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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Other MMOs wish they could have been RuneScape

[–] Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I'm not sure it's really the same kind of thing. I'd argue anyone who is genuinely interested in an MMO would like a different game better. RuneScape has more in common with an AOL chatroom or text based game than a moden MMO even by the standards for an MMO way back when.

Other games wish they were WOW and WOW is a bad game imo.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Some people still have strong possitive feelings for AIM.

Runescape outlived WoW and all the rest because people preferred it.

[–] Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

In 2009 RuneScape had ~200,000 daily players. WoW had ~5.5 million.

Current estimates are RuneScape at ~150,000 and I'm being generous. WoW is at ~1.1 million.

I don't like WoW either, but it's the king for a reason.

That reason is they paid addiction specialists to tune drop rates and combat to make children addicted to their product.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

OSRS hit almost a mil concurrent last leagues iirc, so it isn't like it's a small irrelevant game.

RS3 is pretty dead though

[–] Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Agreed. It's one of the greats.

Trying to say it outlived WoW or in some way beat it is wrong through.

[–] RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 15 hours ago

Wow would have to actually be dead first I suppose

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I genuinenely did not know that WoW was still running, tbh.

[–] Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Legend says it has to be cast into Mount SexualAssault from which it came.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 1 points 56 minutes ago

RuneScape wishes it was Ultima Online.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

MMORPGs are shit grind fests change my mind. The reward is basically what survival games feel like.

[–] Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

A lot of them are. You're not wrong. There are a few gems, but I feel like technical limitations made a lot of early ones pure grindfests. Never my favorite genre. I did like Ragnarok Online back in the day. Total grindfests. Lol.

[–] DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was joyful and the players made it amazing as well. You weren't alone was the best part in some games.

[–] Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world 1 points 17 hours ago

The War of Emperium concept is easily one of my top 5 greatest game features. Probably #1 or #2. Such a blowout cool idea especially for it's time.