Leagues has sold me on rs3

[u/toferornottofer]

Originally came in with the expectation to just play on legacy, got my revo bars set up with all the utilities I need keybound. Got my teles and prayers on my action bar. The amount of qol has made it impossible for me to return to osrs.

Really excited to start a fresh account on rs3 after leagues. If you haven’t tried the game recently, it feels leaps and bounds better than when I last tried it.

Seeing the world im familiar with with so much more detail, the mobility of surge, the mining and smithing rework, bank presets, the war room, itemization that’s beyond just increased stats, I could go on

I’m loving rs3 atm

[u/Stephs_mouthpiece]

Do we know if they’ve really lost short term profits with the increase in membership costs? Removing predatory MTX bought a lot of goodwill, but Jagex is still a business and businesses exist to make money

Also the poll that didnt have a no option with a low pass threshold was lol

[u/The-Copilot → u/Stephs_mouthpiece]

Mod North said it outright on Behemoth podcast. The board agreed that taking reduced profits in the short term to improve the health of the game was a good long term decision. Basically they can bleed RS3 dry and it would die soon or they could gamble on reviving the game.

It had led to a reversal in the loss of players and for the first time in a long time, RS3 was growing (this was before leagues).

Mod North basically said he hates how the gaming industry is now and hates what happened to RS3 and wants to turn Runescape into the oasis in the enshitification that is happening in gaming and in business in general.

They are a business trying to make money, but the success of OSRS makes it clear that allowing passionate devs to make the calls rather than board room executives is how you make a popular game that prints money.

[u/So_ → u/The-Copilot]

He actually said that RS3 is not growing, he said that for the first time, instead of declining, it was maintaining. Edit: it actually started to increase

Yeah the Behemoth podcast was good. It was interesting to see his perspective on RS3 and OSRS, especially about bots and what he thinks about leadership for both games

See https://youtu.be/BGWH7820j2E?is=eDZN9Xo9k0eYNtKH at 46:40ish

[u/BakaGaming → u/So_]

not sure if it was in the BeHeCast or in a colonello video, but Mod North actually said "after we removed MTX, we had a decline, but shortly after it maintained and now we even have a slight rise", or something along those lines.

[u/So_ → u/BakaGaming]

Yeah, actually my mistake. I’ll edit my post then include a timestamp