Comment on 'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events

• Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  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.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Some people still have strong possitive feelings for AIM.

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    • Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        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

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      • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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  • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

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

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    • Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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      • DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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