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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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- Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  - RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    Wow would have to actually be dead first I suppose
    
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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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- Rancor_Tangerine@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Legend says it has to be cast into Mount SexualAssault from which it came.
  
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