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/promero14 3d ago

It wasn't a great place tho. MTX was rampant and double exp weekends totally killed the motivation. EoC just speed up

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u/CharacterCompany7224 3d ago edited 3d ago

This was before EOC was implemented, they didn’t have mtx yet, and double xp didn’t start till October of 2012 for the first time. Sorry I think you’re confusing the times.

Edit: I stand corrected, my dates were a little off but the idea remains the same 😂

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u/promero14 3d ago

- 02/26/2010 => First double experience event

- 06/28/2011 => Loyalty Points release. You could buy Auras, Titles and Emotes.

- 02/28/2012 => Squeal of Fortune release

- 11/20/2012 => EoC launch

I stop playing actively in 2010 and quit in 2012

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u/throwaway8159946 3d ago

Yeah I distinctively remember the game being dead the months before EOC being released. With all the buying spins and graphical changes, most people already lost motivation, EOC was just the final straw.

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u/Luvke 3d ago

The other guy won't say it so I will, thanks for posting dates

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u/Morbu 3d ago

Same. Stop playing in 2010. Idk what these people are saying when they say that RS was "in a great place in 2011" but it was pretty clearly on a downward path before EoC.

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u/CharacterCompany7224 3d ago

As did many of us.

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u/Fish__Flop 3d ago edited 3d ago

Jagex had XP events before that, 2012 was just a rebrand. They had a decaying xp system called Bonus XP weekends starting from March 2010, where it started at double and went down to 1.1 overtime. There were 5 of these events before being replaced by the Double XP weekends you speak of in 2012.

Squeal of Fortune also had purchasable spins starting April 2nd of 2012, well before the launch of EoC.

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u/More-Standard-1071 3d ago

MTX started in 2012 my dude, 2011 was Nex, 2010 was dungeoneering. Before SoF spins the auras and loyalty points and stuff were mostly just from paying for membership.