Why did you quit

I got my full adamantium shit scammed off my back like a idiot.

Too expensive to pay for membership.

>>713567213 (OP)
I spent more time doing things I didn't want to do than the enjoyment I got out of the things I did want to do.

I'm already maxed in RS3 and I didn't really want to do it again. I stopped having fun in osrs and nothing felt worth doing.

It's got a million changes and doesn't emulate the old school experience.

OSRS is too new school, just give me 2006 servers and don't fuck with them this time

>>713567213 (OP)
I'm aware of the existence of better games.

>>713567610
the 2006 version of the game sucks

>>713567213 (OP)
they're out of their fucking minds if they think it's worth it after the price increase
I might come back after a year of new content, and another year of them fixing the glaringly obvious mistakes they made with the new content

>>713567213 (OP)
vidyascape is better

>>713567769
I know zoomie

>>713567213 (OP)
I was hyped for Warding, made a new character for the first time in decades, had a blast playing through all the old bits and leveling, while intentionally keeping Defense low so I could fully enjoy the new mid-level mage gear that was coming. Of course Warding only got a meager 67% of player approval and was scrapped. The real final straw for me was the Christmas immediately following the vote, where they recycled the Warding assets for that year's holiday garbage. Absolute smack in the face.

>>713567213 (OP)
Varlamore. I had already debated quitting when Zeah was introduced, but I was able to look past it. Now shit has gotten fucking retarded and I hate it.

runecrafting

PLEASE HELP ME. I'm addicted to PvP clanning on this dead shit game and I can't quit. Clanning fucking sucks but I'm holding onto hope that multi pvp in this game gets some life (never happening). I need to fucking quit but I can't bring myself to

reached the part of the game where everything is a 1/1000 drop
didn't care for the new content & the sub cost being as/more expensive than other mmos

I finished Dragon Slayer then didn't want to pay.

>>713567213 (OP)
Unfortunately not autistic enough.

Built in lag is not enjoyable to play with

>>713567213 (OP)
I kinda beat the game
>got combat level 126
>99 agility (botted)
>99 slayer (my favorite skill, no botting)
>1.5bil bank
>at a point where only a mega rare can upgrade my gear
>inferno cape

Just wasn't worth the hassle anymore. I really only played again to get 126 and inferno cape so once that was done I just got 99 slayer for fun. Ran out of goals after that. I'll probably play again but im OK for now. Dont really enjoy the tryhard raiding scene

Game is hardcore trannyism gameplay
As in the now average gameplay is the type of click intensive wagglan that should only be seen at speedrunning events and considered absurd to do (and not fucking programmed around as a default)

I could have left it at that, but the leagues were the things that drew me back after however many years, I'd seen the jewtubers covering them and they seemed interesting in that they were like extended april fools events for minecraft where the devs could genuinely experiment with ideas, good or bad, to create a novel experience piggybacking off of how interesting deadman was but for PvE
Played the one before last and thought it was pretty good, but in playing the last one, I felt sick to see that they not only in the gameplay department they just shrugged and said "more wagglan tranny bosses, also that's the only nontent of this league" but the fact that they recycled the chunkman region shit because it's all anyone is doing on jewtube shows how lazy jamflex is.
The nail in the coffin was them outright saying in some hell stream with some woman thing acting as mouthpiece for jamflex that they would never do anything but the gay chunkman regions for leagues ever again.
The lowering of the casket and burying under six feet of dirt was project zanaris being shitcanned, since that was basically the last gasp of hope for anyone to make anything not fucking trannified out of the game engine *legally

I'm an old fucking man, I can't be clicking ten times per second and I also don't have the infinite time I used to, with the husk of jagex saying decidedly they aren't making shit for me and my demographic, then it was mutual, they can eat shit and die

Osbotty and shartlite should have been killed in the cradle, I only play /v/scape when I get the runey itch

>>713568226
>I only play with insular literal circlejerking fucking trannies in a dogshit client with more than half a second of lag
You might just be sexually addicted to the notion of anti-QoL
Might I recommend moving to liberia since you're already infested with AIDS?

It's 100% a different game than the way it was in 2006. You can't lose your items on death, you can't be lured into the wilderness or tricked by shady back alley characters in varrock. The Grand Exchange killed so much of the game too, everything is reduced to a shopping list and bank standing. All 99s are incredibly easy to get now if you have the money and some time to kill, you can semi-afk just about everything, even combat thanks to NMZ. PvP has been gutted, no more spontaneous f2p teams duking it out in multi, only 1v1 sweats and a handful of large clans.

This used to be a niche hardcore RPG and now it's the lamest carebearfest that basically plays itself. No more long term progression, no more of the semi-RP social interactions that the organic trading and economic ecosystem encouraged. Everything is extremely convenient to the player at all times especially if you have the money to buy gold via bonds or black market.

I come back for a month or two every year. I will stop when I can no longer afford a bond

I wanted Shamanism.

>>713567213 (OP)
I'm not rich and can't pay bonds with gold so meh

>>713568362
Pay for some bonds and go talk to gilbert and get your pride flower crown mate

I realized I had no chance doing endgame content because of my 200ms ping. And Jagex will never implement Brazilian servers.

Also realized that said endgame content is way too mentally draining. At some point the knowledge overload just caught up with me. Every endgame content requires you to do a full equipment and inventory setup. Even with stuff saved you also have all the mechanics of raids. It was just way too much mental overload. WoW hits much better. You know your rotation, you have DBM installed, you're good.

>>713568507
>The game is worse because people are no longer clueless 12 year olds running around
That's an argument alright.

>>713568507
bots have always been a problem but I believe the grand exchange genuinely made things worse. Suicide bots used to have to trade their farmed supplies to another character or sell it and trade the gold before getting banned and that often left a predictable trail for evidence on bans. Taking that away and letting them turn it into instant gold opened a huge can of worms. Also, a gold sink function is necessary now because bossing yields noted supplies that make skilling borderline useless outside of quest reqs.

can't ever go back after realizing it's a skinner box chore simulator, at least I got 99rc while in zoom classes, honestly the only people playing this are potheads, parents or autistic/depressed individuals + bots and vennies raped the economy

>>713567908
Varlamore feels like it's taking itself too seriously compared to the fun campiness of the mainland

It would be trivial to end the bot problem by implementing the trade limit

Absolutely trivial

The way people wage war on that feature like the combat update will always baffle me. What the fuck are people doing that gets fucked by the trade limit? Never in my several years of OSRS have I ever done something that would be affected by a trade limit aside from giving away cash to noobs (which ruins the game for them anyway).

Ironman mode is just adding insult to injury because it is way worse than a trade limit and the same community that complains about trade limit will also deepthroat that game mode.

>>713568507
>muh rose tinted glasses
nope. I play everytime deadman mode seasonal comes around because for a week or 2 it brings a part of what made the game so amazing back for a short while. I get completely addicted to it again the same way I did when I was a clueless 12 year old. Also, before OSRS when 2007scape was the main old school fix before getting shut down by Jagex, that hit the same way too.

I genuinely feel sorry for you, because not only are you a faggot, but you're a faggot who will never expierence Runescape in it's absolute golden age between 2004-2006.

>>713568695
I don't play OSRS which. . . should be obvious given the thread's subject.
If /v/scape scratches any kind of itch, you're infected with something vicious and should see a doctor about it
And again, you literally bump shoulders with trannies meanwhile you can ignore every other player in jagex's abomination and they don't have a broken fucking client

Because I want some middle ground between RS3 and old school which will never happen
I actually like shit like the toolbelt and summoning (I know this skill breaks the game I don't give a shit) but RS3 pay to skip is too much for me and literally every skill can be bankstood which feels weird

>>713569061
>I don't play OSRS which. . .
Then get the fuck out retard

I resubbed for another year. Its a good game for me to play while I wait between big releases. training slayer up to start monkey madness 2

>>713569129
>why did you quit
>if you're not currently playing then leave
You must have a strange idea of how alcoholics anonymous works, retard.

>>713567213 (OP)
I got into farming when it launched on mobile and burned out hard. Also I generally wasn’t committed enough to tackle the newer high level content, GM quests and learning boss patterns, etc. It left me without an efficient way to make money

>>713568954
the trade limit is heavily stigmatized. Its like asking people to move back into chernobyl because the danger has passed

>>713569065
>I actually like shit like the toolbelt and summoning
Absolutely based

RS3 dealbreakers to me are disney graphics, korean gacha tier aggressive monetization and of course the stupid combat update

That aside there is a good game underneath it

>I'm not a nostalgiafag
>That's why I only play the nostalgiafag mode entirely due to nostalgia because it reminds me how good the game was when I was 12 and I desperately want the game to be the exact same when I was 12 again
>But it's not nostalgia

Look man no need to dump your issues on the thread.
I simply really really like the game as is, I enjoy it everytime I play. You don't, that's all there is to it.

>>713567213 (OP)
When the promotional art went from being 2D to 3D blender abominations

Went on a long trip and couldn't muster enough of a fuck to login upon return. Still kinda follow it but play no thx.

>>713569241
I like the lore updates in rs3. Wish osrs had real lore updates

>>713569241
the mtx permanently tainted rs3 but I'm sure there is something compelling in there.

>>713567213 (OP)
>Why did you quit

the grand exchange, god swords, dragon claws. around the time when these things were released was when i quit the game way back in the day

when barrows was the best armour available, the game was good

if i can pin point the main things that killed the game, they'd be:

- grand exchange (everyone doesn't trade at local banks anymore, they just all go to varrock. all banks are ghost towns)
- adding tons of servers (for crying wusses not being able to farm, resulting in empty dead worlds)
- bonds (buying bonds in game makes your cash and items feel worthless. 80-90% of the best in item games are able to be bought if you just buy bonds. in the past you had to go to shady sites that could potentially hack you, so only faggots bothered going there)
- democracy like polling (the people are retarded)

thats why its a piece of shit. if you argue with me you're a stupid dumb faggot and should kill yourself. you dont know what you're talking about

Runescape was never good. It was always a shitty, shallow "MMO" for poor people and third worlders.

I hate how instead of updating the world that we loved so much they decided to create a stupid continent that somehow is already 90% dead content.

Too busy leveling IRL skills. Grindy MMOs are for unemployed virgins.

>>713569369
>all lowercase
>shitskin
>utterly fucking retarded
Name a more iconic trio

>>713569441
I'm mad that I did all the kourend favor shit before they patched it out.

Every single complaint in this thread gets completely squashed by simply playing an ironman.

>>713569468
Genuinely skill issue

Not an OSRS player anymore but I put 8 billable hours per day as a lawyer and I still pull my weight in a CE guild every season

Also I have a wife and a daughter and friends

Get fucked loser

>>713569496
I'm biting the bait since you clearly didn't read the thread.
How does playing ironman circumvent that the midgame and lategame is tranny-clicker highlight-square show-true-position plugin mess of unplayable nontent?

>>713567213 (OP)
I never played Runescape growing up so I had no interest in playing it now

it got pozzed

>>713569480
dont even get me started with iron man

what kind of absolute joke of a retard came up with that idea for AN MMORPG

how stupid can you get? f***ing dumbaseses

UK is being overrun by muslims because they do retarded shit like this

>>713569654
>how does playing ironman circumvent the fact that I don't like the game

Jagex secretly runs some of the gold selling sites and lets the bots run on purpose

>>713569496
Because the "charm" of going out of your way to create a purple dildo needed for a single quest and wasting 2 hours making it instead of buying it off the GE in 10 seconds gets old extremely fast
maybe if I was 14 and had no other games to play but I'd rather play actual games now instead of dildo making

>>713569780
Runescape and OSRS wasn't that shit until moneysnake you fucking noob.
Just because I predate you doesn't mean the history didn't occur, you solipsistic zoomer faggot.

So, what happened with Brighter Shores? I rember the launch threads being scathing, skills literally don't matter, training is glacial, everything was a recolor. Is it still up and updating?

The endgame loop just isn't for everyone.

The game used to be hardcore because people were bad at it. Now that they are good Jagex had to amp the difficulty to ridiculous levels if they wanted to make content that competes with WoW/FFXIV.

The manipulation of the tick system does not appeal to >90% of the players. It's dumb. Pales in comparison to the gameplay of a real MMORPG.

>>713569849
if you are not new to the game and thus not playing blind then a ironman account is only annoying in the early game, something which you can escape pretty fast by camping wintertodt for a while and doing an efficient quest order

in my opinion the only thing thats really fucking painful on an ironman account is the herblore grind and the corrupted gauntlet grind

now ultimate ironmen are the actual mentally ill ones

>>713569393
The class divide between WoW and runescape is obvious. There's a reason the "runescape player" stereotype is a thing.

>>713567213 (OP)
Stopped playing when they removed multi revs and killed the wildy.

What White People want:
>Self Made Character
>Every single drop is earned
>No buying your way out of skill
>Meaningful progression
>Ironman Mode

What brownoids and jews want:
>Bring back banks filled with bots and 3rd worlders spamming
>Being able to scam
>Merching prices
>6 different third-party sites and forums to control market from
>Luring, Hacking, Baiting...

>>713569975
this entire game is casuals gaslighting themselves into thinking raids are fun

>>713569718

taking out all the danger too? what happened to the shades or the trolls that would kill you if you werent paying attention. what happened to the evil tree and your axe head flying off?

now there's just nothing

lame, watered down. stupid gay game for faggots

>bot situation so fucking bad they are now using bot farms to mass report you if you kill a bot in the wildy both at wildy bosses and at revenant caves

aint no way dude went from "bring back the ge" to "insta-kill random events were good too"
dude's just huffing on nostalgia

>>713570198
also what happened to fashionscape? now everyone wears agility outfit like f***ing NPC
>m-muh run speed

kill yourself NPC

>>713570048
>herblore grind
I was going to ask about other grindy skills like RC and Summoning before remembering that they aren't in OSRS. It's been so long already?

>>713569868
>nooo I only want the unplayable nontent I have nostalgia for

the userbase doesn't want to hear it but osrs needs tons more coop content, like magnitudes more and not just end level raids

>>713570159
Well put
If you want to shatter your rose tinted glasses about trade specifically:
Try playing on /v/scape as advertised earlier with those transsexuals and engage in trade with those things

Reminder that in an open internet, putting your market in the hands of the so-called "people" means making you dependent on the majority for resources and trade
Do you want to interact with the demographics that make up the majority of the internet THESE days?

>>713570048
Either way, it's psychotic to intentionally play an MMO as a single player game.

>>713570512
it's always been a single player game with a chat box

>>713570048
I haven't touched this shit in years so I forgot the difference between ultimate ironman and regular
>Cannot withdraw, deposit or note items at a bank
I don't even like managing inventory in resident evil games but for the entirety of an MMO? yeah you right that's actual autism to the max

>>713568163
>click rooftop square BAD
>click monster GOOD

>>713570512
Unhealthy obsession with what an "MMO" is supposed to be just because it's labeled as one.

>>713570512
its on purpose man. the jews are making everything bad on purpose. thats the only conclusion you can come too. nobody is this retarded. its just not possible

why are they attacking chuds so much? just let us play our games ffs. go away

I never enjoyed it, only played because my friends played it, but then my friends stopped playing and I got caught in it because I'm autistic and I don't like to change my routine. One day, after grinding non-stop for like 12 hours (yeah I know, noob stuff for midwits like you guys) I felt like my life was worthless and I stopped entirely.

>>713567213 (OP)
unpolled pozzed changes, retarded redditors controlling what is polled, chat moderation meaning that i can't kill time talking with random stoners about whatever
it's like they only just recently realized the full extent of what they can get away with while still keeping their battered housewife of a playerbase

>>713570404
>>713570512
>the most well informed chinese investment firm board members trying to steer jagex

>>713570160
Raids are fun. Except the score system is ass. In wow if you died to a boss during a raid you wipe but your chance of loot is the same if you killed the boss on your first try or your 3rd. In runescape, you only get loot at the end of the raid and if you die in the raid you lose half your points so your chance of look goes right out the window when you die on any of the bosses.

Added with the poor healing capabilities, when you die in a raid you likely have to start over since you wasted all your healing supplies. Whereas in wow you have healers whose spells are only on cool down.

Then the loot from the raids are ass. Lots of times you'll spend 30min to an hour for 30k loot, with a rare item at a low base rate and the only items worth anything, the mega rares worth 1bil+, take around 300 completions to get on average

>>713570830
>Raids are fun
>reddit spacing
We see what you are.

>>713569975
>The endgame loop just isn't for everyone.
>kill bosses in a batch of 5 until you gain enough shekels to buy another piece of gear to now do batches of 6 so you can reach the next gear that will allow you to kill in batches of 7 a bit faster
Can't blame them,

>Remember I got tired of not actually playing with my friends; it felt more like all of us playing simultaneously but separately.
>Just wish there was more content where we could progress together.
>CTRL+F "multiplayer" "co-op" "coop"
>See this (>>713570404)
>"Oh hey, someone else might see this as I do-"
>This is chinese somehow.
Every time I play this game, I don't see potential future allies to go on adventures with. All I see are co-workers at an office. Any time you're mining or fishing alongside someone you may as well be sitting in a digitial cubicle next to them, doing your grind.

>>713570607
Actually with slayer you dont click monsters. Cannon aggros for you so you only need to make sure you dont die and your cannon is not empty

>>713571151
God I hate the cannon so much. The in-game equivalent of people who don't use headphones in public.

>>713571097
Then compare that to locking content behind the fucking brazillians and US prisoners that actually play this game.
If you actually played the game and did something like fucking barbarian assault, you'd know how antithetical the notion of coop shit is to the games current and past culture.
You're called chinese because you're some alien proposing some pie in the sky buzzword shit with no basis in reality
>but I'd win because my idea-guyism is built different
Then make your own MMO where it has the the appeal of run escape, real or imagined, and somehow makes cooperation not chafe and break down next to it.

>>713570925
I mean when you and your buddies are coordinating yourselves and fighting bosses its pretty fun

>>713571415
You don't mean anything you fucking profess, redditor.

haven't played in 8 years, spent most of my time auto attacking slayer tasks to earn money, wouldn't say i quit , my bond ran out and i just never bothered to buy another one

here's my toon in 2017 with my first 3rd age piece drop

>>713571097
There is a literal coop mode for the entire game.

I still don't get why they poll skills, would Warding and Shamanism really "kill" the game? Like I'm nowhere near 99 on any of my skills now, but the prospect of getting to work on new ones sounded fun to me. Like at least Sailing is coming.

im playing it again

>>713567213 (OP)
once you beat all the quests and get all your skills up high all there is left to do is high level pvm but runescapes shitty gameplay just doesn't really make the kind of endgame style they're going for fun to do so i guess i just beat the game
runescape works best when it's low intensity and more about trying to survive long trips and not trying to execute dance dance revoltution fights perfectly, theres just much better and more responsive games for that

>>713571552
Summoning scares people out of skills because of how it fucked up the meta of the game completely and coincided with EoC.
But if a new skill doesn't shake up the meta what's the difference between adding it and not?
Better the devil you know than the one you don't. . .

>>713571458
Yes I use reddit. But thats only because I like to talk strategy about the game and post memes

>>713571552
Warding would be meaningless since nothing would be BiS at any point anyway.
Shamanism was the first step towards OSRS3 so fuck it.

>>713571370
>OP asks question.
>Someone answers.
>"abloobloobloobloo" *sticks words in your mouth*
Go hammer mithril bars in your mom's ass.
I can just admit it wasn't for me and be glad I got out when I did.

1. Too expensive
2. Boring once you do all the quests
3. Modern day MMO community

>>713567213 (OP)
I did a shit ton of Yama and got all the upgrades I wanted for the time being
I could max the rest of my combats and start doing raids properly, but I don't want to do hundreds of Toa/ToB/CoX just for a few BiS items.

I'm waiting for Leagues or Deadman for some new experiences.

I believe rs3 can be salvaged if they truly would want to, it's close to death anyway

>>713567213 (OP)
gameplay is deeply unfun and development seems chiefly centered around a kind of pixel perfect tick manipulation menu navigation that punishes you harshly for not having the reflexes of a robot.
>inb4 skill issue
fine, i don't care, I don't want to get better just to grind like a chinese sweatshop slave 2.3% more efficiently

>>713571847
>Modern day MMO community
Basically this. I went to OSRS after trying RS3 and i had a worse experience talking to people.

>>713571842
You're the one blubbering about getting an answer, retard. Coop answering mongoloids are confirmed to have never played the game, either that or are too brain damaged to be considered human
>why did you quit game
>it didnt give me enough HEROIN and BLOWJOBS
>that's not what the game is about, retard
>but those things are NICE and I WANT THEM

>>713571935
>it's close to death anyway
Been hearing that for the last 8 years. What happened now?

>>713571771
So go back, faggot.
Better yet, kill yourself tonight.

>>713571895
Osrs needs more cute boys

>>713572189
some rs3 devs got fired, also abyssal player numbers while osrs is at 150k right now, or was last week atleast.

>>713567213 (OP)
I never played

>>713572295
Same same old, got it. See ya in another 8 years.

>>713572183
You hammer the mithril bar and make five throwing knives
You hammer the mithril bar and make five throwing knives
You hammer the mithril bar and make five throwing knives
You hammer the mithril bar and make five throwing knives
You hammer the mithril bar and make five throwing knives
Just say the game isn't for me instead of being dishonest. This is a valid answer.

>>713567213 (OP)
The lack of older women trying to groom me when I was 11.

>>713572382
And you wonder why you get called a chinkoid, sperg
Die mad about it

>>713567213 (OP)
I grew up playing runescape in 2006-2008 and played exclusively F2P.
When I finally played Old School and tried Members i realized it was pretty shit compared to F2P and reintroduction of the GE didn't help.

Ultimately I didn't like being on a timer with members content and the game wasn't good enough to justify a sub.
>just farm gold to pay for members
That's the worst thing you can do if your trying to enjoy the game on a newer character.

late game is a grindfest
bossing isn't my thing
power creep
nu quests have bad writing
absurd amount of bots
community are all irony-poisoned redditors who hate-play the game
at some point i realized i hated every update and just quit

>>713571097
The closest thing to feeling like you're actually working as a unit together in this game is multi pking and they killed it

>>713567213 (OP)
I'm not 10 years old and have a PC that can run better than browser based games

why cant some dev not just take runescapes skill system and dump it into a modern game with a good combat system

>>713567213 (OP)
lost my quest cape and don't want to deal with the super hard rhytm game bosses in new quests

>>713572690
Name 5 good combat systems.

>>713567213 (OP)
i usually play for a month around the end of the year, not trying to unironically get into runescape though

>>713567213 (OP)
Tried to play on my deck. Sucked to play on my deck.
Got a laptop now though so I should give it another go.

>>713567213 (OP)
mmo genre is bad, the whole of it

>>713572690
Go try Fantasy Life. You'll get it when you realize your in-game clock is at 600 hours in a week somehow, and you haven't progressed the story at all in 400.

>>713567213 (OP)
I usually get really into it for like 1-2 months out of the year then stop until I get the urge again

>>713572495
>And you wonder hadurbadurbadurb
You're the one being an autist and throwing out random accusations instead of just going "Oh, this guy just wouldn't get whats great about the game as is." You could've just had an image saved to your hard drive explaining the points you believe in but you've chosen to act out instead.
I'm not terminally online enough to view every thread to see which one had a chinaman said "co-op please bing bong."

>>713567213 (OP)
It's a sinking ship that I've already wasted thousands of hours on

>>713569142
Based same

>>713572856
>guy is still sperging out
Holy shit lol

>>713572705
if its desert treasure 2 thats scaring you just take the plunge, its not a dance

good luck with the whisperer though

>>713567213 (OP)
I always get the urge once a year to play it but then I resub and after playing for 2 days I realized that I have everything about what the game has become and stop logging in again. I've been doing this for like 6 years.

>>713572856
>>713572935
Autists? In a thread about MY autism game? It's more likely than you think.

>>713572947
last phase something always hits and the insanity bar goes full. not suren if i did something wrong or it's just lag

>>713572935
You're the one not willing to agree to disagree.
I'd conceed if you just said one level headed thing.

>need gear
>drop rate is 1/256
>1000 kills later
>drop rate is 1/256
>check reddit for game updates
>"omg im such a spoon lololol I got item+pet on my 5th kc lololol!"

>>713572993
Autism is fine and all, he just represents the stubborn kind that doesn't grasp how theory of mind works.
If you like tism games, who am I to say its bad?

I love how many ways there are to cheese boss fights in osrs

>if you keep your hp lowish then use nighstshade to trigger your phoenix necklace you can skip an ultra attack that always lowers you to 1

Being acutely aware of staring at my monitor clicking trees and rocks or doijg some shitty mini game for hours and hours and hours and hours and hours and hours while I distract myself from the monotony on my other monitor in hopes that one day I’ll have a max cape…and then going to bed and waking up and doing it again. In the meantime actual literal anxiety when im not playing that I’m wasting potential xp because the grind is so damn long. After a couple hundred hours of that and a few 99s the illusion was shattered. The games fun up to late midgame but then it just becomes obsessive autism simulator and I respect myself too much to do that anymore

>>713573087
Why is an absolute lucklet like >>(You) playing RS in the first place?

I played a bunch when I was unemployed during COVID but now I just do some chill f2p grinds on my phone when I need to kill time
300+ mossy keys and no staff drop yet

>>713573087
>tfw got spooned on a craws bow from a revenant pyrefiend and it paid for my 83 construction

>>713573236
I thought it was fun. Not a gambling simulator.

>>713572560
i'm literally having fun just playing the game. just stop looking up guides and play the game.

>>713573032
>>713573162
>still assmad about being wrong
>JUST LET PEOPLE FUCKING ENJOY THINGS
Already at bargaining are we now, sperg?

>>713567213 (OP)
I quit the day they changed male and female to body types.

>>713573463
It's a progress simulator
If you are finding that grind slow maybe you are killing shit too slow so go work on that first. Higher combats makes everything better.

>>713573495
You actually had me thinking you were serious.
I just wanted to hear your honest thoughts but you never had any.

>>713573675
The more you try to cover up your transparent assmad, the more embarrassing of a stain on history it will be
Try not to think about this exchange being cemented in stone on the archives forever more, especially when you calm down and can make no further addendum

>>713573481
? how did you get that out of my post
in fact i stopped having fun when i ran out of quests to do without looking at guides

>>713573921
Do you promise to have a link to this thread saved to your hard drive so you can share it with your distant relatives?

>>713567213 (OP)
I played again for like 8 days and let the rest of my bond run out because I got tired of running Hydra and doing herb/bhouse runs.

>>713567213 (OP)
i don't like pvm with any complexity beyond clicking on a cow to kill it, it's supposed to be a comfy grindge but now basic slayer mobs want you to prayer flick and switch attack style every 3 seconds, it's retarded

>>713573335
My buddy got spooned a shadow and 2 twisted bows. Me? Well I got an enhanced crystal weapon seed on rate. Yay!

Im happy for him but damn lol. Kind of annoying that the game is entirely luck based in the endgame

>>713571935
I dont think its that hard to refresh it but they main issue is all the people who have enabled the mtx machine by buying into it. You can't put the genie back in the bottle

>>713574835
That's just RuneScape as the Gower Brothers intended. It only took 25+ years.

>>713567213 (OP)
Got a bunch of stats from 1 to 75 over the course of a month as Ironman, including Agility and Mining. Burned out.

>>713571295
Cannon is 100% worth it. Its evil, and its expensive but man point click combat is so slow and tedious. It basically doubles your dps and essentially quadruples your dps in multi

>>713567213 (OP)
I don't care anymore I rather do anything else even touch grass go out side it's not the same anymore so I just moved on and use my time elsewhere

>>713572356
>they were wrong before so they're going to keep being wrong
RS3 makes less money than OSRS despite the most kiked microtransactions outside korea

>>713572268
Well if the new delve boss content looks fun then I'll come back and give it the ol' college try
Besides maybe raids would be fun

>>713567213 (OP)
They put gayshit in the game without polling it.

>>713567213 (OP)
Didn't, just did my farm run.

>>713576116
>Besides maybe raids would be fun
>hey guys can I join a raid wearing void with a whip?
>what? You dont have full torva scythe/ancestral shadow/masori t bow? Gtfo noob
>yup.... that was fun =)

>>713567213 (OP)
Waiting for sailing.
Too busy with new things going on irl.

>>713568954
>redditsaw man

>>713567213 (OP)
Maxed and went over x2 dry and didnt get the pet, waste of time without thresholds.

>>713567213 (OP)
I play rs3, that is my answer to that question.

It takes wayyy to much time to do anything and having to pay membership when I know im not going to put in the time just doesnt make sense

>>713577370
Combat skills above 88 > Desire to learn > Combat stats at 95+ >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Gear
Universally true and anyone who disagrees with the importance of gear is an absolute shitter.
The only time people will berate you for gear is if you do retarded shit like wear d boots with bandos chestplate, but then also don't change it when people point it out.
Whipping with void is turbo based.

>>713567213 (OP)
I played a bit of the tutorial in 2011 and thought it was very boring.

>>713578794
>trannies really think like this about their highlighted square clicking nontent

>>713578849
>I got an oxycodone prescription for a broken limb in 2011 and didnt even use the full script
One of the lucky ones. . .

>>713567213 (OP)
Membership isn't worth the money

>>713577370
I mean I've got Bowfa, full Virtus, and Bandos gear with trident/fang etc
I've got very very good gear, I just havent elected to raid yet

>Have dozens of skills
>The best way to make money and better gear is killing bosses
Jagex should have removed the 99 skill caps, shut down the GE, lowered the logarithmic exp grind per level and then have every boss drop one ingredient towards crafting better gear. Players would need to use their now inflated skills to gather and craft the rest of the materials and then trade between each other until they can make a completed item.
Runescape should be about players using their skills to make the best items they can which they trade with other players to eventually make something worth having. That goes out the window when bosses always drop something better at 1/1000 chance and when the price of anything you can craft craters because everything gets dumped on the GE.

Why does the GE cause so much seething on 4chan? I'd take that shit over trade bots everyday.

I quit around early 2016 when the game started shifting towards easyscape xp methods. EHP and efficient skilling was awesome when standards were kept but shitters want everything made into ezscape

>>713579263
Bowfa is good. Virtus with trident is ass, you need a sang at minimum. Fang is ok for toa but you need a saeledor for tob and a dragon hunter lance for cox

>>713579297
>another dumb stupid nigger needing to be taken down a peg
WHO uses the internet jackass?
WHO is making all the terrible posts on every website at a million posts a minute?
WHO now outnumbers humans on the internet and grow in number every single day?
Who do you think YOU will have to trade with to do ANYTHING?

THINK.

>>713579471
>need

>>713579471
Sang and Trident are pretty minimal differences DPS-wise, the heal for Sang is good but its not necessary when you can heal with blood barrage

I maxed then CBF learning end game PVM. Also they're adding too much new shit to the game.

>>713579357
>Have a grindy game where everyone is a human being
>People are forced to talk to each other, develop connections, scam each other and otherwise be social if they want to get ahead in a reasonable time
>Introduce GE which lets everyone dump everything they want to sell causing prices and any sense of item rarity to collapse.
>now everything is either common enough to be worthless or costs a squillion dollars and nobody feels a need to talk at all
The GE defeated the entire point of RS being an mmo, now it's just an idle game with some hyper apm bosses in the end game.

>>713579471
Unreadable fucking post for any normal human who didnt sacrifice his cock and ten thousand hours of his life to jamflex

>>713567213 (OP)
Fulfilled my childhood Runescape dream of reaching 99 in all combat skills. As soon as I did that I quit, which was like 5 years ago or something

>>713569393
You've never played the game. The writing is great, the quests are unique and clever if you don't mindlessly guide through them, and they manage to make progression actually matter.
How OSRS handles world traversal is one of the things that makes it a top MMO

>>713579694
WHAT SO CALLED "HUMANS" NOW MAKE UP 99% OF EVERY WEBSITE'S USERBASE, ANON?
EVEN THIS ONE

>>713579707
>people who don't know about thing wouldn't understand things said in conversation for people who do
Deep insight, bet you seethe in every fighting game thread too.

>>713579357
people who like old school MMOs want other people to be forced to socialize with them

>>713579793
>he's a nigger too
Very sad. . . for you.

>>713579596
Bots existed when RS was good and they exist now even while its shit. Removing the GE and making non-combat skills matter again won't affect bots at all. It will however slow hyper inflation down since it'll be much harder to move all the shit bosses and bots are injecting into the economy.

>>713579849
>no argument

>>713579790
Bots are bad at socialising, modern RS design benefits them.

>>713567213 (OP)
No time. Waiting for sailing proper.
I gotta grind SSBM for a tourney later this year as well.

>>713579945
Bots literally have chatgpt plugged into them now to talk.

I haven't played since shortly after the dragon quest came out, I was thinking about trying it again but it's like $15 a month for a subscription which is about triple what I'm willing to pay

>>713567213 (OP)
I got burnt out around 1750 total level because I didn't know any of the endgame content. I mainly enjoyed pking and bridding and shit is an entirely different world now with swaps and 1 ticks etc. Every time I get a bond I end up doing like 2 quests, then do birdhouse/patches for the rest of it. I watch Odablock streams all the time.

>>713579938
>didn't deny it
Change your smoke alarm, darky

>developer determines values of items in a previously "free" market
t. former fisherman and general trickster

>>713579859
>>713579945
>retard refuses to or can't understand the point

>>713567213 (OP)
I quit just prior to the evolution of combat. As I'm not a subhuman thrall I don't run back to a game when I've have my fill. I merely move on.

Too gay

>>713580197
>too dumb to understand terms from the game being discussed
>accuses anyone else of being nonwhite

>>713580006
Chatgpt only knows how to waffle. It can't organise a future deal and it won't turn up if you do. "AI" still lacks any sense of permanence or long term action and consequence.

>>713580323
>posted on 4tran

>>713580253
>Local idiot runs out of arguments.

>>713567213 (OP)
It wasn’t heading in the direction I hoped the game was going. Once they added floating heads 25 years ago, it was over for me. Plus, I didn’t play the free version enough to justify paying for a membership.

>>713568932
>Varlamore feels like it's taking itself too seriously compared to the fun campiness of the mainland
This is the same shit that ruined RS3 quests, they quit making fun and campy quests and everything now has to be serious and full of drama and shit.

>>713579071
Whats wrong with plug-in highlighted squares?

Do you reeee at wows rotation timer?

im doing bloods after that i will camp inferno lol

>>713567610
This actually. With the Grand Exchange in the game the soul is ultimately just gone. I miss having to play the game if you really wanted something. With it there's too much incentive to just grind one thing over and over to buy anything any time instead of at least having to find sellers or maybe being dependent on finding things in the world itself.

If you use the cheat plugin runelite you aren't playing the game the right way.

>>713567213 (OP)
just got into it actually

>>713580578
>tranny's fallback point is worse game

>>713567213 (OP)
my hcim died also all the gay new reddit updates

>>713580619
I love having to talk to brazillians and venezuelans, you're right

>>713579604
Yes need

>>713579632
Not true at all and you are not using blood barrage at raids when you need thralls for dps

>>713579707
I thought that was pretty understandable

>>713580418
>nigger can't even comprehend
Probably because you are one yourself, thirdie

>>713580619
>I miss having to play the game if you really wanted something
this is why god invented ironman mode

>>713579135
WHEW LAD when you put it that way, ahahaha

>>713580696
>1 higher max hit
>doesnt venom

>>713580694
Talking to people is better than talking to no one in your autistic single player mmo, yes.

>>713580336
>STILL can't deny it
Check it, it's beeping, nigger
Your next crawdad bake will burn down the crib if you don't

>>713568932
>>713580571
I distinctly remember fags here complaining that the frog quest was "too reddit"

>>713580805
>talking to subhuman shitskins is tolerable in any way
YIKES

>>713580758
We had players doing everything an ironman does and being able to trade for when they didn't want to grind. Ironman on its own is just the grind.

>>713580817
>gets BTFO
>falls back to racism
>seethes endlessly when doesn't work
Checks out, low IQ individuals such as yourself are quick to anger.

>>713577370
u can do like 350s at least with 1mil gear its not a gear issue

>>713580798
>he thinks bosses can be venomed
Have you ever done a raid? None of the bosses in the end game can be venomed

>>713580895
You can still play like that you know right?
Like you don't have to use the GE.

>>713580897
To this very day he can't deny his race
Bo pum fidda nigger caught yer tongue, darkie?
Course he did, donchu worry, I got plentyo niggers in my family tree, still hanging there too

>>713580950
No you can't. The game's designed around being able to trade some things with other players. Lack of GE is why we don't have live trading centrals in the game anymore so if you just ignore it there's fuckall players selling anything to buy from.

if u cant do 8way switch in 1 tick you need to kill yourself

>>713581007
No wonder you can't understand basic conversation about a game, you don't understand English.

>>713581097
lol

>>713581097
>Lack of GE
*With GE

>>713568008
is there a serum connected from the computer to your jugular vein and every time you play the serum injects nicotine into you?

>>713581097
>these niggers have yet to explain why talking to venezuelans is good or even desirable
It ain't 2006 any more, retard
The times have changed and with them the demographics

>>713581097
>trading bots was le sovl
>trading bots (GE) is le sovless

its actually insane how much more individual skill this game takes than wow. like you cant even understand the depths we're talking here. in fact out of all mainstream mmorpgs osrs is easily the hardest to get into endgamewise. 99% of the playerbase hasnt even cleared the tutorial (inferno) and will never attempt it because just the thought puts fear of having to git gud into them

>>713581161
This iz indeed a very comical exchange of kultur where youza pretend to be human an I pretend to be swarthy subhuman negroid likes you!
Yousa shud check yo ceiling bird tho, I'm seereel bout thems fires, nigger

>>713581305
Absolutely mindbroken and seething.

>>713581383
Say it
Say the phrase
Say "I am not a nigger" and really BELIEVE it in your soul and maybe
just maybe
It might come true this very night

>>713581224
It's a prime 2008-core feature that was always retarded in the long run and genuinely typical of everything wrong with the game design of that era.
>our players are doing this thing a lot (trading)
>let's just automate it for everyone!

>>713581460
Was already automated by bots

>>713581445
Why are you so mad?

>>713581460
>players are getting scammed a lot and its clogging up our report queues
>let's clear that up by automating what is already automated by rule breaking bots
>ten years pass
>some genius faggot in a /v/ thread thinks now that the game population is near 0% white that somehow removing this barrier to scamming and report load will be beneficial to the game

>>713581597
Come on, nigger, say it
It might be your last chance to bleach that ashy skin of yours into something new, something human
If the moment passes, you'll regret it for the rest of your life
Say "I'm not a nigger"

>>713581709
You've been seething for quite a while now. In that time you could've looked up what was being discussed and understood it. Yet here you are still desperate to get a win.

>>713581819
I've already won by being born white, pristine, whole, human
I'm trying to aid you out of this dark place you're in, this slavery you're so genetically shackled to
Be free today and say "I'm not a nigger" and it might be so, or continue being a nigger as you have been since the day of your birth and die in that wretched state, forever unwashed

>>713581952
>I've already won
>still seething
uh huh

>>713582020
The only one seething is you, little niglet
Sorry for your loss
Any reply to this post affirms forever that the poster of the reply is a nigger in perpetuity

>>713567213 (OP)
Summoning sucked. Then RS3 and EOC came relatively shortly after.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StSz6I5EUjM

>>713573087
lmao I got graador pet from soul wars in 3 games on my level 40 account and so many people seethed in the lobby

>>713582527
Graador is from GWD

brehs im 300 kc deep into CG on my iron and want to kms

>>713582660
oh sorry the avatar of creation pet looks so similar to bandos boss I confused them

On the topic of Graador, got him as my slayer task and never done it before. What's the easiest way to fight him?

>>713567213 (OP)
Felt like I was playing a private server and a bad one at that. The game was already beyond any salvation after the graphical update and the micro-transactions and EoC was the last nail on the coffin. OSRS doesn't feel like Runescape at all. To me it is just a desperate attempt at reanimating a rotten corpse.

>>713582692
around 300 is still fine u need that just to corrupt the bow. u can never have too many shards ive probably pickpocketed 10k elves just for the shards

>>713582815
theres no good way to kill him that doesnt involve 5bil gear or tick manipulation methods its just kind ofa shit boss lol
t. 600 kc with 5:0 method until the game deemed to let me go

>>713582815
bowfa

>>713567869
>I was hyped for Warding
Why? dumb skills like this one, divination, dungeoneering, invention are the reason the game went to shit. Concepts that seem interesting for fucking ten year olds.

I got a better PC and access to my first modern PC game that wasn't doom, stronghold or populous, which was Medieval 2 Total War

OSRS should have cosmetic outfits but instead of crap you buy in stores you can only use the in game gear you put in a special tab in the bank or something. That way you can be fashionable while bossing and stuff.

>>713584041
Dont give them ideas for money transactions

>>713582692
just rember you’re still getting lots of shards and lots of alchs

>>713567213 (OP)
gay bullshit

>>713567213 (OP)
>expensive membership for what you get
>what you get = endless, deliberately-designed grind
>people call it an AFK game but it's nothing like actual idle games
>majority of players grind on their phones so it's not like grinding spots double as chat rooms
>run energy yes I know they "fixed" it
It was an easy decision.

>>713583419
>>713583428
Ah unfortunate, don't really have gear that impressive outside a fang.

>>713567213 (OP)
I got up to crystal+bowfa, blowpipe, trident, and whip on my iron man, but I started to burn out. I was looking at what bosses to do next to progress, and none of them seem very fun. it’s either raids, which seem hard to learn solo, or GWD which is just miserable. then they raised membership price like 3 times and did that cartoonishly evil membership survey, so I just decided it wasn’t worth investing more time into

>>713567213 (OP)
The day I realized that the game was so soulless, scammers don't even scam you in person anymore. They just run lottery/delivery scam bots 24/7 and hope suckers buy in.

>>713585014
Scammers have highly complex multi person ones now, they just prey on people who somehow manage to have the best gear in the game and are also completely retarded.

Post yfw someone scams your chef hat

>>713584139
The whole point is that no money is involved, you use your own gear.

>>713584686
bowfa DEEZ NUTZ LMAO GOTTEM

>>713567213 (OP)
scammazed then discovered private servers
that was way before osrs though, 2009 or something.

>GE
>nonexistent community interaction
>GE
>regrinding all my skills sucks ass
>GE
>having to carry energy pots everywhere because your energy drains like a fully opened faucet
>GE
>retarded quest changes(Moreso in 3 but also ruining OS as well)
>GE
>boss loot tables have basically ruined skulking money-making because they drop fucking everything one needs
>GE

>>713585776
Skilling*

Fucking phone

>>713570274
No random event was insta kill you goddamn faggot. You could run away from tree spirits, the river troll or evil chicken all the way back in 05. KILL yourself

>>713586015
He probably botted and kept coming back to a dead character and assumed it was instant lol

>>713567213 (OP)
>Why did you quit
i played RS from 2001 to 2005 and then never played it again

The games population is legitimately half bots and the moderation has become so bad the bots are crashing real players without a care in the world of being reported. I saw a guy in the kourend slayer cave afking black demons get crashed by a full bot set up random name account with an obby shield, he called it a shit bot in public and it didn't even bother hopping. Doing a wilderness boss with a scout outside, you will see a bot try and take your world once every 30 seconds, and a real player once every 5. It's a lot of fun but the bots are ruining it. On top of that the browns running the bots in the wildy will jump with terminator scripts you if you dare do anything to them, or mass report and try to get you chain banned for rwt wealth transfer if you kill too many of their bots.

I didnt quit, just made a new hciron. I just want to remind that osrs is in its golden age now. If you havent played it,, now its the time. This board just loves to hate shit. Membership price is retarded though.

>>713567213 (OP)
Jagex permanently muted me (expired years after I stopped playing) for talking about the Falador Massacre and telling people where to find videos of it because they were mega butthurt about it happening. I was a player since before members even existed and to get fucked over like that over something so petty made me not want to support them anymore no matter how much I liked the game. The screencap still fills me with range. Me in the black, the dipshit that reported me in asterisks, and someone else he reported isn't pictured that I was defending. Imagine seeing people just shooting the shit at the fishing guild and deciding to be the world's most pathetic teacher's pet.

>>713584686
TOA is very easy to learn to solo, at 0 invocations you could do it unarmed

I played Vscape
Got my quest cape
Then logged off forever

>>713587550
Only "golden age" for pvm and iron players

>>713567213 (OP)
It was after I beat Zulrah to get Elite Void and then took my shit to TOA with 2 other people, one with worse gear/stats and the other with better ones. I died to a lot of unintuitive shit that you would have to look at a wiki for and one of the other guys was being a HUGE bitch on voice chat the entire time because he died even more than me, and it got really bad when we got the fossil poop "reward". It turns out at the end that the geared guy left a few invocations on that made it harder, but I decided that I no longer wanted a game based on tick manipulation and shit that you have to wiki. It went from a chill grinding game to a ridiculous rhythm strategy game where you have to use external tools or advice to figure out the rhythm. That's not what I wanted Runescape to be.

>>713568507
Also all the rough edges got sanded off. The grand exchange demolished the price of basically everything but rare boss drops and took all the fun out of pricing, advertising, etc.
>b-b-but Zybez
Not much different from forum advertising, which I also did in the early days. You still had to meet up with the other party. I met a guy that way with a 3rd age shield who wanted to buy all my obscure clue items for like 100k. That shit was awesome. Those items are like 7-15k now.

>>713570274
Random events would chip you for single digit damage and vanish like 1 screen away. Dying to them was always a "you" problem"

>>713567213 (OP)
ive been playing on and off since 2001 i dont think i will ever quit
its the perfect background game and i like coming back after a year or two and doing all the new quests

>>713567610
>2006
More like 2004. Hunter is fucking gay and so is Construction.

>>713590927
>i dont think i will ever quit
I have bad news for you about what companies like CvC capital do to games like this when they're not making enough money

It got pozzed when the devs focus moved onto twitch and reddit

>>713567213 (OP)
Somehow got banned for botting despite going out of my way to play with the vanilla client. Oh and the mentally ill cultist stuff too.

>>713567213 (OP)
I always thought the runescape logo looked like mr krabs.

>>713567213 (OP)
maxed in runescape soon after max cape released
maxed in osrs
maxed an ironman in rs3

pretty much done every I wanted with the game and only really kept playing it occasionally on and off when irl friends played it.
then my close friend who was the major one who wanted to play it and played it with me a lot killed himself and I can't really play it without thinking about him and it makes a game I already was not that into very uncomfortable to play. just no desire to go back to it.

dunno if how I feel about it but even when people try to get me to play I just don't really want to.

i played an ironman account like 6 years ago and got the most relevant skills to 70+ and quit then like 2 years ago, i did it again on a new ironman account and quit again, i want to play like rs3 but like no one plays it. i got tired of osrs and it's graphics, i want to play a new game that looks better, like a cross between the 2

>>713567213 (OP)
As soon as they started doing the pride event against the players wishes and added that stupid A&B body type thing I quit and never looked back. I'll come back if they remove it.

>>713567213 (OP)
>was originally an rs3fag
>played a main for a few years then made an ironmeme
>had a lot of fun on ironmeme until they introduced a limited time event
>limited time event included unlimited porters
for osfags, a porter is a pocket slot item that teleports resources (eg. chopped logs, mined ore, etc) straight to your bank
>quit because the whole reason I was playing ironmeme was no fomo garbage
>started an osrs ironmeme
>was enjoying it until my neetdom made me cut costs
I've been wanting to get back into osrs and was gonna liquidate my rs3 bank but it wouldn't even get me a single bond kek

>>713598201
>i want to play like rs3 but like no one plays it.
People have been quitting RS3 because of the retarded shit Jagex has done over the years, it only has 10% the players osrs has even if most of those osrs 'players' are just bots, if you subtract the player count on the RS3 homepage by the player count on the osrs page that's how many are actually playing RS3 since jagex uses the osrs players to hide how dead RS3 is.

>>713598201
Use one of the HD plugins then, faggot.

When Varlamore released they changed the color of all the trees in the game and I feel schizophrenic because it seems like no one noticed

I get bored around level 50 when xp gains turn to shit, I enjoy grinding but only to a sane extent

>>713567213 (OP)
I started having sex with girls.

>>713567213 (OP)
Increased membership, increased bond price, no good content

>>713600884
Kek level 50 is only like 3% of a 99

2009, I was collecting tar from behind lumbridge castle, and I thought "wtf am I doing with my life?". I was 11.

>>713601834
I think about this when I remember the Seers Village flax field and realize all those people picking flax were probably 10 to 16 years old

>>713568806
>>The game is worse because people are no longer clueless 12 year olds running around
this but unironically

After I got my first 99 (farming) I realized that it was my pinnacle for this game along with getting the farming pet and stopped. I now log in from time to time and bank stand at the GE, do the skill vape emote a few times then log off.

>>713567213 (OP)
>Why did you quit

Tried it for a few hours and realize that Ragnarok Online was way cuter and fun.

>>713581097
name a single mmo that still does trade like this

>>713603040
WoW gold sellers

>>713567213 (OP)
Game became too optimized.
Skilling is completely pointless outside of meeting requirements to do a quest or a diary. Doing any gathering skill is pointless because every boss is a loot pinata. Same with crafting, you can get fully complete potions and food by killing bosses.
The "best" way to play is to just do bosses 24/7 and then do most expensive skilling method.
And ironman mode is held back by abysmal drop rates balanced around trading.

>>713580619
people who hate on the grand exchange never actually had any items of worth when it didn't exist. macroing chatbots and third party trading websites are NOT better

>>713603290
skilling is half the game
you're not obligated to do everything optimally, you're supposed to do what you want to

>>713603290
>hes complaining because its more efficient to fight monsters and actually get to play the game vs becoming a clicker drone clicking the same 4 boxes for countless hours on end

>>713603290
just do whatever skilling method you want lol who gives a shit if it's optimal or not. i will never give myself RSI with those autistic oneticking methods to get like 15% faster XP

>>713603292
Right. I remember the shit show that was world 2 varrock and falador. It was always so annoying trying to navigate the trade fields, the rainbow spam text, all while trying not to get scammed in the process. GE was a godsend. Literally the best update the game has ever had.

>>713567213 (OP)
Because they added pronouns, unironically.

>>713603391
No, skilling is the boring filler you do to either get experience or a unique.
Fishing is done to gain Fishing XP, not to catch fish. Everyone just drops their fish, either immediately, or after cooking it on a fire few tiles away. With Tempoross you get noted fish but most people just chuck them on GE for bots to cook.
Mining? You do MLM for the experience and nuggets, with random ores as money-maker. You never go out of your way to mine, say, adamant rocks because you need to make more adamant bolts.
There is literally zero good reason to do anything yourself, unless you need the experience. Especially with profit margins being painfully low. The community sees everything through the lens of XP rates. There is a lot of dead content because people don't want to do it, but if they fixed it the XP rates would be too high so it needs to stay dead (see, the new Fletching Knife and ironman XP rates).

>>713603539
I didn't used to be this way. The moment Zulrah started dropping skilling-exclusive resources, it was the beginning of the end.

>>713603618
But it doesn't change the fact that skilling is filler for exp.
I used to play this way for years, but I eventually realized that I, in fact, am playing the game wrong. So I just quit, because the illusion of fun was permanently broken for me.

>>713603979
of course everything will get optimized since membership is now 10x more expensive than the times when everything was free-roam

Playing a seasonal league actually killed my interest in playing the base game. With all the boosted drops and XP gain, plus unique mechanics, it felt a LOT less like my time was being wasted.
Doing all the theorycrafting and community shit was a lot more fun than mindlessly grinding forever.

When I was a kid, Runescape was an adventure where your character went on whimsical quest and slowly became better and better until he was a cool hero.

Now I realize that the entire game is fucking grind slop where most of the quests are just designed around preparing you for some gay grind.

>>713567213 (OP)
I returned and started actually playing F2P for a while again, and all the little ways they try to screw you over for what you're doing really started to piss me off. Like, it wasn't just that you were doing less efficient methods with less payoff than membership, but that the F2P version was a notably less efficient/rewarding version of those less efficient methods as well.

No matter what, you're being squeezed to try to get you to pay membership, and it made me think more about what that membership would actually be paying for. How much of it was actual gameplay, and even when it was good, how much of it was a literal skinnerbox with nothing else going on as a way to further pad out that membership timer, and it was around the time membership prices were going up as well.

they kept making shit like MTA easier to appease nolife retards who make 3 new characters every month so it's not even old school anymore
so yes, unironically
>ezscape

>>713604194
I had the opposite feeling. Knowing all my progress would be worthless in a few months made me not want to bother with seasons. Progress made on my main is progress for a lifetime

I stopped playing recently when the wrongfully banned a new skilling account i made for botting.

If f2p pking were relevant as as it was 15+ years ago id still play. member pking is a faggot freeze fest that i have 0 interest in. I really miss the old bounty hunter caves desu that was the most fun ive probably ever had on runescape and that wasnt even as good as old wilderness

>>713603979
you sound like a bumbling retard
>play game about grinding
>complain about grinding
actual mouthbreather behavior

>>713604121
But it's the developers doing the optimizing. Even on Ironman, with no trading, it's absolutely stupid.

If you want a specific item, bossing is almost always the correct way to do it. Say you want those adamant bolts.
You have the "soul" option to mine coal and adamantite, smelt that into bars, and then hammer into bolts.
Or you can go kill one of many bosses that drop addy bars, get just as many in the same time, but also get 20 different items for your experience-gaining needs.
It's fucking retarded.

>>713604620
No, I'm complaining that old comfy grind is made redundant by new shiny grinds they release every 6 months.

give me pre eoc scape
2011 was the best state of the game and i wont hear arguments to the contrary

>>713604745
>grinding is made redundant by grinding
wowow what a fucking revelation man

>>713567213 (OP)
i never started
i played real mmos and was never poor enough for rs

>>713604780
you didn't even have time to read my post faggot
zero thought behind those eyes of yours

Grand Exchange ruined the game. It's the root of every single problem.

>>713604846
I don't care about your retarded cope, I only read the portion replying to me, you mentally deficient mongrel

>>713604798
rs isnt even the poor option anymore
playing just osrs costs as much as a wow sub that can play retail+cata+vanilla
its fucking cookie clicker it never should hae gone over 9.99

>>713604889
okay I'll spell it out for you, princess
old way of collecting fish and ores got killed by loot pinatas that drop the same things but noted, in higher quantities/hr, and multiple things at once
so now the only reason left to click on fishes and rocks is to gain XP, because killing bosses is better for everything else

>>713605009
not reading any of that lmao
type shorter you verbose faggot

>>713605035
zulrah bad, kys

>>713605009
pretty sure flax picking was the first oldschool moneymaking method to get nuked by this nu-rs garbo
it was a sad fucking day when the flax fields emptied literally overnight with the addition of zulrah

>>713605080
keep seething retard-kun

>>713605172
tldr

>>713605080
yeah they perfected bosses with GWD where you would lose money per kill until you got that big ticket drop and it made it all worthwhile
now if i kill something like vorkath i can die twice per trip and still profit like crazy with the 100k death fee

The quests are fun but outside of that it's just pointless busywork.

>>713603040
Warframe. Well, there's also an unofficial trading website, but there's no bots or auctions. You have to haul your ass to the seller.

>>713567213 (OP)
I just want to idle and watch numbers go up, but pretty much every single piece of end game content and new content is designed around forcing attention. Just not my kind of grindan game anymore.

>>713604554
A completely fair point. I guess it depends on weather you care more about an experience, or what you're left with afterwards.

>>713603040
Does Path of Exile count? Not really an MMO, but it's got an economy like one.

>>713567213 (OP)
i never played this shit, because I had actual games.

>>713605532
trade league is not real poe

>>713605856
You can still trade during leagues, can't you? Just with only league gear

>>713582425
>summoning sucked
Yes
>relatively shortly after
I quit when EoC came and I had 98 sum already and many memories of fucking around with the meme unicorn. It wasn't relatively shortly.

>>713605929
anything that is not ssf is unethical and not true poe

>>713605241
This, I only play when there are new quests and then drop it once I got my quest cape back

>>713567213 (OP)
Sailing does not belong in Old School RuneScape. This was their death knell when they let reddit vote Yes to every change simply because the stagnant zoomer only wants new content.
>hurr but Zulrah and Zeah is not true Old School
Shut the fuck up and enjoy your slop.

>>713606341
how is it not runescape

Dumb morons who dont play the game and never did itt

>muh trannies
>muh sailing
>muh varlamore

>>713605532
PoE already has GE on console and it's been teased to be coming to PC.

>>713605964
>ssf
>not private league with only you on the server
fraud

>>713606341
Sailing can easily be made into osrs type content. It took awhile before construction was relatively loved and useful and now its one of the best qol skills to have at a high level.

With sailing they need to focus on the adventure of sailing. Sailing to distant lands and killing monsters and or solving puzzles. Using your boat as an option that travels you between docks and fully heals you/restores prayer. Allowing you to use your docked boat as a bank.

It can work. If they make it agility but with boats. Its going to fail.

>>713606618
>after 10000 hours of clicking, your boat is just your PoH2!
You call this a good skill?

>>713606901
>it's Construction 2
so it's osrs content? your words, not mine
half the osrs skills are not good, yeah

>>713607417
>half the osrs skills are not good
Except it was you who literally praised construction, breh.

>>713567213 (OP)
not a tranny so never started

>>713607564
NTA, lol

I find watching videos more fun now than actually playing it.

>>713606901
TBF a moving PoH would be pretty neat. If you can really park your healing station with bank anywhere in the ocean it would be great. Not that Fagex would let you.

>quit
I just take breaks here and there. It is a great game in bursts, plus the weekly updates keep things decently fresh depending on the additions/fixes/tweaks.
Currently hunting for a blue dragon task for Vorkath to continue DS2.

I didn't, I'm actually really enjoying my ironman.
Working on slayer currently, started upping my cashstack once I hit gargoyles.

>>713608330
>all those plugins
you didn't really play nor beat the game

>>713567213 (OP)
EOC

>>713608330
i feel that 70 prayer lol

Maxed and got my infernal it was time to move on
I do miss the faggots over at /osg/ thoughby

>>713608393
>plugins are le bad

I played since RS Classic back in 2002, I don't need some newfag telling me how to play the game.

>>713608589
>played for 23 years
>1877 TL
lol

>>713580619
Yeah, selling a whip in 2007 was so much fun! Just chilling in var-
Oh yeah, everybody used third party websites to sell anything of actual value.

>>713608679
>Oh yeah, everybody used third party websites to sell anything of actual value.
They didn't. Fuck off with your zoomer revisionism.

>>713608663
retard

>>713608663
>ironman on osrs has been out for 23 years

>>713608679
I used the forums on the official site for any large transactions

>>713608727
Nice projection, retard.
I was speaking from experience. You had to spend hours upon hours spamming chat just to sell one whip.

>>713608727
>talks about zoomer revisionism
>obviously never played the game

>>713608548
Did hunter rumours until 91 for bone shards, really helped

>>713605234
>die twice per trip
Im pretty sure your trip ends when you die

I’m still fishing along on my OG account

>>713604745
The only anon with valid complaints.
Bosses need to lose their resource drops

>>713608903
>>713608994
I played the game more than you. Yes, you had to spam the chat but it wasn't for hours unless your offer was fucking retarded.

>>713609397
Nice zoomer revisionism.
You obviously never had anything of value if you think that valuables were sold on the streets.
But hey, keep repeating that shit you learned from whatever eceleb you're parroting. Living that second hand nostalgia, right?

>>713567213 (OP)
It's not oldschool enough and it's now foreign to me.

>>713567213 (OP)
quit back in 07? when the wild got raped I went what gay shit is this and game my friend an account with likely 20+mil on it
played os rs with an ex and just got bored killing chickens

i was doing the optimal quest guide but then reached a point where i had to grind out like 10 or 15 agility levels which was a 20+ hour grind and also very click intensive so i just couldn't give a fuck and dropped the game. it's a shame because questing was really fun. grinding in runescape is straight ass.

>>713609743
>gets bored doing something
>decides theres nothing else to do
Modern mmo audience everyone

>>713609719
Nice

>>713580619
Let me just find barrows set in the world like in the good old days!
You're a fucking retard

>>713609814
you fucking idiot I have played runescape since most likely 2004/5 I know what to do I didnt want to do it cause the magic was gone theres no want of playing then I got high 5 times over while playing some shitty web game at twenty fucking four

>>713610142
>that run-on sentence

>>713610203
I can smell the cock you've been munching on coming from your stupid comment

Ultimate test

Grand Exchange lovers, do you also love the nu-death system?

>>713610142
>Give yourself brain damage with drugs
>Ramble about it all the time
What a sad life

>>713610351
yes, losing shit is gay.

>>713610351
I prefer lootkeys because I dont have to bank after killing one noob.

>>713567213 (OP)
I hit combat level 100 when i was 10 and thought to myself “i am wasting my life”

>>713610475
>Then the whole bus clapped

>>713610475
>so he says, 2 years later in /v/

>>713609212
not if you dont resupply

>>713609397
Lmao that desperate flex doesn't mean anything when the game's economy was still Wildy scams and trade windows. Just because your bronze dagger sold in under 5 minutes doesn't mean high-value trades weren't a pain unless you were glued to World 2 Falador all day. Stop pretending shouting WTS in a bank made you a merchant lord - nobody dealing in anything worth a damn was relying on chat spam unless they were desperate or dumb.

>>713610862
Thats just starting another trip with shit supplies.

>>713611174
New meta, supplies are expensive.

>>713567213 (OP)
None of my friends were playing

Got hacked twice before I realized it was my email that had been compromised and 2FA does nothing. Can't be bothered to build up my bank again even though all I ever did was Barrows and Treasure Trails. Now I barely have an hour a week for any games anyway.

Lol

>>713611408
but runescape is a singleplayer mmo
having other players in minigames is straight up a detriment

>>713590757
of course it is, if the school shooters in the wilderness are having fun no one else is

Why the fuck are these dipshit chunkman serirs so fucking popular? Who the fuck sits there and watches someone else chop oaks for a thousand hours?

I started playing osrs for the first time at the beginning of this year after dropping rs3 around 2013ish. I played for 2 months, finished most of the quests (had 1 or 2 left), but the game really started to feel like a chore.
I don’t really like the rock-paper-scissors shit of prayer and gear switching, and since that’s pretty much the only form of skill expression players can have in the game, I just got bored.

>>713613893
you dont even watch the grind the dude just says "time to chop 10000 oaks" and then fast forwards to milestones
extremely pointless

>>713603539
>becoming a clicker drone clicking the same 4 boxes for countless hours on end
As if combat in Runescape is any deeper than mindlessly gathering or crafting kek

The game became surprisingly one-dimensional in the recent years. I didn't like that.

people say zulrah was the start of the end but for me it was nightmare zone
being able to max combat by afking in dharoks not having to worry about aggro loss or anything was soulless

>>713613893
>>713614376
like all area-limited characters, the interesting part is the unique BIS builds they end up with

>>713567213 (OP)
>Wnd game requires tou to max all skills
So much for playing how I want or building my character how I want. Nope. Everyones an expert at everything! Not an rpg then.

>>713567213 (OP)
all my friends quit

>>713614758
Nobody forced you to go to nmz. Many players train without it

>>713614758
Not sure I agree. Crabs aggro is 10 minutes, with Dharoks you still needed to rock cake down to 1hp every few minutes, keep your potions up, and whatnot.
The only part I'd agree with is the XP rates being too good compared to crabs, so you were incentivized to grind out in advance instead of slowly while doing PvM.

>>713614974
range and magic maybe

>>713567213 (OP)
Cancelling the Pride event was the final straw for me. All I ever wanted was Transcestral Robes...

>>713613868
Braindead reddit take

>>713567213 (OP)
>Why did you quit
It's honestly a bad game made by an even worst company.

>>713615026
>o you were incentivized to grind out in advance instead of slowly while doing PvM.
Its also because runescapes content is always balanced towards max gear. In most games, the monsters you kill at your current level provide the equipment upgrade for the next set of levels. And youre constantly getting your next upgrade as you fight monsters your current level

In runescape. Monsters your current level drop the equipment thats a downgrade from where you are.

For example. Most players kill hill giants as a f2p. Or at least they used to back in the day. You'd kill hill giants until you were ready for lesser demons.
Assuming you were base 30s in any other game with gear progression hill giants would drop a rune scimitar or rune longsword, so that you can move up to stronger monsters when you hit level 40.

In current runescape. Same scenario, except hill giants actually drop steel scimitars. You dont need a steel scimitar at base level 30 combat.

Because of this fighting monsters at your current level always feels like ass since there is never any drops that will upgrade your gear.

Now what monsters actually drops the rune scimitar? Fire giants. What weapon do you have by the time you can kill fire giants consistently? A dragon scimitar.

This even bleeds over to bosses. By the time youre geared enough to do bandos. You already have bandos armor. There is no upgrades to be had.

Ultimately it devalues pvm and shifts the progression line from killing monsters for new gear to killing monsters for junk to sell to buy new gear

>>713567213 (OP)
Despite being a British company they often times felt like Russians and Commiefornians. They probably got bullied HARD in school and that's how they felt the needd to blow off steam.
It's also honestly because they're talentless hacks just look at their code and graphics. Who the fuck makes an entire MMORPG in Java, are you mentally retarded?

I played it for only 6 months and I was very happy I only played it for 6 months before the imbeciles had to take out the wilderness.
And it's absolute bullshit that they hired someone to rape their asses because of the credit card theft stuff. They did the final solution bullshit themselves, nobody else came up with it but themselves. The bank breathing down their necks is exactly what they deserved. Same for that moderator who got grabbed by the police.
Jagex honestly feels and has always felt like a pajeet company, not a british one.

Also Runescape was infinitely filled with third worlders and was overall a very shit MMO even by WoW's shit standards before Diablo.

Nowadays I cannot get into it due to the horrible pathfinding, tile-based locations/movement, the idiocy of playing Clicker Simulator. The abysmal half turn-based combat based completely on RNG.

Nowadays I'd only play Runescape or Puzzle Pirates if I could skip the menial labor and take a more managerial position in a tycoon RTS game.

I'd much rather go play Guild Wars 1 than the garbage that is Runescape ... demanding me to pay 5$ or even $10 a month for a glorified clicker simulator with every single F2P ad spamming me with "buy members" without giving me an option to do something else in exchange for members and for such an ugly clicker simulator shows how SPECIAL EDS and SCUMBAG AND PAJEET the company was.
I bet grandfathers of the Gower brothers had some form of middle eastern genes. No first world person behaves and arts so badly and demands money for such a shit experience and is so petty if they aren't brown related.

>RS3 just announced Cosmetic Free worlds at the end of summer
Is this the start of the comrback?

>>713616119
I remember there once being a poll where Jagex honestly asked "How would you feel about a fictional character dying in Runescape? good, bad, okay?" they were of course referring to their own shit writing and most people answered they gave no shits about emotional investment in what's supposed to be a bunch of parody asshole loser characters that aren't enough funny inspired by Monty Python but not understanding what made it funny to begin with.
Jagex's writers were perplexed that people gave no shits about their garbage comedic-relief characters which weren't even funny and got a nice reality check that everybody laughed over the Romeo & Juliet quest.
Fat "british" pieces of shits who can't behave and got rightfully bullied in school for being subhuman autists with ego issues who you ask a question and they go "Hurrr durr, wuwtt? hueheueheu hheee" mental retardation level of mouthbreathing that's what Fagex is. Even their company name based off Java is pajeet-autistic tier.

I remember the old school classic runescape when it was just beginning and the 2 mod devs were doing livestreams ... at one point that old-looking british moron spawns a boss that gets a bunch of players killed and then he also bans the players?! or the players end up jumping the fence and he bans them. Again, it was his mistake and he bans people for his mistake. Class A tier autist that obviously got bullied in school for correct reasons. Incapable of empathy and self reflection and being humble. Can't remember if it was mod Mark or mod Ash. It wasn't the fat one, it was the weird older looking one that looks like a douchebag.

>>713567213 (OP)
Membership is too pricey. I’m not paying $15 a month for a glorified clicker when that same price gets me WoW classic or FF14.

Say what you will about Blizzard but they never felt like indians.
Most of the members that worked on Diablo & WoW went on to create Guild Wars 1. So there was actual talent there.
Unlike Runescape that started from the equivalent of a garage by 2 chucklefucks who can't behave and look like they escaped the special education class. It's no wonder Andrew Gower's new game looks and plays like shit since he was never talented to begin with.

>>713614838
This

Its about learning parts of the game you didnt know before. Obscure bullshit that nobody does

>>713616820
They raised it to $15 a month? Jesus Christ what a bunch of retards. Inflation my fucking ass. Why does WoW still click the same as it was way back in 2005?


And the fat fuck mod, the fat one, wasn't better himself by attempting to threaten private servers and runescape plugin tools creator and the actual talented software dev worth his salt wasn't impressed by the fat autistic second-birth immigrant trying to baselessly threaten him when John Carmack could plap Ash's fat cheeks in a second.

The scammers in Runescape were in a league of their own.
World of Warcraft never had such pajeet tier scammers like Runescape had.
What the fuck was the difference?

>>713617263
F2P game meant way more stupid children were playing it

>>713606618
Anon they already released Sailing since 8th December 2003, it's called Puzzle Pirates :^)

>>713617263
Can you play WoW on your phone?

Alright gentlemen... we're going to play the trust game. ;)

>>713614758
>Desert bandits had infinite aggro
>Temple gorillas existed
You never played.

>>713614337
>New player
>QC almost in 2 months
Wow, its almost as if you never played

Someone post the image of now vs then of internet users by country and it pretty much explains why we can't have soulful trading with random people before something like the grand exchange anymore.

>>713615854
>You'd kill hill giants until you were ready for lesser demons.
People did that for prayerxp and money(big bones). It's surprising you sidnt remember such a simple fact
Almost as if you never played

>>713618041
temple gorillas had 200 defense
desert bandits required full guthans and you could still get unlucky and stacked out
YOU never played

>>713567213 (OP)
It isn't old school. I can play genuine old versions of the game for free on private servers.

>>713618357
>Posting on forums trying to sell your dh set
>Sitting in fallypark trying to sell your dh set
How did people find this fun? Or is it just that people didnt have anything valuable to sell and are just making shit up to complain about?

>>713618471
Temple gorillas was prime dh afking.
Bandits didnt require guthans, just prayer.

I love that you actually just googled these methods and tried to use modern "strats" as a gotcha lmao.
You indeed never played.

>>713618842
>trying to compare 40k/hr dh afking and sucking down 20 prayer potions on bandits to nightmare zone
never played i get it

>>713619170
>Moving the goalpost
I accept your concession

>>713618842
do you even know what nightmare zone is

>>713619306
the goalpost never moved nigger unless you were trying to move it closer

https://youtu.be/qWbIXekZocI
Rs3 is saved.

>>713617263
Pretty much all gear in wow is boe. There's nothing to scam for.

>>713619419
>>713619361
>Doubles down after getting BTFOd

>>713619654
>bundles of Stars and Knowledge Bombs for direct purchase
wow it's fucking nothing

>>713618368
You didnt even refute my point

When they killed the wilderness.
I miss the good old clan wars and random big fights that happened there in f2p and p2p at the time. Was the only fun part of the game I found towards the end.

>>713567213 (OP)
I was grinding Guardians of the Rift 24/7 and got burnt out, but that's my fault, maybe I'll pick it back up, I always seem to do so in the summer

>>713618204
>New player
I've played the og on and off from 2007 to 2013. I used the quest helper addon to get all the required items before starting quests to avoid extra trips.

>>713567213 (OP)
>Didn't pick it up when it was new because it wasn't OS enough.
>Don't want to pick it up now cause it's full of unrecognizable content I can't be fucked learning.
Most recently stopped playing RS3 during the covid content drought, almost came back for necromancy but then took a look at bond prices and thought it not worth the pennies for membership.
Is /rsg/ still fully dead?

I made enough money in the game it felt like I stopped progressing, since the scale wasn't changing any more. I quit to play ffxiv instead, and now I'm hitting the same wall.

>>713622840
So you didn't actually beat the quest.

>>713567213 (OP)
Got my quest cape and realized all that was left was thousands of hours of mindless grinding for a maxed account and megarares.
I only give a shit about leagues now.

>>713567213 (OP)
>maxed on rs3
>went for comp
>burned out
>hated all new content
>saw osrs introducing the same style of content
>unsubbed never logged in again

>>713624852
Pretty much. I enjoyed most of the combat ones, a lot of funny dialogues and some of the stories are actually interesting. Too bad 40% or so of them are cock and ball torture.

>>713567213 (OP)
gay shit for redditors
gacha are more fun and have better stories with less gay shit

>>713626267
>cock and ball torture
Which did you hate the most?

>>713626583
MM2, ratcatchers and hated navigating through the vampire favela for the myreque ones.

i like playing osrs
but i also only just got membership for the first time despite playing it as a kid
its fun, i like farming (the skill) and the quests are fun, if a little annoying. i do like how much transportation opens up as you get higher skills and go through quests

What's going on with Zanaris? I liked the idea of having a private server with friends.

>>713628538
It was officially canceled

>>713567213 (OP)
I played the real Runescape back in 2001-2004 and quit when WoW came out

>>713628642
lol

>>713616820
if you buy gp for bonds then its like 6 bucks

>>713568169
meltdown post

>>713628642
Good

>>713628642
>wanted to autistically attempt to make a game mode like Space Station 13 in the RuneScape engine
>can't now

the exp grind really starts to suck at around lvl 88 for any skill and im too lazy to learn the raids

>>713628379
The OSRS mid game is amazing right now. You will enjoy it

>>713567213 (OP)
i put like 300 hours into a uim and got bored. If the game is alive in 10 years I'll probably end up going back since I'll have nothing left in the real world. Assuming there isn't a breakout vrmmo by then.