Tgwaste
If I had millions of dollars to spend on this game it would go into porting it to iOS and Android. THAT is how you would get a big influx of players. Gamers that play on PC now-a-days are not going to be attracted to this old game no matter how many graphics you update. Thats just reality. But, like runescape (which is also quite old) as soon as they got mobile done they got a huge amount of new players.
People will say "The UI is to complex for mobile". To which I completely disagree. Runescape managed to make it work and their UI is really complex as well.
But, having said this, the money just isnt there unfortunately.
I have to disagree, if only because Runescape initially had a lot of players, so you should not hope that with the release of the smartphone version, players will rush here. Yes, they will definitely be added, but it will look the same as now. Dozens of new accounts appear here every month, but they don't linger, that's the problem.