Tony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days ago'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month eventswww.pcgamer.comexternal-linkmessage-square113fedilinkarrow-up1920arrow-down124
arrow-up1896arrow-down1external-link'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month eventswww.pcgamer.comTony Bark@pawb.social to Games@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 days agomessage-square113fedilink
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-215 hours agoSome people still have strong possitive feelings for AIM. Runescape outlived WoW and all the rest because people preferred it.
minus-squareRancor_Tangerine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·14 hours agoIn 2009 RuneScape had ~200,000 daily players. WoW had ~5.5 million. Current estimates are RuneScape at ~150,000 and I’m being generous. WoW is at ~1.1 million. I don’t like WoW either, but it’s the king for a reason. That reason is they paid addiction specialists to tune drop rates and combat to make children addicted to their product.
minus-squareRisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours agoOSRS hit almost a mil concurrent last leagues iirc, so it isn’t like it’s a small irrelevant game. RS3 is pretty dead though
minus-squareRancor_Tangerine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 hours agoAgreed. It’s one of the greats. Trying to say it outlived WoW or in some way beat it is wrong through.
minus-squareRisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 hour agoWow would have to actually be dead first I suppose
minus-squarefinitebanjo@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·14 hours agoI genuinenely did not know that WoW was still running, tbh.
minus-squareRancor_Tangerine@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·13 hours agoLegend says it has to be cast into Mount SexualAssault from which it came.
Some people still have strong possitive feelings for AIM.
Runescape outlived WoW and all the rest because people preferred it.
In 2009 RuneScape had ~200,000 daily players. WoW had ~5.5 million.
Current estimates are RuneScape at ~150,000 and I’m being generous. WoW is at ~1.1 million.
I don’t like WoW either, but it’s the king for a reason.
That reason is they paid addiction specialists to tune drop rates and combat to make children addicted to their product.
OSRS hit almost a mil concurrent last leagues iirc, so it isn’t like it’s a small irrelevant game.
RS3 is pretty dead though
Agreed. It’s one of the greats.
Trying to say it outlived WoW or in some way beat it is wrong through.
Wow would have to actually be dead first I suppose
I genuinenely did not know that WoW was still running, tbh.
Legend says it has to be cast into Mount SexualAssault from which it came.