.

3. Features are implemented at 70% yes votes.

This is meant to prevent a controversial 55-60% winning feature from being implemented. Unfortunately, Riot has chosen to launch the game with several modern features implemented and then hold votes to determine whether they've been removed. The fact that less than 70% chose to keep the modern features implies that in OSRS's system, they never would have been implemented to begin with. We can essentially never get a fair vote on trinkets or base gates or other modern features because they are never facing pushback against implementation, and tourists will easily keep their presence at a small majority of popularity.

I love Classic. I'm the quintessential Classic player: addicted in the early 2010s, been playing ARAM for a decade, and my playtime has spiked with the launch of Classic. But I simply can't see myself sticking with the game if future votes continue down this path. I fear that everything will steadily be modernized until players like me and turned off by the state of the game, while modern players who voted for Classic to be that way will simply return to the modern game and we'll be back where we were before Classic's launch.

Just my 02¢