is rc3 more popular than osrs

[jarnix]

so according to the rc3 website (https://www.runescape.com) the top right hand corner says 70,000 people are online, on the osrs website (oldschool.runescape.com) it says 50,000 people are online. I've heard a million people say that osrs i way more popular than rc3 but according to the statistics on the websites it's different. is there some twist or something?

[Yournewstepmom]

When you look at the 'total players online' it's a combination of OSRS and RS3's player count since they amalgamate both. Take the player count with a grain of salt however.
The player base of RS3 is inflated by Ironmen, (accounts that are limited and can't trade with other users or use the market to buy items) who are also online while someone's main is online. Simply put: almost everyone has a main account running and also an Ironman running. It's not limited to just one, I've seen people run up to 6 Ironmen at once while maining an account. This inflates the number of 'online' players substantially. This isn't limited to RS3, it's an OSRS feature as well. In reality there's about half of the player count or two thirds of the player count in that overall number which could be allocated to '1 user'. I think each version of the game has a niche and dedicated player base but overall stagnated by a false inflated player count.

[Ticma]

Check https://www.misplaceditems.com/rs_tools/graph/

[BuzzardBee]

Apart from Ironmen, don't forget that many people now are running multiple alt (back in the day we'd call them bots) but these are presumably legit accounts because someone is paying and playing them but they are still run by a single person.

OSRS is very popular but of late a lot of those players have been finally giving RS3 a chance. Many like it while others still swear by OSRS.

The numbers have always been kind of fuzzy though, for both.

[Kruenpiper]

OSRS has a massive bot problem. There are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of bots on every day. It makes it hard to see the real player numbers through the bot screen.

[Orochi Samurai]

Originally posted by Kruenpiper:

OSRS has a massive bot problem. There are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of bots on every day. It makes it hard to see the real player numbers through the bot screen.

RS3 is the same tbf, it's gotten REALLY bad over the past months.

[Phirestar]

Originally posted by Orochi Samurai:

Originally posted by Kruenpiper:

OSRS has a massive bot problem. There are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of bots on every day. It makes it hard to see the real player numbers through the bot screen.

RS3 is the same tbf, it's gotten REALLY bad over the past months.

I started playing back in February, and in my 226 hours played thus far I don’t recall ever seeing a single bot anywhere in RS3. If there are any here, they must incredibly well hidden, because I’ve been hanging out in locations all over the map to train.

[Orochi Samurai]

Originally posted by Phirestar:

Originally posted by Orochi Samurai:

RS3 is the same tbf, it's gotten REALLY bad over the past months.

I started playing back in February, and in my 226 hours played thus far I don’t recall ever seeing a single bot anywhere in RS3. If there are any here, they must incredibly well hidden, because I’ve been hanging out in locations all over the map to train.

They really aren't hidden at all, you will see them all the time either at the ge burying bones, or doing ed3 Trash Runs, same gear every single time, batwing armour, polypore staff, glory amulet and Ring and finally, an Obsidian cape, this was a hot topic last week across basically any known Runescape YT content creator that it is a massive problem, they are far from well hidden, and don't even get me on the archaeology bots that appear on free worlds...

https://youtu.be/08-mOJIaACY

https://youtu.be/r2yH4pyYdKA


I've been playing for almost 1800 hours, believe me, they're everywhere.

[Rebel]

Originally posted by Tommy Wiseau:

Originally posted by Kruenpiper:

OSRS has a massive bot problem. There are thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of bots on every day. It makes it hard to see the real player numbers through the bot screen.

Yes the amount of these ten of thousands of bots i see can be counted on one hand. Nice fanboying lies.

https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/n1l44k/there_are_currently_80879_people_playing/

[BuzzardBee]

Originally posted by Tommy Wiseau:

Originally posted by Phirestar:

I started playing back in February, and in my 226 hours played thus far I don’t recall ever seeing a single bot anywhere in RS3. If there are any here, they must incredibly well hidden, because I’ve been hanging out in locations all over the map to train.

Its rare but rs3 is dead so its rare to see anyone outside of priff. Ocassionally ill see one in the g.e corner/ wall doing magic or something along those lines.

Maybe you should visit the Sophanem Slayer Dungeon or any of the Archaeological material caches or dig sites or countless other areas in the game where hundreds of bots passing as alts are doing their thing.

[Orochi Samurai]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

Originally posted by Tommy Wiseau:

Its rare but rs3 is dead so its rare to see anyone outside of priff. Ocassionally ill see one in the g.e corner/ wall doing magic or something along those lines.

Maybe you should visit the Sophanem Slayer Dungeon or any of the Archaeological material caches or dig sites or countless other areas in the game where hundreds of bots passing as alts are doing their thing.

My point exactly.

[BuzzardBee]

It's the way things are today. Not much can be done about it. The alt accounts are paid ones which is why Jagex doesn't mind them. The thing is they're as disruptive as the illegal bots and it's really a very fine line between a lot of those alts and actual bots. Which, I suppose, is why quite a few of them are getting banned nowadays. Karma.

[Orochi Samurai]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

It's the way things are today. Not much can be done about it. The alt accounts are paid ones which is why Jagex doesn't mind them. The thing is they're as disruptive as the illegal bots and it's really a very fine line between a lot of those alts and actual bots. Which, I suppose, is why quite a few of them are getting banned nowadays. Karma.

Was having this discussion with Brilly the other day and I said exactly that, I don't have a problem with alt accounts per say, but when you have these sweats that have 20 alts farming nothing but Corrupted Scorpions, that's crossing the line, by a long shot.

[BuzzardBee]

Originally posted by Orochi Samurai:

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

It's the way things are today. Not much can be done about it. The alt accounts are paid ones which is why Jagex doesn't mind them. The thing is they're as disruptive as the illegal bots and it's really a very fine line between a lot of those alts and actual bots. Which, I suppose, is why quite a few of them are getting banned nowadays. Karma.

Was having this discussion with Brilly the other day and I said exactly that, I don't have a problem with alt accounts per say, but when you have these sweats that have 20 alts farming nothing but Corrupted Scorpions, that's crossing the line, by a long shot.

Yeah, my point too. The abuse is clear and that's probably what's causing this recent rash of alt bans.

[BuzzardBee]

Originally posted by Tommy Wiseau:

Originally posted by Orochi Samurai:

Was having this discussion with Brilly the other day and I said exactly that, I don't have a problem with alt accounts per say, but when you have these sweats that have 20 alts farming nothing but Corrupted Scorpions, that's crossing the line, by a long shot.

How would you even play 20 alts at once...

My guess is that most of them cannot be actually manually played by anyone at the same time which means that some form of macros are being used which is most definitely against the rules, paid accounts or not.

[Zentun]

OSRS has way more bots, that is why people think its more popular, RS3 has bots of course, but not like OSRS.