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I have a maxed ironman I've played since 2015, and my original account was made way back in 2004. I didn't play non-stop, but I was there for 2004-2010 for original RuneScape, and 2015-2022ish for OSRS. I say this to establish that I'm a longtime player that loves the game, and it's been a very special part of my life growing up.
Having said that, Sailing was the deal breaker for me. When it passed the polls I stopped playing and haven't been back since. I'm a bit sad at times, because I miss the old RuneScape, but that ship set sail (heh) years ago. IMO capitalism has destroyed the essence of what made RuneScape special, and the only way we will see that golden age return is if RuneScape goes open source.
yee, i 100% sure that alot of people just vote for the first poll option without looking, and im 100% sure if shamanish was 1st option on that poll, shamanish would won 100%. but nothing to argue about, its a private company anyways. they knew they had alot of ideas about sailing from 6 times it failed, its a reason why they repolled it 7 times, they wanted it to win so they manipulated the polls as much as they could. putting it middle of pvm new content polls, and 1st option.
well i quit 1 year ago, played mostly gim, and it was fun to play with our group, we got 2 shadows and 2 tbows with 3 in our group. it was to grindy after that for not much gain and we alredy spend alot of time.
i really like wildy, even on an ironman ;). i was sso excited when i saw wilderness expension, but naah. we get varlamore thats delayed 1 year almost, it was alright i guess. bofa is the single thing that makes me not start a new ironman, and the balance is so horribol in this game. skill doesnt matter anymore, its basically pure pvm game, with chores to get skill to x level to unlock stuff xD. good way to bring skills popular is to gatekeep content behind it? instead of the skill haves some purpose in a resorces gamemode.................
well osrs just hire devs with minimal salary, since they need alot of people working on this shit engine, and honestly its a very shit engine, who uses java in 2025??? xD they had a perfect oppurtunity to make a new game, or osrs 2 with new engine that makes it easyer to add content and fix bugs and balance. but yee, keep it to java, and hire the outcast devs that for some reson learned a 2002 programming languge. like why woudl you work there? there are basically no one else that appricate java experince naymore as no one needs it.
well i love osrs how diversty it is. but now that its basically just get bofa and kill stuff for resorces and drops and ingore everything else. its just a combat game, that doesnt even compitete with other combat games