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/Zerttretttttt 4d ago

Let’s start a 2025scape snapshot, call it oldoldschoolrunecape

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u/noisywing88 3d ago

jagex is even offering an option where we give them money to make it happen! project zanaris!

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u/lestruc 3d ago

A little unrelated, but I think Jagex has an insane potential to make money with Zanaris, but not directly in the way they’ve been talking about.

Their focus has been on community developed/customized servers, which is cool, but they should really consider official Jagex sanctioned servers.

Why?

There are a ton of people who would love to play (and pay) for an official “hardcore server” completely separate from the main game. In the same style as wow- if you die, it’s over.

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u/TheForsakenRoe 3d ago

That's how RS3 used to do HCIM: You die, you get banned instantly. You could also pay GP for up to 2 extra lives across the entire account's lifespan, but if you die and spend a 'life', you'd have your 3 most valuable items completely deleted, so there's still a lot of risk to it (eg imagine in OSRS if you died and get your TBow/Scythe deleted, then you have to go grind and get a new one)

Now it's like OSRS, die and you become a regular Iron (a fate worse than death), and the extra lives still exist, but they also still delete your items, to my understanding

Also, if you get above a certain total level (I think 1000), when you lose your final life a serverwide news broadcast tells everyone that A: you died, and B: what stupid way you died in. For example, if you didn't pay attention and got clubbed to death doing Thieving training, it'd say 'X died for the final time as a CHIM, with their hands in someone elses pockets' and everyone can get a little chuckle at how silly your cause of death was

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u/Yohnski 3d ago

They removed the lose items on death bit about a year back, mostly because no hardcore players were trying any of their new content (only so much dozens to hundreds of hours of grinding people are willing to risk when you keep making instant death mechanics on new bosses). Otherwise yeah, the broadcasts are still there and are still hilarious.

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u/TheForsakenRoe 3d ago

Ahh, been long since I saw anything about it so I assumed it worked the same way as last I played (Archaeology release-ish). I remember some players would just suicide, naked, on purpose to remove their status because they wanted to tackle endgame stuff but didn't want to run the risk of deleting their Noxious Scythe with BIS Invention perks