Just a gentle reminder that 2009Scape exists and you can play it offline with member benifits.
There’s a scape for every major version of RS you could have nostalgia for. It’s beautiful.
Nostalgia, then I remember all the grind involved and lose any interest in grindy MMOs…
Just give me castle wars tbh
2009Scape allows you to play with 1, 2, or 5 times XP in normal mode, or up to 10x in IronMan mode.
Isn’t every mode iron man mode? It’s single player so you won’t be trading anyway right?
there is multiplayer 2009scape, thus the need for ironman mode for those who want it
Gotcha! I thought it was only single player.
No, you can enable the grand exchange in the single player one.
That’s wild, it didn’t even occur to me that this could be a thing. So like it’s a private server G.E.
Yep.
This is amazing, thanks for sharing!
Oh hey, I recognize your name! Did you also hop onto 2009 yesterday night? I think we were on Tutorial Island together haha
I can finally get some coal without 300 people on the same vein
Lets federate it (if it hasn’t already been done)
Very cool, thanks!
I also want to note that they’ve just:
Removed all pay to win elements
Removed all loot box and fomo purchases
Added the ability to toggle off other people’s cosmetics in the settings
Removed all “dailies”, “hourlies” and any content that would pressure you to log in or not do the activity you’d rather do
They overhauled the combat system last week to be more intuitive
Are releasing a whole new continent on the 28th to give new players a taste of endgame activities like bossing
The price increase is on the annual subscription, and as a new player I’m letting my monthly sub roll another month. Not saying it doesn’t suck for long-time players but it’s what, another $40 for a game you intend to play for a whole year and will get hundreds of hours out of?
I just started playing RuneScape last month as part of a “group Ironman” and have been having a blast. I want to note this is the new RuneScape and not “Old School”. I honestly think it’s going to surpass OSRS at this rate.
That’s definitely some important context.
I’m pretty sure the price increase is for OSRS also, but they just don’t get anything.
Anyway, I somewhat agree with your argument. You get what you pay for, and if you want the game to not have MTX then you’re going to pay more (possibly, increased players could counteract this). I wouldn’t use an “hours played” metric to defend this though. I think it’s a bad metric even for regular games, but especially RS where it’s a “second monitor game” much of the time. Enjoyment/$ is the metric that matters. It’s harder to measure (as it should be, as it’s subjective), but it’s actually the reason we play games.
Oh I’m not even arguing that the price increase has a justification.
I just think the games are still worth it at the higher price and that RS3 might be underrated now.
$40 seems a drop in the bucket compared to about 20 years ago when I was then toiling in a Korean F2P while watching the whales turbo-grind their way to lvl200, spending several times more than a game in a shrink-wrapped box.
Also worth noting that they fucked over their longest continuous supporters by rug-pulling their grandfather rates after promising they wouldn’t be touched. That is a huge slap in the face for anyone who considers supporting them going forward.
And for that price WoW offers 65? character slots, while RS offers the whole 1.
And WoW offers an API for plugins like boss assistants.
Well OSRS has teamed up with RuneLite which also offers an API.
Finally
Has WoW actually become alt friendly in the recent expansions?
It wasn’t even main friendly back when I quit.
Right, hence my question — 65 character slots doesn’t really mean much if you’ll only ever have the time to play one.
The Warbands system does make it better. Though, like anything I’m sure it isnt perfect for everyone.
Recent expansions added some account wide progression. Rep is now account wide namely, along with the new delve season progression. There may be more, especially with the new expansion, but that’s what’s off the top of my head.
It comes as a surprise to me that they charge to play RuneScape and people
fallpay for itIt’s pretty fun these days actually, new endgame bosses come out every now and then, they’ve added a ton of new skills, and they removed their lootbox mechanic and have done a lot to get rid of the daily FOMO grind. Lifted daily caps on some activities, gotten rid of others.
I haven’t played in half a year, but honestly, a lot of the changes they’ve been talking about are a huge positive for the game.
“i dont like something and so no one else should” there are people who like the game. Its an mmo, so there are costs inherent in that, server, full time staff etc. It is not unreasonable to ask for some amount of money to keep the game going with updates. Is this price point unreasonable and greedy? Sure feels like it. Is your comment even more unreasonable? Definitely.
Does the game have a cash item shop? Will they be removing that? I can understand if they are removing a cash item shop or something, that is technically a trade of that revenue for subscription revenue. A little late to the subscription party though, people are wisening up to the fact they end up paying more on subscriptions.
I am not unreasonable though. Nobody ever likes price increases but from the perspective of the business price increases are sometimes necessary to keep up with inflation and cover server costs, etc. I dont know Jagex’s business and financials enough to know if this is necessary for the game to stay online or if it is just greed.
They’ve done a massive purge of MTX throughout the game.
they removed 99% of it, including daily scape. alot of new players and returning ones depend on it to restart the game. Auras are totally obliterated
I wonder how active it’s monthly playercount is going to be after this. Of course they won’t make it public. Heck, even support doesn’t exist as far as I have played it.
I will be back for the next osrs league with my gf I bought at GE. I do not know what the price was for the last league but I was not appaled for the 3 months. I wonder if players like us will smooth out the long term players who have less or no membership after this.
from what ive saw on the subreddit, orS has mostly bots in it, skewing the player count.
If people keep playing there is no reason to not increase prices.
its mostly bots in both games. they are sustaining the game by keeping in game items cost low, rs too grindy for irl people to play so its bots/alts are doing the dirty work.
I sometimes wonder if stuff like this is why I lose my interest in games every couple of years and take years long breaks.
The time demands of raiding in WoW made me drop the game cold turkey.
I just started playing Oldschool RS a couple months ago for the first time since like 2009. It’s incredibly fun and chill with an insane amount of content. The old content is super nostalgic and the new content is high quality stuff. It’s right up my alley.
I’m happy to have this game as one of my very few subscriptions.
Just play 2007scape. It was hardly worth 5 dollars in the heyday, its not worth fucken 3 times that now that its washed.
Runescape is kinda fun but it’s not worth nearly that much for a single character.
I always laugh at people who play RuneScape. I laughed at them when it was new and I laugh at them now. It’s such trash.
Jagex profit margins are insane. It will never be enough as they’re completely owned by a VC capital firm.
thats what they(ors) get for complaining about TH/MTX, runescape had to cut costs somewhere. most recently they removed alot of content dailyscape, and what not from the game. they have to earn that revenue back somehow.
