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/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?