I have 5000+ hours, I can't recommend the game in its current state.

[Krausladen]

This game is brought to steam exclusively because the game is practically and rightfully dead. This is their last straw to squeeze every last drop out of a 20 year old game. When it dies on steam, it dies for good.

Just because a game is going to die does not mean it is due your support. Jagex has had 20 years to evolve and release a new game with a better system. Instead, they've reinvented their grind time and time again. It's the most repetitive game ever made, and I'm not even joking. It nearly ruined my childhood, and I'm not even joking.

This game is solely built to be addictive and now more than ever is slated towards people who suffer from impulsive and depressive disorders - and it conditions you to be impulsive if you are not already. This conditioning comes from the games repetitive and grindy nature. Speeding up the near impossible grind to level 99 in a skill is how they monetize the game, and for what? It takes no skill in a game about leveling up skills. Some people would argue that it requires skills, but that is not true. The game is almost entirely click based, there's some pattern recognition to avoid hits and landing hits, but that's it.

You log in for the first time and all of your so called skills are level 1. It takes over 13 million xp to reach level 99 and over 100 million xp to reach 120. Most skills take over 100 hours of sitting their clicking to do the same animations repetitively and even more if you don't have all the boosts. Where it gets addictive is that you level up 98 times before you're maxed in a skill and every time you level up, you unlock a new item to craft, fish or build. There is an economy, trade and all of this stuff to build status over your peers.

You will never reach the limit. People have been pouring 10's of thousands of hours of their literal life into building a meaningless avatar and at this point it is impossible to catch up without throwing your life away.

To parents - Do Not Let Your Kids Play This Game. There is a vulgar and cruel segment in this community of players that sets out to exploit new players - often times luring you or tricking you into making a mistake that will cost hundreds or thousands of hours of progress in just seconds. It's possible to lose hundreds of dollars in real world money invested in progress - there is no limit on the cost of certain mistakes.

The game is not built for you to enjoy, it is built to suck you in and make it nearly impossible to give up.

[Krausladen]

Just uninstall the game man, trust me it's not worth the time investment... If you want a game that will be skill based and grindy there are far better options such as black desert - while that game is about as bad for your mental health in terms of game addiction, at least you'll have the dignity to say you're playing something beautiful. I'm probably actually over 10,000 hours into runescape, I quit a few years ago when it began to impact my adult relationships around me. I'm not kidding when I said it nearly ruined my childhood either. The amount of time that I put into this game as a kid makes me want to throw up just thinking about it.

[Primechronus]

Originally posted by Nelsons other eye:

Dead? 140k players online before the steam release ? and that's only the ones online
A LOT of games would be happy to have that over a week let alone online at the same time

RS3 and Antiqueboomer osrs combined

Half of the osrs players are bots.

[Krausladen]

Probably more than half, and another 30% is all afk bs.

[Primechronus]

Originally posted by Nelsons other eye:

Originally posted by Primechronus:

Half of the osrs players are bots.

yep cant argue with that, half bots half boomers

RS3 is pretty bot free though, or at least I don't see them anymore

You're correct I haven't see any bots in RS3 and that's reason why osrs enjoy playing there version because they can get it away with botting.

[Witcher Pie]

OP just because you can't handle your addictive personality and haven't seen a doctor doesn't mean it's the game's fault.

I'm 700m + total xp atm, with 2.5k hours, maxed already from 2k hours. It's not that big of a deal.

I grinded runescape hard (and LoL at the same time), but I also went to my job and to the gym, and my social life was pretty fine, in times it got out of hand for sure, but I managed to set boundaries on what i want to achieve, nobody in their right minds will start RS with a gold of getting 200m xp in each skill (which will take grinding 7 years to do so btw) so don't worry.

After getting maxed which shouldn't take THAT long, you can chill and do whatever. Stop making the game seem problematic when in reality you are.

I enjoyed all the grind, and have some good memories playing till 6am in the morning daily lol.
It was fun, I wouldn't do it all over again, but I'm glad I managed to achieve what I wanted after working hard for it.

It's worth it comparable with other mmos, your hard work doesn't get removed/resets or something in new patch or next expansions lol. What you achieved, stays forever.

[Harlequin]

Originally posted by Krausladen:

This game is solely built to be addictive and now more than ever is slated towards people who suffer from impulsive and depressive disorders - and it conditions you to be impulsive if you are not already. This conditioning comes from the games repetitive and grindy nature. Speeding up the near impossible grind to level 99 in a skill is how they monetize the game, and for what? It takes no skill in a game about leveling up skills. Some people would argue that it requires skills, but that is not true. The game is almost entirely click based, there's some pattern recognition to avoid hits and landing hits, but that's it.

Ah yes, every single MMO that was ever made

[Whatever]

http://www.misplaceditems.com/rs_tools/graph/ - nice graphical representation of OSRS vs RS3 population. Notice how RS3 is still dead even with Steam lmao. Ima keep playing it though, ngl.

[DarkEternal]

So because you got addicted to a game as a child and that addiction continued into adulthood, all the while you didn't seek help for it, suddenly that means that we should play something else?
Show us on the doll where RS3 touched you.

[Aquasword480]

Originally posted by Whatever:

http://www.misplaceditems.com/rs_tools/graph/ - nice graphical representation of OSRS vs RS3 population. Notice how RS3 is still dead even with Steam lmao. Ima keep playing it though, ngl.

As always another ignorant person who doesn't understand how these graphs work. This graph is good for trends and deltas but that's about it. It doesn't show you when people are logged off, it doesn't show you how many people play the game over time, it just shows you how many are currently playing at the moment.

When you understand the graph you see some interesting data such as how RS3's peaks are proportionally higher and OSRS valleys are proportionally lower. This is talking from the baseline not the explosions where things suddenly dip or spike severely. The data of the baselines shows us that RS3 is in a fairly steady and consistent uptick in players after the original exodus to OSRS. Meanwhile OSRS seems to be much more unstable with how quickly it seems to lose its new players, looking at the graph you can spot the point mobile is released and how in short time it returned to almost pre-mobile numbers. Mind you it's still in a consistent uptick even if it has much more severe drops.

The overall showing is that RS as a property and a whole has only overall improved in its player numbers over the years which is thriving at roughly a total consistent population of 120,000. This also lines up with how jagex has increased its profit flow.

[chancan]

Originally posted by Nelsons other eye:

Dead? 140k players online before the steam release ? and that's only the ones online
A LOT of games would be happy to have that over a week let alone online at the same time

RS3 and Antiqueboomer osrs combined

https://www.runescape.com/community

147k online atm

75% of the online players number are from OSRS. RS3 is so dead that they have to inflate their player number using OSRS' playerbase

[Doctor G]

Originally posted by Krausladen:

This game is solely built to be addictive and now more than ever is slated towards people who suffer from impulsive and depressive disorders - and it conditions you to be impulsive if you are not already. .

sounds like the perfect game for Millennials impulsive and depressive disorders, THE EARTH IS GOING TO DIE IN 5 YEARS -Millennial QUOTE LOLOLOLOL

[Billy T.T]

Originally posted by Krausladen:

Just uninstall the game man, trust me it's not worth the time investment... If you want a game that will be skill based and grindy there are far better options such as black desert - while that game is about as bad for your mental health in terms of game addiction, at least you'll have the dignity to say you're playing something beautiful. I'm probably actually over 10,000 hours into runescape, I quit a few years ago when it began to impact my adult relationships around me. I'm not kidding when I said it nearly ruined my childhood either. The amount of time that I put into this game as a kid makes me want to throw up just thinking about it.

it ♥♥♥♥♥♥ my childhood i want it to die

[TyphonCh]

Returning player here after 8 years. Combat level 105, mid - high in all other skills aside from the newer ones.

It's an MMO. I'm not playing to 'win' or 'beat the game'. I'm playing to have fun. Don't make Runescape out to be some malicious, exploitive experience. Any MMO, tons of modern multiplayer games, and most mobile games for that matter, follows the same grindy, repetitive play style.

[hawley.kevin]

rs3 or osrs dead lol

[Hells Malice]

aka go play Oldschool. Most players are jumping ship because, shockingly, listening to the community actually makes good content. Amazing.