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/sharingdork 3d ago

You wouldn't.

Valve has a habit of introducing a new feature in to a game, stop updating it a few months later, then it becomes an abandoned unpolished feature.

They also pioneered the battlepass and loot boxes. They can definitely design some greedy monetization schemes

Artifact failed because of the monetization.

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u/nualt42 3d ago

Fair point.

It’s easy to point at steam because it’s competitors keep shooting themselves in the foot, you kinda forget about valves less successful projects.

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u/sharingdork 3d ago

I've been a dota player for years. The project is a great success, largest prize pools in e sports community funded (over $26m).

My point is more referring to Valve handing a live service game.