Just a gentle reminder that 2009Scape exists and you can play it offline with member benifits.
Lets federate it (if it hasn’t already been done)
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.
I highly doubt RS3 will outpace OSRS ever. The majority of the money Jagex pulls in is through OSRS, that’s why it gets so much more content. RS3 can be fun for the certain group of people but OSRS is just a behemoth.
It’s definitely not just about raw content. OSRS primarily exists because of the failings of RS3’s monetization and first combat rework.
Both have been MUCH improved now and finally the good of RS3 can shine, primarily the graphical fidelity, UI modernization, and combat that isn’t a pile of engine exploits discovered by players and embraced by devs who were happy to use bugs as features.
RS3 has lots of unique content that OSRS doesn’t have, with better designed bosses (I’m told) and regions like Anachronia. Even OSRS was behind RS3 in content for a long time considering it was an old fork from a previous version that the devs were cautious about updating, so there isn’t a large gap here.
I believe RS3 now has a better foundation than old school, and I suspect there will be a gradual increase in new players (and curious OSRS players) over time. As a new player that’s why I chose it over OSRS at least. I tried both and RS3 just feels way better to play.
$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.
Still the second price hike and all of that occurred right after the first price hike. Players assumed the first hike was the trade-off to get rid of MTX since that was already the discussion at the time.
RuneScape is definitely fun though, I’m not disputing that.
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.
Has WoW actually become alt friendly in the recent expansions?
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.
And WoW offers an API for plugins like boss assistants.
Well OSRS has teamed up with RuneLite which also offers an API.
Finally
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 classics never had micro transactions and still hold up and have mods. I replayed fable recently and had a lot of fun and nostalgia
I find myself replaying games 90% of the time.
Just revisiting those wonderful places. I don’t see them in the games these days but waiting on next Fallout or Elder Scroll / Dark Soul / Zelda
The time demands of raiding in WoW made me drop the game cold turkey.
I tried to play this game and it’s fucking weird
click click, click click going around in a circle a thousand times. stupid fake retro sound effects
bro, this isn’t good. this isn’t a good game. you shouldn’t be playing it. this is bad
To quote JoshStrifeHayes:
This is a Chatroom first with a game slapped onto it.
You won’t be able to fully enjoy it on your own. I like it as an experience but not as a game as I prefer other types of games.
I played the older rune scape growing up, like a lot, it was my first MMO, and also my last, since nothing else scratched the same itch.
The draw of the game, at least for me, were two things.
One: the punishment for dying was losing all but 3 of your items, so there were high stakes that made enemy encounters kinda exciting. It was pretty unique at the time, though maybe Ultima Online had that too, not sure.
Two: the quests in run escape actually slapped. Unlike literally every other MMO on the market (which had simple fetch quests or kill X amount of things quests), Rune scape had really well written, funny, interesting quests that often played like an older point’n’click adventure, many of which gave really unique and odd rewards that you could practically use in other parts of the game.
Those just blew my wee little mind back then, and I was absolutely hooked on it. I think in particular the quests would hold up, even against modern titles.
The downside was to get to those quests, you had to grind like a motherfucker to get the required skill levels to start it. That padded out the play time by hundreds of hours, but doing it with friends or chatting while you did cooked some lobster for the 300th time made it bearable, sometimes even soothing to zone out to.
I could never tolerate the grind today like 12 year old me could, it’s unbearable, but if I could play a version of runescspe that removed the grind, I’d be tempted just to play allthe quests I never got to.
In case you might be interested, there are a handful of private-servers for old school RuneScape. And they usually give you the ability to choose an XP multiplier. 2009scape for instance, gives you a 5x multiplier by default.
They’re not 100% complete recreations, but they add more quests all the time and I believe they have most skills.
Worth checking out imo. You can even download and run your own copy of their server (with some effort), and then you can tweak literally anything (again with effort and knowledge of Java)
I tried a couple of those a few years back, but even with the xp multipliers, it seemed like a bit too much of a time commitment :(
Fair, I guess at that point, it might just not be the kinda game for you. It is grindy by design, the official game, of course, wants you to stay in the game longer so you buy more subscription time.
Idk, I enjoy playing OSRS on occasion, they added sailing as a skill, and honestly it was pretty cool. Having your own boat and being able to freely sail around the entire map. I mostly play for the nostalgia though.
It certainly was my kind of game growing up when I had a lot of free time, but even then, I wasn’t super into grinding, I just did it to get to the quests, which I very much enjoyed.
If there was a server with virtually no grinding and just quests to where I could play it essentially like an online point’n’click adventure with some combat, I’d hit it for sure. :)
yeah what you’re saying is what I’ve often heard about it. it’s a nostalgia thing. it’s the MMO that they played as a kid and that’s why they like it. they like remembering being a baby or something
Uhh, no? I pointed out the good parts about it that stand out even to this day, and that I had a much higher tolerance for endless grinding when I was younger (the clear negative of the game).
Your response is leads me to believe you only read the first few words of my comment.
thank you susan
I just started like 3 months ago and I’m fucking obsessed. It’s so zen and grindy and full of content both old and fuck and super fresh.
You can pay as much or as little attention as you want and still make progress in a million different interconnecting ways.
It’s machine that turns a monthly subscription into compressed nostalgia
Runescape is kinda fun but it’s not worth nearly that much for a single character.
