>Saves the MMO genre

>>715738316 (OP)
everytime somebody tries to copy this game it fails.
just like wow, this game is carried by nostalgia.

>>715738575
>Game is carrried by nostalgia
>Gets new players constantly who never played the original
>Gets new original content all the time
>Is genuinely really far removed from runescape 2
You're retarded

>Redditors gaslight all the WoWfag streamers into playing Ironmeme mode
>knowing they will drop it the moment they have to kill a boss 3000 times for a shitty item you can just buy off the GE for 50k

Sorry fag. Play a real mmo.

>>715738771
ironman is way more fun

>>715738316 (OP)
Got to level 250 and couldn't keep going. I'm not on Adderall so I can't handle the boring grind.

>>715738575
Who has tried to copy this game with any real effort? Other than Brighter Shores

>>715738865
This takes like 30 minutes to an hour with a handful of quests. I didn't really feel the burn of the grind until total level of about 1850

>>715738316 (OP)
>type some pvp banter
>account permanently muted
>no customer service
>that’ll be 15.99/ month

>game is so good it actually manages to pull WoW players away from their seasonal hamsterwheel garbage
>now people suddenly act like the game has become popular as a fluke
>"it's only relevant because wow streamers are playing it"
seethe and cope

>>715738316 (OP)
woke trash removed male/female

>>715739069
>Rules: Don't say nigger
>"nigger nigger nigger"
>WHAT?? MONEY STOLEN!!!

>>715739043
Oh... I wasn't doing quests

>>715739145
New CEO cancelled the gay event, plebbit seethed for a month straight

>>715739145
lol did it really?

Inb4 tranny-obsessed spammer

>>715738316 (OP)
No MMO will ever be better than Star Wars Galaxies.
The only reason this game died, was being killed internally with shitty "upgrades" and "new game experiences", which took everything that made the original game great, into a big pile of garbage.
But those 2 years before Rage of the Wookies? An 11/10 experience.
I don't understand why other MMOs haven't shamelessly ripped it off.

>There are unironically people ITT who main monitor AFK tasks like woodcutting
Actual psychopaths

>>715739274
In a shocking turn of events, it really did

>>715739413
its fun to watch my little dude chop down trees

>>715738316 (OP)
Not sure if any fags talk about this. Anyone on /v/ got thoughts on Sailing? Fuck the /vg/ trannies. I think it looks kino but unfinished

What do you guys think the new fletching minigame/guild is gonna be? I hope it's good I'm so fucking sick of whittling unstrung maple longbows

>>715738316 (OP)
OSRS and Maplestory Classic will prove that Sandbox MMOs > Themepark dogshit like Wow and FFXIV

>>715739581
At least put on something to listen to

>>715739478
Lmao

>>715739634
It's gonna be some run here run there bullshit, fletch some sea turtle sticks for traps in exchange for points and an equippable knife.

Not a fan of cookie cutter minigames for each skilling activity. Some skills maybe should not have minigames at all.

I installed osrs, bought membership and leveled my fishing to 50 and agility 40. Then I was hit by a dreadful feeling of how badly I am wasting my time.
To enjoy runescape as an adult you either must be extremely content with your life or have given up all together.

>>715739601
I always love "new skill day" from the old days, the clusterfuck that was Hunter spots, the screen being a mess of wolves and chickens with Summoning, all the seething faggots bitching about Dungeoneering being "a minigame"
Sailing as it is feels more like an area expansion on steroids than a skill, and I welcome it

>>715739762
i listen to the sounds of the birds, the breeze and the water in the stream rushing past, the resounding CHUCK of the adze hitting the treetrunk

>>715739854
You play it while doing other stuff, man
I can pretty easily skill on my phone or something while doing housework

>>715739846
I hate the herblore minigame so fucking much, and it pisses me off that the rewards are so good

>>715738575
Why do trannies constantly try to claim it's nostalgia?

>>715740053
Asmongold implanted the idea in their heads

>>715740150
Ass mog is too much of a fucking coward to play OSRS, even with Oda offering to coach him

>>715740150
Asmongold should implant some soap in his skin.

>>715738849
for those that don't know. this game runs on peer to peer servers, so basically anyone can host a server globally or locally. in other words it can't really be shutdown as long as there is some fag that wants to play it

Post em (Ironman btw)
Whats your
>Current goal/grind?
>Longterm goal?
>Most spooned item?
>Driest item?


I'll start
Base 80s
Achievement diary cape
Ring of the gods at 24KC at calvarion
3x dry on my black mask

>>715738771
Idk, yea sometimes RNG can suck as iron but it’s all the more rewarding. Ironman is a long term investment, when you get bad RNG streak you do something else or take a break from the game and come back, finish up, and move onto the next grind. Knowing any main could have swiped for their BiS gear just makes playing a main feel hollow and soulless. Playing a main after playing iron like a shortcut through the game, like you’re playing any other modern mmo slop being rushed into endgame for….what exactly? The point of a game is to play it, and as an iron youhave 10x the amount of meaningful content available to you to grind. I get if you have a life and a job it might be too much, but for us neets Ironman osrs is the pinnacle of mmo gaming. It’s practically endless

>>715740575
Ironman just feels like a bad choice for a brand new player, feels more like an oldfag gamemode once you get bored of mainscape

>>715738316 (OP)
>I posted it again mom!
>>715738748
>Gets new players constantly who never played the original
This is blatantly false and you know it

>>715740950
>blatantly false
How do new players have nostalgia?

>>715738575
I like the feel of the tick system, has anyone tried copying that?

>>715740950
>This is blatantly false and you know it
Maybe 5 years ago, we get new zoomers in our clan constantly
No 19 year old played this game in 2007

>>715740837
I started in 2023 and the moment I learned you could buy bis gear with a credit card all glazing I had for the oldschool vibe that I had been looking for for a decade ended and it all suddenly felt like every other modern cash shop slop where your credit card is all that matters. Mainscape is unironically is one of the most p2w MMOs, more than wow, more than gw2, more than FFXIV, more than pretty much any of the big ones
I rerolled iron and never looked back, 2100 total now

>>715741235
You know you can just not buy stuff right?

>>715741002
Everyone has played RS, my older sister played RS when we were kids and I've never seen her play another video game until very recently when her family got an Xbox. All but the youngest of zoomers were old enough to have played RS in the golden/silver age "New players" are almost exclusively checking it out again with new accounts and you have no evidence to back up the idea that it's bringing in never played players.

>>715738316 (OP)
Old School Runescape feels good because it uses its simple and generic art style and sandboxy gameplay framework to achieve transcendence within a genre defined by over-complication and over-detail.

Runescape's art feels like the aesthetic bridge between symbolic pixel art and the ultra detailed PBR graphics of modern games. Everything is so clean, so easy to see and discern. There's none of the noise and distraction of modernity, yet it has it's own soul and style and enough clarity that it's more than just a pixel sprite roughly representing a knight or rock or dragon. Because of this, it's HIGHLY effective at visual communication and therefore makes the world more immersive. The same effect can be found in minecraft. Your brain immediately knows what everything is.

Runescape also embraces the generic. It feels like classic fantasy. It's not Dark Souls skeletal husks with brass armor, or World of Warcraft with its hulking geometric armor pieces and zig zag patterns, nor is it ultra realistic like Kingdom Come Deliverance. It's just simple fantasy. A wizard wears a robe. The first robe you imagine when you picture "wizard". A knight looks like the first thing you'd imagine if you thought of "knight". And because everyone else is trying so hard to be weird and different, Runescape feels pure.

Lastly, Runescape's gameplay is just so freeform and sandbox like. The world is just there for you to explore and interact with. Efforts take time, but rewards are ample and predictable. You can do anything you want with no limits except effort. No tough decisions on class choices or perfecting builds, you just enjoy the game and get rewarded no matter what you do. Simple and full of freedom.

>>715741320
Why would I put in any effort grinding gold to buy BiS when the person next to me swiped their card for the same exact gear? That’s the problem with (optional) p2w—it invalidates all the work people who don’t swipe put in. People take the path of least resistance, that’s just how the human brain works. You can’t just say “just dont do this thing that ends the grind instantly”

>>715741761
Factually wrong.

>>715741779
Why play any game?
Why live?
Why are you such a defeatist faggot obsessed with other's success?

>>715740530
Ironmanbtw

Currently afk fishing. Goal is diary cape this year. Most spooned item probably basilisk jaw at 30kc. Driest item probably pharoah's sceptre at like 900 chests.

>>715741769
>You can do anything you want with no limits
As long as that "anything" is selecting an interaction from a context menu and doing that for hours on end. I agree with you on your points, it's a very great breakdown of what makes OSRS so charming. However, the gameplay is ass, and the only things that were ever fun were questing and classic era PK before it was bloated by feature creep and metafags It lacks seriously in MMO features compared to even the most basic of WoW derivatives and new endgame content is literally designed for game engine manipulation because making PVE actually enjoyable is the cardinal sin of the RS fan base.

>>715741856
Still waiting for the evidence.

>>715742435
Same for you.
Prove every person playing played back in 2007.

>>715742531
You made the initial claim. The burden of evidence is on (you) jewmod

>>715742348
I've thought hard about how to take the core of RS's aesthetics and sandbox style but apply a more action oriented / skill based expression of activity and I can't figure out how it would work... in my mind it ends up like Valheim which is exactly what they made for that new Runescape spinoff.

>>715742786
You were the one to claim it was nostalgia first.
Notice how you're trying to deflect now?

>>715739854
Playing Runescape while you have shit to fix irl is psychotic. If you're set its goated

Just when I started to enjoy the blackjacking grind the guide tells me to stop and there's no more blacking left in the guide

>>715741002
you mean bot accounts? You're the retard here, not us

>>715741779
You can just NOT buy shit, you sperg

>>715739192
just kill yourself already

>>715744027
>le everyone is le heckin le bot
>posted on 4tran

>>715743803
stop following a guide. Pick a long-term goal, break it down into medium-goals, and then turn one of those into a short-term goal and work at it.

Example: I want to learn Zul'Rah and get a blowpipe
Broken down into: Gear, Combat stats, Convenience things

I'll pick "Convenience things"
I'll need 76 agi for the shortcut from the fairy ring. I'll need to unlock fairy rings.

Maybe you want to make agility more interesting and do it with the brimhaven dungeon. Now you can also add "Get brimhaven graceful recolor" which makes the 76 grind less ass because you're working towards something more fun.

etcetera.

>>715744027
>>715744275
samefag. Don't even bother posting a doctored screenshot

>>715744387
See
>>715744275

>>715744292
note: You can go down a massive rabbit hole doing this, so be careful.

Maybe you decide you're enjoying the skilling grind. You can add "Get a fairy ring in my POH" and "Finish lumby and draynor elite diary so I don't need the dramen staff"

Now you can do mahogany homes for con, unlocking the construction outfit and amy's saw and plank sack.
But planks are expensive! Now maybe you want to get 84 magic for plank make on the lunar spellbook. Now that's more quests to do, another skilling grind, either grinding RC for runes or world hopping for runes. That costs money. Now you'll need to get gp. You start grinding slayer to get to 75 so you can finally make some money on tasks. But slayer takes forever, so you want a better weapon. So you go for the zombie ax. But now you need to interrupt that because you need 70 smithing. But that's okay, you need 84 for lumby elite anyways. So you start smithing at the giant's foundry, which gives you the smithing outfit and makes money in the process you can use for plank make at 84 magic so you can grind con so you can get the fairy ring in your POH.

Now you're grinding 9 skills so you can kill a snake.

>>715744549
This is why this game is based as fuck.
I wanted to do Barrows and now I'm running all over completing combat tasks on bosses I've never tried before.

>>715745275
make sure to do the hard morytania diary, too.

>>715744292
>long term goal
Finish the guide
>short term goal
Do the next step in the guide

>>715738748
>>Gets new players constantly who never played the original

No we are calling bots new players
Are you people shilling for free?

>>715739391
As an MMO this game was the fucking best, I completely agree with you.
As a game it fucking sucked, but it is not it's fault, just the way things were back then.

>>715745508
touche

After getting quest cape I have zero motivation to play anymore. I don't want to raid, kill the same boss 1000 times or grind retarded shit like mining and agility so I'll never max. I wish we got more than a handful of quests per year but they are too busying making endgame powercreep slop I don't care about.

>>715738849
>>715740296
okay you convinced me, time to try it

Melvor Idle is way better.
Why would I want to waste my time with this shit? It's not even fun.

>>715745275
>>715745472
don't forget that you can make it EVEN MORE EFFICIENT by finishing perilous moons so you can grind the royal titans for the new staff and unlock deadeye and mystic vigour

>>715745713
Peak RuneScape is doing the quests blind anyway. The skills are just downtime so you can dream of the next quest.

>>715745898
>The skills are just downtime
a soul sucking downtime

>>715745898
>THE GAME WASTING YOUR TIME IS ACTUALLY A GOOD THING
Fake content for fake gamers.
You mmo apes deserve devs abusing the shit out of you.

>>715740530
This was my account before I stopped playing.
My first account ever, and I made it an ironman because why not.
I was aiming for the quest cape but I stopped like 10-15 quests before the finish line.

>>715746202
It's called pacing little bro.

>>715744549
I spent hours training agility to save a minute each time for my DK slayer task.

>>715746381
correct, and it's an abhorrent pacing

>>715746202
Brother, the 'waste of time' is the point. It's an adventure, you're supposed to figure shit out.

>>715746202
all games waste your time

>>715746571
nice

>Actually saves the MMORPG genre
>Doesn't have gay tranny propaganda in it

I'm honestly enjoying Runescape 3 more than Oldschool at the moment. 7b bank, done hmt, cms, expert toas, pnm, dt2 and so on, skilling past diary cape feels like a drag and "max cape adds so much qol" cope doesn't justify wasting time on skilling to get it.
Made a midgame iron but again, skilling is ass, for some reason i just lost the drive to play oldschool after my usual raid team quit.

>>715738748
>Gets new players constantly
>they also leave constantly after finding resource sites clogged with bots and learning that the game is both P2W and more of a mindless slog than most idle games

>>715748152
Why do 4tranners cry about bots while posting on 4tran?

>>715741004
nope and that IS runescape
increase the tick rate and even osrs wont feel like runescape anymore
the limitation also forces certain design choices which then force others until you ultimately make runescape

>>715747512
kys hue

>>715748425
fewer bots here than any other large site, tranny
they pay jeets pennies to shitpost; it's a subtle difference

>>715738316 (OP)
M"M"O
and that's really stretching

>>715738316 (OP)
Kids game people still play due to arrested development, boomer mmo enjoyers could not relate

>>715749427
only trannies and unhinged losers (even worse than your average mmo player nowadays) play "boomer" mmos though

>>715745582
My clan gets new players constantly

The kids had their fun, now it's real men's turn

>>715750627
it's p fun i was surprised

>>715749728
Yeah but trannies (you) have arrested development as a requirement so whats your point, I don't care to keep up with 50 year old phil from greggs in those games so I don't but they are solid blokes.
If you're nolifing on an mmo do it right I say

>>715739854
>buying members before level 60 in all f2p skills minimum
?

>>715753482

>>715754272
fishing you dumb nigger

>>715754338

>>715742187
how do you have a DFS with 84 smithing as an iron? I smell cap

>>715754824
Bigger red flag is he has it with 91 ranged

Being able to play on phone has been a great addition.

>>715738748
>He feel for the "no bots" narrative

>>715738316 (OP)
pic unrelated?

For me it's Tibia.

>>715740530
>Current goal/grind?
Doing all the gwd bosses
>longterm goal
Grandmaster combat
>most spooned item
Got 2 enhanced crystal weapons in less than 200 cg
>driest item
Near triple dry for bandos chestplate

>>715740575
Grinding is not fucking content.

>>715756963
huehuehue hunted

>>715740575
Best way to play "the best mmo", is to make it a single player game

>>715738316 (OP)
The only thing holding them back is that they can't figure out a good pay to play model. Besides adding bonds, which is a round about way of paying for memberships, they have no new revenue sources. They just keep getting sold and resold by private equity firms that raise membership prices.

>>715754412
This stupid fucking nigger wont give me my tome of water

>>715757692
Actually the best way to play is GiM, but no one has friends

>>715740530
>Current goal/grind?
Arch-Glacor log
>Longterm goal?
git gud enough for 500% Zammy
>Most spooned item?
Abyssal Scourge in under 100 kc
>Driest item
2k Glacor kills without a frozen core

>>715757432
Shhh, dont let the warframe or destiny players hear you

>>715757692
Do people here not know that ironmen can still talk to other players?

>>715740575
>>715741235

>giving a shit about what other people do with their money

Game has plenty of skill based challenges that no amount of buying BiS gear will suddenly make you capable of doing.

>>715758453
Warframe is funny in that it makes your grinds even longer by locking progress behind daily standing limits. Not to mention it taking 3 and a half days to build a new frame even ignoring time spent grinding for parts. The night/day cycle also sucks when you're waiting an hour just to grind for something that arbitrarily disappears. Like plants, you're telling me now it's night time and all the plants that were there during the day are gone?

>>715754824
U can pay oziach u fuckin dork

>>715738890
>>715738575
Albion online copied it and it was pretty successful

>>715754928
Yeah i got spooned at ~500 skeletal wyverns cry about it
>not knowing the game

>>715757692
Yes. MMOs are about casual encounters, requiring teamwork in them is a mistake

pvm is too hard.

I had to kill 3k cave horrors and armoured zombies, 380 royal titans but I got spooned my enhanced crystal seed in 115 kc and all the moon stuff relatively quickly

>>715759614
what filtered you? dont tell me CG bro...

What boss should I do next? Just been letting slayer guide me for a bit.

>>715754928

>>715754824

>>715759891
supposed to be a picture of your boss kc or what

>>715758427
hows negromancy

>>715759951
Nah.

Melvor is literally just the same thing except you don't get carpel tunnel.

>>715759983
how the fuck am i supposed to know what you should do next then

>>715740530
iron stats
>current goal
bowfa
>longterm goal
bowfa
>most spooned
imbued heart
>driest item
blood moon tassets

>>715759982
nta but it felt extremely overcentralizing on release. other combats got brought up to speed pretty quickly but i had unsubbed by then.
its nice as a combat skill to have your gear upgrades be pretty conventional and not need too much rng or stupid bullshit to get as a helmie. jamflex tried really hard to make it not revolution++ friendly but people still found ways around it. fuck archaeology btw

>RWT and payment processors threatening to cut RS off was what kicked off all the bad decisions that led to OG Runescape turning into what it did
>Payment processors are now trying to kill steam and every other vidya platform

>be lucky enough to have parents that will buy me WoW in 2005 when I'm 12
>can't find anyone that plays WoW in highschool, all the nerds play runescape
>try runescape out
>I find it awful and obtuse compared to WoW, plus worse graphics as a browser game
>never go back and incapable of having nostalgia for it

WoW as your first mmo has consequences. Oh wait, I guess I played Guild Wars first.

>>715757872
MTX will be added to OSRS within 3 months of RS3 shutting down

>>715758529
>the best eay to play "the best mmo", is to play a single player with irc features

>>715760830
you can also do nearly every single multiplayer thing with other people, minigames, raids, duo bosses all can be done as iron with other players

>the best mmo is actually a music game
ticks are stupid

>>715739192
I said men cannot be women and I got banned 2 years ago. Haven't touched it since. I'll come back when they completely remove all the mentally ill aspects.

>>715761137
lmfao obviously still mad as fuck after 2 years so I guess it worked
so long faggot

>>715740530
i need a bob shirt for this elite so i'm trapped here

>>715760830
You can do more than that.

>>715761137
Based Jagex gatekeeping incels.

>>715761557
xDDDD

ppls only play this shit for nostalgias, literally no reason to plat this over classic wow

>>715761651
>muh heckin nostalgia
why are /v/troons so repetitive?

>>715739478
>remove faggotry
>WoW fags come over
>OSRS has more players than in recent years
>redditors have quit bitching since pride month is over

>>715745757
wow havent heard of melvor in a bit lets check it out-
>costs 15 dollars
>and theres 3 expansions for 5 dollars each
what the fuck

>>715761926
i haven't touched much of the newest expansion but it was been pretty nice so far

>>715761926
>buying idle games

Remember Brighter Shores?

>>715761651
The only time I get nostalgic in this game is fucking around in F2P killing goblins

>>715758427
I'm so glad they're removing treasure hunter RS3 bro

>>715757496
Basado. SD, SD, SD.