Comment on RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years

x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• MBech@feddit.dk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tbf to Jagex. An RS or OSRS character doesn’t need an alt in the same way you need to be able to have different builds in WOW.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Main, Ironman and a few different PvP builds? €50/month +

    The only thing that kind of saves it is being able to buy bonds, but you’ll need a constant flow of cash for that.

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  • PM_Me_Anime_Tiddies@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Ff14 also lets you play all classes in one character but they still let you make alts.

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    • SkyezOpen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Honestly can’t comprehend why anyone would make alts aside from access to additional retainers for free and maybe playing across data centers, but playing the main story is a fucking GRAND EPIC ADVENTURE that takes about 200 goddamn hours. You will literally never run out of things to do on one character in ff14. Ever.

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      • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Pedantic aside joke: “takes about 200 gd hours” immediately says “YOU WILL NEVER RUN OUT OF THINGS TO DO - EVER”

        I get that that’s way out of context, I just thought it was funny. Okbaiiiiii~

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      • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Posting the main quest just to get to the latest raid content is literally what is stopping me from returning lol. And that’s just a tenth of the campaign at this point probably

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      • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        You’ll run out of things you want to do eventually

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    • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      You have to pay for them though right. The base only lets you have 1 character.

      But only nerds have more than 1

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  • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Yes, in RS your character is a jack of all trades.

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• Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Has WoW actually become alt friendly in the recent expansions?

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  • Blackmist@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It wasn’t even main friendly back when I quit.

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    • Jax@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Right, hence my question — 65 character slots doesn’t really mean much if you’ll only ever have the time to play one.

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      • novaotic@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The Warbands system does make it better. Though, like anything I’m sure it isnt perfect for everyone.

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  • LettyWhiterock@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Recent expansions added some account wide progression. Rep is now account wide namely, along with the new delve season progression. There may be more, especially with the new expansion, but that’s what’s off the top of my head.

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• SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  And WoW offers an API for plugins like boss assistants.

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Well OSRS has teamed up with RuneLite which also offers an API.

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    • SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Finally

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