Thread 720520461

Do I drop this shit before I get addicted? I have 300 hours played in the last couple months and I haven't even touched my backlog of games since I started.

>>720520461 (OP)
>Do I drop this shit before I get addicted? I have 300 hours played in the last couple months and I haven't even touched my backlog of games since I started.
the single best thing you can do for your life is to drop this game and leave it behind you as quickly as possible

Finish all the quests then stop playing because unless you want to be a turbo autist and raid it's boring

>>720520461 (OP)
play the better game called ultima online. play on the free shard outlands

>>720520461 (OP)
It's like Minecraft, you'll eventually get bored of it then get the itch to play it again once every year or so

>>720520461 (OP)
Just play leagues
It's not worth grinding with vanilla rates when you can just experience the whole game in ~2mo

>>720520843
That was my idea getting into it because the quests are fun but theres still quite a grind nonetheless. Even when I'm playing other games or doing IRL shit I want to AFK train on crabs on my phone.

>>720521546
please listen to me and dont play, imagine all the thousands of hours i've spent on this game if i had spent it doing something productive, like fucking busty teen girls or making money

>>720520461 (OP)
you found a game that you enjoy and you just wanna quit to play other games? Just do like afk nightmare zone or gem crab while playing other stuff lol

>>720521726
you can make this retarded argument for any game you retard nigger. Playing games is a waste of time only if you decide that it is one

>>720520461 (OP)
>>720520843
drop it now

>>720520461 (OP)
Yes. OSRS is a paradox: it's the only MMO worth playing because it actually respects your achievements, but it's also one of the worst ones to invest your time into.

I only play during Leagues. That shit is the black tar heroin of MMOs.

>>720520461 (OP)
>Do I drop this shit before I get addicted?
Yes. Do it.
I know people who've been playing WoW for 20 years. Yes, Twenty.

>backlog
Oh, you're one of THOSE zoom zooms who don't even enjoy vidya. Just consume it.
That's not any better tbph.

>>720522262
Most games will just demand you an hour or two per session, but OSRS is too addictive to leave it as that. It's designed to get dopamine from mind-numbing activities. Not only that, but grinding atrophiates your brain.

>>720524218
I'm 30 and I play WoW several hours a week but I like to play single player games on the side and thats what I mean by "backlog". I try to knock out a couple games a month but juggling two mmos makes that impossible.

>>720520461 (OP)
Ask yourself why you're playing it and if there could possibly be anything better you can invest your time in.

>>720520461 (OP)
I mean either you have the 'tism and you're destined to spend 10,000 hours playing this bullshit or you don't and you bounce off before you reach 1500 total.
It sounds like you're the in the former category, which means your choice is made for you. You have no power here, there is no agency.

>>720520461 (OP)
Just learn how to play it in cycles. OSRS is unique in the way you can drop it for a year and come back and you're not missing that much because of an expansion. Or hell, the fact you can just keep an instance of it open on the side and woodcut all day if you want to play something else but progress in it.

>>720521325
Too bad the fuckers cancelled leagues this year to shill RS3 leagues. Leagues actually gets me motivated to grind out the main game as opposed to hating the slower rates, but news of no OSRS leagues this year pretty much killed that for me, and I have 0 interest in RS3 leagues in the amount of bloated shit I would need to learn and figure out. At this rate I'm probably not going to play again until a few months after sailing comes out and put off needing to do the CG grind on my Iron.

>>720524239
>atrophiates
It's just 'atrophies'
Interesting thing about OSRS is that it doesn't take your time for granted, it just demands a lot of it. The hours you spend in the game don't devalue like in a lot of other MMOs which practise vertical progression. Between that and the somewhat afk nature of a lot of it, it's arguably one of the more suitable MMOs for people who aren't prepared to focus solely on it. You won't fall behind if you quit for six months to do other things.

>>720525575
They're doing a pseudo leagues bingo doodad

>>720521325
>>720525575
>>720521162
Shit isn't worth playing

>>720521546
You should be doing nightmare zone instead anon, after a small investment you'll make profit and better xp rates. Just make sure you pick melee only bosses and do the absorption potion method.

>>720525991
Didn't you hear? The new CEO cancelled Pride
They're based now

>>720525765
Huh, glancing over that, that could be a fun means to satisfy the itch. Neat.

OSRS is one of the best games ever made. Nothing wrong with playing it a lot. Everyone burns out and takes breaks eventually.

What's stopping you from getting your Infernal Cape/Dizana Quiver?

RUN ESCAPE

>>720527630
I choked my first Fire Cape last week, I'm light-years from doing that shit

>>720527852
You'll get there
Getting quest cape in OSRS nowadays basically requires you to be at least not entirely incapable, and from there it's an easy hop-skip-jump from the likes of Muspah/Whisperer/Leviathan into raids, then into Inferno/Colosseum.
Once you internalize the 100bpm game speed, it really transforms how you approach pvm

>>720520461 (OP)
Let me put it this way
This is the only game I’ve ever played that actually gives me physical anxiety symptoms when I’m in active relapse and unable to be logged in. This game creates a unique compulsive desire to constantly be grinding due to how low effort it is,and every waking minute you aren’t grinding causes literal anxiety. It robs you of the ability to just sit with your thoughts, watch tv, socialize, because there is always a voice in your head saying you need to be afk grinding on the side when doing something else. It is literally the most addictive video game ever made
It’s an evil game made by evil people
That said, you need to come to this realization yourself. You’re deep in the actually enjoyable well paced early game which is designed to hook you and then drag you down to the awful mind numbing misery that is late mid-end game where the number go up addiction becomes extremely apparent, yet you’re so deep in that you can’t stop
Luckily I was able to stop. 6 months clean

RuneScape is the one game I’m okay with watching people play rather than playing myself.

the gameplay is fucking shit. click to go here headass

>>720529902
>t: 25 year old zoomer

>>720525101
literally every videogame

>>720520461 (OP)
yes, i've been addicted since february and haven't played a single one of the 'goty contenders' people keep bickering over
mmo's are unhealthy in general

>>720520461 (OP)
lets be honest, RS would be a better game if it had built in botting commands like lineage.

It's time to RETVRN

it was cool of the wow players to start OSRS, from fent zombies to pure crystal

>>720520461 (OP)
Get an infernal cape then drop it, that way you can say you beat the game

What if you stream the osrs and be a friend simulator for all of the other lonely people playing who take it more seriously than real life. Seems like a good job

>>720526373
they didnt cancel shit
none of these are removed from the game