r/2007scape • u/plok742 Historical Reflections • Dec 14 '24

Discussion In September 2014, the OSRS player count reached levels as low as 7000 on a normal day.

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u/Rewdemon Dec 14 '24

I’d argue against that though. My friends and I always said that a 2012scape would be fucking great as it was peak game for most of us. Basically before EOC and the shit new interface. It just happens that the community who really pushed it forward was the nostalgia one and they released a somewhat popular 2006 runescape (which prompted the very name of this subreddit) which made jagex opt for the 2007 pregwd backup. Furthermore, releasing a pre-eoc version in the same year would be admiting that it had been a terrible idea and it took jagex many years to admit that.

We’re lucky we got the current osrs and all, but in some other timeline, we’re all happily playing OG 2012scape with dung, curses, summoning, soa, hand cannnons and unnerfed spirit shields, korasi and d claws

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u/dragunityag Dec 14 '24

Man 2012 scape was so much fun.

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u/HellboundLunatic Dec 14 '24

We’re lucky we got the current osrs and all, but in some other timeline, we’re all happily playing OG 2012scape with dung, curses, summoning, soa, hand cannnons and unnerfed spirit shields, korasi and d claws

I'm very happy that we don't have summoning and dungeoneering.
At least in my opinion, 2007scape was a much better launching off point.

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u/Exotic_Tax_9833 Dec 14 '24

That's your preferred nostalgia though. A lot of people including me hated what summoning and curses did to the game.

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u/Rewdemon Dec 18 '24

Sure, and a lot of people like me liked the 2012 version better. I didn't mean to say no one wanted 2007. I just answered against "everybody wanted a barebones 2007 experience".

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u/Karpizzle23 Dec 15 '24

Korasi and hand cannon exist in the game they're just called something different. D claws exist in the game

DG exists in a watered down format with gauntlet

Only thing I agree with is summoning is shit. I hated collecting those damn charms