>>739616116
Runescape is dead
RS3 sucks
OSRS sucks
The private servers suck
It's time to give up

>>739616116
No, you miss out on like 90% of content.

>>739616116
I'd say no because after you clear the F2P content easily within a month, the game turns into a shitty F2P money grind for the first bond, after which your first few P2P months (maybe less depending on how much play time you can allocate) will be spent on some shitty P2P grind to acquire the next bond so you don't go back to F2P hell, until you develop your account enough so that you can easily make your monthly bond money by doing more organic content. Tryhards might try and argue against what I just said by saying that you can make the bond money in a couple of days and spend the rest of the month doing whatever, but if you have any semblance of a regular life, they are being completely unrealistic.

TL;DR Sadly no.

>>739616116
>Is [MMO] worth playing?
No

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>>739616363
FPBP
The classic private server (rsc.vet) is alright, but mostly dead, and they also allow multiboxing, so it isn't ideal.

>>739616652
I cannot fathom ever being a bondslave. OSRS truly is for the biggest retards and wallet openers in the world besides gachaniggers.

>>739616116
no, not since 2009-ish.

>>739616116
Yes but only if you start as an ironman. Otherwise the game becomes a gp treadmill. Instead play iron and view f2p as the free trial to see if you like it enough to pay for members

>>739616116
I’m assuming you mean OSRS due to pic related. F2P basically acts as a demo for P2P. You can probably get a few hours of MMO entertainment from the exploration and some simple quests. It’s definitely more grindy than P2P but in early game it’s not a whole lot. I’ve sank far too many hours in this game both F2P and P2P, I still like the game but P2P rn is just getting ridiculous and I’ve out leveled everything F2P. There are 3rd party extensions like RuneLite that I find improve the game such as smooth animations and updated graphics.
If you are curious you’re not risking much just trying it out. Worst case you actually end up liking it, and if that happens, it ain’t letting go.

>>739617830
OP here. I have a lvl 111 character that was a members in the past but I got all of the stuff I wanted from back in 2007 (unlocked all dragon weapons from quests and got a whip). Thats why I let my sub lapse.

>>739618063
Well in that case unless your doing PvP or clan war stuff there probably isn’t much of anything for you to really do that isn’t just a money grind.

>>739617584
Not too big a fan of runescape classic the content is pretty bare bones

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>>739618213
Yeah I feel you, it's a you had to be there thing for us boomers. I have a lot of fond memories of it.

>>739616116
it's fun for a couple dozen hours
quests are still fun and you can do pretty much all quests without any serious grinding

if you are looking for a big timesink hobby then F2P is definietly not the way to go tho

>>739616652
how do you grind out a bond in f2p?

>>739616116
>is F2P runescape worth playing?
No.
It made a LOT more sense back around 2001 - 2005 when the alternative 'free' games on PC were total dogshit and F2P was like 2/3rds of RuneScape.

>>739620840
>grind
You don't.
Grind a few million and flip low-volume, low-cost discontinued items on the F2P Grand Exchange for bonds and go hard on those bonds during double-XP or holiday events until the account can maintain itself on member shit.
>whAt ITemS SHouLd i FLIP???
Yeah nobody with a great answer is going to share that, take your own gambles.

>>739620840
You can buy bonds on the GE, they cost probably 100M gp. So grind 100M gp like a good little slave for the wallet-opening paypiggies who pay to win at a 25 year old grinding game.

>>739621298
>>739621327
Ah I thought you guys were talking about OSRS
I ain't about to play RS3

>>739621413
>I ain't about to play RS3
it's 10x easier to bond in RS3 and that also members your OSRS character, normal/iron/uim/whatever
if too fucking stupid to do this you should just whip out mommy's credit card and play OSRS that way

>>739621965
Why are you so aggresive man, is something the matter?

>>739622208
RS3 players typically react this way when you bring up OSRS.

>>739618063
Was at that stage when I quit for a number of years. Playing ironman rekindled my love for the game. You're at the stage where it doesn't make sense to play that account on f2p so maybe give a new iron character a shot?

>>739622724
Leave him alone

Yeah it's worth playing to do all the quests and get your skills to around 40 to 60 if you want. You're going to have a bad time with mining as there is a mining mingame available at level 30 that's very AFKable.
Don't listen to these retards, yeah Reddit can be god awful, but the game is still good. These niggers are still blinded by nostalgia and just want to go back to the time when verac and a legend's cape with rune boots was BiS.

>>739616116
It's worth trying out at least. Some people only play the f2p version, people still pk on f2p (only it's at lumbridge on pvp servers and not at edgeville) and some ppl play ironman on f2p.

And if you end up not enjoying it then it's not a big deal as you didn't spend any money on it.

>>739616116
Yes, but only if you play low level PvP

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>>739616363
bring back chronicle

>>739621965
Or just not play at all. Paying membership was cool before fagex let people officially start paying to win. I'll never play another MMO where third worlders are allowed to play on the same servers I am on.

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>>739617584
>private server
might as well just make your own runegame at this point
>20 year old javascript that has fully leaked several times
>literally started as a learning to code type of project
there should be more runescape copycats

>>739618213
They really should revamp all the older content.

>>739624943
There was that early RS2 clone I forget the name of that I'll probably never play.

>>739625012
The entire point of the RSC server I mentioned was that it is as close as possible to the original RuneScape from 2001-2004. It even has a server called 01Scape that is from the alpha version of the game almost nobody played that had no prayer and magic split into Goodmagic and Evilmagic.

>>739625065
2004scape

anyone got the wemb of the guy using bots to make a walkeable swastika?

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>>739625289
No, I mean not RuneScape at all, not a private server, a clone of RS2. I forget the name of it, but it wasn't a RSPS.

Edit: Actually it was a clone of RSC and it's called HighSpell and this is what it looks like.

>>739616116
It's alright if you're travelling and stuck in a hotel and just have a laptop or phone, it beats watching TV. If you can play actual games then fuck no

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Man I wish I cared about playing MMOs but you just know the turbo sweatlords who've already been playing this since launch have every rare hoarded already so there's just no point even starting.

>>739625779
who cares? like who fucking cares? quests are a solo experience, literally 2 bosses require a team (theatre of blood and nex) the rest you can just fucking solo

>>739616116
It certainly wasn't decades ago.
I grinded like a motherfucker and sold some lobsters until I had full rune and a rune scimmy.

>>739625916
I don't play games where turbosweats are allowed to hoard rares and control the game's entire economy. Simple as.

>>739625985
You can just not engage with the game economy and do things the hard way, or do ironman, the issue is that it isn't very fun or rewarding. The grind after level 70 becomes extremely tedious

>>739626130
I don't care. I'm not playing your game. It looks cool but I'm just not gonna play it, that's all.

>>739621965
I'm sure it's easier than OSRS but having done it two times I'm telling you it's not worth it.
It's just endless repetition around portables and bank loadouts and none of it is fun or rewarding or even that AFK(smithing aside).

>>739625923
funny you'd say that, they recently added a new f2p quest with a f2p boss to the game, and it can drop a steel defender for f2p

>>739626185
It's not "my game" retard and I'm not even shilling it, I said it's not fun. My point is your reasoning about the economy is nonsense

>>739626428
I don't care if it's nonsense. I don't want to participate in a game that turbosweats are allowed to participate in. Controlling every resource node with their alts, etc. I don't need that in my life anymore.

>>739616116
you only play osrs period if you are some poor third worlder and then you arnt playing its a job

>>739616116
Did they ever revert EoC

>>739616116
Are you really so poor you can't afford a membership?

>>739625779
What does this even mean? Rare hoarding? That’s not a thing. If anything there’s a severe over-saturation of items due to botting. There isn’t any finite amount of items in this game at all.

>>739626890
>spend 15 dollars for 1 month of membership
>get bored and move onto something else after 3 days
Throwing money away for no reason is irresponsible. There's nothing in p2p areas that you even need to interact with in the first 200 hours of gameplay.

>>739627123
HighSpell has zero (0) tradeable holiday event rare items? I assumed it did.

>>739627148
>>get bored and move onto something else after 3 days
This is strictly a zoomer thing, since you'll zoomers are foreverially attention span deficit.

>>739627250
No this is strictly a runescape thing because runescape is boring as fuck if you have actual games you can play

>>739627368
Sounds like a skill issue. Zoomers can't commit to any one thing for any real length of time. I know because I live with two of them. All they play is dogshit roblox games for 15 minutes at a time because they have no attention span.

>>739627446
Damn, unc mad as fuck because no one wants to play his prehistortic grindslop programmed on MS paint

>>739627843
You need to 18 or older to post on here.

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>>739627843
Hell, I don't even want to play it. I'm just laughing at you for not having the attention span to get a month's worth of play out of a membership lmao.

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>>739616116
as a fresh account yes ofc it's worth playing
you should at the very least get all of the f2p quests done as a f2p and then decide if you want to give jagex money

free to play is a fine demo as long as you only do your best to clear all the free to play quests and that's it
I still recommend vscape if you want the classic experience

>>739627446
>sounds like a skill issue.
Runetards are delusional. What skill you dumbass, it's just a cookie clicker

>>739628546
I don't even play OSRS and never have (I'm an actual originalfag) I just came in here to laugh at you.

>>739628595
Laugh at me about what? Saying that runescape is garbage? Ok fag

>>739628546
at high level the game revolves around using prayer potions and food to heal yourself while alternating your prayers in the correct order for mitigation.

>>739628971
OSRS is garbage, yeah. No arguments from me there.

>>739628975
Sounds like a lot of fun.....

>>739629040
i isnt necessarily fun. i liked the PvE and story stuff and finished the game on the official client (the content that was available in 2007 at least) and then quit.

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>video game
>requires the time and effort investment of a job

>>739627446
This is actually pretty funny coming from a RuneScape player because the playerbase isn't that much better. It's just a different flavor of brainrot.
A significant amount of players feel compelled to constantly have the game open on their phone or a second monitor even while they work just so they can get their hit of dopamine.
I saw these types of people every day in my clan and even ran into a few during business meetings at work.

Vscape has modern content added to it and they ban players for being transphobic I wouldn't recommend it

>>739629847
/v/eddit is an lgbtqiap board

>>739629915
Then tell them to stop shilling their trans positive lgbtqia24+ server on /pol/

>>739629847
Yeah they really fell off around 2020. Tranny circlejerk literally took over the server, Pickles is a massive faggot and he gives trannies free items.

>>739629563
>time and effort investment
there is NOTHING wrong with this
it is the only way a man can feel fulfilled

HOLY FUCKING SOULLESS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVAgJ-83M2w

JUST USE A MILLION PLUGINS BRO LOL.

and rs3 is getting its version of runelite soon too. it's so fucking over.

but if you want my actual take rs3 is actually pretty good i enjoy it.

dont listen to any of these anons suggesting private servers ive played basically all of them. the custom ones the preservation servers. all just a massive waste of time. you are always better off investing your time into the actual main game of any mmo. look at turtle wow. all that progress just gone. boom. gone!

osrs is okay but runelite is fucking soulless look at that video...holy fucking shit.

but yeah i recommend rs3 not even memeing. its fun. respects your time. mostly. who even cares if it's "dead" it's still fun. and the quests are good (up until the more recent ones)

>>739616116
Yes. The game turns to shit about a month after you buy membership and realize they front loaded the game.

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>>739616116
F2P was always my favorite

>>739631452
membership should've just stayed a thing for server maintenance and not a fund for development

>cookie clicker costs as much as wow now
>meanwhile wows subscription price has not budged in 22 years

>>739631697
balance was fine up to 70, I didn't play with it much after that

>>739631806
wow is okay if u play retail i guess. classic is just boring af. retail wow is boring too

also rs3 > osrs

i will always recommend rs3 over osrs because osrs is just a retarded botted hivemind game. at least rs3 has low ping.

>>739631938
the point is that shit used to be five dollars
its tripled so they can continue to make n64 assets for 20k players and 90k bots

I've never seen so many hot takes in one thread before. Holy Smokes Batman!

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Im back at the grind bros after 900 days offline. f2p currently and going to max my strength!

>>739632170
I met zezima and came when I saw dragon

>>739632080
$15 a month is not a lot. 95% of the world probably spends that a week on fast food.

>>739632251
I spend 50 dollars a day on food smokes and booze and I still wouldn't spend 15 dollars on runescape

>>739632251
ok but how is their price justified when all of osrs content added since 2013 would be 1.5 expansions in any other mmo
ff14 is cheaper
wow is the same price but hasnt budged in 20 years
and thats not to mention how the hyperjews make you grab a second account if you want to be an autistic ironman whereas wow has official ironman servers you can hop onto with your single sub

>>739632526
ff14 is boring as fuck you couldn't pay me to play it.

wow is boring as fuck you probably could pay me to play it but otherwise i wouldnt play it.

osrs is also boring as fuck so i dont even entirely disagree with you.

luckily i am probably one of the few people who actually enjoys rs3 because it is bizarrely unique. so i get my value out of it. again, $15 is not that much.

>>739632526
>He doesn't f2p ultimate Ironman to run it it the Jew banker's face

>>739632624
Holy shit we get it you like rs3

>>739632659
*To rub it in the

>>739632676
well i dont like it THAT much. id give it a 6.5-7/10 overall. the main draw of it is that there's basically an endless amount of shit to do. even the best games end. luckily with runescape you know you're likely never reaching the end.

>>739632659
Ironman is interesting because you have no incentive whatsoever to get a membership on it

>>739633083
y-yes you do....

f2p runescape in 2026 is a nightmare. you have no idea how botting in osrs really is, do you?

there are bots that pick all of the vegetable fields. there are bots that kill every chicken. every cow. any npc you can think of. bots that hop worlds to pick up item spawns. bots that light the logs on top of lumbridge castle.

i would never recommend someone play osrs f2p. hell i'd barely recommend it p2p because the exact same issue is there too.

at least rs3 is devoid of bots. it is fucking ridiculous how bad the botting is on osrs. i understand the appeal of osrs and i actually DO like it but the massive botting issue kills it entirely. it's that bad.

>>739633180
Uhh seems fine to me so far, I just play low pop servers

>>739633083
membership has faster ways to level skills through quests and minigames than non membership players do.

>>739633083
hows about 80% of the quest log including every single boss that isnt stand still and eat a lobster every 20 seconds

>>739633245
You can skip the first like 20-30 levels big deal that shit can be done in the same amount of time it takes you to collect all the stupid items and do the quest anyway

>>739633243
back to osg!

>>739633309
>muh bosses
>muh quests
>on ironman
Lol

>>739633365
I'm talking about official servers not custom servers

>>739633417
if you arent trying to do all the content on ironman whats the point?
is your endgame getting a rune mace after dragon slayer?

>>739633478
osg = osrs general on /vg/

also i don't believe you for a second. i don't feel like logging on to check but i know for a fact all the bots are still there.

Did anyone play Dragonwilds?

>>739633593
Initially my goal is to max str and att, maybe get mining/smithing high too. I already did all the quest content and minigame/boss shit on my main. Why would I want to do it again, that's retarded. I want to do stuff I didn't do before as I was more occupied with exploring that extra member content.

>>739631303
This is the coolest thing I've seen from nuscape

>>739616116
For a long while I guess. The good shit is membership only

>>739633720
I might check it out at some point, but it is still too barebones for me.

I eat Brioche bread made for toasting by itself without even toasting it. It kinda tastes like panettone, I like it

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>fagex nu-osrs
cringe
>some autismo lord’s private custom client where it’s basically just the 2007 version and nothing newer
>free members and all content you never could have seen as a broke ass kid back then
2BASED2buyinggf

>>739635052
not based. we wanted new content just not the way osrs did it. enjoy vscape which only has 30 players.

>>739631303
Virtually no one's going to use this

>>739635126
Vscape has iron man modes and custom items and armor that the mods put in I think he's talking about a different private server

>>739633180
>you have no idea how botting in osrs really is
Not sure what F2P is looking like these days, but botting in P2P is effectively dead right now.

>>739635531
I know every single recreation server and vidyascape is the only 2007 one.

>>739617682
It really is insane. 2 bonds for a month of membership costs you 30m. Unless you're getting insanely lucky, that alone is close to a 50 hour grind for what costs $15. Grinding bonds is only a thing if you have absolutely no respect for your time and freedom of choices in the game. Once you have a decent account you can get a bond in like 10-15 hours, but on an F2P account or even freshly member'ed account you'll have lots of grinding to do before you can access good moneymakers, whether they're behind skills, quests that have skill requirements, or need time to learn to be efficient.

Playing for bonds is the fastest way to murder any enjoyment you may have because you're essentially forced to be a metafag. Even if you're fucking broke you can go ask a neighbor if there's anything you could do for them for a small amount of cash. Mow someone's lawn. Do fucking a n y t h i n g but sit there like a 3rd world gold farmer.

>>739633180
Time to come back to the game, Timmy. Bots have been getting insta-banned the second they bond up or trade gold to the account for a couple months now. Look up Sir Pugger's vid on it. Even on trade worlds you don't see bots at the GE. No more spam. No more gambling bots. No more stellapog. No more LMS bots. No more black chin bots. 3rd party gold has quadroupled in price because of it and heavily botted items have seen massive price increases, so now easy moneymakers that used to be complete shit are quite a bit more viable.

The new CEO seems to be quite serious when he says he takes the integrity of the games seriously, considering the RS3 MTX revert & now this. They're heading in a good direction, which something I haven't been able to say for the past 5+ years outside of a couple outliers.

>>739616116
no for f2p and no for the sub at 14.99

>>739635587
F2P is 90% bots now because higher level bots get banned so fast they are no longer worth the investment. Just go to any yew tree close to a bank and there will be a dozen bots on every world.

>>739616116
Not until the FIX THE FUCKING WILDY.

>>739637367
Chopping yews was always for retards and bots so this isn't a shock

>>739637890
*ags double mauls u*
this pvp is EPIC

>>739633417
some of the most satisfying things to do on an ironman are the bosses

>>739625429
Highspell is fucking crap because of the forced multiclient economy. Everyone has 5 bots walking around fishing and woodcutting and the prices reflect the inflation caused by it. You can pretend they don't exist and play like ironman, but its a fucking mmo, you should be interacting with people. People even use them to kite enemies while grinding.

>>739642287
>multiclient economy
Yeah fuck that shit, I refuse to play games where people are allowed to multibox. It is explicitly unfair to people unwilling to be turbosweats.

>>739642386
runescape is a vastly better game when you don't interact with the economy

>>739624943
I miss the CRX and I hate myself not getting one in college

>>739642539
Then what is the point of it being an MMO? I'd rather not play it at all. I just hate people I guess. I used to enjoy it but I've become increasingly misanthropic over the last 25 years because pretty much everybody who plays MMOs is just a slimy cheating metanigger and I don't believe my time is worth spending around any of them.

>>739642539
>mmo is a vastly better game when played like a single player game
Well nothing is stopping you from running your own 2007 clone server locally.

>>739642729
>Then what is the point of it being an MMO?
genuinely out of all the mmos to exist, runesacpe is probably the most anti social of the bunch. especially with the GE in the game. there is hardly a reason to ever interact with other players outside of quests that force you or raiding.

>>739642954
Wasn't always like that, but people have evolved into slimy metaniggers so pretty much every MMO is like that now. People only begrudgingly participate in group content and interactions with anybody anymore is usually seen as a downside due to how most games are designed. With Runescape, you don't want to see other people while you're doing anything other than fishing because any extra people on your resource node is explicitly a bad thing. I think this is fucking terrible game design and should have never passed muster 25 years ago. All resource nodes should be player-instanced. I dunno how they'd fix mob spawns though, I genuinely don't.

>>739631806
true, but now they milk you 10x as hard with an infinite stream of bullshit like 90$ p2w mounts or pay extra to play the xpac a few days "early"

>>739643473
So glad I dropped WoW back before Cata dropped. I will never play any game wish cash shop shit or any form of P2W.

OSRS is a hard fucking sell in today's world. Zoomers won't tolerate that slow clunky bullshit. Hell I barely tolerate RS3. The problem with Jagex is they are virtue signalling fucks. They are so diversity coded it is disgusting. And they are a UK company so you can forget about saying what you want. You just don't get that right on their game.

It was fun to do all the F2P quests like a year or so ago for the nostalgia
I can't imagine getting members, there's just too much extra stuff, I'd rather play on that old private server but I don't want to grind for shit anymore and things probably take forever in that version

>>739616116
>>739616363
this
lore ruined, wonder "subverted", culture decayed not just there but in real life so your fellow players are garbage
It was lightning in a bottle but jagex popped the cork over a decade ago, time to let go

no im still playing rs3 fuck you

>>739616116
there is a shitload to do in rs3 f2p. old school no.

Rs3 won. But osrs players will never admit that.

>>739647119
like what?

I'll see if its worth playing after june

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>Temp game mode
>Temp game mode
>Epic cow boss for level 10s in lumbridge
>10 minute sailing quest. Accidentally added a mining training methods that didnt suck complete ass. Immediately nerfed it into the ground cause reddit cried about it.
>Vampire quest finale (Will probably have its rewards nerfed when Reddit cries that it devalues a piece of content from 2006 that literally everyone hates)
>Another fucking temp game mode
>Raids 4 (delayed to 2027)

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> Playing Runescape

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>>739649541
>Shitposting on 4chan's /v/ Board

>>739624943
It is NOT Javascript. Java and Javascript are both misnamed because they have nothing to do with each other.

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>>739621965
damn the people who actually play RS3 are eating good

>>739616363
>The private servers suck
Vidyascape (currently Vidyaplace because Jagex was gay about the "scape" part of the name). It's as 2007scape as you can get nowadays, and you can say the NIGGER words.

>>739629847
>>739629915
>>739630618
t. banned players for botting, or mad about the authentic thieving nerf still here in 2026.

>>739650049
I was banned from vscape yes, but it was for insulting the tranny circlejerk. One of them showed me tens of thousands of dragonfire shields in trade window, I screenshotted it and posted it in one of the threads, and they figured out it was me and banned me for it.

>>739650187
Okay faggot we know you are still mad you got caught botting

>>739650237
I don't even know how to run bots and I don't condone that shit in the first place. If it were up to me, cheaters and botters and multiboxers would be executed. You just can't admit vscape is a compromised shithole of a server.

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>>739616116
>runescape splits
>one version is mtx cosmetic wow-chasing slop
>the other version is flooded with bots and focused on modes that split the playerbase and disable interacting with other players
how are things that fucking grim, jesus

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I had an account on OSRS that I used to flip on the GE, made hundreds of millions of GP.
Tried revisiting OSRS with that account and it was banned for botting.
I never botted on that account or any other.
Sent a ticket for review and they told me to go fuck myself basically.
Fuck Fagex.

>>739650291
RS3 has deleted the gacha shit. Whatever remaining MTX items are still in the game get deleted at the end of the year. They've also added a toggle to hide all cosmetics and only show what people are actually wearing.

>>739650282
Oh ok, so why are you buck broken about the mods specifically? One discussion with Mod Pickles dissuades everything you are discussing so I'm aware you are not telling the full truth.

>>739650237
but is the server pro tranny?

>>739650389
yet they can never undo the eoc shit
>just use revolution and copy bars from the wiki bro
but why does it even exist then

>>739650454
Talk to at least three people in game, and you will tell very quickly that the server not pro tranny.

>>739650440
>Oh ok, so why are you buck broken about the mods specifically?
For the third time, because they're running a compromised tranny circlejerk. They give trannies free items. 100k stacks of dragonfire shields and shit. I've seen it with my own eyes, shit that would not have been possible to legitimately obtain with the size of the community at the time (I was playing back in 2016-2020 and peak hours players was around 100-150). I blew the whistle on it and they banned me for it.

>>739636867
are you capping bro? i now the time to get back into osrs?

>>739650440
> Sucking up to MMO mods on 4chan
HRT is a hell of a drug.

>>739650582
Yea okay so you are just lying then so cool, kys you cheating nigger and continue malding about it please

>>739650664
You're probably one of the bankdancing trannies who gets free shit from Pickles lmao. Kill yourself queer.

>>739648035
rs3 is ugly i will never play it and havent played it since the 2008 hd update

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>>739650654
>>739650690
Show proof or continue malding

>>739650638
no see >>739649523

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POV: You are back in 2007 and ready to make bank!

>>739650991
this but 2004

How retarded would it be to try to do as much content as I can with Durial321's loadout? So whip and ancients

>>739651093
Probably stops at GWD because OSRS's power scaling is retarded

>>739649990
You can say nigger in chat but sadly they routinely ban players for transphobia or making negative comments about furries plus the game has modern content in it so it's not even real 2007scape

>>739650454
Join their discord server and see for yourself they have a dedicated channel for trannies to post BBC porn and gay shota porn and have threatened to dox players for talking about it

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>>739651243
So you are a 2004scape troon then. >>739650454 this nigga is lying about all this shit so people can play his shit ass server instead, just in case if you couldn't tell how incohesive what he is saying is. Give Vscape a try if you are interested.

>>739631303
this is fucked up. i cant wait for jagex to shut this runelite nonsense down. the official client is already overpowered and has enough qol just enforce it

The GE was a great addition to the game

>>739648250
lots of things. clearing out f2p would probably take like 300 hours.

Absolutely

>>739649990
Wow, I can play with 30 players on a double xp rate server and faggots circlejerking nonstop? What a treat!

As someone who has actually played all of the preservation servers. Just don't. RSC is a meme. 2004scape is a meme. Vidyascape is a meme. 2009scape is a meme. 2012scape is a meme. The problem is most of these servers will never actually truly recreate their specific era of the game. 2004scape and 2007scape sort of have, but the magic is gone. And you're also locked to a specific year which is retarded if you stop to think about it.

I think RS3 has some fun to be had but you can't take it too seriously. If you start getting an ego on your clicker game this shit will just not be fun anymore. OSRS is okay too I guess. I think ironman actually is the best way to play the game, ultimately, because the GE actually does make both games tremendously boring. But main is fine too. Just don't buy bonds. I would endorse mainscape more often if bonds simply did not exist. I really dislike mtx - but I will say that bonds are kind of a necessary evil as they do allow people to play for free. It is kind of nice being untethered from the USD.

Sorry for the schizo ramble but I think both RS3 and OSRS are genuinely unique enough to still be worth playing. I do think Runelite and stuff kind of destroyed the soul the game originally had. But I guess games evolve and here we are. I don't think it's entirely too late though? Hopefully Jagex can backpedal some of their garbage game design but Redditors love their slop, idk.

You really just don't get the perfect game anymore. That's designated to Jak 2 on the PS2 or the OG Ratchet and Clank. Games that do not update. Don't worry though, I will be making my kino in Godot soon.

>>739657298
>And you're also locked to a specific year
not true for 2004scape, it's just slow to update. we will be in 2005 soon

>>739657607
still locked to 2005 and 2006. that's just not enough, ultimately.

>>739657298
I agree with your general thoughts especially with the not taking it too seriously. Every time I've replayed RS it's without any sort of plugin, with the shittiest graphics settings, playing in a little box while I do something minor while I chill out and do something else.
It's always been fun and sometimes just focusing on the game and listening to the music is great, it's very nostalgic. But ultimately it's only so much, not enough to do that's actually interesting, so much of it boils down to "do x 100000 times". So no wonder so many things have been added to the game overtime that makes the more recent updates to OSRS especially feel completely different.
I can't imagine actually playing something like colosseum. Why wouldn't I just play an actual action game at that point? It's either that or brainless grind for a thousand hours and I don't see the point in either. I guess you actually have to do the brainless grind for thousands of hours even to get to the point where you can do that content though lol.

>>739657298
>I do think Runelite and stuff kind of destroyed the soul the game originally had
this is probably true but i do think it lead to really fun raiding content

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>>739616116
Its fun as a side thing. I almost have 43 prayer. The botting is mind boggling though, it's common to see 50 bots all standing on the same tile, chopping regular tress and moving as a single unit. Don't expect to get any real mining done before reaching the total level 500 worlds.

I only use Runelite because they officially shut down the old legacy launcher and I refuse to use the jagex launcher or make a jagex account. It was starting to run like shit towards the end anyway since they've stopped paying attention to it. Runelite does run better but having all the animations become so smooth was kind of jarring and took time getting used to.

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Mains you faggot, did you start this thread?

ive been seriously contemplating subscribing and playing the official osrs deadman world. it's dead as fuck but it has like 5x the xp rates (i think it's like 10x or 20x for the first 10 hours?) and this also affects quests. it has far more content than any shitty private server and way faster rates. you have to forge your own way to play in nu-scape. i wish they had ALL content on the dmm world cause i would never look back.

>>739659349
what are those soulless pie charts there for

>>739659491
Silly question, but you wouldn't happen to have the animation smoothing plugin turned on?

>>739662105
Respawn timers

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>>739616363
Every single private server is infiltrated by this one "Logg" guy, I'm not even joking, click on any of them, Dynasty, 2004scape, OpenRSC etc and look at the admin list on the Discord or staff list in-game. He threatens RSPS owners until he gets a status, he's also semi in charge of the RuneScape Archival Project, he is actively trying to rewrite history to add gay shit in it.

>>739650187
I used ahk scripts for certain grinds and even alching and I've never been banned there for anything, the worst I got was a 3 day mute for insulting admin

>>739663350
STILL using Discord in 2026? I quit that shit back in 2023.

>>739616116
No, the F2P content is all fairly time-wastey without member benefits. Plus, if you play through all the F2P stuff before becoming a member, then you're going to have to go back to the beginning so you can get your fletching and agility caught up.

>>739664009
not an issue in rs3 fletching is free to play

>>739664009
Why do you even need fletching when you can buy from shops or get item drops?
This is also my feeling on a lot of skills like smithing or runecrafting.
Just seems kind of pointless.

>>739663350
This Logg person probably screenshotted this post and shared it with their gay friends in order to make them gayer for them. Something must be done to stop them.

OSRS is turning into streamer/youtuber slop nowadays
CoX was the beginning of the end desu, and sailing is also shite

>>739642539
>drops into my 1478th consecutive corrupted gauntlet
>its been 400 days since my last armor crystal
>maybe today's the day i can go send cox or inferno :)

nah, runescape specifically lives for the non autistic players because of its economy and the ability to go do shit you enjoy instead of being hard gated by one drop that you are no closer to now than before you started

>>739617584
I still like it. You can log on 3 max at a time but I usually just log on one account and roleplay as a stall owner in Ardougne who travelled from Shantay to make his fortune.

>>739640104
Bosses in runescape are already unfun trash and drop rates on good items too low, adding the extra headache of collecting necessary resources as ironman would make it even more garbage. I've gone literally thousands and thousands of kills with no high value drop on my main account, I would rather kill myself than do that bullshit on ironman.

>>739628073
Not really the 'classic' experience though, innit?

>>739650049
what thieving nerf? and what modern content does it have
i wouldnt mind a second instance of rs i can play while i bankstand in the main game since i'm just pushing for 99s while i do a handful of fun things

is it still only stuck in gwd or whatever? does it at least have objectively awful shit fixed like run energy and failing agility shortcuts and essence pouch degradation?

>>739664850
I think it's bullshit and unfair, especially for miners. I have to compete with some turbosweat and his 3 accounts for the only viable gold mine in the game? No thanks, I'd rather quit.

>>739663781
nigger what the fuck is left. every single non self hosted platform on the planet bans you for the word "tranny"
are you really just sitting in your room staring at the wall scrolling /v/ and only /v/?

>>739665028
>"needs" a platform where he can talk to other unemployed terminally online losers
You need a job

>>739664987
Multiple people can get ore from the same rock at the same time, there's more than one place to get gold, and if the game is "dead" then there's no turbosweat playing with 3 accounts at your preferred one.

You're more than welcome to choose not to play, but it's silly to misrepresent how it is to the rest of these fine gentlemen.

Anyway, sorry you had a bad experience, I enjoy it still at least. You can always play Cabbage if you want something a little more relaxed.

>>739665110
>Multiple people can get ore from the same rock at the same time
That isn't practical and it rarely happens.

>>739665063
GIVE ME A FUCKING JOB THEN YOU STUPID TRIPLE NIGGER
I KEEP APPLYING BUT NOBODY CALLS BACK
NIGGER

>>739665063
i have a job retard, i cant say i hate trannies there either. dumbfuck
so yes, you are admitting to just scrolling the same bot threads, porn dumps and gacha game generals here.

>>739665028
Hello, this is an official warning for violating our language terms of service. Please avoid using these words going forward on our platform.

Thank you,
Nishimura-kun

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>>739616116
Only if it's the real runescape.

>>739665137
If you get the urge to play, let me know and I can show you how two friends can mine together and get decent ore. As long as your mining is ~30 higher than the mining requirement level. Friendship makes things better.

>>739665178
That's why people were talking about rsc.vet. I don't play it because they don't let me call people slurs though. The woke left was never a problem back in 2001.

>>739665203
Unlikely, I really do not like sharing a server with multiboxers.

>>739665028
I don't know about you but yes. I would rather do nothing than interact with the "people" on Discord.

>>739616116
f2p iron man will scratch the itch without having to commit your life to it

>>739665261
No problem. I think your experience there was definitely out of the ordinary if it affected you that negatively though. I hope you find a place you can play it with 1 account a time limits though.

>>739665305
Most of them are like this person:
>>739663350

Really gay, most likely liberal, and too woke to understand that without the war in Iran, capitalism would have fallen. Art of the deal though.

>>739665309
I just have principles and I choose to stand by them. Being inconvenienced even once by a multiboxer is too much inconvenience for me.

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>>739665380
Respectable stance anon

>>739665147
Stop smoking weed and apply to a trade union. 6 months later congratulation you are now rich.
>>739665154
>i cant say i hate trannies there either
Lel try not working at shartbucks, shartmart or shartdonalds little minwager.

>>739665380
I get you, I'm pretty autistic too. Good luck my friend, I will never forget you. I wish we could have met and hung out and mined gold together.

>>739665434
unemployment in the parts of the world that dont sleep on dirt floors averages at like 15%-25% and universally have an HR department even if the working staff is 100% male
you sound like someone who hasnt been outside in several years. are you on disability? any chronic illnesses? maybe anxiety and depression? bum leg? terminal retardation?

>>739665476
It isn't about autism, it's about fairness. Being forced to play three times as hard because three accounts at once are allowed is unfair, especially to people with only one monitor or no 4K monitor.

>>739665516
>you make more money than me?? hrrgh... no.. you dont go outside, you know nothing...!
Put the fries in the bag retard and make it snappy I got shit to do

>>739665526
Yeah, autistic people have an overdeveloped sense of justice and fairness so stuff like letting players log on 3 accounts at once bothering you on this deep a level is a good indicator of autism. My dad teaches sociology in high school so this basically counts as a real diagnosis for you.

>>739665630
No, I'm pretty normal, and it should bother you too. I have a very normal sense of justice. Jagex didn't allow multiboxing in 2001 because they knew it would be unfair to players unable or unwilling to do so.

>>739665581
ok yeah you are just delusional and disconnected and are ok with being perceived as a retard
even if it was true that you make more money than be (doubtful), you're still retarded for claiming
>"no one ever needs to talk to anyone on the internet for fun ever"
next i'm sure you'll tell me you're too busy fucking your wife and taking care of your kids to spend time online (like you are doing right now)

>>739665734
My employer pays for my hotels and travel expenses and gives me a stipend for food because my time is worth more than some retarded fag who works at shartmart. Literally a fantasy for a loser like (You). Dunno why you keep yapping about unemployment

>>739665692
Doesn't bother me at all because it's not a competition. I'm playing the game to enjoy myself. If I felt like mining but the place I wanted to mine gold was taken, I'd just find something else I felt like doing instead.

In 2001 there were thousands of players and all the "good" places were crowded. You either played with the crowd, or found less optimal areas to train. There's really not much of a reason for me to complain when the ground there is so fertile, so to speak.

Anyway, we'll just talk in circles here so have a good day my best friend. See someone about the autism and at least get a diagnosis though, it might help you in the future.

>>739665783
>it's not a competition
MMOs are a competition and you're delusional if you think they aren't. The existence of a highscores page proves me right.

>>739665775
I know a lot of people like that. They're all contractor roles who have to travel and are functionally the bottom of the barrel when it comes to who we interact with.

It's a good gig for young people with no work experience though.

>>739665812
It's a private server recreating a game from over 20 years ago. It's not a competition, it's a place to play for nostalgia. I sometimes log on and spend hours doing nothing but talking to people and doing silly actions in game that net me no real experience.

It's okay if you play things a certain way, but you're delusional if you think everyone in the world plays games the same way highly autistic people do who needs to see number go up. All those people went to OSRS and are tick perfect sweatlords. No one on RSC cares that much now.

>>739665824
You are right that I travel a lot but I have plenty of time to dick around on a laptop and thus time for silly activities like runescape and 4chan. It beats sitting at home doing nothing, I got bored of being a neet after doing it for like 8 years.

>>739665881
>No one on RSC cares that much now.
They do when I'm trying to do something, therefore, I quit. They can enjoy it by themselves. I won't participate in it.

>>739665904
I don't think anyone singled you out and then logged on 3 accounts to push you out of some skilling area though, right? Who were you in game?

>>739665973
It's happened before and I'm not interested in discussing it. I'm not going to throw any names around either. They know who they are.

>>739616363
Unfortunately, this anon is correct. OSRS isn't the same, it's good for a nostalgia trip but it wears off fast. There just isn't community in the game. I don't mean players, I mean community. The first time I heard about Runescape being "back" was from my childhood friend playing on mobile. Just mindlessly mining while we were at a gathering. That's the main problem. Even skillfags used to socialize. Nobody in osrs talks to each other. In my experience, the only talking that happens is people nostalgia tripping together.

This is just one of those games that is better left buried. You can't replicate it, it was lightning in a bottle.

>>739666003
Wasn't asking for their names, just wondering who you were.

>>739645574
>And they are a UK company so you can forget about saying what you want
That's always been the case, and is the case in every mmo I've ever played. The worst perpetrator was fucking Bioware with SWTOR. I still remember being dumb enough to buy day 1, with a subscription fee to boot, and getting permabanned on the forums for calling someone a nigger, and my characters were gagged forever. I couldn't even submit customer support tokens, which you can imagine was hell with the launch that game had. Every single issue I had had to be done over the phone. I still fucking remember the pajeet accents always ending the call with
>"may the force be with you"

>>739666050
Why bother trying to chat when most people in the game are unlikable fags who will immediately start sharing rap music or more often just don't respond at all

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>>739665812
That can be true, as there are plenty of ways measure player's performance
...but only if you care about that sort of stuff

You can apply that to any game, if you add a clock. But who are you trying to impress?

>>739665371
>without the war in Iran, capitalism would have fallen
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAHA

>>739616116
runescape sucks ass
tranny game

>>739616652
Unless you already have a fuckton of money invested in game to keep making more money, grinding for bonds is retarded. Anyone with a halfway decent job can afford a years worth of membership just from being clocked in for like 4 ish hours at work.

>>739616116
maybe

>>739673727
20 runegame thread on /v/
anons will pretend the game is dead

>>739616116
osrs is not worth playing at all because reddit mods ruined it
nothing about it is old school anymore

>>739626482
>I don't need that in my life anymore.
then why the fuck are you even in this thread you fucking autistic retard

>>739665305
if you have friends, real life or online, you are going to use discord that's just how it is

You're fucking with me.
No way they removed bots from Runescape.
It's like, the most botted game ever.

>>739642539
No it's not lol. Ironman is a meme. It saved the game, but ultimately it's not even close to how the game was meant to be played.

>>739674908
how the game was "meant" to be played hasn't been case for longer than it was actually played as intended. osrs in it's current iteration is better played as an ironman than a main

>>739674905
frankly i want them to make botting worlds with a segregated economy
botting is fun on its own but detrimental to the game

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>>739675159
you fucking buy shit with gold what do you mean? You're not supposed to spend hours farming a quest item you do slayer for 10 minutes and alch a few things to just buy it. You're not supposed to grind every material yourself. You trade your labor for coin and fucking buy it. It's the only true free trade MMO that's ever existed and you faggots want to play ironmeme mode.

And I did it. I have an ULTIMATE BTW with only 5 quests not complete. It's not fun, it's a novelty, it's a SHIT mode.

>>739675747
It's not just that, every good mmo is designed around having an economy. gatherers want money and got a lot of raw resources they grind out, whilst crafters want the raw resources and got a lot of money. (and various other forms of this kind of interaction)
Naturally, this has skewed over the years with bosses dropping more and more random shit that makes skilling basically irrelevant in the current year. It's a shame what they've done with the game not once, but twice now over the years. Naturally it's not all bad, but it's been more bad than good.

>>739616116
>Is f2p
If you are brown yes
If you are white no

>>739676249
This is all because of Zul Rah. FACT

>>739616363
fpbp; "you never quit runescape, just take long breaks" my ass. after doing everything i wanted years ago in the game i was completely lost, uninstalled and moved on

>>739676519
I came back once a few years ago, I realized I was spending more time doing my mandatory chores than doing the stuff I actually wanted to do and just quit forever.

>>739629571
>It's just a different flavor of brainrot.
it telling when their /vg/ is one of the most schizo generals of all

>>739676519
this is why rs3 is the better game. You max and then you start going for master max cape or comp cape. Dudes in my guild are like 5 tasks away from trimpped comp cape.

>>739676807
my main was rs3, but i wasnt interested in going for max so i just quit after getting 99 dungeoneering and summoning, both things i wanted

>>739675747
>you fucking buy shit with gold what do you mean?
you are suppose to TRADE, not interact with a faceless menu that magically lets you purchase everything you want without ever interacting with another human. there is virtually no difference. you are either grinding to make gold off the GE to then buy more upgrades/supplies from the GE or you are grinding it all yourself as an ironman. runescape economy was not to just "buy things with gold" it was to to TRADE with real people

>>739677463
i was tehre. Forum trading sucks. Standing in W3 at the correct spot to sell your lobsters or yew logs sucks.

Buy orders was always teh way out. The only issue was how they tried to dictate the price of items for a few years to deal with RMT. Otherwise the GE is the perfect system even better than the auction house.

>>739677996
>i was tehre. Forum trading sucks. Standing in W3 at the correct spot to sell your lobsters or yew logs sucks.
then you don't give a single fuck about how rs was intended to be played, stop pretending like you do

>>739678041
times change retard you can't stay stuck in the past forever. I've been playing for 20 fucking years you don't know shit

>>739678208
I feel like advocating for change when it comes to OSRS is such an ass-backwards opinion that it's funny.

>>739675747
>ultimate
well no shit it's shit, only the biggest autists/youtubers would want to suffer having no bank

>>739625985
Both the original 2007 RS2 and OSRS actually killed the ability for sweatlords to manipulate the economy by hoarding. It’s called The Grand Exchange and it has made scammers on /v/ seethe ever since.

>>739677463
No, the other anon is right. Some form of auction house is actually good. I've played many games with and without one and just having the option to buy a random item for some upmark is always nice to have. Naturally, there's always the option for custom orders for face to face trading, but that will always require the time and effort to do. I think Luddites like you seem to think auction houses of any kind completely annihilate peer to peer trade, rather than simply offering an alternative to spending a long time working out extensive trade deals.

I enjoy OSRS, its nice to have something in the background to work towards while waging from home. Also the high level PvE is actually quite fun once you get used to it. Also the fact that you never lose progress because of patches, expansions, etc makes it pretty unique in terms of a live MMO.

There are some insane sweatlord grinds though which I don't mind because I like seeing number go up in an autistic way

>>739676807
It's an eternal hamster wheel either way. The real endgame is being satisfied enough to walk away and not look back.
When I quit, I was already comped for 2-3 years. After a certain point, you've already seen everything the game has to offer; done every quest, and killed every boss. I'd argue that you hit this point even before comp, like max cape + quest cape + Reaper Crew is already enough to see everything.
Players who continue past that point are just sinking hundreds to thousands of hours repeating the same content to watch a number go up. Many aren't even actively playing the game but still have it open on their phone or a corner of their screen as if it were an idle game.
It was even worse after the mobile client release because content has been increasingly catered towards the AFK/"second monitor" gamers and there's been less active gameplay to interact with.
>>739676519
Congrats, you beat the game.
Also, only addicts believe the "you never quit" line because once you've been playing for a while, you'll see people on your friend list will slowly drop off and never come back

>>739679067
The trading was part of the older culture, even if they removed AH mechanics in games it wouldnt return and it would be more of a hassle yes. Part of the MMO culture died and is never coming back, optimization pervades everything and there is no mystery left.

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You're missing out on 95% of the game and if you're a brokie you can easily sustain membership after the initial buy-in, provided you're willing to put in the effort.
There's genuinely no reason to play OSRS F2P unless you're in it simply to use the game as a chatroom. The default F2P world is great for that.

>>739679423
I would add that F2P is best as a time capsule for the 2007 version of the game, since its far closer to the game at that time than P2P currently is with how much stuff that was added. Even then, they've added some stuff to F2P (Giant Bosses, Cow Boss, Camdozal dungeon) but for the most part its pretty similar to the original game 20 years ago.

Unless you play on a private server but fuck that

>>739677463
Stop acting like you’re trying to preserve some kind of lost SOVLful interaction and just admit that you wanted to charge 150gp per bowstring just cause you were the only one selling in Seers at 3am and could get away with it.

Runescape isn't the game for everyone. If you like a slow grinding game where you work towards your goals, the Runescape fits the bill. But so do games like factorio and modded minecraft. If you are one to get your enjoyment from action games, then you will never understand slower paced games.

>>739680406
That sounds incredibly soulful.

>>739663350
Yeah the runescape private server scene is retarded.
Either you wind up with retarded custom server projects filled with microtransactions and custom content like putting dragon ball z and goku in the game or you get severely mentally ill moderator staff and community like vscape it's quite grim.

>>739679067
>think Luddites like you seem to think auction houses of any kind completely annihilate peer to peer trade
it literally does though, literally every game developer that adds an auction to their game acknowledges that it does, poe devs have an whole manifesto about why they didn't want to add synchronous trade because of that exact reason and caved in eventually because that type of peer to peer trading does not work anymore in todays culture. trying to pretend otherwise is just being willfully ignorant to the fact. and ultimate i do not care about the GE existence, that anon is just pretending that he knows what "how rs is meant to be played" even means when he doesn't even believe it himself. if jagex removed the player aspect of the GE and put in a simulated economy in it's place literally nothing would change, the existence of the GE is antithetical to an MMO's economy

>>739680406
>taking advantage of the time of day to make a little more extra cash
sounds soulful to me

>>739679309
in the past month i've seen at least 5 people return in my cc with between 9 months to 7 years returners.

bump

>>739631303
desu it's 10x easier to simply learn the basics of inferno or just mage tank than use that plugin