OSRS — Oldschool Runescape.

[rusty_shackleford]

fish lvl?

[WhiteShark]

None of you actually play this, right? I haven't played RuneScape since I was in middle school.

[rusty_shackleford]

None of you actually play this, right? I haven't played RuneScape since I was in middle school.

Oh yes I do.

[WhiteShark]

Botting doesn't count as playing, Rusty.

[rusty_shackleford]

Botting doesn't count as playing, Rusty.

You are fake news.

[krokodil]

I never played any Runescape but I played New World and the only things I liked in it was the crafting, the mining, tree chopping, fishing, etc. and building the levels for that. Is Runescape worth playing for a new player?

[Ranselknulf]

I think the issue most mmo games have is they never designed with the idea of people botting.

Some newer games have started to accept the reality and give regular players tools to set up bots, write lua scripts, etc to automate some of the more repetitive aspects of game play.

You might say, "well, just design the game not to have these repetitive task!"

That doesn't help in the long term economic sense though. Designing a game around people playing on a human time scale (for resource acquisition), just means people who bot will have that much better advantage.

I think the secret sauce for a successful mmo will be finding a way to blend botting into a game universe while still making the non-botting aspects of the game enjoyable.

[rusty_shackleford]

I think the issue most mmo games have is they never designed with the idea of people botting.

Some newer games have started to accept the reality and give regular players tools to set up bots, write lua scripts, etc to automate some of the more repetitive aspects of game play.

You might say, "well, just design the game not to have these repetitive task!"

That doesn't help in the long term economic sense though. Designing a game around people playing on a human time scale (for resource acquisition), just means people who bot will have that much better advantage.

I think the secret sauce for a successful mmo will be finding a way to blend botting into a game universe while still making the non-botting aspects of the game enjoyable.

Botting isn't fun if other people can bot freely.

Not that I'd know.

[Sweeper]

I think the issue most mmo games have is they never designed with the idea of people botting.

Some newer games have started to accept the reality and give regular players tools to set up bots, write lua scripts, etc to automate some of the more repetitive aspects of game play.

You might say, "well, just design the game not to have these repetitive task!"

That doesn't help in the long term economic sense though. Designing a game around people playing on a human time scale (for resource acquisition), just means people who bot will have that much better advantage.

I think the secret sauce for a successful mmo will be finding a way to blend botting into a game universe while still making the non-botting aspects of the game enjoyable.

Botting isn't fun if other people can bot freely.

Not that I'd know.

This. The entire reason people bot is because the **** in game has perceived value, it has perceived value because it takes a lot of time to acquire. You allow players to bot and it loses perceived value because, while it may still take a lot of time to acquire, it ain't your time.
The future of MMOs will be two AIs trying to outsmart each other, one will bot and the other will try to detect it.
Also you're a piece of **** for botting Rusty, I want you to know that.

[rusty_shackleford]

I think the issue most mmo games have is they never designed with the idea of people botting.

Some newer games have started to accept the reality and give regular players tools to set up bots, write lua scripts, etc to automate some of the more repetitive aspects of game play.

You might say, "well, just design the game not to have these repetitive task!"

That doesn't help in the long term economic sense though. Designing a game around people playing on a human time scale (for resource acquisition), just means people who bot will have that much better advantage.

I think the secret sauce for a successful mmo will be finding a way to blend botting into a game universe while still making the non-botting aspects of the game enjoyable.

Botting isn't fun if other people can bot freely.

Not that I'd know.

This. The entire reason people bot is because the **** in game has perceived value, it has perceived value because it takes a lot of time to acquire. You allow players to bot and it loses perceived value because, while it may still take a lot of time to acquire, it ain't your time.
The future of MMOs will be two AIs trying to outsmart each other, one will bot and the other will try to detect it.
Also you're a piece of **** for botting Rusty, I want you to know that.

[revenant]

If an MMO is a proper & true one, i.e. with full loot, everything just falls into place automagically. Botsjust can't compete with real players in full loot zones so the problem is instantly eliminated

[FPYockey]

I wish I could play runescape again but jagex insists upon ******** it up. I feel like every update just caters to their gimmick modes like ironmen and skilling makes no money. Good example of why democracy is bad.

[rusty_shackleford]

the alternative is even worse, because we've seen it
they've repeatedly added pride **** to the game without any user input because they know it would lose overwhelmingly each time. So the entire 'vote' thing is just an illusion of choice(shocker!) when it comes to sacred cows.
Might remind you of exactly how it went in real life, too.

[Oyster Sauce]

the alternative is even worse, because we've seen it
they've repeatedly added pride **** to the game without any user input because they know it would lose overwhelmingly each time. So the entire 'vote' thing is just an illusion of choice(shocker!) when it comes to sacred cows.
Might remind you of exactly how it went in real life, too.

I think they recently went through the desert/Arab area and sanitized everything they considered "icky" without a vote as well. The audacity of these ******* to destroy their betters' work.

[rusty_shackleford]

the alternative is even worse, because we've seen it
they've repeatedly added pride **** to the game without any user input because they know it would lose overwhelmingly each time. So the entire 'vote' thing is just an illusion of choice(shocker!) when it comes to sacred cows.
Might remind you of exactly how it went in real life, too.

I think they recently went through the desert/Arab area and sanitized everything they considered "icky" without a vote as well. The audacity of these ******* to destroy their betters' work.

Don't know if they did that in OSRS, but they did it in RS3. The entire point of it was a joke the nu-devs apparently didn't even understand, all the arab guys had the same name because they were all trying to get the inheritance. So they changed their names without even understanding the story.

They also altered a classic quest that has been in the game for longer than some of the devs have been alive, where you had to go change your sex to a woman at the magician if you were a man because "no man" could defeat the knight. Irony overload, tbh.

[FPYockey]

the alternative is even worse, because we've seen it
they've repeatedly added pride **** to the game without any user input because they know it would lose overwhelmingly each time. So the entire 'vote' thing is just an illusion of choice(shocker!) when it comes to sacred cows.
Might remind you of exactly how it went in real life, too.

At least the community pushed back, the KKK riots were hilarious.

[Sweeper]

the alternative is even worse, because we've seen it
they've repeatedly added pride **** to the game without any user input because they know it would lose overwhelmingly each time. So the entire 'vote' thing is just an illusion of choice(shocker!) when it comes to sacred cows.
Might remind you of exactly how it went in real life, too.

At least the community pushed back, the KKK riots were hilarious.

If Jagex wants to go full on globohomo (they have), I ain't saying ****. If it was any other game I'd be spamming the **** out of the chatbox with the most racist, homotranswomanphobic **** I could come up with, but I sank way too many hours into this ************ to get banned.

[Anon]

Jagex sold for 900 million.

[Oyster Sauce]

soulless...

[Anon]

I wish this was the worst thing to criticize about them

At least OSRS is (still) the MMORPG with most integrity in the market.

[Vergil]

Locked into the game with a thousand island stare at the screen.

[SiMtRy]

caved in and bought a membership after being in f2p hell forever. what are some decent money-makers so that i can bankroll my game with bonds innstead

[Anon]

Rush any midgame boss like Vorkath, Zulrah or Corrupted gauntlet, all of them easily sustain bonds. You could right off the bat hit revenants or wilderness bosses for similar results, if you don't mind dying occasionally to PKers. Another good easy alternative is giant mole, though it gives less money than the former alternatives.

But honestly I'd just pay up membership till you reach the point where you can sustain bonds with regular casual gameplay, being a slave to bonds isn't fun in my humble opinion.

[fulgrim456]

Hopefully CVC arent as ******** at the last bagholders who ruined the modern runescape with mtx.

[Anon]

Huge update today btw, with an entire new region.

Anybody who loves gaming and MMORPG should play OSRS at least once.

[Oyster Sauce]

The grand exchange is gay and makes me not want to play almost as much as the actual gay stuff

[rusty_shackleford]

******* hated trading manually.

[Oyster Sauce]

I also didn't play Runescape 2, mostly just Classic.

[Scruffins]

the alternative is even worse, because we've seen it
they've repeatedly added pride **** to the game without any user input because they know it would lose overwhelmingly each time. So the entire 'vote' thing is just an illusion of choice(shocker!) when it comes to sacred cows.
Might remind you of exactly how it went in real life, too.

At least the community pushed back, the KKK riots were hilarious.

I was there. They had jmods there perma banning anyone wearing white robes or saying anything that could be slightly perceived as "homophobic". We lost many good people that day.

[Anon]

The grand exchange is gay and makes me not want to play almost as much as the actual gay stuff

You know there's an ironman mode right?