RuneScape Breaks the Million Mark

[CorvusE]

RuneScape Breaks the Million Mark

Like a big smiling jug of red flavored sugar water, Runescape has smashed through the 1 million subscriber wall.

RuneScape membership is $5 a month and grants access to exclusive content. In regards to hitting the 1 million mark, Constant Tedder, Managing Director of developer Jagex Ltd., had the following to say.

It is a huge acknowledgement from our global gaming community that being presented with new adventures and challenges in a rapidly evolving world are what gamers want in a multiplayer online game.

RuneScape is a browser-based MMOG with a strong English speaking core audience of 14- to 24-year-olds. Jagex Ltd., based out of Cambridge, England, recently released a German beta of RuneScape with the same features that have made the English-language version so widely popular.

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[yakaspat]

Huh...That's great except for the fact that only 7 months later, Jagex unleashed a horde of horrible anti-RWT updates that killed merchanting, PKing, and everything fun about the game.

 

[sammyfreak]

I used to play the free version of it, good times, good times.

 

[stompy]

Well, the thing is, most people in my age group went through a period where we'd all play the game... now, it's just 'meh'. Ah well, good for them.

 

[Aidanadv]

Ahh... Runescape. It killed any interest I had MMORPGs. I realized when I was spending more than two hours at mining coal that it wasn't fun anymore.

 

[sirdiealot88]

Ahh... Runescape. It killed any interest I had MMORPGs. I realized when I was spending more than two hours at mining coal that it wasn't fun anymore.

I am with Aidanadv with that one, the shear amount of repetition does get annoying after say 2 minutes or so. But i still like playing it when i can be bothered to renew my account. Congrats Jagex

 

[ShadeOfRed]

Runescape past the million? That's good for them. I did play the game, I thought it was dreadfully boring though.

 

[Zombie_King]

Well, the thing is, most people in my age group went through a period where we'd all play the game... now, it's just 'meh'. Ah well, good for them.

I played it, by recommendation from a friend. I thought, at first, "Well...this isn't that bad; I guess it could be worse." I got World of Warcraft a couple weeks later and thought "Wow, Runescape is CRAP compared to this!" Then I actually got into WoW (or as you non-WoW-players call it, 'addicted') and then I thought, "CRAP!? Comparing Runescape to WoW is a COMPLIMENT to call Runescape 'CRAP'!!!" So....notsomuch 'Meh' as "OMG I WILL NEVEREVEREVEREVER LOOK AT RUNESCAPE AGAIN!!!" As for 1 million people playing it...1 million drug-users have access to Runescape? WoW has TEN MILLION subscribers anyways.

Edit: OK, I was too rough. Runescape's not the WORST MMO. Sure it's repetitive, but so are most others. WoW is totally grindtastic (it's a word, look it up) but it manages to disguise it well. It's like you're going through the Exodus in Runescape, but every ten minutes you get a reprieve. More or less.

 

[Darkshade505]

ah good ol runescape, took my mmo virginity and i dont regret it, now adays i wouldent play it but i cant deny the joy i had playing it waaaaaaaaaay back when (i got wow later on and found out i was more addicted to runescape, either that or im just harder to addict since them) Congrats!

 

[Fiskmasen]

Lots of World of Warcraft crap with way too many exclamation marks...

Yeah, World of Warcraft may have 10 million subscribers, but considering at least 1 million of those accounts are from Chinese farmers and gold sellers, and another 1 million or so of people with multiple accounts, it's not that much of a feat. Ever wonder why Blizzard stopped publishing charts of where the most accounts were sold?

Anyways on to the topic. Good for Jagex. Played RuneScape myself way back when. Found it dreadfully boring though, like most MMOG's.

 

[Archaeology Hat]

You will probably end up saying the same for any other MMO that manages to get to WoW's level of popularity. Goldfarmers aren't a problem only in WoW, other games have the problem (albeit to a lesser extent). It's only WoW's massive size that makes gold-farming such a big buisiness.

 

[Angrywyvern]

One of the best things about runescape is the quests are actually interesting, and have a story BESIDES, "Hey those little forest creatures piss me off, and I need their hides. Go kill em, I could one-shot them all, but I'm too busy standing around here.",
The sad thing is that there are a lot less quests, and f2p people never get any new ones, another reason why 70% of the game is P2P

 

[Amnestic]

One of the best things about runescape is the quests are actually interesting, and have a story BESIDES, "Hey those little forest creatures piss me off, and I need their hides. Go kill em, I could one-shot them all, but I'm too busy standing around here.",
The sad thing is that there are a lot less quests, and f2p people never get any new ones, another reason why 70% of the game is P2P

Necromancing threads is not a good way to become accepted to the forums, just a hint.

 

[Angrywyvern]

what? oh sorry. How long has this thread been out?

Edit: wait, never mind, don't answer that

 

[TheGhostOfSin]

One of the best things about runescape is the quests are actually interesting, and have a story BESIDES, "Hey those little forest creatures piss me off, and I need their hides. Go kill em, I could one-shot them all, but I'm too busy standing around here.",
The sad thing is that there are a lot less quests, and f2p people never get any new ones, another reason why 70% of the game is P2P

Necromancing threads is not a good way to become accepted to the forums, just a hint.

Unless you're Anarchemitis.

 

[Solo508]

Hmm, yeah, used to play Runescape. They really destroyed it by trying to stop RWT though. Not subscribing after they did that.

 

[TwistedEllipses]

I was part of it a while back, but once you've done all the free quests, what's left to do apart from tedious tasks? (which admittedly were a major part of most quests anyway)

 

[crazy-j]

I used to play the free version of it, good times, good times.

lol yup i remember those days......