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RuneScape was my favorite game of all time when I was a kid. I'd play it for at least 8 hours a day every day, and never get bored. Now, RuneScape is RuneScape 3, terribly infested gambling microtransaction mess that looks like a really bad early access game, or Oldschool RuneScape, which is really fun, but is infested with bots. It's honestly so bad. I tried to play it and it feels so... good, but also low effort. The worst part, however, is the corporate greed. Jagex, the company that developes Runescape, has been sold numerous times. This time, it's owned by some Venture Capital or investment firm, the kind that kills games off to gain their IP and then sell them for huge amounts of money (CVC Capital Partners and Haveli Investments). The first thing they've done is raise the subscription of Runescape to nearly $15, which is truly nuts. This game used to be like $8 a month previously, some are still paying that much....

It's sad to see corporate greed kill such a great game. Idk what to even play now....

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You could stand by and hope for great things with Brighter Shores, from one of the original makers of RuneScape. I'm hoping it gives me that seem feel rs did decades ago.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I'm done bro. I have no hope left in me after Back 4 Blood. The original creators of Left 4 Dead, totally failed to deliver a fun and interesting game. I can't believe the whole "original creator" bait anymore

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (5 children)

$8 in 2001 is about $14 now. Kinda seems like the same value is there, it's just adjusted for inflation.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

OSRS was in the $4 per month range for me when I played it when it wasn't OS. I never got it.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (2 children)

they've done a really good job culling the bots in osrs, imo the biggest hurdle in it is the long boring grinds it takes to get to midgame pvm where it starts getting really really fun.

I'd also say that if you think rs3 is the default game you are very mistaken

graph of percentage of RuneScape accounts playing osrs

osrs has been the more popular game by far for almost a decade now.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

they've done a really good job culling the bots in osrs

You're badly misinformed. Their official subreddit is rife with complaints constantly about how bad the bot problem is. Some top ranked players on high scores are bots too.

Example one where top fishing skill players are bots.

Example 2 The top 25 Bandos highscore ranks are dominated by ranged-only tick-perfect bots, with a combined kill count of 1.7 million, generating approximately 225 billion gold from Bandos sets and 50 billion gold from hilts, and similar botting issues persist across other high-level bosses and activities.

Example 3 where CVC admits they have no fucking idea how many bots there even are but that they're important to OSRS and part of the game.

The bot problem is out of control and they obviously profit from it massively, banning them takes away subscribers

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

Waiting on Brighter Shores to come out!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There are fan projects like 2009scape that you can play for free.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Perhaps Albion Online for a similar kind of game?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Never tried that. What is it?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

At low levels, a free-to-play isometric fantasy MMO.

At higher levels, a grindy gankfest.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bit of an interesting game, when I tried it a long time ago, but it was too much of a grindfest for me. Then again, I never got into Runescape either for similar reasons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

RS was a grind but it was relaxing. That's what I loved. Come home, chill, chop some trees, level some skills, be a mage and kill some bad guys for slayer. Now it's just min maxing for end game. The grind is unreal for some people, they kill the same bosses 20000 times for a pet to drop

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Come home, chill, chop some trees, level some skills, be a mage and kill some bad guys

Well, that sounds a lot like what I found in Albion Online, though I can't speak for how it's changed. From what I understand, it has some extensive guild/clan systems too, where you can work together to build larger projects and wage war with rivals.

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