OSRS WON. 200K CONCURRENT PLAYERS. COME HOME. YOU DONT WANT TO MISS THE GOLDEN AGE.

there is no WoW kille-
*gasp*

>>716001650 (OP)
Bots

And the Wilderness is still dead

>>716001734
pvp was always shit

>>716001650 (OP)
I only played F2P as a kid in 2006-2010.
Played Members in OSRS for the first time and I was disappointed by the experience. I didn't hate it, but I don't think it's worth a sub. I hate the feeling of being on a timer with my playtime.

Powersalingwise, the player character of RuneScape would slap the shit out of the Wow Hero to be honest. Pint in one hand, whip in the other.

>>716001650 (OP)
Brother, I don't even know what the fuck I'm supposed to do in this game.

Sorry, playing tera classic instead

>>716001849
I played F2P in RS1, and thought it'd be cool to try out ironman last month until I realized it was like $15/month for membership. If it was still $5/month, maybe. It's not even that I don't have the money, it's just crazy high for what it is.

>>716001849
if you feel any kind of pressure from an MMO sub you shouldn't be playing MMOs at all

>>716001849
Of course it's not worth it. The game charges you for your time and is literally designed so that EVERYTHING takes an inordinate amount of time. If people can't see that for being ridiculously predatory, I don't know what the fuck is wrong with them.

>>716001894
level up and do quests
afk monkfish until 99 fishing
slayer
raids

OSRS is more bastardized than EOC ever was

>>716001894
erp at the grand exchange

Why doesn't Jagex just put an authenticator into the client so they can easily detect who is using a bot client and ban them? Oh, they tried to do that and the entire playerbase rioted until Jagex was forced to allow unofficial clients? Hmm I wonder how OSRS has so many players online.

I wish f2p had more to do
The jump from very little content to how much members has now is overwhelming

>>716001894
click trees

>>716002470
wow that must stop all the bots in WoW then right?
Oh, it doesn't, even though the only way to play is the official client? Well, I guess that means you'll be admitting you're wrong, and a retarded fucking faggot, right?

>>716001650 (OP)
it was shit over 20 years ago and it's shit today

>>716001878
without getting into retarded shit like "wow players are ftl because they can dodge sunfire"

runescape advantages
>28 healing/buffing items compared to wow players 1 item with a 5 min cooldown
>can tribrid/swap styles to counter whatever class they are fighting
>can teleport out mid combat
>spammable 30 second snares
>protection prayers pvp rules are op
>much higher burst/1shot potential with spec weapons/dh set/venge
>can cheese any melee only wow class with staff of light spec and barrages

wow player advantage
>hard stun ccs, could combo runescape player out
>ccs on themselves have diminishing returns (barrage would root for 30/15/7 then they would be immune for a while)
>pvp trinket/racials can break out of roots
>much higher mobility (assuming run speed is equal), could kite runescape character
>most classes have multiple damage types (ie magic and melee) rendering protection prayers ineffective
>healers and tanks are unkillable 1v1

runescape wins against the majority of wow specs imo

>>716002414
nostalgiafags begone

Just a reminder that literally every high-end activity is heavily botted by scripts that are more advanced and efficient than any human can ever be and it's nearly impossible to get in touch with an actual person at Jagex if some bot farm decides to mass report the account you spent years of your life on

>>716002350
I already did all of my quests as far as f2p goes and I don't feel invested enough so far to buy membership.

>>716003204
yeah then quit and play something else.

>>716003204
then quit

>>716003251
>>716003252
I did idiot, stop telling me to come back.

>>716001708
>200k players
>"killing" a game that currently has over 800k
okay

>>716003178
>Just a reminder that literally every high-end activity is heavily botted by scripts that are more advanced and efficient than any human can ever be
wow, just like real life!

>>716003372
>make a post implying you want direction
>uh actually i don't even play anymore??
zoomer retard behavior

>>716003406
blizzard did the largest advertising campaign since make love not warcraft, and all it did was get people to try OSRS lmao

>>716003178
prove that guy didnt bot too

>>716003064
>first OC update was a safe spot to afk free combat experience
OSRS was a mistake

>>716003850
the game has had AFKing for forever. Why do you think the bandits in the desert attack you if you're wearing a god item? Why do you think Guthan's was so expensive back in the day?
>uh I don't know
Duh, because you were a retard faggot back then who didn't know how to play the game. Lobotomize yourself to relive your childhood. Do it.

>>716003850
i cant defend that its so ass

>>716003996
the sweet sweet cope

>>716003850
blocks ur path

>>716004207
>but whatabout
yeah rock crabs were shit too, it doesn't excuse future additions being even worse
OSRS from the very beginning just released more and more busted shit

what's like, the best way to burn the 1 month membership avaliable on steam? right off the bat or should you play f2p for a while first then reach the paywalled content and buy the membership?

>>716004812
Raw efficiency? No, go straight into membership and follow the optimal quest guide.

>>716004387
do you seriously think the game was good when the hardest content was barrows/kq lol, osrs >>>>>>>>>>>>>> rs2

also unironicly complaining about herb boxes when they dont even give high level herbs and its easier to do farm runs

>>716005047
>when they dont even give high level herbs
what do you think high level herbs are

>>716005047
>complaining about herb boxes when they dont even give high level herbs
dwarf weed isn't high level?
>>716005047
>do you seriously think the game was good when the hardest content was barrows/kq
runescape isn't just about the hardest PVM, that's kind of the issue.
the OSRS team never understood the game, and then it got hijacked by retarded players like you who were fine with new QoL and xp methods.
At this point just sell max level tokens too, they can fit nicely with bond P2W'ing, since OSRS players don't care about leveling anymore

>resub my old account due to wow ecelebs playing it
>go to motherlode mines for like 1 hour
>already bored
its fun to envision playing but actual playing is just zzzzz.

>>716004812
If you just want levels, there's an efficient quest guide that is super simple to follow and will put you in a good early game spot but IMO that ruins the fun of the game. If you've never played RuneScape, just try and do all the F2P quests on your own, try to avoid using guides if you can. I think that will give you the best experience. You only really need help (i..e another player has to do something) with two quests (Knight's Sword, Shield of Arrav).

>>716005312
dwarf weed is fucking useless, im talking about snapdragons and toadflaxes and stuff, herbs that are actually usefull, theres almost no content were a ranging potion matters cuz of bastions

>oh boy I cant wait to play an ironman and have so much fun collecting my own gear

>>716005312
What was the point of the game then? To be a shitty glorified chatbox? I've played since 2001 and the game is in a better spot now then it's ever been. Some of you nostalgia fags are delusional. Every MMO has p2w and if you think that wasn't part of Runescape back in the day you're wrong. My autistic ass got 99 RC back in the 2004 and I wouldn't wish having to use the skilling methods available back then on anyone

>>716005506
yeah I have never played RS in my life, I'm going in completely blind and agree most of the fun is just playing the shit without much external input

>>716005571
so you don't mean high level, thanks for clarifying, why didn't you just say "expensive" instead? Oh, because you know it gives ranarrs.

>>716005506
I don't think you need help for Knight's Sword anymore. I know you did in RSC but I never had to ask anyone when I did it in RS2 or OSRS.

>>716005312
>the OSRS team never understood the game
the game was literally dying before updates, osrs wouldnt exist past 2015 if it wasnt for new content

>>716005691
>expensive
>100k a hour opening thesse boxes
>less herbs than a single herb run

>>716001650 (OP)
80% of that is bot, and 80 is probably generous.

>>716005312
>runescape isn't just about the hardest PVM, that's kind of the issue.
So? You don't even have to do PVM. You literally do not have to ever do it.
>whining about nothing
Why is OSRS surpassing RS2 if everything is so awful?

>>716005772
All that changed was they stopped banning bots lmao

Where Varok

>>716005906
They ban bots constantly.

Combat grinding genuinely needs to be cut in half. It's INSANELY tedious. I remember AFKing on that new island while "working from home" during the scamdemic like 24/7 and my combat stats are still all somehow like mid 70s.

>>716005906
the cope is insane, go back to /v/scape

>>716005906
This, last I played every f2p world fally mine was full of bots training on scorpions

>>716005998
no
>my combat stats are still all somehow like mid 70s.
How do you suck this bad?

I have been doing tempoross non stop, and I wont stop until I have tiny tempoross.

I have 1879 KC
Im doing the minigame right now

>>716005312
>runescape isn't just about the hardest PVM
You don't get to decide what the game is about, you fucking faggot.

>>716001650 (OP)
Jagex doesnt put enough effort into the game to warrant having the same sub price as WoW, neither does WoW for that matter.

During the actual golden age of Runescape they were averaging close to two new quests per month. That obviously wasn't possible for OSRS so they pivoted the game into the weird shitty mobile WoW that it is now which by luck perfectly captured the zeitgeist of mentally ill males looking for something to waste their time with. I used to hate OSRS for ruining RS2 but now I just see it as a different game with a different target audience.

Why do you keep shilling troonscape?

>>716006089
I don't pay for sub. I can hop on the game for 5 hours and make enough gold to afford three months of bonds.

>>716005639
>What was the point of the game then?
An adventure game around magic, quests, and puzzles, where you also kill monsters, train skills, and occasionally get distracted and diverted to other activities

>>716005998
grinding is easy as piss until 90 and then there's no real reason to keep going. The only skills youd naturally go above 90 on are farming skills like combat and slayer

All the cool kids made pures anyway to make noobs jealous

>>716006231
so, same thing as OSRS

>>716006191
>5 hours
Flipping buckets?

>>716006231
Yeah and all that is still there and more

>>716006231
so the same thing, got it

>>716005906
quite telling when mat k basically said bots are integral to the game's market, which really meant jagex most likely took a tax to not shut down the gold sites

>>716006191
How much money did you have to pay up front to get to that point in the first place? Or alternatively, how much time did you spend in F2P before that became feasible?

>>716001650 (OP)
Who still plays this garbage? How retarded do you have to be to waste time on this dogshit in 2025?

>>716006076
>OSRS combat grinding
>skill
This isn't mining granite, barbarian fishing, or clubbing. The optimal strat is literally just to AFK. Terrible design.

>>716006328
i made 500m when yama came out in a week its not that farfetched

>>716006281
no, OSRS has been reduced to
>new PVM
>here's your 1 quest/year
>here's a new meme mode because we have no clue what to do with the real game anymore

>>716006387
Clearly there is skill involved if he was grinding 24/7 for months and isn't 126cb yet.

>>716006374
I only ever paid for my first month. Making gold is only hard with F2P. Assuming you are not retarded or not playing at all, a month should be more than enough to get all the gold you need even with casual play.

>>716001650 (OP)
80% bots
they also count rs3 players because they're fucking retarded
osrs died like 5 years ago when they literally made the game more racist, removed jungle savages, removed all paki's being called ali, made the white skin dye many shades darker, no resistence for pride parade bullshit, forced pronouns upon character creation, etc
the golden age of osrs was 2013-2017
they need to make an oldschool osrs already ffs

>>716001878
not really
runescape mc is powerless without gear even with max stats
cannot use spells without runes and relies on prayers far too much

>>716006448
1 grandmaster quest a year compared to 1 very short quest a month lol

>>716006448
>reeeee there's only 10,000 hours of nonpvm content and hundreds of quests!
>no don't add new skills I hate those
>no don't add new training methods that's ez scape
You should just kill yourself. You'll feel better. Again, you literally don't have to PVM, ever, and there's more non-PVM content in OSRS than literally any other game.

>>716006231
>magic, quests, and puzzles, where you also kill monsters, train skills
Nothing of substance in this post, just your vague memories and nostalgia blending together to see the old game as more than it was. I can tell you are just a retard who is intimidated by modern PVM and nothing more. Old Runescape had fuck all to do after you were done grinding.

>>716004207

>>716006530
A more accurate way to put it would be
>rs mc fights wow mc
>rs mc splashes his specs
>dies

>>716006504
>identity politics
didnt read

>>716003178
yeah also this
jagex will not help you with fucking anything, even if you gave them hundreds to thousands of dollars over the years
they hand out perma mutes for fucking nothing

>have game where long term grinding is the core gameplay
>make the game easier
>make the game easier
>make the game easier
you're going to run out of popup addicts and tourists eventually, and then you'll be stuck with a second rs3

>>716001714
/thread

>>716006504
>80% bots
wrong
>they also count rs3 players because they're fucking retarded
Other way around retard, RS3 counts OSRS players. OSRS does not.

>the golden age of osrs was 2013-2017
oh it's a bait post

>>716006627
>>no don't add new skills I hate those
and then they voted against warding lmao
One of the most cucked moments in OSRS history

>>716006530
>flicks his prayers
>literally immortal, can solo the WoW universe
nothing personnel.

>>716006530
>runescape mc is powerless without gear even with max stats
its actually the opposite especially in osrs.
your character's base stats matter way way way way more than even endgame gear. having 99 str/def/atk and a rune scimitar is more damage than having shitter stats but endgame gear. it's also why potions and prayer are so good, they act as effective boosts to your base stats and are even more valuable the higher they are.

99 def and 99 hp means even naked you can ignore most enemies outside endgame shit, and honestly endgame magic gear is not much different than being naked against many damage types since it's just cloth robes

>>716005941
Follow me, my good man. I know the most direct path.

>>716001650 (OP)
So, what happened? Last I heard there was some sort of gay riot. Or anti gay riot. The difference isn't obvious to me.

>>716006740
warding was the worst concept for a skill ever pitched.

>>716006794
All the wow streamers quit and are trying osrs

>>716006809
>actually i DONT want something that should have been in base crafting since day 1
like i said, OSRS players don't actually like runescape, they're just dopamine addicts

>>716006191
I know you think your comment was a stroke of genius but it changes nothing as someone else paid the much to steep sub price instead.

>$14 a month for a mostly single player MMO
lol, no thanks

>>716006794
Nothing.
>randoms whined on reddit that the fag pride event was cancelled, permanently, and being gay is now illegal
>even reddit got sick of their shit and started banning the posts
>controversy went away immediately

>play a game poor people played over 20 years ago on their parent's laptops because they couldn't afford any real games
lol

>>716006872
Nope, should never have been in the game and that's why it will never be in the game. Trash idea retarded people pretend to like, but even you know it's awful.

>>716006902
>outlives literally every other MMO
players have spoken

runescape players can adapt to other games
wow fags are helpless if they aren't getting railroaded with arrows

>>716006887
>someone else paid the much to steep sub price instead
That's what makes it feel even better.

>>716006872
> YOU DON'T LIKE RUNESCAPE.
> because you hate the new things that aren't like Runescape you used to play.
> NOO YOU HAVE TO LIKE THE NEW THING OR YOU ARE A HATER!
> NOO YOU ARE JUST A DOPAMINE ADDICT.
fuck off consumercattle.

>>716006902
Laptops were expensive 20 years ago, I played it on the family desktop. And poor people played it in the school computer lab and at the public library.

>>716006902
>20 years ago
>parents laptop
>poor

>>716006962
>making armor for melee? Yes!
>making armor for ranged? Of course!
>making armor for magic? NOOOOOOOOO WTF JAGEX WHYY?????
The eternal irony in a game literally meaning "Land Of Magic"

>>716006725
the fuck would you know about soul
you weren't there

>>716006998
You're grinding the game so someone else can buy GP with real money, you're basically volunteering to be a Venezuelan

>>716001650 (OP)
I refused to play subscription games back then and I still refuse to pay subscription games now. Straight fucking scam.

>>716006996
that's pretty funny considering osrs players all use that cheat client that basically tells them how to play the game and even does some of the things for em.

>>716006996
I like them both, they're both fun!

>>716007105
Except if you take into account how much money the guy paid for his sub and consider that I can make that amount in an hour of gameplay, that's basically more than 1st world minimum wage. Nothing to feel bad about.

>>716007070
Oh, is making armor for ranged its own skill?
>no
Oh look, you can already make some magic armor with that same skill
>stop nooo
Why should this be a skill when all you're doing is crafting?
>NOOOOO

>>716007224
can you read?
i literally said
>in base crafting

/v/scape trannies linked the thread in their discord

>>716007335
i can tell

>>716007323
>we need warding because crafting is incomplete!
No, and nobody cares because all magic armor is useless.
>b-but
Go whine that you can't craft colored gloves nigger

>124 posts
>The tranny-obsessed spammer hasn't come to post the same 30 images he does every thread

:^)

>>716007335
How do you know?

>>716007414
>NO DONT FIX A SKILL ME WANT NEW MONSTER TO KILL AND UNGA BUNGA BIS
ah yes

>>716007097
Been 'there' since 2003. The golden age was 2004-2005. 2006 is when it started going downhill. The day they changed the prayer skill icon from yellow to white was the day RS2 died.

wow 190k bots and 10k players (mostly venezuelan gold farmers) spread across 200 worlds!

dead game

/thread

>>716007490
>noo add more junk to the game no one will ever do
Why aren't you filling beer glasses with beer from a keg right now?

>/v/tards will scream that it's all nostalgia that keeps the game alive and nothing ever changes
>/v/tards will then scream that their particular nostalgia is the only real runescape and that all the new changes are bad and gay
>IN THE SAME BREATH

>>716003850
They really should remove this piece of trash ASAP and just make the imbues a drop from slayer creatures while on task.

>>716007626
>crafting magic armor is the same as beer glasses
Ah yes, the intellect of your average Tilescape player in 2025

>>716007551
>/thread your own bait post
wow that's so cool, sorry your shitass bot farm got deleted and now you're going homeless pedro

>>716007540
osrs was released in 2013 you fucking retard

>>716007683
Yes, it is. Utterly useless thing no one does, or ever will do, or will care about.

>>716007540
That's such a funny place to draw the line. I kind of get it because 2006 is when they added the Stronghold of Security which is kind of retarded, but I don't think there was a real "This game is going in the wrong direction" moment before the free trade removal.

>>716007070
Sister?

>>716007772
>MAKING SOMETHING?? YUCK! THATS XP WASTE!
>just put in a drop table so i can gamble and get happy brain!

>>716001650 (OP)
all bots and eceleb fuckers

>>716007854
You've never made or used splitbark armor. Why? Because it's useless.

>>716007885
i did actually, it was pretty fun. Runescape was better when jagex had interesting horizontal equipment

>>716001650 (OP)
Any actual Runescape players would tell you that at LEAST 60% of that number is bots ruining the economy of the game because Venezuela is such a shithole that goldfarmers make more money than doctors there.

>>716007948
It still does. There is no single piece of equipment that's BIS everywhere for each combat style

>>716007948
There's interesting horizontal equipment now at the high end for the first time in the game's history. As a top tier player you have multiple different weapons to choose from and different armor sets with different advantages and weaknesses.

>>716001650 (OP)
and everyone playing is either following a step by step guide on which quests to do and how or they've got a plugin
literally ruining the experience for themselves just so they can get numbers go up faster then burn out and quit because they don't enjoy following a fucking checklist like a god damn bot
MMOs are dead and MMO players killed them

>>716008018
>>716008036
yeah, now how about i use the skills in the game to make it, instead of a combat rhythm mini-game

>>716003479
>retard can't into reading comprehension
>gets butthurt and calls the other party a zoomer
many such cases

>>716008159
No thanks, they made the right choice capping out player crafting at rune and dragonhide, with higher tier equipment coming as drops.

>>716008159
High level skills are needed for a lot of end-game equipment to make. But I know you'll just move the goal post further.

>>716002470
Why would they do that when boys make them money aswell

>>716008236
>>716008245
quite the interesting series of posts.

>>716008159
Play RS3 then. Masterwork armor is BIS tank armor.

So when do I group with other people exactly

>>716001827
or you were just shit at pvp

>>716008343
never

>>716008343
Rush raids, or find a pking clan(There's lower level account builds/pures)

>>716008334
>runescape isn't just about X
>if you want Y then go play RS3
epic

>>716008331
You get the drops from end-game bosses but a lot of it has to be crafted with other material requiring high non-combat skills

>>716008435
>reee I don't want RS to be about PVM
ok then don't PVM
>NOOOO I HAVE TO BE ABLE TO MAKE PVM GEAR WITHOUT PVMING
why do you care about gear if you don't PVM?

>>716008343
skilling bosses, raids, scurrius, royal titans, yama, shield of arrav, heroes' quest, trading, PK teams, wildy bossing, godwars dungeon just to name some things off the top of my head

>>716008504
I like PVM, i just don't want runescape to ONLY be PVM.
end-game PVM has destroyed skillling, which is also a pillar of the game

>>716001650 (OP)
Sailing will suck ass and this game needs another hard reset. 90% of the game is getting to end game and that was made back in 2001-2007.

>>716008578
>I like PVM, i just don't want runescape to ONLY be PVM.
It's not. It has more skilling content than PVM content.
>end-game PVM has destroyed skillling
No it hasn't.
>but by my definition!
Then it has been dead since dragon items were added to the game a decade before you started playing.

>>716008453
>a lot
Elidinis, masouri, torva and uhhh... That's it? And with Yama you don't even need torva.

>>716008651
>No it hasn't.
even jagex admitted it and nerfed drop tables, which is how you know it's really bad. Why are you lying about something so basic?

>>716005980
>>716006010
actual retards
>>716006014
>>716006373
thank you for being honest

>>716008712
All of the DT2 items require skills.

>>716008578
I'm really not sure how anyone can genuinely hold this opinion when maxing your stats is like (realistically) the most prestigious thing you can do.

>>716001650 (OP)
Sailing will be sick and this game is on the right track. 90% of the game is getting to end game because that is the purpose of a game

>>716008774
>the most prestigious thing you can do.
is it?
Not even a quest cape matters anymore.

Are the quest names still pozed?
I am sure I remember people quitting for good because Jagex did something stupid again. What happened to that?

>>716002007
Iron Man mode sounds legitimately fucking awful.

>>716008854
>Not even a quest cape matters anymore.
quest cape never mattered. if anything it matters more nowadays since dt2 filters so many shitters

>>716008854
Yes it does though

>>716008854
maxing is a huge accomplishment on an iron
The quest cape is becoming more and more an accomplishment as they add harder and harder quests. DT2 is easily the hardest quest in the game, it's much more difficult than anything up until 2017.

>>716008712
Yeah end-game equipment. Also any of the sigils from corp and draconic/wyvern visages. Torva is still BIS melee armour for anything not needing a slash bonus. Of course you'd continue to move the goal post though

>>716003406
>over 800k
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>716008910
>playing the game sounds awful

luv agility
luv rooftops
luv sepulchre

simple as

>>716008763
>80 boostable
That's like 3 hours of bankstadning

>>716008721
So now your problem with pvm isn't the gear drops, but the skilling related drops? Glad to see the goalposts have moved now that you realize your argument was wrong literally 20 years ago.

Why does your new argument matter?

>>716009085
Yeah. But why are we moving the goal post again?

>>716008925
>>716008953
>>716008958
So if you poll the community with; "What's the most impressive?"
1. Inferno cape
2. skill maxing (just 99)
3. quest cape
What do you think wins? Because my opinion would be infernal cape by a large margin.

>>716009085
literally nothing matters unless you play iron

>>716008712
>>716008973
Also Zenyte Jewellery and Amulet of Rancour

>GUYS GUYS WE NEED MORE DEAD CONTENT MAN MODE
>WE NEEEEED SPEEDRUNNING WORLDS
...
hey how about we use these dead worlds for a true 2007 experience that some would find-
>NO NO NO FUCK YOU THAT'S A WASTE OF RESOURCES!!!!
This sums up why I quit the game. osrs should have branched off into 2 games: pure old runescape and a pre-eoc scape. Everyone would have been happier. Now we have frankenscape with a literal private server skill coming into the game.

>>716008991
With more than half the game cut out of it? Yes.

Runescape is a stock market simulator first and foremost.

>>716009126
please max your reading comprehension skill bud

>>716009126
The fact that this even matters to you signals to me that you play video games for the wrong reason.

>>716009102
please read my posts properly or don't respond
>end-game PVM has destroyed skillling, which is also a pillar of the game
>end-game PVM has destroyed skillling, which is also a pillar of the game
>end-game PVM has destroyed skillling, which is also a pillar of the game

>>716009161
>>716007653

Why do 4trooners seethe so much about OSRS?

>>716009203
This is ironscape now.
Nobody cares about you trying to make money by fishing sharks.

Deal with it, maincuck.

>>716009203
But it didn't. You can still skill. You can play the entire game without ever doing PVM. It is not destroyed, and you cannot articulate why or how it is destroyed-you keep making shit up then crying about it.

There is more skilling content than PVM. You just don't like it. You also don't like PVM. You don't like anything.

But you will play this game and cry about it because you are addicted, until you finally overdose and your parents find your rotting corpse months later.

>>716009161
>a true 2007 experience
>Everyone would have been happier
No one gives a fuck about you handicapped nostalgiatards, when will you understand? Stick to /v/scape and stop crying already.

>>716009125
>lot of it
Not a lot
>high non-combat skills
80 isn't high.

>40 ping
>impossible to risk fight

>>716009323
no idea, its the ultimate NEET game, you would think they would like it. probably tried it and got filtered by jad

>>716009201
it doesn't, but i'll be more direct with my point since i'm dealing with Tilescapers
>I think the community's overall attitude has shifted far too heavily towards favoring PvM compared to the past when it was more divisive

>>716009270
I voted for 2007 runescape and I ended up with raids, an empty continent, forced lgbtqia+ updates, and so forth.

Remove grand exchange and I will play

>>716009436
>empty continent
Why lie?

>>716009436
you know the game would in fact be dead without updates right?

>>716009354
>80 isn't high
What would be high according to you? 90? 95? In other words, one more week of bankstanding?

>>716009335
>completely ignoring that I also wanted a pre-eoc as well.
You have the reading comprehension of a faggot.

>>716009451
did you know theres an entire mode that does just this?

>>716009451
>muh GE bad
*yawn*

reminder that this game is just a pale mockery of ultima online targetted at 00's elementary school children

>>716009451
>le ge is le bad
fuck off lmao nobody misses the days before ge

>>716009545
No, explain. Is it the same game just without GE?

>>716001650 (OP)
>players
Anon it's bots and people spamclicking on the same piece of wood for 500 hours

>>716009551
I tried ultima online and it is a much shallower and braindead experience.

>>716009548
>guy made bils manipulating mint cake FOMO

>>716009476
>>716009475
see>>716009543

>>716009582
>noooooo it's heckin bots
>posted on 4chan

>>716009548
>>716009568
OG merchanter, not playing with GE, fuck off

>>716009568
I do. But I recognize the game would be worse off without it.

>>716009638
Hello summerfag

>>716009609
See
>>716009475

>>716009657
where did people sell furies in w2?

>try any other MMO
>realize the quests are going to fucking suck
>the leveling is meant to be speedran through
it's kind of a curse playing runescape first

>>716009657
Merchanting still exists and takes more skill following trends and investing in the GE than it did trying to trick 12 year olds at world 1 Varrock into buying your shit for a higher price

>>716009162
So its shitty RPG

>>716009736
south of west varrock bank in that shady corner

>>716009717
Says the one who thinks 4chan isn't full of bots

>>716009775
No it doesn't. It's literally the same thing, just less manual.

>>716009162
>half the game
i've told you a million times anon, don't exaggerate

>>716009839
Wrong. You were not a merchant and you are a fag.

>>716009775
Scamming was part of the fun tho

So the only reason people play is nostalgia but simultaneously they changed the game so it's no longer the same?

>>716009486
Just to kill Araxxor you need 93 slayer. So 90+ crafting would be appropiate, yes. For ferocious gloves and a bonecrusher neck you don't need skills at all, for a boss unlockable at 95 slayer.

>>716009574
Ironman mode

>>716009962
yes.

>>716009936
pretty sure they did, that was the "high level equipment" area
Unless you're implying fally, but i never bothered going there

>>716009960
That's valid it was but you can never convince me it was worth standing in one place spamming what you're buying/selling for hours

>>716010042
>Unless you're implying fally, but i never bothered going there
Yes, I am in fact implying the place where people actually sold shit.

>>716010096
the only trading hub i recognize is varrock

>>716010141
Based

>>716010141
Then you're not a merchant you're a pleb.

>>716010021
>no trade
That defeats the reason as to why I want GE gone

>mmo
>you can do everything solo including endgame
even retail wow forces groups for mythic+ dungeons and raids lol, how is this an mmo?

>>716010218
>merchant
yeah anon, don't forget your treasure trail outfit too lmao

>>716001650 (OP)
golden age of what?
more players doesnt make the game better if anything it makes it worse
more competition over worlds
more retarded faggot voters
more ganking in wildy (which you are forced into)

>>716010263
you just want to scam people lil brownoid

>>716010305
>>you can do everything solo including endgame
once upon a time, runescape had soul

>>716010369
It's funny how this content was only different because everyone sucked at the game mechanically.

>>716010443
To be fair a lot of people had shit computers/internet back then and it was harder to follow ticks with a shitty ping

>>716010369
DKs and the run to them is one of the best things about old RS. Did you guys know they added agi shortcuts to get right to them? Part of the soul is being erroded each update. The run to DKs was nearly the same feeling as running through the wilderness.

>>716001650 (OP)
if ffxiv is any indication this wowexodus part 2 blip will fade out in a year and then the game will literaly actually die due to dev incompetence

>>716010556
>5 minutes of running through the same tunnel for early game drops
>soul
More like they're removing the shit that makes you not want to engage in the content in the first place.

>>716010725
>early game drops
I HATE VERTICAL PROGRESSION
I HATE VERTICAL PROGRESSION
I HATE VERTICAL PROGRESSION
I HATE VERTICAL PROGRESSION

>>716010761
We got the memo, /v/scape tranny. You like clicking on trees and afking in the GE.

>>716010725
>early game drops
you know u need the rings to upgrade them to the bis versions right? and a berserker ring imbued is going to last you literally hundreds if not thousands of hours before it gets used to upgrade itself

>>716001650 (OP)
>200K CONCURRENT PLAYERS
Easily 50k of that is bots.

>>716010871
he can just buy a bond, no need to xp waste dead content XD

>>716010969
>he can just buy a bond
You so easily expose yourself as someone who doesn't actually play the game.

>>716011056
i was implying just buy the rings like 95% of the playerbase

>>716002007
When RS3 came out I canned my sub because of how awful RS3 was, if I didnt can it I would still be paying 5 bucks a month due to being grandfathered

>>716001650 (OP)
I'm playing Maplestory instead.

>>716011295
they got rid of grandfathered subs with the new ceo nigga

>>716010334
Yes but without the brown part

>>716011395
no you're not, post screenshots

>>716011406
Are you serious? I was thinking of playing OSRS again but if the CEO is gonna jew out than fuck that

>>716011587
It happened before the new CEO. New CEO removed the fag pride event.

>>716005378
WoW and FfXIV serve as the same thing as call of duty does
Keeping retards away from actual good things

>>716011423

all these noobs are doing irons as well, they are gonna get very filtered by consumable usage or actually needing to grind some of the worst content in the game

easy game

>>716011867
take awhile to find a good google image?
seriously though how do people enjoy MS

I haven't played since Leagues 3 ended, give me the quick rundown on anything big that's happened since early 2022

>everyone brags about how good osrs quest are
>everyone also uses the fucking cheat plugin that highlights everything for you and provides you step-by-step retard proof instructions

>>716011945
Nice blue backpack, noob.

I wish people brought up genuine complaints and mistakes with some updates over time but threads basically boil down to:

>GE bad
>Pride march bad

I dont think you play this game at all.

>>716011960
>spoiler
It's a fun game. Bosses are fun to fight too which is what drives a lot of people.
It's why there's like 300k concurrent players despite classic arriving later.

>>716011945
>no quiver
AHAHAHAHAHAHAAH

>>716012068
people constantly do, but osrs addicts just cope and say they don't matter

osrs is nothing more than a cookie clicker gambling sim
>nooo i only need to kill this boss/raid 2000 times to get this item!!!

>>716012260
It's great we know.

>>716011945
>quiver?

i gave up once i hit cg,did 100 kills and the shits just boring as fuck and the thought of having to do it 1k times to continue progressing sucks

>>716010556
If the short cut is at a skill level or requirement above the gauntlet/dungeon I see no problem allowing stronger players to bypass what ends up becoming a triviality as a progression reward.

>>716012683
just do the tbow skip anon

>>716012683
lol just don't play an ironman lol

You're supposed to trade with other players so you can do the stuff you want to do

>>716001650 (OP)
It’s legitimately a terrible, evil video game. It plays like shit, the content is shit, everything about it is liquid shit and the worst part is that empty feeling you get when you realize you clicked on a tree for 20 consecutive hours, wasting your entire weekend, for fucking NOTHING

>>716013969
>haha bro the tick system is so deep
NO IT FUCKING ISNT YOU RETARD, EVERY ACTION YOU DO BEING DELAYED BY 3 SECONDS IS NOT FUCKING GOOD ITS A LIMITATION OF THE ENGINE, YOU HAVE NOSTALGIA INDUCED STOCKHOLM SYNDROME GET FUCKING HELP

>>716012683
I was able to get 2 enh seeds and 6 armour seeds at 375kc on my uim but it was a grind that I genuinely did not enjoy. At around 130kc I started to get kills consistently as it was my first acc ever doing cg on and was learning. What kept me going was the fact that I was making good gp from the loot that I was getting that I'll be able to use to lvl up construction and fletching later on.

Definitely thankful for being lucky because I've hear of ppl going 2k+ kc dry for a single enh weapon seed. Would totally want to quit if that happened to me.

It was worth in the end though because corrupt bowfa (unlimited charges) and full crystal armour is sick. Salad blade is a better slash weapon than whip also. Definitely a massive upgrade for the acc.

>>716014528
>uim
I can understand people liking Iron Man for having to engage with every bit of content and being self-sufficient, but how the fuck does anyone enjoy UIM? Not being able to hoard your items and inventory juggling for thousands of hours sounds like my worst video games nightmares made reality.

>>716014117
mad cus bad

OSRS is too pozzed. I quit because of it

>>716001650 (OP)
>OSRS WON. 200K CONCURRENT PLAYERS. COME HOME. YOU DONT WANT TO MISS THE GOLDEN AGE.
I didn't play it 20 years ago because it looked like faggot shit, and I never will because it still does.

>>716014741
I wanted a challenge so it was either uim or hcim, I chose uim because i don't trust my internet connection enough for hcim lol.

For items when i'm skilling or doing safe content I deathbank at hespori for inv space, for anything wilderness related I make a deathpile.

Also you can store some items at your house and at stash units.

It's been challenging but also rewarding and maxing a uim will be a flex. Also, anything involving etranan on a uim sucks lol.

>>716001650 (OP)
Did getting rid of the gay shit really bring it back to life?

>>716009451
That's pretty much /v/scape.

>>716016036
>troonscape

What should I work on next? Just got DT2 to finish for QC but was thinking base 80s next.

>>716015339
>I wanted a challenge so it was either uim or hcim
>proceeds to use all the safety nets to make it as easy as possible

Yeah okay sure

>>716011982
Yeah that's a shame the quests are great and you're ruining one of the best aspects of the game by doing this. I only use that plug-in on alts/during leagues

>>716013969
I do a lot of easy afk content while I'm at work or using my gym anyway. Otherwise I can easily multi-task other stuff like reading or watching movies. It's pretty chill content my monkey brain can enjoy seeing number go up for low effort while I do other stuff I'd be doing anyway

>>716011982
The way I got quest cape: start the quest without using quest helper. If I got stuck, I would turn it on, figure out the puzzle I was stuck on, and then turn it back off. For particularly annoying or shitty sections that I just can’t be assed to figure out like Mournings End part 2 I’ll use it the entire quest

>>716016891
So i'm not suppose to use the storage in poh and at stash units? Despite that I still have to put some thought into things, not like I can just dump and withdraw whatever I can at a bank. Despite this storage I had to do quests and bosses with less food because of lack of inv space.

Also had to get a second drag defender and herb sack because I lost it due to my deathbank being deleted by fighting seren at the end of the sote quest.

Also getting all of those items for the dwarf at the death altar to finish mournings end part 2 was a bitch.

OSRS is pozzed with tranny shit

>>716018648
This board is pozzed with tranny shit and yet you're still here

>>716016574
go for diaries. Lumby elite is huge, and you're only 4 smithing levels off with a korvac's brew

>>716018648
It won't make you trans and give you surgery, relax.

>>716018648
Did they put anything into the actual lore? I know RS3 put in a fantasy tranny elf and one of the quests has a they/them.

>>716018591
>I am playing the game around the limitation of not having a bank
>death bank, death bank, death bank, death bank, death bank, death bank

Okay sure whatever

>>716020767
>death bank, death bank, death bank, death bank, death bank, death bank

That I can lose if I die, but you think whatever you want to think then.

>>716018648
These fags have no actual willpower. They'll rage and moan about troon shit but as soon as something they really bends over backwards to worship troons on a pedestal they'll brush it off and keep doing it.
Thus continuing the cycle of devs catering to troons because their playerbase doesn't significantly drop and there is no real internal backlash.

>>716021457
>as something they really bends over backwards to worship troons on a pedestal they'll brush it off
You've lost me. What are you even talking about?

>>716003406
>over 800k bots

>>716003996
when nmz first came out you could afk completely with guthans for 6 hours.
you could leave it on overnight

>>716022606
99 combat stats are completely irrelevant that you get passively from just playing the game, acting like NMZ matters is faux pas for not playing the game in any meaningful way

>>716001650 (OP)
one word.
GE
why tf play this game

>Other games don't have an in-game auction house, this is a problem isolated to oldschool runescape

Unironically go play HighSpell it's pretty fun

>>716023160
then pplay ironman

>>716023317
i tried it, but RSC gameplay is just too boring

>>716001650 (OP)
nigga the golden age was 2006. it's time to move on

>>716023160
That's two words, actually.
You are a gigaJew and want to scam people.

>>716001650 (OP)
NO NO NOOO IT WASNT SUPPOSFED TO BE LIKJE THIS WE WERE SUPPOZED TO GIRLCOTT THIS GAME FOR REMOVING THE PRIDE EVENT THIS IS PRIDE GENOCIDE AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>716023751
and standing in west varrock spamming SELL RUNE ARROW 350EA is boring

>>716001650 (OP)
I'll return when they add back male and female otherwise I'm not giving money to woke devs

>>716024074
RSC is just a different kind of game.
Even 2004 RS2 feels like a beta compared to 2007

>>716023160
one word.
AH
why tf play this game

>>716024160
again, you don't have to use GE, there's multiple modes that disable it. then there's also just not using it and trading people by talking to them.

>>716024160
adolf hitler is two words

>>716005378
This really is it. I saw some guy playing a hardcore ironman blind and the way he was playing discovering new shit every day seems like fun until you remember there's hours of weeks of boring shit going on that you do not see. Plus I've come to the terms that I'll never play runescape as a newbie ever again, they can update as much as they can but I still know the basics of skilling and combat, the first 40 or so quests and the general world.
I'd love a singleplayer runescape but Cursebreaker still had too much grind.

>>716005378
Yeah MMO's are grindy. This has been known about Runescape for almost 25 years. At least motherlode mine and other semi-afk grinds are relaxed second monitor content while you do something else.

>>716026832
>Plus I've come to the terms that I'll never play runescape as a newbie ever again, they can update as much as they can but I still know the basics of skilling and combat, the first 40 or so quests and the general world.
That's barely anything

>>716003406
Monthly players, maybe. Concurrent? Not even close. Not even close to 200k.

>only did ~40 quests
that's not even legends quest, grim

>>716023937
2006 had fuck all for content

>>716026832
>I'll never play runescape as a newbie ever again
I hopped back into OSRS out of nostalgia, but the best feeling I've had when playing RS in general was when I got my infernal cape not too long ago. I don't know why you would think that the shit you remember from back then is all there is to this game now still.

>>716001650 (OP)
howcome guild wars 2 can't ever publish its concurrent player count?

why do (some) runescape players hate their "Grand Exchange"? an actual marketplace?

contrarians? is there some flaw to it?

>>716031078
Scammers loved to fuck over kids and rip newbies off. It also changed a huge part of the game, and change is bad in the eyes of autistic people. Some also think it's to blame for the decline of the social aspect, because apprently it's really hard for players to go look for a cc of their own or something.

Post your favorite classic, OSRS(as in added for the new shit introduced in OSRS) and RS3 music.
For me, it's
https://youtu.be/5oJs6nmWl1Y
https://youtu.be/-Ea70bn4Wjk
https://youtu.be/vJA3vqfpP-I

>>716031078
inflation

>>716027985
quality over quantity.

>>716032316
Nostalgia goggles are notoriously bad at identifying quantity.

>>716031078
I don’t hate the GE but it definitely changed how the entire game works and shook up a bunch of things so I can see why some people don’t like it. Marketing your shit after grinding used to be a skill in its own and now that you can just dump everything on the GE and instantly convert it into gold it’s basically reinforced the whole gp/hr gameplay loop.
It took away a lot of self sufficiency too. There’s no real point in cooking your own food or making your own potions with the associated skills since it’s quicker, easier and even cheaper to just buy the finished products at the GE. This is probably why they ended up adding ironman mode, but that’s more of an extreme end compared to just not using GE.

>the GE is bad because Im too stupid to look at the trade value window that you HAVE to go through every time you complete a trade, so surely everybody got scammed
>the GE helps get rid of scammers and merchers
*has public chat turned off so he can ignore the dicers and merch clans set right outside the ge terrace spamming discord links*
>even if the GE failed, people would just use a third party site to make their trades or forums
*trading post failed within 2 weeks and the RS forums are a ghost town*

>>716001650 (OP)
Have they removed tranny creation and changed back censored quests? If not fuck off

>>716031078
tl;dr it completely changed the game

trade used to be something that typically required two (or more) individuals to actively interact with another human being to get what they wanted. as a buyer you had to
>know what you wanted to buy
>go to a trade world
>go to the correct district in a trade world
>find someone who was selling what you wanted
>determine whether you were or weren't getting ripped off
>trade them
and in the seller's case, you needed to determine whether what you were selling would even sell within a realistic time-frame. trading was an investment of your time that required you to be physically present and interact with other players, and it was still advantageous to do.

the GE automated the trade process and allowed people to buy and sell whatever they want, whenever they want. it's too complicated to get into, but the tl;dr is that it basically reduces literally EVERYTHING in the game into a function of GP to XP. why do X training method as a normal account when it's simply faster to buy 1,000 of X item and bankstand the skill for profit? why collect your own resources when it's faster to go bossing (which already drops economy-wrecking quantities of raw resources), sell the drops, and use the GP to buy resources? etc.

>>716001849
nigga it's the cost of a burger for a month of play. Just unsub when you lose interest and come back when you are interested again
F2P is only like 3% of the game

>>716001894
issa sandbox. you do whatever the fuck you want

>>716012683
Unironically if you dont enjoy cg you can skip it now
Perilous moon's atlatl+eclipse set and blowpipe are excellent for stuff like tormented demons and CoX. Skip the red prison entirely, grind a tbow and some demonbane weapons and never look back at crystal

>>716032684
>he doesnt remember being in seers and pleading people to buy laws for 1k to tele back to varrock or fally
zoomers these days would never make it

>>716001894
literally whatever you want. that's the joy of it.

>>716001650 (OP)
The only people I know for the last decade that play OSRS are all terminally online trannies.

>>716001894
just b urself

>>716012683
cg is a reddit trap don't fall for it

>>716001650 (OP)
>not rs classic
no thanks

>>716032247
>Classic
https://youtube.com/watch?v=yW4f0T9u5ok
>OSRS
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uVsIWq8Whw0
>RS3
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GlYBW9-LiDU

>>716021457
I stopped playing so many games because they added troon shit. This one wasnt exception