Kinda crazy to think Runescape has a growing player base and is breaking all time high player counts constantly. I bet a huge portion of the player base were born after the game's release at this point. Its like they perfected the MMO experience and no one has been able to replicate it.
>osrs is considered a perfect MMOsad state of affairs for mmo niggers
>>84782785What happens to my in game character when I die irl? Are they going to delete me eventually because I'm useless data on a server :/
I'm sure more people play Tetris now than in the '80s.
>>84782843Tetris doesn't require the time investment that OSRS requires.
>>84782785It isn't even that good. It's about as overrated as World of Warcraft. At least RuneScape doesn't have gay tranny script writing I guess. Play good old MMOs with private servers like Asheron's Call, Minions of Mirth, MOULa (the Myst online game), SMT: Imagine, and obvious picks like Ultima Online and EverQuest private servers.
>>84782785Second worst game I've ever played, played old school RuneScape for 2 hours, never will again.
>>84782785Im not a boomer what the fuck is RuneScape, is it like destiny (was) or something?
>>84783041Genuinely you have to be 18 years old or older to post on this website.
>>84783041The most popular MMO in the world. People will claim WoW but WoW is only popular seasonally.
>>84783050>>84783055I looked it up and it looks like someone made it in 1990
>>84783073Fortnite tiktok dances might be more your speed, gen alpha.
>>84783080This game has 2 polygons and dudes chop down trees for hours. The fuck are you old people on
>>84783112nostalgia, they are on either on nostalgia or I. the need to feel different by playing an old yet dogshit game
>>84783112>t. weak beta hands that has never clicked a tree in his life
>>84782785Where are the maplestory chads at?
>>84783147Korean MMOs are some of the most pay to win in history. Maplestory in particular is horrible about it unless you play on specific servers.
>>84783073Do what? I am a literal Baby Boomer born in 1987 and Runescape came out in 2001. I think 1990 did have an important game called Everwinter Nights or something though.
>>84783164Neverwinter Nights, it was possibly the first MMO type game with graphics.
>>84783151Yeah but you can hang out and bankstand without a monthly subscription while the pay2win players show off their premium cosmetics.
>>84783164I wasnt even in the oven when you were 18 bro. Yall standards need to leave the 90s
The most entertaining thing is Andrew Gower didnt really know what he was making. He just programmed the game that made the m ost logical sense in gaining XP and reaching levels but he only really planned for people to get to level 40ish initially, a task that takes like half a day. He inadvertently made a system that seems boring at first but is hyper addictive in the form of a skinner box that slowly dispenses dopamine whilst feeling like you are achieving progress. Its a great game and its held up
>>84783183Yeah! People should be playing games like Concord! And Mixtape!
>>84783041a popular clicking game that had pixels so addictive it gained massive interest from multi-generations of people. The undeniable powerful aspect of it was the social connection and the different social structures that formed over time. It also had a highly competitive skill-based pvp scene in the early years, too.
>I want to be a knight>love castles and villages >I love the Medieval period >too much fantasy breaks my immersion What other choice do I have other than Runescape really?
>>84783212This unironically, we'd be better off
>>84783183I'm not a nostalgiafag, I like modern everything just fine. Quality-of-life standards have obviously improved a lot since the 90s overall - even 1999 games could be clunky and often had secrets so cryptic they were strategy guide bait - though there's still 90s games that were ahead of their time and aged well. But there's also a lot of unfair Sega Genesis slop that I only tolerated because I was 8.
>>84782843/vr/ will seethe, but nobody here in the UK really had an NES. 'retro' here was more e.g. Amigas and ZX Spectrums and all them. actual computer games.yet nowadays, every cunt has played Super Mario Bros. so we can casually rewrite history, pretend we had the Stranger Things 80s where 'arcade halls' existed over here.
>>84783164>>84783167i only know this one from Don't Copy that Floppy.i remember EverQuest being this amazing dream game, some movie even referenced it. then WoW came along and blew THAT out the water. RuneScape was just 1. free-to-play and 2. ran in a Java applet. perfect for 12-year-old me.
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It's the best game ever made.
and it' such a shitty game and I hate it