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Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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Etterra@discuss.online ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
RuneScape wishes it was Ultima Online.

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finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Some people still have strong possitive feelings for AIM.

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- Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Agreed. It’s one of the greats.
    
    Trying to say it outlived WoW or in some way beat it is wrong through.
    
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  - finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    I genuinenely did not know that WoW was still running, tbh.
    
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    Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Legend says it has to be cast into Mount SexualAssault from which it came.
    
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DeathsEmbrace@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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    Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
    
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