>80% of the game is locked behind a paywall Why the fuck

>>386726391
as opposed to overwatch, which is 100% behind a paywall? or any modern game? or WoW which is also 80% behind a paywall if you consider the trial? or maybe you're thinking about battlefield 1 which, coincidentally, is also 100% behind a paywall

no but really just off yourself OP

>>386726391
because its worth $10 a month

>>386726391
It was free and I could play it on my toaster back when our internet was still connected to our phone landline or at the shit pcs at the local library after school

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>>386726391
RuneScape is open-world done right, the entire F2P area is enough to be satisfying and you don't have to spend a dime

>>386726391
I dunno, man. If I recall correctly back when I played this for just five dollars you'd get the whole fucking world.
Now there's membership levels or some shit like that.

>>386728031
Nah anon, it's still the same as it used to be.
Except now they have a real money store for cosmetics and they have box openings.

>>386728031
no its the same shit, membership for a month, $7, three or one year

the only difference is you can also buy it with ingame currency

>>386728106
that applies to the shit version of the game, not the real one

>>386728142
osrs is shit. It preys on people weak nostalgia.
RS3 is growing everyday, with things being decided by people who know the game, not the cancerous playbase.

>>386726391
I'm okay with that it's basically a better version of a free trial in most other mmorpgs.

>>386729528
and would you say that these 'people that know the game' have made good decisions in the past decade?

>2002
>13 years old
>Huge fantasy nerd
>Look at this novel game where you and your friends can wander around a fantasy landscape for free
Sold.

>>386729528
>Majority of players don't know what they want
>Let these elitist pricks decide for you
That uh, that doesn't make any sense you fucking fascists.

>>386728142
>AHUR EOC IZ SO DUM XD!!
kys my man


I was so down for 07scape at first because the fucking retards in the playerbase ruined it.
>waahhh GE ruined runescape trading
>players start begging for GE within a month

>waaahhh I don't like losing items where are gravestones
>beg for them to be added

>waahh GWD gear ruined pvp balance
>beg for GWD to be added

Now there's so much shit in the game it's unrecognizable from 07scape. It shouldn't even be called oldschool anymore.

Plus a huge portion of the population of OSRS is bots now. RS3 has essentially zero bots. Really is hilarious when people argue the population of the game and ignore this fast. RS3 is barely under 07's population but with zero bots, so real players numbers are most likely higher. I believe a jmod actually confirmed this on stream too, saying 07 players are more active but have half the overall subscriber count as rs3.

>>386729528
keep buying spins to support the osrs team, goy

>>386726623
Explain the overwatch part

I wasnt a fan of it but what do you mean?

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>>386730890

>>386726391
It was unironically the best browser game at the time unless you were into Adventurequest

>>386730948
You have to buy overwatch to play it

>>386731420

i don't understand why this is a problem

>>386726391
So is runescape worth getting back into again?
I haven't played it for like 13 years.

>>386729528
>things being decided by people who know the game
It should be illegal to be this funny

>>386731618
No. RS3 is full of pay to win microtransactions and is gaudy as fuck while OSRS is run by SJW memelords

>>386731806
The writing for both is terrible too. Zeah is a fukchueg waste of effort, while 3's new quests are laughable at best and depressing when you compare them to their predecessors.

>>386726391
I'll be honest what lured me in was being able to cook shrimp. That shit was so amazing that everything else was frosting.

>>386726391
The f2p portion of the game was pretty damn great during an era where f2p was not in vogue. Was there even a better option for a f2p game during the early rs2 era (~2004-2006)? Not to mention it ran in a browser on even the crappiest pc.

In fact I can't remember when the f2p microtransaction trend started to kick off. Was it around 2010? Until other mmos started offering their stuff for free, rs was unique in this field.

>>386726391
>90% of the game is behind a paywall
>they still have the audacity to say they're the #1 free to play game

It'd be near impossible to get enough ingame gold to buy a single bond if you never had membership to start with/without spending any money.

>>386731493
I know you're trolling, but he's saying that you have to pay to play most games that are worthwhile. So saying you have to pay to play 80% of Runescape is a non-issue

>>386726391
i had no other game to play

>>386732784
But that's not true, people have said they've done it before and in the end all it really takes is patience.

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>>386726391
>not being able to scrounge up the measly 5m a month for bonds

Because there was nothing else to play in 2006 and the F2P area was fucking big with lots of content back in the day

>>386733039
>he's paying THEM to be able to play THEIR game (not counting the SPARE TIME you sacrificed)
WoooW

>>386733039
>5m

bonds are like 50m what are you smoking

>tfw you finally convinced your parents to pay for the membership fee
>tfw that sense of awe when you step into a members only area for the first time and it feels like you're walking into a massive new world

>>386726391
Played it because all my friends were playing it. That's about it.

>>386726623
>everything is behind a paywall if you think about it
wow anon rly made me think.........

>>386734105
>tfw only got it for one month but that one month felt like an eternity

>>386734105
I used to use the pay by phone method and physically give my parents the cost of membership. While it meant I wasn't grandfathered in to cheaper membership when they eventually raised the prices, it meant I could let my membership lapse if that month's Behind the Scenes looked shit.

>>386726391
It was free and kids either didn't have enough money or didn't have a pc at all, so they would go to libraries and play this.

>>386733719
OSRS

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>mfw doing Priest in Peril

>>386734105
>walking into catherby for the first time actually felt like walking into a fishing port town despite no boats
>that trek to ardy
>walking north to fremmy
>doing the trials and isles quest
>getting your legends cape

What an anomalous game.

>>386726391
What are you talking about?
Members makes the game way too easy.
Not only that but there's a lot less than 80% of the game behind a paywall, only 40% of the game is behind a paywall and it's all of the shitty parts of the game too.

>>386726391
No base game to buy and any toaster can run it. Non-members actually lasts awhile if you are new as well.

>>386737157
>it's all of the shitty parts of the game too.
t. poorfag

>>386726391
Is getting member worth it on OSRS?
I only played F2P for a few months back in 2006-

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>>386736915
>"Ayo king, priest dude told me some dog in the basement was bothering him so I went and stabbed it a few times"
>"YOU WHAT?"
Jagex did good in making the player character a total mongoloid.

>>386737250
Get all the f2p quests and stuff done first than yeah. Being f2p forever is like [bad food analogy]

>>386737273
I miss being just some adventurer making snarky remarks at people instead of the chosen one

>>386726391
Play deadman mode instead

>>386737915
Too bad herblore and mining/smithing is hell as an iron man.

I played it for the PvP mostly. Me and my buds in high school would have wildy fight clubs and sometimes just go out and slay scrubs at that dark knight castle. Was fun.

>Sizeable demo that lasts for level 1-50
>OMG JEWISH DEVS

Is it RunEscape, RunesCape, RunescApe, or RuneScape?

>>386737998
Just pay the iron price my dude

>>386738090
The logo has a sword separating the words for a reason you know.

>>386738196
RuneSwordScape?
RunesWordsCape?
RuneSwordsCape?
RuneswOrdscApe?
I still don't get it

>>386738583
have my le upboat sir :^)

>>386730884
>elitism is bad
improve urself, my man

>>386738090
>>386738196
>>386738583
See what you've done?

i played runscape when i was like 12. is it still good 16 years later? which runescape should i play? what's the difference?

>>386726391
I can't wait for this https://www.runescape.com/info/mobile
coming this winter for old school runescape
lmao
then I'll be able to waste time on the go!

>>386732784
took me 2 weeks last year to get enough gold for membership

>>386738980
OSRS is alright.
Theres raids now, some stuff is casualized, some stayed the same. RS3 is a completely different game.

RS3 is heavy on p2w, OSRS is technically p2w, but less so because most people buy dont buy bonds to flip.

>>386739235
so play osrs... thx

It was one of the few MMORPGs that actually got regular updates desu pretty much had one every single week in it's prime

RuneScape is the first game I realized I stopped playing it.
I don't think I ever really liked it, once the novelty of it being new wore off, I only played looking to see if my friends were online. As they stopped playing because of homework or other games or just burnt out, I logged on less and less.
It's also the first time a grill was better than me at a video game. Sure that means nothing now, but being young and girls being icky it was interesting to think about "are girls normal too??".

>>386739305
RS3 definitely has its merits though.
Its bossing is top-tier, quests being VA'd, looks extremely pretty now. Theyve gotten pretty crazy with the primordial gods and different planes. As well as Invention which is basically weapon crafting and modding.

I'd say its definitely worth trying if you can get over the p2w and the ridiculous cosmetic influx that is pretty immersion breaking.

>>386738020
Who here remembers castle wars?

>>386740008
Fist of guthix > ice barrage hell

>>386740008
Castle Wars was pretty much my favorite thing to do in RS back in the day. Shame the community now only does things if there is some huge reward now instead of for FUN so it's dead. That's a problem with OSRS, you can bring back the old game but you can't bring back the old community. All that's left is a bunch of hyper efficiency autists.

>>386726391
>wall
get a job poorfag

>>386740008
Collapsing the tunnels on people was fun as fuck

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tfw have 5223 hours in runescape, only one 99 because majority of it was spent dicking around in clan wars

>>386741484
If you enjoyed yourself that's all that matters

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>tfw my friend got me into this game
>tfw I haven't seen him in about 9 years
>despite the fact he lives less than a minute from me

>>386743910
Same thing here. I used to talk to him all the time back when we went to school but I haven't seen him in 8 years even though he lives just around the corner from me.

>>386740332
This.
>oh boy! I can't wait to try my new GS!
>eeeeeeeoooooiii... *PSHSHSHSING*
>GOD
>3 ags specs back to back
>DAMMIT

I remember scouring the net for free chat sites that people from brighthouse, MSN, and AOL could all chat on in middle school. Then Dalton tells me about this hip shit called 'rs'.

>>386726681
Weird you say that since the game has always been CPU-bound and cpu-intensive at the same time.

>>386732710

Right around when TF2 went F2P is when I remember it taking off.

>>386732784
lolwut I just made 1.5 million gp flipping shit on GE in 3 days of making a new account.

>>386744885
What margains do you aim for? Can't find a popular item with more than a 5gp margain.

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>cutting trees for an entire day without getting bored
>asking your dad to translate quest dialogue
>farming goblins for 5k gold a day
>killing cows and selling hide on the grand exchange

Fuck I miss those times

>>386744981
That sounds like a horrible waste of childhood time. Luckily I made an autistic guy my friend years ago and he still grinds my mmo accounts.

>>386744981
>nostalgic over GE times

underage pls go

>>386744948
I'm not about to reveal how I make money, specially because the item I was flipping hasn't sold any since last night. You just have to think for yourself, things that are hard to buy and which people would sell for regular price, so you mass buy them and sell them all overpriced on GE.

>>386745130
played it before those times also

>>386745150
I'm not asking you for items specifically. It was a pedantically asked question and I would like for you to answer it. Thank you.

>>386745204
Any margin is a good margin. What really matters is how fast you can sell it.

>>386745204
>>386745324
Also, I was getting around 3k each piece.

>>386745324
I see. Do you use those gimmicky websites with realtime buy/sell tracking and shit?

>>386731876
>RS3's quests are bad
Not even close. Majority of the new quests are great.

>>386745385
No, I just buy and sell stuff. I started selling salmons from lumbridge until I made around 50k, pretty easy actually, then I started buying and selling random stuff to see what I could use to flip.

>>386744981
>grand exchange
>those times

What the fuck?

>mining rune essence and selling them to members before Jagex decided to make "pure essence"
>buying all the Death and Chaos runes at the rune shop in Port Sarim and selling them in World 1
>Using telekinesis to steal Wine of Zamorak from the monks and selling it to members

>>386738980
RS3 is great with loads of great content. True, you can use real money to boost your shit character but you don't need to. Nor should you.

Anyone who claims it's bad but OSRS is good needs to be killed. There's a limit to nostalgiafaggotry.

>>386745479
It's limpuwrt roots, isn't it?

>>386745480
I'm only 19 and I started to play in 2006

>>386745675
>I'm only 19
bye

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>tfw staying out late at the public library completing prince ali rescue with my brother
>completing dragon slayer after an inventory of lobsters and a corpserun
>finally getting a membership and being able to see the rest of the game

What was the first thing you did when you got membership?

>made a beeline to Castle Wars and get my shit wrecked

>>386746089
Go to the big gnome village and train fletching and agility. Why was that place so comfy?

>>386746089
Did the dragon long sword quest I think

>>386746089
Animal Magnetism for the backpack.

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Tfw you will never play a game with quests as good as Runescape's

>>386746312
ESO isn't too far but RS still beats it.

>>386746089
Went to Camelot and started flaxing for bank. Then eventually I took multiple tours of the whole map by feet. Felt bad I couldn't access some places yet because of levels but I went back to Karamja to train and do the jungle quest. Although that one dragon dagger quest too fucking forever and I don't think I ever finished.

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>100% of the game is behind a paywall
wtf?? And people say it's a classic?

>>386738090
>>386738583

It's RuneScape. From what I understand, just like you can admire a landscape or a cityscape (equivalent to a landscape view of a city), they came up with "RuneScape" as the equivalent to their magical world, which can be admired as a "landscape of runes", as in fantasy

>>386746312
just play rs3. still fucking fun BUT THERE ARE ONLY GOING TO BE 3 FUCKING QUEST THIS YEAR REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>386740008
>>386740334

Same. I spent days upon days on end playing Castle Wars. I wish I could have this much fun on videogames currently

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>>386726623

>you have to purchase a video game to play it

Hmmm...

>>386746089
Tough one, I remember just walking through the gate with my friend and typing "we're kings now" or something like that.
I think I went to get a house right after

>>386726391
I just paid for it. Why would anyone play F2P?

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Where were you when merch guilds destroyed the economy

Why is OP such a fag, he confuses the Demo with the rest of the game? That said, it was quite some good shit.

>>386749286
>expecting rune to stay the same when new tiers keep coming out
But yeah the GE and merch pyramid schemes were a mistake.

>>386749378
I really liked the bank clipboard trading they had going on at one point in osrs. Add the guy to friends, meet up, and haggle.

>>386749467
Yeah that was amazing, and it totally fits with the style of the game Runescape is
A shame really

>>386746089
I was always fishing at Karamja so the first thing I did was hit the fishing guild to stack up 10k sharks to sell.

>>386744765
I don't know what to say, ran fine on our pc that struggled to run vanilla WoW

>>386749818
That's simply because there are no more than 20 polygons at any given time on-screen, and the resolution is 320x240

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>Silverlight quest has cutscenes

>>386750052
Right, but my original point why I played it was that it ran on my toaster

Are there any other MMO with quests done right?
Quests un this game actually felt like anew adventure

>>386751503
There aren't even many other games with good quests, much less MMOs.

>>386751503
The number 1 reason that RS had good quests is because it combined classic RPG with point-and-click-adventure style gameplay

>>386733039
its only 2.5 mil on osrs AKA the best one

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>>386737006
You are literally me

>>386745601
dont listen to this faggot. His shit opinion is shit. Tried oldschool for the nostalgia, stayed for the endless grind and something to do while doing nothing at work. Shit sucks you in, yo.

RS3 is objectively trash. WoW ripoff, that also came up short of trying to be WoW.

what f2p skill should i level, so that once i get a bond i can immediately start making a lot of money from that f2p skill?

>>386758789
Combat