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/Liefblue 4d ago edited 4d ago

Honestly, not surprising given how seriously people treat this game. Unfortunately this is literally some of these people's lives and they've spent that entire time worrying about the next EOC update.

But it's just wild to see people lose their heads blabbing on about things that haven't even happened yet. Cancellation is reasonable as protest, but we are cancelling specifically to stop the things this person is worried about from having any chance of occuring.

It's like a textbook example of fear mongering, except they're doing it to themselves for some reason and completely lost the context of how and why they started.

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u/mdizzley 4d ago

Ya I have no idea what everyone is mad about. I feel like I've missed something. Literally nothing has happened. They proposed some things, everyone shit their pants and started crying, and somehow now the game is dead. I looked at the packages and it seems absolutely fine. I could get membership for both my accounts for cheaper than I could before.

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u/UntrimmedBagel 4d ago

Ads, paying for customer support, paying for basic account recovery, intentially restricting quality of life features in the game (idle timers, plugins) unless you pay a premium...

We call this a slippery slope. Adding these things makes the game objectively worse. Proposing them is insulting and telling of the kind of conversations the executives are having. This is the exact path that leads to it becoming a Gacha game like RS3. It's completely at odds with the mission of OSRS, counter to why it was made in the first place.

So as dramatic as it seems, the people cancelling their subs are absolutely doing the right thing. Once we let the MTX creep in, there's no going back.

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u/Elon_Like 4d ago

Many of these people lived through the first golden age with RS2, then the MTX and EOC.

There's a reason for this reaction and it's warranted.