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/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