Thus, RS3 was on par in terms of the overall numbers at any one time early on, but over time became the more popular version of the game in 2013. By the end of the first month, it dropped down to around 20,000, and by the end of 2013 was at about 10,000-15,000 players. The number of players playing OSRS on the 22nd of February was roughly between 30,000-50,000 on the first day. However, in the beginning, there were hurdles. It was to become a sensation that surpassed even the main game. The poll received over 449,000 votes, and on the 22nd of February of 2013, Old School Runescape became open to all paying members. These calls allowed them to uncover an old backup for the game from August 2007, fixed it up to be played, and then released a poll on the 15th of February 2013. According to the then CEO Mark Gerhard, the idea came from players wishing for these old days. Jagex listened to these demands of players. But what was clear was players missed an older, simpler time when the game they loved was at its peak in a “Golden Age” of around 2004-2008. However, all these attempts were shut down due to legal reasons. There had been attempts to bring back an older client of RuneScape in the form of Private Servers (RSPS), such as the popular RS2006. In hindsight, it was hard for all RS players, but now we are all glad it is far behind us! With the Evolution of Combat (EoC) and declining trust in Jagex as a company. In Late 2012, the future of RuneScape was looking grim. Player Count in early 2013 through to 2021. You just can't compare the two.This History of the Old School RuneScape Player Count It began the same as WoW purists claim they want, but slowly over the years the players have asked for more and more features from the base game and OSRS receives regular updates. OSRS hilariously gets almost more content updates these days than RS3. The only reason OSRS is as popular as it is today is because Jagex has made their actual game basically unplayable.Īlso an important note for the WoW classic purists. They're both totally different games and if you're using Runescape to somehow argue that classic becoming more popular than retail is a good thing I think you should reconsider. So, with all that said let's just leave RS and WoW separate. Jagex as a company is falling apart it seems and their players no longer trust them. There's a massive divide between the communities and each side hates the other. This has driven a huge portion of the player base to either quit or move on to OSRS. It used to take dedication to achieve things in the game, now people are capable of buying keys all the way to max level and end game content. In the old days of RS there were multiple meaningful updates every single month, now we have updates that have been promised for years that still have no ETA yet there are new MTX promos every week. They spend more time making MTX content these days than actual content. These days there are promos for these "keys" every single day, there was a time not too long ago that there was a new promo every 6 hours.
It began as a mostly harmless MTX model that rewarded mostly cosmetic items and small boosts to experience with experience lamps and low value skilling items. Now, I've saved the best for last, LOOTBOXES! This is the real killer of RS3. There's also yet another monthly fee you can pay so that you can see statistics such as what your overall wealth or experienced gain per hour or damage per second is. Then there's features that are like addons for WoW but they charge a monthly fee for those as well, then there's tiered premier packages where you pay for chunks of game time anywhere from 6 months to a year on top of "incentives" that usually aren't what they were claimed to be or are lackluster anyway. There's a monthly sub, then there's shit like bonds, which are basically tokens. Second, people are playing OSRS because Jagex has driven away most of the player base from RS3 with a disgusting amount of MTX. So first off, let's start with the fact that the majority of the OSRS population are bots, seriously, there's thousands if not tens of thousands and Jagex doesn't really do much to stop them compared to the very strict stance they have against botting in RS3. If you're not familiar with the state of things in the Runescape community allow me to try and enlighten you. Okay so you're leaving out some VERY important information.
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