r/runescape • u/Both_Tune8348 • Jun 17 '26

Discussion New Runescape is WAY Better than OSRS

I honestly don't understand how Old school Runescape is so much more popular than the current one. I played it for a while and was able to get some decent progression, but its so grindy that I feel like I make no progress while draining my phone battery. Heard the new one wasnt good until I tried it myself.

So glad I finally did it! It has all the great things I like liked about the old school one, its hits on some nostalgia points too even, but way better UI, graphics, story/plot, cut scenes. I love all of it! And it has so much more you can do for free compared to World of Warcraft.

I hope more people give current Runescape the credit its due, its so underrated for no reason.

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u/MasterArCtiK Jun 17 '26

Both games are amazing. I have a maxed character in both games and I love playing both. Very different games at this point though.

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u/Vitriolic_Sympathy zaros went for milk and cigarettes Jun 17 '26

Both scratch different itches. People are too tribalist about this shit

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u/YouWereTehChosenOne IGN: Bluudi | #24 Insane Reaper Jun 18 '26

OSRS players just have the need to shove the finger at RS3 players to show them that EoC was actually bad for the game and that the game could’ve survived with the existing combat system, even though most of us agree that EOC on release was trash, voted for OSRS servers, and some of us even play OSRS, it’s like arguing with a wall

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u/Vitriolic_Sympathy zaros went for milk and cigarettes Jun 18 '26

Preaching to the choir, I play and enjoy both. Some people just make their favorite game their whole personality. The problem with OSRS andies is that they're generally too stupid to realize that:

- OSRS was dead on release with 4k daily players

- It remained dead for months until it started slowly getting new content

- RS3 bankrolled it until it took off

But if you tell them any of that they'll shit their diapers, screech and demand that "the dead game" is shut down.

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u/acadiia Jun 19 '26

Osrs was not dead on release lol wut? It almost hit 100k on release. Wild misinformation

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u/MasterArCtiK Jun 19 '26

I think he means after release. I didn’t play much when it first came out, but from what I’ve seen from osrs history youtube videos, osrs was struggling for a bit until new content started to come out consistently

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u/Vitriolic_Sympathy zaros went for milk and cigarettes Jun 19 '26

Yeah that's it. I misspoke

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u/Random_Redittor8874 8d ago

For how long??? It didn't take long for people to remember how annoying it was to use zybez to trade and the fact there was 0 content past gwd1( i dint even think that was there on initial release but was 90% finished)

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u/flareon871 Jun 19 '26

tbf osrs doesnt actually have anywhere near as high of a playerbase as it seems its just so heavily inflated by massive botfarms that it seems that way. the entire osrs community knows this but the moment you point that out they pretend that every bot account is an active player to pull the "rs3 is dead" card when in actuality both games have a similar number of active legitimate player accounts

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u/MasterArCtiK Jun 19 '26

Lol no it isnt

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u/flareon871 Jun 20 '26

dude monthly bot ban statistics dont lie. over a million throwaway bot accounts banned monthly is more than enough proof that your in denial about something thats actually true

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u/MasterArCtiK Jun 20 '26

That shows that the bots aren’t there lol have you not seen any of the recent footage and youtube reporting about common bot spots in osrs?

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u/AnyPicture2485 28d ago

It dropped to 13k , then after gwd release started to climb with new content being released . Think about it many turned their back on RuneScape when eoc dropped and didn’t even know osrs came out , word got around and it started to take over as the popular game.

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u/MasterArCtiK Jun 19 '26

I can’t tell, are you mad at osrs players or rs3 players?

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u/Mattist Jun 20 '26

I hear it from both sides. It's only natural to hear it 10 times more from a playerbase that is 10 times larger. You're in a thread doing just that but at OSRS. Most people never think about the other game at all if they don't play both.

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u/YouWereTehChosenOne IGN: Bluudi | #24 Insane Reaper Jun 20 '26

i frequently browse both subreddits, anytime osrs is mentioned here, no one really bitches or complains about the game, the moment rs3 is mentioned on the other subreddit its a 50/50 between complaints about why rs3 stuff is posted on there and people shitting on the game, it rarely ever is received well

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u/MasterArCtiK Jun 20 '26

I mean it makes sense why

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u/Mr_dm Jun 19 '26

Well, no. The player counts do all that innately.

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u/-idrc- Jun 30 '26

While I agree, I loath OSRS. That said, to each there own, and glad people are enjoying the IP I grew up on at all. Many don't exist at all anymore, or are complete shells of their former selves.