@@alphamanga3213 there’s a lot of bots but there’s also a lot of players either skilling or pvming or pking. I tried rs3 looks fun but damn does it look lonely.
As a osrs player, a new skill was announced a few days ago. Currently in game votes sit at 183k plus player votes, that tells you everything you need to know.
I forgot to vote but am high level and have a ton of hours. There are dozens of us at least. If poll is still up tonight I'm voting for the new skill I want it.
Started up playing again not too long ago and love how much of the game is the same as how I remember playing as a kid. Nostalgia is definitely a big factor!
@@ericaosborne537 I made my account probably 2-3 years ago but played pretty sparingly until a few months ago I guess? Just been having fun grinding levels lol
@@rawtrout007 It's nillzzzz! Also getting into this youtube video making thing haha, nowhere near the quality of this vid but having fun with it anyways!
I started playing back when it was known as Runescape2 and This is the only game I've played throughout my entire life (I'm 28) and I could NEVER imagine it'd STILL be so popular it makes me happy
As a new RuneScape player (deviated heavily towards osrs) I would definitely agree that the simplicity is mesmerizing, getting a serotonin rush every level, and then having that rush being slowly but surely extended by the leveling algorithm, but supplemented by drops from higher and higher level pvm monsters, the gameplay loop is foolproof and nearly unbeatable, and the progression that every account will encounter is well crafted enough that it is no wonder why people, new and old, still play and get addicted to old school RuneScape
Osrs is a rythme game. It works on a 100 cycle/minute clock. Imagine playing music on an instrument. You know the songs and enjoy practicing them. But all of a sudden your instrument behaves entirely differently. That's what happened when they implemented the "evolution of combat" update.
@@user-jy5oi9bi4i everything works at 100bpm. for example you can swap prayers every beat (every 0.6 seconds which is a beat), you move 1 tile per beat (0.6seconds) etc. The inferno is a perfect example of osrs being a rhythm game; if you mess up your prayer flicks u die
The game runs on ‘game ticks’ every 0,6 seconds. So that means that everything rhythmic. For example, your attack weapon will attack every 6 ticks (Godswords or elder maul). So every 3,6 seconds it will attack.
Honestly the tick system is one of the most fun parts about learning pvm in the game, so interesting to learn how enemies and yourself interact within the confines of the system
@@mendelson6052 accomplishment for some. many never felt the accomplishment of *checks notes* getting one 99 by 2011. most who play rs3 still feel huge accomplishments and they forever will!
@@mendelson6052 you have to realize although not simply about achieving a set target or XP gains for older people. Think of it from their perspective they may not have a lot a time due to other endeavors and real life obligations like work family friends etc.. It's undeniably known that Rs3 you'll level up much quickier and faster than OSRS some want to play casually only have 3 hrs spare in RS3 you can do quite bit in that timeframe with the amount of free teleportation much more PvM content and accessible far more beginners friendly than Osrs is . If you have 3 hrs spare in Osrs you'll achieve maybe one quest or two quest skill for a bit if your in the 80's for stats ( like myself) you won't be getting a single level in 3 hrs. Which leads me on to next point achievement you mention indeed get a 99 in any skill of the game is great doesn't matter the skill is at the end of the day no matter whoever says what "a 99 is a 99" ( infact many players don't even have a single 99 not in the old era neither this era it's literally in thousands for each of them there's more than 2 million accounts ( I'll roughly estimate 5million mark on old-school since relaunch created worldwide and mobile) Just for reference not even 1million accounts on any of those skills. It ranges from 78,000-545,000 accounts in a single skill with the 99. ( In hindsight only small faction of all accounts in the player base actually do have least single 99 even if it's just one). Cooking is not the most common 99 nope 367,376 have this cape as of to date ( I myself am apart of that small faction of players).
I love osrs so much, and I also started playing just not too long ago. I love the quests, all unique with the best progression ever, huge world, simple gameplay that has a nice skill curve at the end game, also has super nice devs. All an mmo fan could wish for
I think a huge source of bitterness from OSRS players is the fact that people put 10's, 100's, even 1000's of hrs into a game they loved just to have the rug pulled from beneath their feet with little to no warning It felt like players had no power or say in the massive changes that Jagex implemented. A lot of people felt like the core player base was being betrayed for the prospect of growth If I had to guess that's probably a big part of the reason they started the polling system, to avoid massively upsetting the main player base again, which could cause another diaspora like after the dreaded EOC update
I was a member playing with my dad from when I was 8 until EOC came out. After that I tried to fight monsters and do tasks and I could barely play compared to before. Dropped the game and just finally picked it up like 4 days ago when I found out OSRS mobile existed and bow I’m reliving all those fun moments of slinging spells with my dad! But I just imagine how much more fun it would have been if EOC never even happened ya know?
Bro your comment lost all readings after the first few sentences. The rug being pulled is the game closing due to lack of players . Rethink your philosophy
@@jaruto7743 Player count took an absolute nosedive after EOC. OSRS has anywhere from 2-6 times as many players as RS3 to this day... So I'm honestly not really sure what you're trynna say
@@xinsanedefeatx my point is that the game advancing isnt the rug being pulled . We’ve almost had the rug pulled in2014 before gwd and almost now . The rug being pulled is the game nearing death .
As a correction jagex didn't just come up with the idea for a 2007 remake of their game, it was because of a fan-made private server called 2007scape was reaching higher active player counts than what was RS3 at the time so of course jagex took legal action which in turn caused a petition which gained over 150k signatures. In conclusion of the petition jagex announced they would poll it to the public.
Great vide! I’ve been playing OSRS since I was 10 and I still play today and I’m 29. LOVE this game. So many good friends made that I’ve kept over a decade.
wrong... you played runescape until 2013 then you started playing osrs... rs3 is the game now you played since 2003 you can log on rs3 and see your account progress still unchanged and items still there soooo yea ^^
I've been playing since 2007, although there's moments where I've taken breaks, sometimes long breaks I always find myself coming back. OSRS will always have a spot in my heart. There was a moment where I played RS3 but that was short lived. There's nothing more satisfying than reaching and grinding out your personal OSRS goals
Couldn’t have said it better. I just put my younger brother on to the game and started playing again to help him out after about a 5 years break, started playing in 2006 so it feels great not being the only one leaving and coming back especially for OSRS.
Same here! I've been playing since 2005, played heavily for 2 or 3 years. Back then I was f2p and knew nothing about members items/quests/skills. I knew there was a gate I couldn't walk through because I wasn't a member, but I wasn't that curious. The f2p game had more than enough content for me back then. We weren't focused on level gains back then, so having a lot of level 1 skills wasn't even annoying. Someone with Rune equipment was basically seen as a god back then. Level 50+ was seen as a high level back then, at least in f2p worlds. We spent most of our time just talking, making friends, and having fun messing around. I've been playing for 18 years now, on and off. Sometimes my breaks are a year or two long, but I always come back. With membership now of course. I have three 99s now (Smithing, Cooking, Prayer, in that order).
You're missing a massive gap between the creation of the Old School Servers and the polls creation. The community formed around an at the time "Hero" of the community "SoWr3kd". Who personally created a petition that garnered so mich attention Jagex was forced to hear out SoWr3kd and create the poll you discussed. There's more depth involved in it but in a quick summary we only have Old School Runescape servers because WE the PEOPLE fought for it.
I tried rs3.. it's just too much to learn and they mechanics are so different. I'm currently on osrs because I prefer nostalgia. Rs3 does look amazing though. My head hurts with their new weapons, armor and skills though.
Osrs has been upgraded a ton since back then there is multiple raids now wilderness bosses new Skilling bosses grandmaster quests and so much more! I recommend going on the oldschool site and getting runelight it has sooo many great features like quest helper clue helper and HD graphics runelight has hundreds of features that make the game way more modernized and enjoyable
I'm a newbie and decided to play old school over 3 because of all the videos I've seen about Runescape have been in old school. Plus I like the old artstyle, very charming.
When they released mobile I downloaded it and did all the quests. Finally having money where I could get membership I’ve gotten farther then I ever dreamed As a kid. I get a good nostalgia kick when I cook food still that sound reminds me of cooking shrimp back in the day, 10/10 would atleast make a f2p account its a blast
Subbed! I feel like RuneScape is the “taboo” mmorpg, nobody talks about it. People make videos of the top 10 MMO’s all the time and nobody mentions OSRS. Personally I think it has something to do with the small dev team and small budget compared to most of these other “popular” MMO’s that hardly compete with a game playable on web browsers 🤣
I remember having to sneak into my moms office just to download Java in order to play this game. I used to play with dial up connection when I was in 8th grand up until senior year. I recently got back into it once mobile came out. It’s bad ass 😏 ❤🎉
something I don't see mentioned in these kinda videos is the change in quest tone between the two. I just started OSRS as my first runescape game ever a month ago and I REALLY love how your character is just some idiot always getting in way over their head. in RS3 they seem to have undone this and changed you into a "chosen one" and gets way more serious, which IMO is very boring. even new OSRS quests still have this same "you are a bumbling idiot" tone and feeling and I love it. by far the most interesting and funny quest dialogue I've ever read in an MMO
I looked forward to playing runescape after school for years, to maybe hopping on when i can as I got busier with sports, and looked forward to updates. RS3 came out, and within 20 minutes, i logged out, knowing the game i loved was just completely killed off. I've never even had remotely the same experience with any game i've played.
Honestly I started playing in 06 all the way through till the big over haul. (I think a few months after dungeoneering was released) I fell of the face of the earth and when I came back it logged me into RS3 and I already bought a year membership card because I was committed. Needless to say it popped me into tutorial island to go through the new mechanics and I logged off hucked the card in the closet and was sad. Sometime later I was told that Old School RuneScape was a thing and in 2016-2017 ish started another account and just as hopelessly addicted to it as I was in 06 😂 . I don't know truly if RS3 is bad, but it was a let down to what I remembered and was craving to play. The times and memories I had with RS before the new engine update was locked in. It's weird now since in 06 we where all kids and teens playing but now the majority of the players are 25-34 and have families and still play. It's like OSRS is the 80s crack epidemic 😂 theres no escape.
It's also still popular due to being able support an entire country, Venezuela. Some are indeed bot farms. But I feel if those bots can feed children and whole families let them stay. Just my unpopular opinion
Nostalgia plays a big role. I can’t get my friends to touch RuneScape because “the game looks like shit”, meanwhile those same people are totally cool playing EverQuest 1, our childhood game, which also looks like pixel vomit. Their loss I guess, games really good 😂
It's just a fun game to relax and play, there's no pressure to rush to end game. Just take things as you go, and make your own adventure. The music is amazing, and some of the quest are really funny.
Theres something deeper to Runescape that I didnt ever get with any other games. Its really like another universe. I used to wander around on the edges of the game and loved questing. Everything about it is cool, even if no one is around. I started in 2005 and have been on and off. Up until eoc I enjoyed every variant of it. Bounty volcano, trouble brewing, fist of guthix, stealing creation, even dungeoneering later on. Its one of those games you had to experience through the years to really appreciate it. Im glad Old School came out, because I used to literally harass Jmods to get a “317” revision server released and they said it wasnt possible until the 2006 private server started to have hundreds of thousands of people looking forward to it. I could ramble on forever 😂..
Been playing since I was 12 and in foster care, gave me the escape I needed. Now i'm 29 and still playing. There's no MMO quite like RuneScape. I legit mowed lawns and actually mailed in my membership. I feel like games like WoW Classic could learn a lot from OSRS, instead of the same exact game from 2007, build upon it and respect players opinions while keeping the classic, or old school feel.
Just wanna say as an experienced player, not as much as some but still 2207 skill total atm, and pretty well versed in PvMing, OSRS is an extremely deep game. Way more than it appears on first glance. Knowledge of game ticks, which occurs at 0.6 second intervals opens up a huge world of abilities in the game to give you an advantage, like turning on/off your prayers every tick to get the use of prayers without actually spending prayer points. This can go even farther into skilling as some of the fastest methods require manipulation of the game engine to perform actions quicker, like 3 tick box traps or 1.5 tick woodcutting. Not to mention a lot of the end game content and raids are very fun, and hitting those big drops feels very rewarding. Overall its actually a very mechanically deep game with a high skill ceiling, but none of this is required to actually enjoy it as there's really good content across all levels, and even 2 free to play bosses that would be rewarding to most f2p players. And just on RS3 I don't have anything against it, but as someone who played as a kid, how it is nowadays is completely unrecognizable to me and just feels less rewarding, as now the combat just seems to boil down to using WoW-like abilities. Maybe its deeper, i really wouldn't know, but on OSRS everything just feels right to me, and 2 years into my newest account in OldSchool, I really still have no desire to move on from the game as there still is a ton to accomplish.
If you’re feeling “what’s the point”, find a clan of people with similar interests. There’s many avenues but I suggest just naturally chatting with people in the public. My current clan are basically a side family. Also, mobile is a game changer. Especially if you have a boring job where you could get away with tapping your phone once a minute. Getting payed to do a skill like runecrafting really helps with the grind.
Wait.. you know eoc came out before rs3, right? Saying that when rs3 came out it was basically a completely different game just isn't how it happened. The only significant changes 'Rs3' brought was customizable user-interfaces. The combat system had already changed the October prior. I get not knowing when the updates happened just for the sake of knowing it, but is it that much to google a couple things if you're going to make a video about something? Especially when you're just going to uncritically flame the game right after not knowing anything about the changes lol
Old school turns 10 years old later this year and it just dawned on me that I've been playing Old school longer than I played the original game, it truly is a timeless game
I heavily play both versions. Runescape 3 definitely has better quests, quality of life improvements, bossing, afk methods for multi tasking, and for the most part is a very slept on and misunderstood game. Old school runescape is more simple, nostalgic, and I like that it has no mtx and a bigger community. Overall I'd say rs3 is a better game, but both games have their own unique content and are worth playing. I've been playing since 2003 and it's interesting that so many people quit classic for rs2 and were able to adapt to the huge changes, but most people couldn't adapt to rs3. History didn't repeat itself at all.
played heaps as a kid and been on and off ever since. made a fresh account for 2023 and dedicating myself to osrs as the only game i will play. i’m excited for my journey ahead :))
Nice video. Subscribed. :) I play RS3 way more to, but tend to watch OSRS creators mostly. I also create videos about OSRS, because I enjoy making them at the moment more
Thank you for the video! This game is perhaps one of the best MMORPGs of all time. I feel like there is many more factors as to why OSRS is still popular, but your video was the perfect length to sum it all up. You should totally make more OSRS videos!
As a RS3 player and OSRS content enjoyer, I prefer the quality of life updates that RS3 has added, I enjoy the new skills that have come along, and I enjoy the bossing/dungeons. In watching content of osrs I like the challenges creators have come up with that just don’t exist in RS3 content, rs3 content is either a guide or bossing content nothing crazy or new. Osrs gameplay to me personally was a lot more of a grind then rs3 and more of a time sink then I can comfortable commit to, rs3 is easy for 95% of the game but high end bossing is insane. I would like to try the new raids in osrs but idk how long it would take me to get an account raid ready.
Only thing I’d add is the poll was largely inspired by the amount of people playing 2006scape (private server) at the time. There were around 4000~ playing the server at any one time and people were in the process of paying money for membership
My manager, the nights he close by himself, will sit int he back office playing Runescape 3 while binge watching old school runescape videos. I remember asking him why doesn't he just join osrs instead of playing runescape 3 and his response was osrs takes longer to max out, he'd rather play runescape 3 while working while leveling up faster. But he did say also if he ever quit working, he'd switch to osrs instead.
thanks for the vid lots of truth here. i play both but still think the graphics suck on rs3 dont like playing wow but there are options (not good ones) the hardest part is all the laggg from uneeded designs
100% agree. The second they changed the combat systemin runescape, I quit. (worst decision ever made) until I found out they were releasing OSRS again, so happy :D
I started playing OSRS again a year or so ago and finally got into it. Prior to this, I was hardcore into RSC but unfortunately Jagex abandoned it early on. I wonder how things would have been had RSC remained supported along side OSRS and RS3.
OSRS is a much simpler and nostalgic game. You can just kick back and play. But RS3 is a lot more fun/exciting when you learn the mechanics, and has 10X the content. Bossing on OSRS got boring so quick I'm lvl 122 and hardly play it anymore.
Honestly I don’t know, thank you so much. I have been kinda lacking and in a rut…but I am starting a new video finally. Hope everyone likes it and I appreciate your words of encouragement so much!
Never played RuneScape before so I wanted to start with rs3 cuz it’s new, but… I got past the basics (around lvl 10-15 basic lvling) and switched over to osrs. 15+ hrs into osrs and I’d say it’s better in my opinion
I primarily play RS3, but I agree that OSRS content is more enjoyable to watch. There’s just a lot more variety with OSRS content creators / streamers, whereas a vast majority of RS3 content creators / streamers focus mainly on PVM, which isn’t always that enjoyable to watch. OSRS content is just a lot more chill and laid back, whereas RS3 content is just the constant grind fest of PVM.
Started playing RuneScape when I was around 10, now 25 and I recently started playing it again on mobile because it’s convenient for my schedule lol. Working on building my pure to hopefully get my first fire cape ever🤣
The problem with bots is revenue, let's say 10 percent of the paying members in the game are bots. Well, that's a big problem, Jagex can easily get rid of bots. But can they really? They have quotas they got to meet and shareholders. If Jagex went to them and said, hey were going to throw away 10 percent of your profits, those shareholders wouldn't be happy.