RuneScape Has 105 Million User Accounts

[Kriptonite]

I used to play. Fairly often too, had a level 83. But then my friend told me about Shaiya and I haven't touched Runescape since.

 

[Tharwen]

While only 20,000 actually kept their accounts over a week.

And half of those are multi-accounts and bots.

*gasp* Multi-accounts? But they're... banned by the terms of use - no-one actually does that.

 

[Irishhoodlum]

Anyone remember how many bots there were a couple years back? Yeah, I'm pretty sure at least a half of those accounts were bots. Hell, I think I saw at least 50 million auto woodcutters at the free-to-play yew trees alone.

If you kept up with the game's news, reading just any thread on their forums you'd see that they almost completely removed botting. Don't believe me? Log on, tell me how many you see. Incidentally, doesn't WoW rack up a fair amount of bots?

This about sums up my feelings on the replies. Sorry for all the quotations, but I was trying to make a point on how many people here are just... Wrong.

You misunderstand me. Notice how I say a couple years back. I am an active player (and i certainly testify to the merits of the game) who is simply pointing out that before they completely re-worked many portions of the game, there were a LOT of bots. You're right in saying that now there's hardly any left. The only reason I brought it up was to illustrate how the number given by the OP is probably inflated significantly by the vast amount of bots that once populated the game.

Sorry, guess I did misread the post. Though you'd guess bots would be traced back to the same IP/hard drive when banned. Overall then making up a lesser amount of overall accounts, and an almost non-existant part of the active ones.

 

[Joeshie]

Those numbers would be impressive if the game wasn't free. Since it's free, it's about as impressive as finding out that Solitare is the most played game in the world.

 

[Computer-Noob]

While only 20,000 actually kept their accounts over a week.

And half of those are multi-accounts and bots.

*gasp* Multi-accounts? But they're... banned by the terms of use - no-one actually does that.

Actually, they just ban trading between them. How I remember that scares me...

 

[Daedalus1942]

WTF!? It's 3D now? When did that happen? I played back when it was like a crappy 2d flash game :S

 

[Daedalus1942]

Those numbers would be impressive if the game wasn't free. Since it's free, it's about as impressive as finding out that Solitare is the most played game in the world.

Minesweeper begs to differ.

 

[bad rider]

Wow, theres 104,999,999 people more than I thought that played that game.

 

[Shadowfaze]

my brother plays runescape religiously- every day for the last three years. i got bored with it after about a year.

 

[kronoset]

It has so many accounts because of:

1. Easy access (no required installation, low graphics specs, etc.)
2. Cheap price/F2p mode
3. Numerous bots

I played it, got scammed on multiple occasions, and stopped. I was honestly the best thing to happen to me in my gaming life. MMORPGs devour time.

 

[Vianyte]

Loads of people on there have like 8 accounts. Plus the sheer amount of bots and old accounts that haven't been used for god knows how long, like mine.

 

[Takoto]

Oh man, I still have an account on there since like... I have no idea, early 2000.
It was so fun when I was little, I wouldn't play it now, but back then it was what all the cool kids were playing.

 

[sneak_copter]

Good. Runescape is an absolute technical marvel, despite being s*it.

They did all that... In JAVA?!
Seriously, let's all abandon Java, abandon QuickTime, abandon Shockwave, and get down with Microsoft's new program.

 

[Mackinator]

Well of course it has that many! Its a BRILLIANT game for little kids to play on a PC, and all of you can agree that you have tried it at one time or another. Their player-base is perfect, they have all the children playing who only need a measly £4 per month from their parents along with those who play it on a more "regular" basis and absolutely love the way the game works.

I loved Runescape at one point, but most people grow out of it at some point.

Good job Runescape.

 

[Captain Pancake]

I got to level 8 and got bored. Mainly because so many people called me a noob. pfft... just because I had better things to do.

 

[Desert Tiger]

Kinda like this game. Still subscribe occasionally to check out new stuff...

Because this is one of those games where you'll definitely get something major new every month.