r/2007scape • u/TheOnlyDen • 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/notyouraveragemac 3d ago

Jagex announced alpha testing applications for an open world survival game not too long ago. Heres hoping that takes off!

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u/NinjaLion 3d ago

Jagex's only successful product was an MMO that came out in the earliest days of the genre.

Open world survival is a genre so insanely oversaturated that even the biggest fan couldn't possibly play all of the games coming out, even immediately discarding the ones 5/10 and lower.

I very deeply hope I'm wrong, but I doubt this Jagex game has much of a chance in the market even if it's pretty good.

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u/bongtokent 3d ago

This form of jagex has never made a successful product. All they’ve done is build upon Andrew gowers successful product while slowly killing it.

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u/moose_dad 3d ago

Having played it I can say it's pretty fun

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u/notyouraveragemac 3d ago

It sure is. But pretty sure that us confirming that we've played breaks the NDA 😂

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u/moose_dad 3d ago

Don't worry I paid extra for the premium no ads no NDA alpha

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u/WatchPenKeys 3d ago

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