>Completely mogs the MMO space>No paid cosmetics>No transmog>Cancels pride>Outdated yet still extremely charming artstyle>No timegated content except farming>Best quests of any mmo>Music is known across the internet>Steals content creators from other gamesHow do they keep gatting away with it?
>>741161491>Cancels pridethis completely shut up the schizo spamming the trans/pronouns shit polluting these threads
>>741161859Literally can't stop winning
>>741161491>added qol easy mode shit>all these addons that play the game for you and cheat and highlight thingsnot the runescape I played back in 2007 you are all fakes that don't know the real experience, the only addons you had back then was for mirc under your game client and maybe hiscores look up on the side, now it's all cheats and plugins
>>741161859>>741161491>Cancels prideThey removed all the in game gay pride items then?
>>741161491>Cancels prideInstantly reinstalling if true
>6 million WoW clones>0 runescape clonesWhy is it that no one tried to copy it? Even the gower's own latest game doesn't copy it.
>>741161491>incredibly boring do nothing/semi-idle gameplay that only appeals to autists look guys my number went up >okay and what can you do with your number?absolutely nothing lol except make it go up more
>>741163695You wouldn't get it
>>741163201>>741163445they still have the guy that hands you all the pride cosmetics last time i checkedthe only thing they changed is there is no parade anymorethat was last year though they still might do it this year
>>741163609Albion online?
>>741163927man thats fucked up
>>741163927no and im pretty happy about that
>>741163994thats nothing like runescape at all
>>741164298Ah, I just remember seeing the ads where it advertised itself as a kind of runescape.
>>741161491because its a fairly easy to understand mmo where unless you are doing high end content, you can just hop on and make some progress. Its the perfect mmo for the 30+ age crowd that have shit going on in their real lives and can't commit to the WoW/XIV raid schedule. Ironman mode is also kino.
>>741163197>Ignore people like you>Record player numbers, profits, and popularityGo play 2004scape, retard
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>>741163695>This nigga never got a firecapeLmaooo
>>741163927sit
>that one nu-quest where the evil wh*te varrock museum curator steals artefacts from the Black varlamorians and you have to get it back by playing a shaming minigame where you call him a nazi racist incel white chud
>Best quests of any MMO>Made 20 years ago by people who don’t work at Jagex anymore
>>741167285>Best quests of any MMOLolno. Only some of the new quests could be considered good.
>>741167285Desert treasure 2 is easily the best quest in the game
>>741167285the newer quests are great. The lore mod is a legit sperg autist (in a good way) who cares a lot about the story.
>>741166205I haven't played since 2007 bud I'm good, it's just funny to sometimes look at videos or streams and see how casulized and babymode it is nowadayspopularity = good huh maybe fortnire is best game ever, damn those cods !!!
>wearing skilling outfits post 99
>>741161491where do i go to trim my armor?
>>741169906>I'm good...>it's just funny how blah blah blah
>>741170037Zealots set looks fire though, the human sacrifices will stop
>>741171578meet me at lvl 40 wildy, bring 1m and I'll do it for you
>>741161491osrs is a bad game, it's literally a chore simulator
>>741173605i liked the mansion, the barbarian village, the mage tower, the desert prince questsi dont think new games have that much sovl
>>741163609Apogea kinda, but it's forever indev.
>>741163609Unironically the most similar game to osrs is terraria
>>741175973There would 100% be a possibility for osrs to have its Calamity mod thing going on, unless you already consider the inferno, blue inferno and doom bullshit content similar because I would.I'd rather have Thorium type mod for it, respecting the core without being difficultybait.
What do you fellas think about private servers? I have the runescape itch but i am NOT paying $13 (or more?) Bucks per month Does anyone play on one of those private servers? Lol
>>74117877115 bucksAnd I've tried private servers before, they scratch the itch but it is not the same.I'm on the same boat, I do not want to pay 15 bucks for it, especially because my only account is an ironman and herblore is just cancer
>>741178771I played on /v/scape fucking forever ago, and I think by some miracle of god it's still alive. I have no idea if it's still populated or not.
>>741178771Don't bother the communities always have some weird tranny inner circle thing going on involving the staff team and main playersAvoid vscape and 2004scape like they're the plague
>>741180613>>741178952>>741178945I just found one called Alora, it looks fine so far hehe530x combat exp. This shit's crazy, hit my dopamine receptors like crazy BING BONGCheers lads
the problem is that most of the game is a singleplayer experience, most skilling places are completely devoid of life and people hardly talkwhen they do it's over politics or troonsagain, I think the game is fine but the people have changed
>>741181268every game is like this. Ever tried to "level up with a friend" in wow? It never works out. Like when TBC was new all my friends were lvl 70 and it took me like 3 months to hit 70 playing a few hours a day. We would chat in whispers or on skype but yeah essentially you are playing alone for 90% of you MMO experience. It's exactly the same in FF14 too it's all by design.
rs3 ironman > osrs ironman > osrs >>>>> rs3
Dragonslayer was a lot of fun back in the day.
>>741181471nah rs3 mainscape is peak.
>>741181471>rs3 ironmanhave they fixed rs3 yet? heard they're making various changes
>>741181471Do it, Neko Arc. Put me out of my misery.
>>741181586They removed the gacha XP lamp system and prety much all of dailyscape. Ironically removing those features really fucks over RS3 ironman. RS3 has lower rates for a lot of skills compared to OSRS. osrs is actually ezscape these days. Fucking 1 click goon crab is insane.
>>741181420which is why I wouldn't recommend OSRS to anyone or RS3it's multiplayer, I have to assume people are getting into it to get a multiplayer experience but RS3 is devoid of people and most of actual human players in OSRS are doing endgame stuff, meaning that you have to commit hundreds of hours to train your skills (in places where there is literally no one around) to do shit like raids
>>741181586they deleted auras and like ~90% of the dailies, big ones being caches and wilderness events. makes the game a lot more fun to play if you were an efficiency fiend. I remember structuring my entire days around the wildy eventsthey also slightly reworked early game stuff, but imo that part still needs a lot of work. necro's still pretty broken as a combat style until end gamepersonally this is the version of RS3 I've enjoyed the most up to this point and ive maxed like 3 ironmen since its release
>>741181864osrs is a fundamentally worse game for not having keybinds.
>>741163609Because they don't know the process. A runescape type MMO is off the bat going to have a smaller playerbase than a WoW clone. If it tries to go massive scale immediately it'll bleed funds, force open a cash shop, and drive out all its players. It needs to start small and grow out naturally, which most MMOs can't manage.
>>741181471Isn't RS3 ironman just a constant loop of grinding ammo/consumables or w/e it's called in rs3 because a lot of gear uses charges?
>>741182361runescape is more like minecraft and terraria than other mmos. In the sense that you need X to craft Y which you only get from Z that requires A item from B monster that only spawns at night and after completing C research at the D building which is unlocked after the E quest that requires 55 Fcrafting.
>>741163609why would you play a worse WoW?like that's legitimately how Runescape got started, it was WoW for people who were poorfags or people who had shit computers but still wanted to experience WoW
>>741182516how retarded are you
>>741182546prove me wrong
>>741182636WoW did not exist in 1998.
>>741161491The game will never be saved until Kids Ranqe logs in again.
>>741182516My former poor friend (he's good now) tried to get me to play it because of the member berries and I'm like bro...no. I was playing real games I didn't trauma bond with it ;_;
>>741163695wait til you learn what videogames are made of
>>741182724>he thinks runescape classic was good
what led to the downfall of OSRS?
>>741182856Jagex's inability to just leave things the fuck alone coupled with voters who let everything pass because "new content :D"
>>741182856Wildy getting guttedDevs putting in Masonic imagery (precursor to the woke shit) The forced conversion into RS3 And all those things just so happened to occur at the same time
How did the French manage to make the best MMORPG of 2026?
>>741170037>ye old times>players wear whatever they want whilst skilling>ye now times>everyone looks exactly the fucking sameand the degenerates still request more outfits and graceful recolours
>>741182856The very thing that saved it. B0aty's OnemanArmy series. Ironman ruined runescape forever.Now everything is a chunk locked and caged extreeeeeme ironman run.
>>741182931it's not just letting everything pass but the repeat surveys shoved down their throats. Sailing failed multiple votes and they kept developing it. The worst skill since dungeoneering, maybe worse than that.
>>741182856people changed, games got betternowadays it's a singleplayer game with a chat feature
>>741182365only augmented gear uses charges and that requires invention which requires 80 div/crafting/smithing so no not really until endgame.
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>>741182856lack of actual multiplayer contentraids nowadays are not even multiplayer, it's 4 people doing damage to the boss each in their own corner dodging whatever is thrown at them. There is no "cooperation" going on
>>741182856I don't think its ruined I just think its a very different game than it was in the OG 2013-2016, or especially the actual 2007 era. Main reason is basically anyone who plays OSRS long term mains an Ironman these days. It has definitely hurt the economy, and it does feel like Jagex basically balances the entire game around Ironman mode.
>>741183913>and it does feel like Jagex basically balances the entire game around Ironman mode.because it's the only game mode worth a shityou can literally just buy endgame shit, it has no requirements most of the time
>>741184276that's only a problem if people RMT.
>>741184341it's incredibly easy to grind gold if you are not an ironman and to train tooyou can AFK an account to 99 combat stats and then do a boss until you get the good drops to sell for endgame shitmind you, I don't think Ironman is "hard", I don't think grinding your stats to 99 is "hard", people just think Ironman mode is hard because they have to play it for longer
>>741184523the appeal of this game is the free market economy. the entire appeal.
do people still play OSRS? Like if I log in right now and go to barbarian assault will I get into a game?
>>741184751yes. barb assault is really fun and packed.
>>741184341>that's only a problem if people RMT.the trouble is that everyone RMTs in games these days. Gamers are getting older and make more money in real life. Thus, they supplement their loss in playing time with just paying some real world money. >>741184751brother its literally either the most or the 2nd most popular mmo on the market (depending on time of year). Its immensely popular.
>>741184625I actually think the biggest appeal for OSRS is there's no gear reset. WoW and other MMOs tend to have a system where the entire game is basically reset after 4 months or so.
>>741184751As long as you're on a barbarian assault focused world you will. And yes, it is still the best minigame in OSRS
>>741184856sadly i forget my password since its been like 10 years since I last touched it. And I definitely dont want to start from scratch
someone blackpill me on Barbarian Assault. I stopped playing members with stats related and never did it.
>>741184856>the trouble is that everyone RMTs in games these days.Gold per hour for a subscription token and doing meaningful things in-game is a really pivotal design juncture that I'm not sure will ever favor making money in-game for at least half the players. It has to be possible, but average US income is $65k. But just set gold per hour to $7.50 and make the subscription token $15, right? You can even make them stackable in a month, but uses for a subscription token when you want literally every player in the PC gaming demographic (1.5B) to play your game is this whole topic. What do you reward? Stats ever? Multiple characters that can be logged out wherever? A certain amount of loot crates per token that can be purchased until the person runs out of room? Anyway, you need to keep RMT within the game, and I'm sure that eventually means letting players cash out by trading.
>>741161491Some 20 years ago, I made it to like lv111+, then promptly sold my account for 20 and a cokeit got too grindy, it wasn't fun.I don't want to play a game that isn't fun
>>741182852Runescape 2 is also older than WoW.
>>741186521Back in the day barbarian assault used to actually give valuable melee gear that wasn't quite BIS but was close to it and really useful but now with all the modern content added you can probably safely just skip the whole thing and not miss out on anythingIt was also actually pretty fun to do if you managed to get a good team for it that synergized well with each other
>>741182516runescape's simple art style and tile/tick systems should in theory make it cheaper to develop and host, meaning it could have a lower price for end users, which could cause them to prefer it overall to a more expensive MMO even if they'd prefer the more expensive one in a vacuum. of course this hasn't exactly panned out for runescape in reality but maybe a clone could realize those benefits also ticks/tiles + metroidvania progression + rng/grind gates aren't inherently worse than the alternative. like, for the last couple of weeks the structure of OSRS has let them put on a really cool event where 6 teams of 5 have a server to themselves where PVP was enabled everywhere and they had to route their way into getting the most powerful gear possible for a structured fight at the end while being mindful of ganks from each other, and it was great to watch and apparently really fun from the player perspective too. how would you do that sort of thing in wow/ffxiv? it'd just be a bunch of people speedrunning the same handful of methods to level cap.
>>741186521I did it on my ultimate ironman to get a fighter torso and I ended up really enjoying it. Never went back after I got the torso but it was genuinely fun with randoms once you get the hang of it. You have enough hp to do it easily.
>>741165035Only visually. The game is closer to a fantasy EVE.
>>741187458Nah fighter torso is really good even compared to bandos unless something changed bigly in mid game gearing I'm not aware of. I believe it's the same minus a prayer bonus point.
the women that play this are insufferable hags
>>741187680Anon 07scape is written in spaghetti code and if only a few legacy developers left the company any meaningful changes might be put off indefinitely. Osrs in particular is one of the hardest games to code for in many ways.
>>741164298Yes it is retard.
>>741161491Farming isn't timegated just do tithe farm
>>741161491>best quests
>>741163201Nope. The faggot furry npc is still there
>>741170037Why yes it's nothing but a max cape + staff for me
>>741187904>kill 15 drowned ones>find 9 symbols>go through cluessurely you don't think The Secret World is better
>>741187848the original context of this reply chain was someone asking why no one's tried to make an osrs clone - yeah, osrs is legacy as hell, but if you were able to start from a clean codebase it seems like it'd have to be simpler than your WoW clones
>>741188153It's harder than it looks.
>>741187774That's the point though way back then originally bandos or fighter torso were the endgame melee options now there's shit like torva and whatever else fighter torso has been relegated to mid game gear and could just be skipped
>>741188554It's a clog tho.
>>741183746runescape has never been focused on groupslop and if you want that you should play literally any other mmo
>>741185275Bros I think this pic was me years ago.
>>741181524>not 120 invention>no necromancy levelsdo spinnies really?>>741181738all the xp in rs3 is locked behind at minimum base 80 for all skills that aren't mining/smithing after that is ez mode
>>741188043No i do not think
Why the fuck did they close Funorb?
>>741185275>>741184751funniest shit is how redditoids let leecher services trick them into thinking barb ass is hard and now they pay hundreds of mil just to leech kandarin diary
>>741185275Stealing Creation status?
>>741163609There's several runescape clones. No one plays them because they aren't runescape so it's easily recognized that the pointless grind is pointless whereas at least in runescape the pointless grind has a playerbase that cares you wasted as much time as they did.People only played runescape because any computer could play it and it was free.People only play runescape now because it has a playerbase because of the past of it being free to play and any computer being able to play it.People gave brighter shores a chance because DEVS WHO MADE RUNESCAPE even though it was shit, meanwhile other runescape clones don't even get that chance.
>>741189962grinds in runescape tangibly affects how you interact with many things in the world. doubt those clones have fleshed out anything to that level
>>741184341no, farming gold is just easy, it's the same thing in poe, you just pick something and stick with it and buy everything you need and then quit
>>741190136>grinds in runescape tangibly affects how you interact with many things in the world...because Runescape is a popular 20 year old game>doubt those clones have fleshed out anything to that levelThey often have more content than Runescape did when it first released
>>741190245same issue with all the failed wow clones. they can be good games in their own right but the head start allows the progenitor to have much more content and more fleshed out systems
>>741189942not happening.
>>741189942Still trapped in RS3. I don't think adding it to OSRS would work now because people would get uppity if anything useful or interesting was rewarded through a group minigame, and if there's no reason to do a group minigame, no one will play it and it becomes dead content.
>>741190612scythe from tob is group content?
>>741182856RaidsSailingQuest quality getting worseGrinds becoming longer/tedious then it needs to beConstant push of trying to make everything viable or have a useIf i put more thought into this i could probably come up with more but ultimately it just feels like osrs is losing its charm more and more
>>741182856Developers fascination with souls games and trying to incorporate that into something as slow as runescape and all its combat faults.
>>741191125i enjoyed the final dawn and new sailing quests. are the other new quests that bad?
Honestly, whenever i try to play osrs i get annoyed at some of the tedium the game has that shouldn't be there anymoreThe big is when you forget your tool for whatever skilling you are doing. RS3 solved this ages ago but osrs shouldn't just throw it in, they could have parts of it unlocked from quests so you still have that tedium at the start but as you progress it becomes less of an issue, and just cap the axe and pickaxe to bronze.
>>741191286there are equippable versions of various tools but they generally take awhile to acquire. they have done huge amounts of qol to be fair but the toolbelt is an rs3 thing so a lot of players hate the idea
You know what MMO never had a Gay Pride in it? FFXI.
>>741191286>tedium the game has that shouldn't be there anymoresome tedium and old school jank is part of the charm for a lot of players. its OLD SCHOOL runescape not shiny polished new thing
>>741191125>Grinds becoming longer/tedious then it needs to beThey made it easier for players to get to level 99 quickly on OSRScompared to the old version where it took 3 or 2 months to get to 99 strength or 99 range for example.
>>741191578If you're playing Final Fantasy it's already implicit that you're gay
>>741194567That only applies to XIV.
Post 'emIronman btw
>>741194605bro... literally all of the mainline FF games are gaythis has always been true
>>741182365it can beabout 5-6 years ago it was a bit rough since it was like 1hr of gathering charges for every like 6-8 hrs of combat of using end game gear (more time gathering if your divination is lower, less often needing to gather depending on the level of your gear, etc) so once you got to end game you needed to afk divination a decent amountbut it wasn't really an issue until you actual end game gear and before that it was pretty easily 1hr of divination for like 10-15 hrs of combatbut its gotten easier now and its a lot faster to acquire charges, but there are also more supplies you need to get now and upkeep compared to then so its still around a similar amount of time overall
>>741194975>posts pic of a remake that has to deal with a portion of the game that makes fun of crossdressing/gay tropes
>>741189962plenty of people try runescape clonesbut most clones do some REALLY retarded shit and misunderstand what people even like about runescapeits crazy seeing them get a player base, start to grow, and then they pivot into stupider and stupider stuff and then everyone leaves and it dies
>>741191125I don't understand their insistence on making drops like 1/3000most drops in actual 2007 were like 1/50 or 1/100any arbitrary barrows piece is 1/16, could you imagine new uniques releasing and the chance of a new piece of gear being 1/16? 1/120 for a specific piece
>>741195491>I don't understand their insistence on making drops like 1/3000Because that's how you artificially extend playtime to take advantage of gambling addicts, that's how any MMO operates at its highest levels
