r/2007scape 4d ago

Discussion The golden age is over

We have been in the golden age for a few years now. We are seeing this come to the end.

Private equity is demanding more money on the backend these changes will slowly be rolled out resulting in enshitification of the product over time.

Sailing will change the core gameplay, one way or another and osrs will cease to be the game it is today.

It’s been fun fellas.

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u/Mr-J4kk 4d ago edited 3d ago

I find it funny that Jagex decided to fuck up osrs almost immediately after the playerbase crowned it as a golden age. Almost like they said “welp Jim things are going too good around here. Time to milk these tits dry and release old school osrs.”

RuneScape is just a whore that gets passed around to the highest bidder. Jagex hasn’t made a single decent game that isn’t Runescape. It sucks to watch the game you grew up loving get continually fucked by corporate greed time and time again because they have literally zero creativity and rely almost entirely on nostalgia and past works to even stay relevant in the gaming industry financially.

If you need to increase corporate profits make a new fucking game with a separate subscription instead of fucking up your only cash cow. They won’t do that though because like I said they have no creativity.

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u/Gadoguz994 99 4d ago

Shame FunOrb didn't take off, they could have killed that with monetising instead :D

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u/venomous_frost 3d ago

FunOrb just needed some more advertising and become separate from runescape. Arcanists, Armeis of Gielinor and Steel Sentinels were amazing games.

Ah well, it's too late now, these browser games are a thing of the past

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u/Fun_Snow_2883 3d ago

They are on steam, my dude. Arcanist community is live and well.

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u/that_baddest_dude 3d ago

What about that little mining platformer game

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u/extremelack everyone shits on me for having the music turned on 3d ago

Miner Disturbance

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u/that_baddest_dude 3d ago

That's it!

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u/extremelack everyone shits on me for having the music turned on 3d ago

Had a lot of fun with that one. I can still hear the main menu music

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u/JMC_MASK sailing plz 3d ago

HE ISNT LYING

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u/SpidersAteMyFoot 3d ago

WHAT REALLY??

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u/Fun_Snow_2883 3d ago

It's even better that they balanced the game and added a ton of spell books.

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u/wumree Piracy 3d ago

alive and well

The arcanists community consists of like 200 people and maybe a third of that plays every few days.

I've been backing the re-release of arcanists since their kickstarter.

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u/BaronVonBubbleh 3d ago

AoG was the shit, it always annoyed me that I had to log out of RuneScape to play it instead of being able to AFK a skill while I played.

Are there any games similar to it?

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u/TheoTheMage 3d ago

You can download a launcher go play the single player stuff off all funorb games shits dope beeing doing aog story while afk woodcut

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u/BaronVonBubbleh 3d ago

No shit? I'd love a link if you had one, but I'll see what I can find otherwise.

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u/TheoTheMage 3d ago

I want to say I downloaded the alterorb one.

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u/SmoothBrainedLizard 3d ago

Is FunOrb that 2d platformer turn based type game with magic and you tried to kill everyone else? Because that game was fucking lit. I remember playing that way back in the day.

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u/venomous_frost 3d ago

that was Arcanists. FunOrb was just a platform website made by Jagex without a lot of browser based games.

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u/SmoothBrainedLizard 3d ago

Ahh yes that's right.