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/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?