>>715366654
well back then your options were much more limited, emulators weren't well known, runescape was the biggest "game" available online for free, but now? any retard knows what an emulator is, they can download a shitty one with a bitcoin miner in it on their phone or pc with a 2 second search, and they now have access to 6000 games minimum, even on the shittiest hardware, then you have abandonware sites that exist just to easily give anyone access to hundreds of old, working games

when you start a game and it's so immediately abrasive like runescape is with its exponential experience requirements, it's not hard to imagine why the average player would choose to play basically anything else