Do you lose your OSRS membership if you die as a hardcore ironman in RS3

[Abune]

it mentioned something about losing your membership when i selected it, its also my linked account for osrs

[Aeden]

Death in RS3 does not affect OSRS.

[Wolfie]

perhaps you should pay more attention, it does not mention anywhere about losing membership for dying. The only link OSRS and RS3 have is that membership subscription is shared between them, meaning if you sub to one, you can be members in the other, in what universe would dying remove your paid subscription for a separate game let alone within the same game, if you die as HCIM you drop to a normal ironman, membership untouched and continue on your way

[BuzzardBee]

https://runescape.wiki/w/Ironman_Mode

I bring your attention to this paragraph in particular:

"Hardcore Ironmen deaths do not affect the Old School RuneScape game in any way."

Please read through this page carefully for all restrictions. Hardcore ironmen have only ONE LIFE. When they die, their account is switched to normal Ironman Mode. Prior to a change on July 13, 2020, Hardcore Ironmen who lost their last life would have their account locked, which is what I believe the OP is referring to. But since this update, their accounts just switch to Normal Ironman mode, regardless of whether they'd d bought a jar of divine light.

https://runescape.wiki/w/Jar_of_divine_light

So, short answer is NO. You do not lose your membership is you die as Hardcore Ironman in RS3 because your character is then downgraded to normal Ironman. And any way you look at it, none of this affects your OSRS account since it is considered separate from your RS3 account.

You can have a normal character in OSRS while playing as a Hardcore Ironman in RS3. If you die in RS3, then your character becomes a Normal Ironman but your regular character in OSRS remains unaffected by the death in RS3.

Hope that clears it up for you.

[Wolfie]

Originally posted by BuzzardBee:

https://runescape.wiki/w/Ironman_Mode

I bring your attention to this paragraph in particular:

"Hardcore Ironmen deaths do not affect the Old School RuneScape game in any way."

Please read through this page carefully for all restrictions. Hardcore ironmen have only ONE LIFE. When they die, their account is switched to normal Ironman Mode. Prior to a change on July 13, 2020, Hardcore Ironmen who lost their last life would have their account locked, which is what I believe the OP is referring to. But since this update, their accounts just switch to Normal Ironman mode, regardless of whether they'd d bought a jar of divine light.

https://runescape.wiki/w/Jar_of_divine_light

So, short answer is NO. You do not lose your membership is you die as Hardcore Ironman in RS3 because your character is then downgraded to normal Ironman. And any way you look at it, none of this affects your OSRS account since it is considered separate from your RS3 account.

You can have a normal character in OSRS while playing as a Hardcore Ironman in RS3. If you die in RS3, then your character becomes a Normal Ironman but your regular character in OSRS remains unaffected by the death in RS3.

Hope that clears it up for you.

very informative, did they really lock accounts?, sounds like a dumb design decision, i play a 16 year old account so i have never touched HCIM but if my account got locked because of a death i'd be extremely pissed off.

[BuzzardBee]

Yeah, they did. The idea behind that decision was to make it all the more intense. If you blew it as a HCIM, you'd have to start over again with a brand new account. I'm guessing that kind of got old quick enough to warrant the changes.

I too have never bothered with HCIM because I invest too much of myself and my time to ever want my character to go bye-bye permanently. It's why I dislike games with permadeath. I don't usually need much reason to stop playing a game. If it's buggy and glitchy as hell and tends to crash more often than not, I'm already looking for that uninstall button. But permadeath just seems counterproductive to when trying to sell gameplay and interest in a game.

I mean I do get it that some see the challenge as worth the trouble. I'm not one of them.

PS: I recall not being able to stop laughing when I saw a universal broadcast of some HCIM who had died of thirst in the desert. Yes, well done and thanks so much for the laughter. This was about 3 years ago and I still remember it fondly.