Return of The Wilderness

In Late December of 2010 Jagex Put up a Vote for whether Runescapers wanted to see a return of the "old wilderness and free trade". Millions of votes were casted for it to come back.

In only a Few days Jagex saw the millions of votes, still gradually rising. They added a second vote, or referendum, where you had to actually log in to vote. this one, aswell, reached over 1m votes (around 1.4m)

on January 17th Jagex made an official statement that the wilderness & free trade would come back is two weeks, around February 1st.

Trivia:
 * Many Runescape Video Makers made videoseither directing people to the voting link asking them to vote for it back or claiming it as a hoax. This included some Famous Comedian, RSMVists, and commentaryists such as ability44 and NightmareRH.
 * Many Players Called it a Hoax, and jagex were simply attempting to break a guiness world record for "most votes on a online mmorpg". However, J Mods posted on forums otherwise.
 * When the vote was first up, for about 10 or so minutes, the bottom-right corner of the page said "Guiness book of world records" which was later changed to "Jagex Gaming Indusries". this led to the suspicion that the wildy wouldnt really come back.
 * Many Players Threatened they would quit if The wilderness and free trade hadent came back.