Anyone here remember runescape?

Mdl518

CrowsDescend wrote: »

Shame they changed it so much. Loved the video that you posted btw, brought back so many great memories.

It's funny because I was on YouTube one night watching eso videos and that popped up in the suggested videos.this videos the whole reason I made this post lol really brought me back

Molag_Crow

@Mdl518 Ahh I see, well.. it's a good job it did pop up, then!


Who else is getting that old Runescape PvP feeling back with Telvar Stones in Imperial city?

I have yet to experience Imperial city, but I know it'll give me the same adrenaline I used to get when I went into the Wildy with gear worth a few million. Rushing back to the bank with loot from enemy players...

F7sus4

Wut?

Belidos

Remember Runescape?

You say that as if it's something really old that died off a long time ago and isn't running any more.

You don't need to "remember" Runescape, it's still there and going strong with millions of players, iirc it's the second or third highest mmo in terms of subscription still.

Is this what we can expect from the latest generation of gamers? Flitting from game to game with short term memories, and nostalgia for something that's still there, next someone will be posting "remember that piece of toast I ate last week?" threads

DeeBeet

"dyeing armour for free" - random guy in grahtwood
Seems legit.

Molag_Crow

Millions of players? barely, so many players quit. Most of the subs are there playing OSRS, but I doubt there's more than there used to be because apparently its peak was 200k players online, in like.. 2007 or something, not sure.

Belidos

CrowsDescend wrote: »

Millions of players? barely, so many players quit. Most of the subs are there playing OSRS, but I doubt there's more than there used to be because apparently its peak was 200k players online, in like.. 2007 or something, not sure.

Check the Guinness book of records, they have the record for the most accounts ever created in an online game, well over 200 million.

Active and online are two different numbers, it's a multi-region game, so while there could be 100k online at one time, a couple of hours later there could be 100k different players online and so on, I was talking about active not online.

Also, one of the numbers we do actually see for RS is the high score board, back in Feb the high score board topped out at around 500,000 people on the board, that's roughly the top 20% to 30% of the active player base, which puts a guesstimate of the active players at the time around 2 to 2.5 million.

Molag_Crow

Belidos wrote: »

CrowsDescend wrote: »

Millions of players? barely, so many players quit. Most of the subs are there playing OSRS, but I doubt there's more than there used to be because apparently its peak was 200k players online, in like.. 2007 or something, not sure.

Check the Guinness book of records, they have the record for the most accounts ever created in an online game, well over 200 million.

That's insane, never knew... but still! the amount online at one time would surely be smaller than it used to be, I think...

Anlaemar

I stopped playing about the time "RS3" was released. I have about 7.8k hours invested in my character, sadly. There went my childhood.

Belidos

CrowsDescend wrote: »

Belidos wrote: »

CrowsDescend wrote: »

Millions of players? barely, so many players quit. Most of the subs are there playing OSRS, but I doubt there's more than there used to be because apparently its peak was 200k players online, in like.. 2007 or something, not sure.

Check the Guinness book of records, they have the record for the most accounts ever created in an online game, well over 200 million.

That's insane, never knew... but still! the amount online at one time would surely be smaller than it used to be, I think...

True, but online at one time doesn't equate to active, those online at any one time are only a fraction of those with active subscriptions, they could still have millions of people playing, even if it only shows say 80k online at a time, it's spread out over time.

This is why I never understood why most companies won't announce numbers, I think it would curb a lot (not all, there's always some) of the old "X game is dying" posts if we had hard numbers, because people see things like less people playing at their time of play and start thinking the game is dying, when it turns out that he games still going strong because ten time that number are still playing an hour after they log and so on. At least with a hard number of active players (say a monthly announcement that states "X number of unique accounts were logged on and playing of the last month" ) they can see it's not dying.

Ravici

Pfft I miss the MUDs.

I can't remember the last time I visited one of them

Probably the time I wrote a whole section of new material to add to the game world. About 10yrs or so I guess.

Mdl518

Belidos wrote: »

Remember Runescape?

You say that as if it's something really old that died off a long time ago and isn't running any more.

You don't need to "remember" Runescape, it's still there and going strong with millions of players, iirc it's the second or third highest mmo in terms of subscription still.

Is this what we can expect from the latest generation of gamers? Flitting from game to game with short term memories, and nostalgia for something that's still there, next someone will be posting "remember that piece of toast I ate last week?" threads

Lol obviously we all played older versions of runescape When we were younger....just saw a video and wanted to remenisce a little bit. Runescape is definitly not the same game it was back in 04-05...so your comment on flitting game to game and short term memories is irrelevant because obviously if we're talking about years ago when we played then how is that short term memory? should we change it to anyone here remember runescape the way it was back when you played it years ago to make you feel better?

Belidos

Mdl518 wrote: »

Belidos wrote: »

Remember Runescape?

You say that as if it's something really old that died off a long time ago and isn't running any more.

You don't need to "remember" Runescape, it's still there and going strong with millions of players, iirc it's the second or third highest mmo in terms of subscription still.

Is this what we can expect from the latest generation of gamers? Flitting from game to game with short term memories, and nostalgia for something that's still there, next someone will be posting "remember that piece of toast I ate last week?" threads

Lol obviously we all played older versions of runescape When we were younger....just saw a video and wanted to remenisce a little bit. Runescape is definitly not the same game it was back in 04-05...so your comment on flitting game to game and short term memories is irrelevant because obviously if we're talking about years ago when we played then how is that short term memory? should we change it to anyone here remember runescape the way it was back when you played it years ago to make you feel better?

There are two versions of Runescape live at the moment, the new RS3 and a classic server, both are still doing very well.

sickboy2808

Played it for many years through great updates and very bad updates. EOC made me quit as imo it wasnt RS anymore so i got out. Was thinking of going back to OSRS to get 99 Agilty again,but havent got time these days. Would never play the main game again

Mdl518

Belidos wrote: »

Mdl518 wrote: »

Belidos wrote: »

Remember Runescape?

You say that as if it's something really old that died off a long time ago and isn't running any more.

You don't need to "remember" Runescape, it's still there and going strong with millions of players, iirc it's the second or third highest mmo in terms of subscription still.

Is this what we can expect from the latest generation of gamers? Flitting from game to game with short term memories, and nostalgia for something that's still there, next someone will be posting "remember that piece of toast I ate last week?" threads

Lol obviously we all played older versions of runescape When we were younger....just saw a video and wanted to remenisce a little bit. Runescape is definitly not the same game it was back in 04-05...so your comment on flitting game to game and short term memories is irrelevant because obviously if we're talking about years ago when we played then how is that short term memory? should we change it to anyone here remember runescape the way it was back when you played it years ago to make you feel better?

There are two versions of Runescape live at the moment, the new RS3 and a classic server, both are still doing very well.

I don't doubt it...great game I just kind of grew out of it at the time and I would definitely play old school again but just to see it not to be competitive

Justice31st

Belidos wrote: »

Remember Runescape?

You say that as if it's something really old that died off a long time ago and isn't running any more.

You don't need to "remember" Runescape, it's still there and going strong with millions of players, iirc it's the second or third highest mmo in terms of subscription still.

Is this what we can expect from the latest generation of gamers? Flitting from game to game with short term memories, and nostalgia for something that's still there, next someone will be posting "remember that piece of toast I ate last week?" threads

I think it needs to be said. As a Runescape 1 classic player, my account is from 2001; I lost membership for a month and now I am no longer able to play Runescape classic ever again. So yes, for me Runescape isn't still there. It is not only nostalgia but now it's obsolete.

Lightninvash

YeOldeGamer wrote: »

Defeating Jad for my Fire Cape is my most proud video gaming moment ever.

I never achieved this maybe because I never tried I was max cb lvl minus summoning just didn't wna spend the time in there haha

sickboy2808

I tried Jad many times and couldnt beat him ha. You needed the cape for a certain slayer monster though i cant remember which one? In the end i gave up but they eventually let you buy something so u didnt have to beat Jad

Mdl518

I stopped playing right before that stuff....I think farming and player owned housing was one of the last updated I was around for

likelolwhat

I still remember my character's name. Aphthemis. Aphrodite+Athena+Artemis. I thought I was so clever...

sickboy2808

Got 99 farmimg and 97 con lol,of course before it went crap

kalimar44

That game sucked. Everest is the true MMO king. No game since has come close to that game. Runescape was for little immature kids.

mrskinskull

Mdl518 wrote: »

Just wanted to see how man u people here played runescape back in the day. That game stole alot of my time when I was younger...good times lol

I remember carrying around my prayer book and preaching in falador lol

You rp'd as an evangelical?

Whut?

Mdl518

I don't know if anyone else feels this way

kalimar44 wrote: »

That game sucked. Everest is the true MMO king. No game since has come close to that game. Runescape was for little immature kids.

Lol?

Mdl518

All little kids are immature lol and yes I was younger when I played it....

sickboy2808

Its amazing how people always say it was kids that played, the Quests were really difficult with great puzzles where you actually had to use your brain and not just go fletch this or go talk to such and such or kill x amount of crap and quest complete. The Quests were amazing written and the best ive ever played. You were defo a mature player if you could do the quests without guides. I was a mature player and so was the person that showed me the game

Molag_Crow

sickboy2808 wrote: »

Its amazing how people always say it was kids that played, the Quests were really difficult with great puzzles where you actually had to use your brain and not just go fletch this or go talk to such and such or kill x amount of crap and quest complete. The Quests were amazing written and the best ive ever played. You were defo a mature player if you could do the quests without guides. I was a mature player and so was the person that showed me the game

Very true. I think the quests were some of the hardest quests I've ever experienced in any game.

sickboy2808

Yes they were very very difficult. Nothing i have exprienced again

Molag_Crow

The sense of achievement I got from doing desert treasure, recipe for disaster and the load of other quests for those cool new prayers, you know.. turmoil, etc.. was crazy!

sickboy2808

Yes it was a great achievement. I loved all the skills that were avaiable also which ESO lacks imo