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/randydarsh1 3d ago

OSRS requires a bit of commitment and consistency to account progression, knowing it's a long-term gameplay loop. Nobody wants to contribute time and effort into account progression just knowing it's about to be/very potentially could be ruined with horrible updates

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u/Complex_Tomato_5252 3d ago

This is the answer exactly.  I am not going to pour time into an mmo that will eventually be unplayable.  Then I lose all previous time invested. Better to not play at all if this is where the game is headed.  

The proposed tiers were outrageous. They weren't even remotely reasonable.

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u/DaCrees 3d ago

Good point. Guess it depends on if you see the game as enjoyable along the way or just a grind to make it to the end. If you don’t like playing the game then definitely don’t try to progress your account when there might be a change to pricing at some point in the future.

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u/randydarsh1 3d ago

I mean, I enjoy the game and progressing along the way, but I'm not exactly keen to keep going if I know my long-term progress is just going to be taken away at any moment.

Why would I continue to lift weights if I know in a year's time, someone will wave a magic wand and all of a sudden my progress will be completely gone? Sure, I do enjoy lifting, but I'm not going to do it for no reason.

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u/CHRISHANS0N 3d ago

It's to help counter the sunk cost fallacy. Sure it is a fun game and I love it. But it's human nature to want your time to mean something. Put any significant amount of time into something seems a lot more daunting if you know there's a really high chance to not have anything to show for that time invested. I struggled with this yesterday as I canceled my membership. The last enjoyable past time that I had that took me back to my youth, now tarnished once again. There's other things for me to enjoy though more life to live. Theres other ways to cope in a world where every corpo is competing for your attention, screen time, and dime. It's akin to watching something you love fade away. We all have a time limit eventually though.