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[WendyClitlock]

This game is still ridiculously easy to bot even today, as long as you do it in places that aren't bustling with activity and/or bot all day and night.

It's great for scripting practice.

 

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I don't know much about Runescape other than what I hear by proxy, but from what I understand, a big issue now is clan raids. The agreement is a bunch of people get together and try to beat a boss, but only random players get random drops. Should a player in the clan have an exceedingly rare item drop, the intent is they sell it and split the profits evenly.

However, some items are worth legitimately thousands of real dollars, and thus it is not unheard of for players to completely tank their credibility and sell the item just to cash out and never touch the game again. Reasonable, but it's stunning how there's zero methods put in which prevents this.

 

[OnlinePresents]

There was an HD client plugin in the works. Some guy spent 2000 hours over the span of 2 years working on it and right before they were going to release it Jagex shut it down. This was very recent, with people calling to arms on reddit and rioting in game.

r/2007scape - RuneLite HD has been shut down.

78,325 votes and 5,988 comments so far on Reddit

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r/2007scape - Third-Party HD Clients Statement

0 votes and 2,564 comments so far on Reddit

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r/2007scape - Daily reminder of Jagex banning 3rd party clients HD features a day after 117’s HD plugin was supposed to release, that took him over 2000 hours to create (Day 1)

11,551 votes and 182 comments so far on Reddit

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r/2007scape - In solidarity with 117 I think adam1210 should take down runelite in its entirety until Jagex' decision changes

11,994 votes and 934 comments so far on Reddit

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[From The Uncanny Valley]

Oh man, the RuneScape kids were always so weird

 

[Dick Pooman]

However, some items are worth legitimately thousands of real dollars

As far as raid items go, I think the last I heard the most expensive single item clocks in around $900. In the Runescape 3 version of the game that essentially has all of the character data from the game's launch, there are items like party hats that were always the most coveted items in game that maintain their rarity. You could easily buy a nice used car with one of them.

The real interesting stuff about both versions of RuneScape imo has always been the robust black market that easily has a real world value in the high tens of millions of dollars. According to the head of the OSRS anti-cheat team, they regularly remove $1,000,000+ worth of gold from the economy every month from accounts they ban for real world trading.

 

[RussianParasite]

There was an HD client plugin in the works. Some guy spent 2000 hours over the span of 2 years working on it and right before they were going to release it Jagex shut it down. This was very recent, with people calling to arms on reddit and rioting in game.

r/2007scape - RuneLite HD has been shut down.

78,325 votes and 5,988 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

r/2007scape - Third-Party HD Clients Statement

0 votes and 2,564 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

r/2007scape - Daily reminder of Jagex banning 3rd party clients HD features a day after 117’s HD plugin was supposed to release, that took him over 2000 hours to create (Day 1)

11,551 votes and 182 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

r/2007scape - In solidarity with 117 I think adam1210 should take down runelite in its entirety until Jagex' decision changes

11,994 votes and 934 comments so far on Reddit

www.reddit.com

Reading the background on this, it does kind of seem like a bitch move from Jagex. At the same time, I am only seeing one side of the story here and it is possible that this plug in may have threatened the game somehow.

The fallout from it is hilarious either way.

 

[KateHikes14]

Theotrix's sperg out lasted TWO days. It "started" because of the golden gnome award, but was only noticeable because the absolute sperglord was told "lighten up mate". People who run the game told him to calm down too, because he is, was, and will always be an embarrassment. He talks about "the community" as being tawxic, but if everyone you meet is shitty I guarantee the problem isn't around you, it is you.
TL;DR Theotrix should kill himself. Asap preferably. He won't be missed and his parents can rent out his basement.

 

[OnlinePresents]

Reading the background on this, it does kind of seem like a bitch move from Jagex. At the same time, I am only seeing one side of the story here and it is possible that this plug in may have threatened the game somehow.

The fallout from it is hilarious either way.

From what I can gather, it's basically reshade for a Runescape client called Runelite, Jagex shut it down pretty much saying "we were gonna do it we just haven't yet and it's really secret, but you can't do it either". I'm pretty confused though. If it's just messing with GPU shit then how can they LEGALLY shut it down in the first place? If I was that dude I'd be like fuck you pussies and release it anyways.

 

[bremer]

Jagex's damage control regarding the HD plugin situation is also not going really well:

While nothing they're saying is wrong, it's pretty tone deaf when your community is up in arms due to said "unfortunate schedule conflict".

People are also theorizing due to this that once Jagex considers their new client up to snuff (which is the Steam version I believe), they'll try to get RuneLite shut down. As a background, RuneLite is a custom client that has an insane amount of QoL features (GE price checking, xp/hour calculations, highlights, shit like that) that many players consider the "default" Runescape experience.

I'm curious if Jagex is gonna have a bigger statement if people did actually go through with cancelling a significant number of memberships, or if they're just gonna ride it out. Knowing reddit though, this is probably gonna be forgotten in a week or two.

 

[Wingnut]

Ahh nostalgia, this game was the sound of Library computer rooms when I was younger.
Simpler times.

 

[Dread First]

Ironically, I left OSR for RS3 because of how much more welcoming the community is. Seems like most of the toxicity is endemic to OSR. Speaking as an ex-clanner, there's a lot of drama that's been lost to the sands of time over clan wars and stuff like that. Glad I got out of it while I was still young.

 

[Ahriman]

I never get tired of listening to these

Bathrobe Dwane used to have a shitty mod called runescape_arago. This was a kid with serious mental issues and banned alot of viewers for nothing. Dwane eventually had enough, unmodded him and blocked him. Here are all the times arago called in on stream, crying about wanting to be remodded and having multiple mental breakdowns. He ended up making around 110 alts to stalk and harass Dwane, begging to be remodded and unblocked.

 

[Papa Adolfo's Take'n'Bake]

Oh man, this thread flashed me back to elementary school and I hate it. I 'member this was just a thing to do with the boys in those stupid computer classes they made us take over which no one got in trouble because public school had no delusions about being much more than an overglorified daycare. People still playing this blows my mind. People taking it this srs blows my mind.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Never forget the Falador Massacre.

 

[Tachibana]

There was an HD client plugin in the works. Some guy spent 2000 hours over the span of 2 years working on it and right before they were going to release it Jagex shut it down. This was very recent, with people calling to arms on reddit and rioting in game.

I heard about this a while back. I was sort of looking forward to it. Jagex making bitch moves isn't anything new.

I hop back on OSRS every once in a while, but then I'm reminded of why I don't play the game anymore. Paying a subscription to click on things and wait isn't great. I thought I'd get back into it when OSRS mobile came out, but I just wasn't able to.

 

[Dom Cruise]

I remember people talking about this game on GovTeen, a forum for teens, a lot back in 2006.

 

[CptnSnshn]

I will never understand why people still play OSRS

It was fun for a nostalgia trip but it's got nothing too it, just clicking and waiting. Hell FF`14's free trail has more to it than OSRS's paid membership

 

[Papa Pinochet]

Runescape is a shitty game and provides nothing but a slight amount of satisfaction from watching meaningless numbers in stats go up slowly

add me- Osrs rsn: Ozul

And Fireworks! Can't forget about those sweet sweet dopamine fireworks *Twitches*

 

[Kendall Motor Oil]

• Various NPCs in the Kharidian Desert have had their name changed from ‘Ali’ to better reflect the diverse variety of names we see in real life.

 

[Tachibana]

I will never understand why people still play OSRS

It was fun for a nostalgia trip but it's got nothing too it, just clicking and waiting. Hell FF`14's free trail has more to it than OSRS's paid membership

It's nice to have something to occupy yourself while you do something else that's low-effort. But I can't justify paying the price they're asking for it a month. There are plenty good games on steam you can buy for 10-20 bucks on discount with tons of replayability. I can buy Civ VI by itself for less than 10 bucks right now. I can buy Stardew for about 15 bucks at its standard price. Even Cookie Clicker is like 5 bucks on Steam.

Sure, you can buy bonds using money in the game, but at that point you're just fighting bots.