[2022] RuneScape Appreciation Post

Tl:Dr just in my feels

I want to start off by saying that I unfortunately do not play RuneScape anymore, I’ve tried to get back to it the past couple of years, but it’s not hitting that spark that I miss.

Anywho, I just really wanted to share my love and appreciation for this game. I first started when I was 12 (I’m almost 24 now). I absolutely loved the game. I wasn’t even good at it. But it was the first mmo I got into, and the social aspect of it is something I’m so happy I got to try. Meeting new people everyday, making new friends, even the cringy RS Girlfriends and the annoying scammers. It was all just surreal. Then by the time I was 15, I started to take the game seriously, and by the time I was in college I had a thousand hours in the game and sunk in a couple thousand more. The game was my escape from reality, and the amount of Joy it brought me when trying new bosses and getting unique loot was incomparable. I even went ahead and got myself a maxcape bc I loved grinding the game out. Sadly, it doesn’t quite do that for me anymore. The sense of adventure I had growing up is mostly gone, and that’s on me for having had memorized half of the RS wiki. Admittedly, I have tried just about every remotely popular mmo since I gave up RuneScape, but nothing was able to fill the void. Growing up with RuneScape was too surreal. I compare every MMO experience to it, and they all miss out on something. Whether it be an amazing trading system (literally nothing is as good as the GE), a poor sense of community, not enough content, too much stress on questing (in RuneScape you can do them whenever you want), or a poor/simple combat system.

So all in all, thank you RuneScape, I’m glad I got to grow up playing with people from this great community.