Oh man, memories, i wish i had the patience to back to that, 07-09 was my favorite time to play that game, so damn fun.

Agreed. :3! This week they are releasing the G.E. That will be so weird. OSRS has been around 2 years now without it. o: Achievement Diaries are coming out next week in one big set!

Oh man, GE coming back? hnnngghh if it werent for my money being on WoW now i'd try it again

X3 I tried WoW again recently. I couldn't enjoy playing that game any more.

Yeah, nobody really likes the new expansion

Tbh I'm kind of hoping they let it be the nail in the coffin. MMO's have life spans. They ought to make a new one. :/

Doing something like pushing the reset button on RS and releasing a 2007 version of the game is all good and well, but there's only so long this new instance will last, too. The hiscore tables fill up, the economy inflates. Items flood the market. WoW has encountered different problems, being a very different MMO.

Growing pains are a really huge one for WoW: There is no truly correct way to address a game being simply too large for a new player to approach. Offering things like triple xp rates and level boosts are all good and well for someone trying to level up a new toon...but to a new player it just becomes picking whatever they think is the lesser evil of leveling through all the content the game has to offer, leveling at a rushed-feeling triple rate that cheapens the experience of each new area you go to, or boosting to the level just before the current expansion and not knowing anything about 99% of the game you might soon reach the level cap in. xD

I could have gotten past stuff like that, though. What I couldn't stomach about my recent WoW experience was how things have been more simplified than ever to the point where I feel like I have no choices to make--or that my choices don't matter at all. The original talent trees were simplified so you couldn't put points in multiple spec trees, then simplified even more to what they are now where no choice is wrong and they mostly don't make a huge difference. Each class lost a bunch of abilities, so every character of a given class and spec is almost definitely going to use the same few abilities. >w< Ick. And lastly, what kind of opened my eyes to all this, was when I was on my character window on an agility-based spec, and moused over say, Strength, to see the words "You gain no benefit from this stat." Oof. That was like a punch in the stomach. Every stat should do something (preferably the same basic thing) for everyone! Some characters might be able to take advantage of it better than others, or might gain additional benefits from it...but it shouldn't outright say "Hey stick to your one stat. These others are just for show."

That's not to say RuneScape is a much better game with choices that matter more. :P And I don't mean to come off as offensive. Just sharing my opinion. I used to really like WoW. ^=^ Many of the things I loved about it just aren't part of the game any more.

I agree on pretty much everything here, MMo's tend to drop off in popularity after so long, unfortunately for some, that time is much earlier (ESO) but luckily for WoW they've kept it going for a long time

Oh yes. WoW had a really impressively good run. A look at it nowadays makes it seem to me like it's just clinging to the life it had. Nevertheless, it functions plenty well enough as a social sort of game for those who want nothing more from it. I kind of really do think of MMOs (this especially applies to RS) as chat clients with activities...and if that's what you're looking for then there is no need to be picky anout the game as long as you have a few people you enjoy talking to. Still...an MMO can be so much more than that, if the game is also good. :3

read this and it remembered me of minecraft 1.3 best update ever until 1.8.1 and 2.1 not fun...
the nostalgia of 1.3 :)

I remember 1.3.2 was when I first started playing that game. It was mostly a casual game for me; Only played about once every month. Still do, barely... :P

We are never ever getting back together.

The memories are just too painful. :'(

D':

Is there anything you don't like about the new Runescape? (Don't worry, I haven't played the game in almost 2 years.)

Everything is inflated. Not just the currency, but the exp rates as well. When you login they shove micro transactions in your face. The combat and graphics and parts of the map were overhauled to the point of unrecognizability. They use gimmicks like a "Loyalty Programme" to motivate you to stay subscribed. The tool belt makes no sense, and cheapens and nullifies some of the satisfying right-tool-for-the-right-job mechanics that have always been fundamental to the game.

I'm sure there is more, but I only have so much energy to dedicate to winging about a game I can just as easily not play.

I imagine OSRS will encounter a similar fate, especially when content is guided sheerly by the dumb masses rather than well-thought-out game development by experts with the game's health in mind. :P The ideal for any game community is really a friendly and competant dictatorship.

Currency and experience rates always seemed pretty inflated to me, though, even when I first started playing it, which was 5 or 6 years ago. I never really played the game enough to get the full gist of it (maybe 15-20 hours for as long as I've played it), but one thing I realized pretty fast is that you need quite a lot of money to get around.

The rest of the stuff you described, just seemed like a sign of the changing times. Most video games nowadays are changing to be simple and concise with a shallow learning curve. Also, since it's a free-to-play game, micro transactions are one of the few ways the game can make money.

Geez, I can never reply to comments right.

I enjoy finding good ways to make money on MMOs. :3

And shallow learning curves make me saddd. D:

Fellow OSRS player here. Nice to know others still play, haha.

Yesssss you should totally add me! ;u; <333

I remember playing RuneScape back then, I have a lot of memories of that game.

You and me both!

They trimmed all the extra stuff they added since 2007 when it started?
I guess that means it was PRunedScape XD

Oh my....<3 x3 *hugs!*

Me and actually met on Runescape almost 10 years ago XD now we live together ;u; but oh man, I miss the ol' days of RS, playing right when I got home from school 'til bed x3

Awwwwwh~ ^////^ <333 That's the best. Way cute. I dated someone I met on RS for years and we're stillll really close. :3!

Runescape was great haha, the good old days were fun. It's a shame how much RS changed from all the decisions Jagex made, some were good but not all! I prefer the original the way it was. :3

Yeh. That's why I play Old School. o:

Old school just needs to come back as the ACTUAL RS instead of being seperate in my opinion XD

Yeah I wish it got like a big advertising budget and was featured in a better way on the main website. Eh. All just dreams, though. :c They will never undo any big changes to RS3... >.< Blegh.

I went to the F2P servers on Old School for a while though. It was so funny. The beggars and the noobs oh my gosh. X3 in a bank, people just go around accusing people of being rich or assuming they are...and asking them for the most random things! xD

If my account is left untouched will I have a rubber chicken from Easter back in 2004 or something.

You can hit anyone with it. :3

Yeah I had that. :P Don't think it was 2004, but I don't remember.

I'm not all that into games that don't have a definite goal unless it's something with a huge emphasis on user-made stuff. I played the living hell out of Little Big Planet and Little Big Planet 2 when the latter first came out; Sackboy is just so damned adorable, and the hand-crafted look of the series was too cute to resist. <3

I never played those, but I really like the sound of 'em and the idea of 'em. Not big on console stuff these days for whatever reason tho. :/ I don't mind games that don't have a defined goal. It does help, but I prefer games with a really steep learning curve and figuring out what to do with yourself can be part of that. I also like the social aspect of MMO's. o3o;

Yuh :3

It's certainly not for everyone!

Heehee. Work is alright I guess. I don't really like the fulltime lifestyle. I might get used to it, but if I could play games I enjoy and make as much or more I of course would in a heartbeat! ^=^'

Different strokes for different folks. Parr of it is just that I have a built-in loathing for routines of essentially any kind.

Oh I still play RuneScape, but I prefer the new version. I'm playing it now actually.

Heehee. I'm playing RS too much. :c And the GE is bulldozing the economy right now. Might step away for a bit so things have a chance to settle down... x.=.x

As Guthix would say, Balance in all things.

Blue and green tears yadda yadda I'll call you when your time is up

Zamorak is Red, Saradomin is Blue, Guthix is Green, What colour are you?

Honestly, RuneScape has not been a pleasant social experience for me. If they hadn't gotten so invested with the lore then I'd of abandoned it.

The lore in RS isn't half bad. Love the Zaros stuff. :3

I prefer guthix myself...shame really...

I feel like as a character Guthix isn't as original as the exiled god. u3u

Oh I get that. Guthix Saradomin, and Zamorak are pretty much shown as a basic concept of balancing out the scales. The Light, the Dark and the Balanced ideologies. So when you look at them they're basic, but their recent backstories really got me interested in them more.

I don't know much about recent RS lore. Just the old stuff.

To each there own. The new lore is why i got back into it (a little too late because my old accounts was among the deleted, plus I lost the email).

Heehee... :3 I'm sure it's interesting.

I find the little tid bit about Zaros and Seren to be incredible...you know that they're technically siblings.

No idea what Seren is.

Elven Goddess

I used to play this and be a player mod. Used to be NintendoDude on it. But I moved onto different games since then. I hated the direction it went :(

I hated the direction it went also, but so far Old School RuneScape seems to still have its integrity, after a couple of years! :3!