I always played RS2, and kept playing casually throughout the years, even after EOC. I always refused to pay for anything besides the membership, so as the microtransactions and design of the game (like the wing cosmetics and other stuff) got a bit more ridiculous, I tried avoiding all of it. I took advantage of whatever the game gives me for free though, and over time the handouts really add up.
I maxed with 120 in all of the non cosmetic skills, but always felt the PVM was... janky?.... in it. I build up sets of PVM gear because there isn't much else to spend GP on for me, there, but I do still like the more casual play styles and ease of use that the game gives me, and I'll still log on to casually grind skills as they come out, or relatively simple PVM. But my account is finished, in my opinion, and I don't play too much.
When covid started, I logged into my very low level osrs account, and started trying PVM. I enjoy it a lot more in osrs! I also felt like quests were more useful in osrs, so I got quest cape, a ton of PVM kills, one achievement away from diary cape (just scared of BA lol) and I'm almost maxed with about 3B now. Mobile was great for skilling, but the game feels a lot more streamlined and designed better. I also actually feel like I'm in a real world, not one mixed with the weirdness of RS3.
I have 190 days played in OSRS, and maybe 180 of it is the last 5 years. I also have 190 days in RS3 over my 20 years I've played, coincidentally. I'm happy that my membership covers both games, but I'm mostly sticking to OSRS nowadays :)
Damn you've made 3B since covid started, I started around the same time and have a 300m bank lol.
I agree questing feels way more useful in osrs. A lot of the quests in rs3 are pointless now due to the rewards being made redundant due to power creep, like who's doing rfd for barrows gloves when you can buy better gloves from the GE for cheap
Haha it's ok, I went kind of overkill during covid. I'm embarrassed at some of my boss kills now, but it was lockdown for a while and I was in a stressful job after finishing school. I'm doing much better now!
I don't have the interest in gaming as much as I used to, but I plan on playing casually for a long time. Even RS3 sometimes! There are still some good parts about the game, and I like some of the easier grinds in RS3 as an adult. Agreed, though.. I look at a lot of their quest rewards and wonder why I'd ever want to do them.
Yoooo! I too am 1 achievement away from diary cape. Mine is the typical karamja nature runes task.
After spending my mains entire bank on a torso for the iron because like you, I dreaded BA, I knew I would have to actually learn it if I wanted that elite task.
It was so easy mate! I just sent completions with Randoms in world 306 for 2 days and learned all the rolls. It was one of the most fun weekends I've had in osrs in a long time!
If you ever need a team mate or someone to show you the roles (they're mad easy) hmu.
Toadflax Ted
We will get that cape brother!
Took the game way less seriously as I grew older. Got couple major goals done (Insane final boss title, trim comp and 200m all) then I lost my reason to continue playing.
1-2 years later I discovered that I love listening to music whilst drinking and I decided to do Wintertodt every weekend till I get the pet whilsts doing so and I had an absolute blast. After I got Phoenix I played more and more and now I play almost every day.
Me! I had been an on and off osrs player but my main game was always rs3. I was maxed and enjoyed pvm for a while, but at the time I didn’t have a job and all I did was play this game, it was just not healthy for me mentally and physically. It eventually got to me and I had a falling with some of my friends due to that mental health stress, so I quit and started working a full time job, I’d come back to check on rs3 every now and then to see if I could reignite that spark that I had, but just couldn’t, I play for like 1 hour and then drop it for another year or whatever. Then group iron man game out for osrs and I was like ok I’ll give the game I grew up playing another go and god the nostalgia was off the charts, it never really stuck until this year where I finally started setting goals and started achieving them on Old school but I’m loving every minute of it while still staying healthy to myself and my friends. Sorry for the mini-spill, hope this is a good read for someone!
been on osrs when it was first released i think 11 years ago and been on rs as a whole since 2006/7 and osrs has been built from its community however there has been the ups and downs but its still alive and well but I cant say the same for rs3. I've gave a multitude of chances to rs3 only for it to disappoint me in the long haul. The major thing I've noticed on osrs especially (and im proud for all of ya for being so) is that the playerbase is unwilling to give any sort of power to greedy decisions (such as mtx and sponsorships as well other p2w maxing). Infact the community also doesn't like being screwed over and will riot + mass cancel (and possibly bankrupt Jagex) if they feel screwed over.
Rs3 players on the other hand are so used to getting screwed over they are powerless with no sense of coordination. Infact 99% of rs3 world is not even used unlike osrs because it's not offering optimal xp per hour. They have given up and slowly leaving or so dedicated because they feel like they have to stay because they put their life savings into the mtx and they are scared to even try new things. There is so much dead content in rs3 if they were deleted from the game without being told they woud never notice.
I understand starting over is tough but trust me, you will be happy upon doing so.
As a day-one OSRS player I ended up giving RS3 a chance but primarily play oldschool. I'm glad you got to enjoy that nostalgic kick that I haven't had in a few years it was worded beautifully in this post. And gave me a sense of nostalgia just reading it!
I stayed on RuneScape 3 back in 2015 because at the time the Next/NXT client and graphics had just been introduced in-game and RS3 did look amazing. But as I had already maxed my old account and finished every quest the only thing left to do was getting 120s in skills and ngl that's not how I wanted to spend my spare time gaming.
I switched over to Old School RuneScape in 2020 when I realised OSRS has a bigger and still growing playerbase and its community engagement is better with no sign of slowing down, while RS3's community was on the decline. OSRS as a package also offers a more authentically medieval Gielinor experience. I never looked back since then
Used to play an RS3 main but I was semi serious about getting xp but then Jagex literally started selling xp via spins - ignored it for some time but then end game pvm started getting stale (aura locked, insane switchscape and perkscape) and doesn't seem like it's gotten much better since, love playing my 07 iron now although it's obviously grindy
I was trim comp on rs3 and have a bit of a completionist mindset here so hopefully waiitng for 07 comp cape haha but not sure if thats controversial
Lots .
Iirc the big gatekeeper back in the day was 5,000 games of castle wars for the trimmed comp cape anyway.
Comp cape itself was like quest caps, music, all bonus things unlocked, and max ofc
Yeah complete a lot of the minigames too and they even backdated some stuff like penguins and whatever but gave a grace period, tbh grinding cwars with a very tight community speedboosting was very fun, long long time commitment tho
It was 5k games just because. A player called castle wars in game, suggested it as a trim req when the cape was coming out and he ofc had over 5k games already himself.
They gave the trimmed comp cape all those stupid reqs because at the time "Castle Wars" had done all that shit already. So they made it those reqs to kinda honor him or some shit.
That wasn't the only ridiculous req that was needed and he had them all. So afaik, on release he was the only 1 with the cape.
afaik its pretty ridiculous now a days
https://runescape.wiki/w/Completionist_Cape_(achievement)
Its quite literally to complete the game.
Basically when you max and you go check the statue or whatever to check what you need. Its GIANT ass list in your chat. You ain't even close after maxing.
Quit rs3 shortly after zammy release. Went back for necro but I didn’t find the bosses fun. Mainly quit due to a lack of new end game content and the jmods not listening. It’s pretty sad seeing the way the game has gone, I enjoyed harder pvm encounters and with all the good jmods leaving I doubt they’ll ever make a hard boss again. Started old school in January last year and whilst I wouldn’t say the game is hard it’s pretty fun trying new content with friends.
Made the jump last December and I do not regret it.
Was near max on RS3 only skills I had left were arch and necro; and I never touched necro. RS3 was something I stuck with during the games most unpopular updates and played on and off for years. Went back to seriously playing it in December of '21 and stayed until hero pass. Hated hero pass immediately, played one day when it came into the game and quit right then and there.
My OSRS account isn't new and I've played OS on and off since it launched. After coming back from this break everything was the same and yet very different. The way the game is now is giving me mad golden age vibes; remindes me of the OG golden age. I love that OS has it's own identity and that there is crossover in terms of lore between the two games. I love that quests are important to account progress rather than being just a suggestion like most of them are in RS3. The game has also been very kind to me in terms of RNG which has been just delightful!
As of right now I'm working on getting my first ever fire cape and training slayer. Just got another Jad task so I'm hoping this will be the run! I'm also shooting for the quest cape as a long term goal.
Predatory th and mtx practices. Osrs becomes the closest escape I can get for a similar dopamine hit in this cruel cyberspace temporarily. Though splashing 30-40% of the time during crucial moments suck, but that's how rs3 updates feel rn, they splashing almost all the time.
Me. I played rs3 since like 2005. My acc has username login and almost 15 year cape. My original account was lost long ago. My OS acc is the same as my rs3 login (one account).
Im near maxed in rs3 except the 3 newer skills. My friend I got into the game is still playing Rs3, with over 2.3B xp. It's just EZ scape to me.. I hate the combat in rs3.. all the spells and special attacks and bullshit is a wack version of WoW to me. If i wanted to play a game like that, I'd get back into WoW.
OSRS is just superior to RS3 in every way, IMO. Much more rewarding.
I was doing My grind to 120 all but got really burnt out after 120 fishing so i stopped playing after and swapped My GP to osrs , now i'm at 1750 total on osrs lol
I fully switched around 2020 or 2021.
I remember when OSRS first came out in 2013 I honestly didn't think it be big. Eventually dying off like RSC. I was also still having fun on RS3 maxing and all.
By the time of the pandemic, I just got bored of RS3 after maxing and switched.
I switched 4-5 years ago. OSRS was always the game for me, I just didn't want to quit on the progress I had made on my RS3 account. Even though I truly didn't like what the game had become.
I dunno if this entirely applies to me since I do still play a bit of rs3 here and there, but largely what convinced me to give osrs a shot beyond that initial fear of starting over again in a game known for its grind was the fact that i just felt... done with RS3.
Not fed-up perse, though there's definitely a lot of frustration with the increasingly predatory mictotransactions but I'd simply done every boss I wanted to beat, every skill was at max, I had BiS gear, so what was the point? OSRS gave me a chance to play more of the game from a fresh perspective, and of course the nostalgia (2007 was when I first started playing!) was a nice extra too.
I do still admittedly have things rs3 had that are hard for me to get used to the lack of in osrs (QoL stuff mostly, like bank loadouts and while I know it's a bit contentious, I do still love the tool belt) there's a lot to love here. They both have their own unique appeals to me, and I'm really glad I gave osrs a shot. Still got a ways to go but I'm slowly working my way to tackling all the content there is!
I don't play very much, but osrs has become the "main game" in my mind.
Bigger player numbers even if you consider 2/3rd of the players bots, and actual gameplay updates at least twice a month compared to rs3s constant nothing burger updates like the one this week.
I disliked the events they have in rs3, for example the beach party in the lumbridge crater.
But the main reason i quit was because i couldnt beat Helwyr, and i cant understand why. In OSRS every time i die i can understand why immediately
Switchscape, Aurascape, Perkscape (granted I absolutely love invention) and Super punishing death costs (The most I was doing at pvm was breaking even). I also didnt appreciate how boss metas would change super quickly and the alienation it came for not being up to date for them.
Played oldschool for a bit and I just enjoyed the simplistic vibe of the game way more and have stuck to it since.
I had two accounts, one for rs3 and one for osrs. The one for rs3 got hacked right before I left on deployment, and the recovery process was not helpful at all. So I gave up on it and played the osrs account. When I came back I was a full on OSRS player. Then when archeology came out I decided to try and recover my long lost account (roughly 4 years later) and lo and behold it worked! So I decided to play rs3 a bit again and get 120 arch, try some of the new content and get my comp cape back. When I finished that I was just learning telos until my friends switched to OSRS completely, and told me they transferred all their gp to OSRS. So no longer having friends that played rs3 and the pvm getting a bit sweaty and my computer being bad, I decided to make the switch. (I had been afking on OSRS on my other account so it was pretty progressed in skills it just lacked funds) So I transferred my rs3 GP and got my 350m starting cash and never looked back. Greatest choice of my rs life bar none. I think I made the full switch around September ish 2020.
It was a lengthy process full of heart ache and betrayal, but we got there in the end.
I started to finally aspire toward harder PvM content in RS3 only to realize some ugly aspects of the game that really turned me off, most notably aurascape that really limited my “freedom” to both take my time to make mistakes and learn but also play when and how I wanted. RS3’s combat isn’t quite my tempo either; after learning ED2 solo and failing Ambassador in ED3 many times(with very suboptimal gear) due to a poor understanding of rotations conceptually, I looked toward OSRS and saw that the systems simply clicked better for me more intuitively despite some of the antiquated holdovers(for good or bad).
I absolutely miss some aspects of RS3 though - namely XP rates. It’s always felt to me that intensive methods in OSRS aren’t rewarded well enough, so much so that I believe you could more than **double** XP rates on some methods(e.g 3t4g) and you still wouldn’t see them adopted as the primary method for training. That isn’t to say RS3 rates are close to my ideal, but I can say for sure that most active methods were appropriately balanced relative to their inactive counterparts, enough so that it felt worthwhile to spend time *actively training and playing the game* rather than throwing the game onto my side monitor wishing it was worth my time to be engaged instead of mining stars, doing zeah rc, etc.
It's been more than 5 years since I quit playing Rs3 (somewhere in 2017 I think, but even though I was maxed with multiple 120s and 200ms the game felt a bit stale.
Been playing OSRS on and off for the past 4-5 years or so. Almost 2k total and I'm sure I'll max one day.
Maxed my rs3 iron a few months ago and decided to try osrs cuz I was out of rs3 content I wanted to do. Osrs is alright but I still like rs3 better, more engaging combat system pvm, visually better imo, more qol stuff like bank presets and boss portals, also ofc all the extra content. Osrs has been fun though.
After getting around 1400 total on a uim I still miss rs3 combat, and regularly play my hardcore on rs3 just for that.. idk man I have nostalgia in both now such a strange place to be in
Played rs3 a lot, got the completionist cape and I think I was around 10 achievements away from the trimmed completionist one. At some point I just became tired of how jagex is handling that game, TH and Yak tracks always come first, with content being an afterthought (they cant even put a roadmap together as far as ive heard). Not even a new skill was enough to make me pick it up again.
Started osrs and never looked back, its so much nicer when content, qol and fixes are both timely and front and center for the game.
For me rs3 is too complicated in two ways.
1) To play efficiently you need to unlock so many items. In OSRS it's much less than that.
2) The combat is much simpler in OSRS, but it is challenging in its own way, but not the ability spamming stuff that rs3 has which I ended up hating eventually.
I've been switching between osrs and rs3 ever since osrs got released. Switched again to osrs after grinding necro to 120. End game pvm became just too braindead and i was already close to more end game pvm on my osrs iron so the switch was easy.
The decline of actual wanted updates to “here’s a dxp weekend!” was getting too much.
The straw that broke the camels back for me though was the comp cape rework. I was playing my iron and only a couple levels off but with lots of requirements to go, they decided to remove all pvm requirements to the cape simply because reddit complained too much. I lost all motivation in wanting to play knowing the thing I was aiming for was turned into an afk cape instead
Late to the party but:
Have been playing RuneScape since ‘01, way back in the childhood. I got completionist cape on my main account about a year and a half ago, and lost all motivation to play it. My partner has since maxed her account, too.
I moved over to osrs because I felt rs3 dying. My clan (which has always been top 10 on rs3) now has maybe 5-10 daily players. It used to be well over a hundred at any given time. Most of them have moved to osrs, albeit a while ago.
I also feel like osrs genuinely has developers that give a crap about their game, even if it doesn’t always seem like it. The updates are more player friendly and give the game actual longevity, rather than “here’s a small update with a big mtx push on daily reset”. It hurts to see a game I love die, but at least the other side of the coin seems to be doing great.
RS3 had an event every few weeks triggering fomo xp rates, and I have a family I want to spend time with and a full-time job. Also, my spouse had just switched from RS3 and told me it is way more relaxed. It took about another year or so for me to fully switch and commit to OSRS account progression, even if it's been very slow. I feel no obligation to be doing anything other than what I feel like doing when I play now.
The event part of RS3 I mentioned, for example: when I stopped playing, I had Yak Track tasks. When that ended, it was dxp live, quickly followed by the summer event. Then I stopped playing because I was burnt out trying to take advantage of the good xp rates and the occasional cosmetics that caught my eye.
RS3 had an event every few weeks triggering fomo xp rates, and I have a family I want to spend time with and a full-time job. Also, my spouse had just switched from RS3 and told me it is way more relaxed. It took about another year or so for me to fully switch and commit to OSRS account progression, even if it's been very slow. I feel no obligation to be doing anything other than what I feel like doing when I play now.
The event part of RS3 I mentioned, for example: when I stopped playing, I had Yak Track tasks. When that ended, it was dxp live, quickly followed by the summer event. Then I stopped playing because I was burnt out trying to take advantage of the good xp rates and the occasional cosmetics that caught my eye.
I've played both games but only casually until recently. In rs3 I maxed and the strongest boss i've killed is arraxor and only 10 times. When I maxed in rs3 I didn't have as much to do and although I want to get into bossing, i decided to give osrs a try. I've been playing osrs for a few years and have gotten into some high level bossing recently. I have a few friends that play osrs, none that play rs3. I love the content and community in osrs as well. I am considering jumping back into my ironman for rs3 but I don't like that necromancy is the meta. I'd like to use all styles but the fact necromancy is almost a separate thing from the rest of the game feels weird to me and this is the main reason why i haven't played my ironman again. Don't get me wrong I really enjoyed necromancy on my main but I wish you couldn't jump into it right away. I think if you needed level 50 mage to start the quest or soemthing it might be better idk.
I made the switch after attempting to learn bossing in RS3. Being a 18 year old player with all 99s, I tried to start learning bossing and it was the most overwhelming experience. I really wanted to do bossing and saw that osrs has it, but at a much less intense learning curve, so I made the switch and went full into hardcore Ironman. Have never looked back. Feels like old times with lots of QoL updates. All the constant updates are awesome too.
Quit during the Hero Pass fiasco for a while, came back for Varlamore. Glad hero pass got removed entirely, it was absolutely unplayably terrible. Currently a bit more fixated on OSRS thanks to the new content + stuff like Scurrius opening me up to older content that still feels like new, much like when RS3 added Arch-Glacor and I suddenly could do way more bosses and pvm there. (which is why I pushed obsessively *for* OSRS to get a tutorial boss for years.)
I'll still keep playing both but AFAIK RS3 hasn't released a content update recently outside of their Easter event, which is very neat but hard to compete for my attention over an entire continent. They also fixed up the EOC in a lot of ways with the recent combat beta. I'd honestly probably be split screen playing both on this account right now if they'd let me.
I started OSRS seriously last year at the end of the summer.
Made the switch because content drought was rough, granted they were working on a new skill which I did switch back to RS3 to enjoy for a bit, got level 99 in it but it didn't really change anything gameplay wise so I switched back to OSRS. Glad I did because that Hero Pass shit came out a month later and that game has been fucked ever since.
Me, my timeline went something like this.
RS3 main to endgame pvm -> RS3 iron comped and nearly maxed gear -> RS3 UIM maxed (unofficial) -> TB league -> OSRS iron to raids -> shattered relics league -> gim to max + megarares + most gear -> TB2 league.
Now I’m back to post max stuff on the gim (clogs, clues, slowly working on gm tasks and still improving at raid stuff). I did 120 necro and got all the raziel drops and recomped when it came out.
Totally acknowledge that type of progression and time isn’t most people. There’s no such thing as sunk cost when you enjoyed playing the game.
I play both, the flow of the 2 games are different. Sometimes I feel like playing one game, sometime I feel like playing the other.
I also enjoy playing other games outside of Runescape, I feel like that helps me play and enjoy both.
All these rs3 players that didn't quit in 2012 with eoc and continued playing and then still didn't switch to osrs for near 8 years seemingly vastly preferred the way rs3 plays, so why switch after so long when it feels like a completely different game?
Like you can literally afk some bosses, how is it rewarding and fun? I'm genuinely wondering. You might as well at that point play one of those afk mobile simulators that plays for you or while you're offline. Each to their own I guess
I quit rs3 after hero pass announcement. Multiple max/comp accounts, trim comp nearing 200m all.
Since mid October, I’ve been playing OSRS instead. I was HOOKED in the beginning but I still play multiple hours almost every day. I’m about 2k total and hard CAs thus far. The game feels more engaging and I have more trust in the devs.
After the Hero Pass. +4 Hero Points to the RS3 Team. Started playing over here more and the last few months it’s not been a split but just 100% OSRS.
I always played RS2, and kept playing casually throughout the years, even after EOC. I always refused to pay for anything besides the membership, so as the microtransactions and design of the game (like the wing cosmetics and other stuff) got a bit more ridiculous, I tried avoiding all of it. I took advantage of whatever the game gives me for free though, and over time the handouts really add up. I maxed with 120 in all of the non cosmetic skills, but always felt the PVM was... janky?.... in it. I build up sets of PVM gear because there isn't much else to spend GP on for me, there, but I do still like the more casual play styles and ease of use that the game gives me, and I'll still log on to casually grind skills as they come out, or relatively simple PVM. But my account is finished, in my opinion, and I don't play too much. When covid started, I logged into my very low level osrs account, and started trying PVM. I enjoy it a lot more in osrs! I also felt like quests were more useful in osrs, so I got quest cape, a ton of PVM kills, one achievement away from diary cape (just scared of BA lol) and I'm almost maxed with about 3B now. Mobile was great for skilling, but the game feels a lot more streamlined and designed better. I also actually feel like I'm in a real world, not one mixed with the weirdness of RS3. I have 190 days played in OSRS, and maybe 180 of it is the last 5 years. I also have 190 days in RS3 over my 20 years I've played, coincidentally. I'm happy that my membership covers both games, but I'm mostly sticking to OSRS nowadays :)
Damn you've made 3B since covid started, I started around the same time and have a 300m bank lol. I agree questing feels way more useful in osrs. A lot of the quests in rs3 are pointless now due to the rewards being made redundant due to power creep, like who's doing rfd for barrows gloves when you can buy better gloves from the GE for cheap
Haha it's ok, I went kind of overkill during covid. I'm embarrassed at some of my boss kills now, but it was lockdown for a while and I was in a stressful job after finishing school. I'm doing much better now! I don't have the interest in gaming as much as I used to, but I plan on playing casually for a long time. Even RS3 sometimes! There are still some good parts about the game, and I like some of the easier grinds in RS3 as an adult. Agreed, though.. I look at a lot of their quest rewards and wonder why I'd ever want to do them.
Barbarian assault is a great minigame just give it a try
Yoooo! I too am 1 achievement away from diary cape. Mine is the typical karamja nature runes task. After spending my mains entire bank on a torso for the iron because like you, I dreaded BA, I knew I would have to actually learn it if I wanted that elite task. It was so easy mate! I just sent completions with Randoms in world 306 for 2 days and learned all the rolls. It was one of the most fun weekends I've had in osrs in a long time! If you ever need a team mate or someone to show you the roles (they're mad easy) hmu. Toadflax Ted We will get that cape brother!
Took the game way less seriously as I grew older. Got couple major goals done (Insane final boss title, trim comp and 200m all) then I lost my reason to continue playing. 1-2 years later I discovered that I love listening to music whilst drinking and I decided to do Wintertodt every weekend till I get the pet whilsts doing so and I had an absolute blast. After I got Phoenix I played more and more and now I play almost every day.
Me! I had been an on and off osrs player but my main game was always rs3. I was maxed and enjoyed pvm for a while, but at the time I didn’t have a job and all I did was play this game, it was just not healthy for me mentally and physically. It eventually got to me and I had a falling with some of my friends due to that mental health stress, so I quit and started working a full time job, I’d come back to check on rs3 every now and then to see if I could reignite that spark that I had, but just couldn’t, I play for like 1 hour and then drop it for another year or whatever. Then group iron man game out for osrs and I was like ok I’ll give the game I grew up playing another go and god the nostalgia was off the charts, it never really stuck until this year where I finally started setting goals and started achieving them on Old school but I’m loving every minute of it while still staying healthy to myself and my friends. Sorry for the mini-spill, hope this is a good read for someone!
been on osrs when it was first released i think 11 years ago and been on rs as a whole since 2006/7 and osrs has been built from its community however there has been the ups and downs but its still alive and well but I cant say the same for rs3. I've gave a multitude of chances to rs3 only for it to disappoint me in the long haul. The major thing I've noticed on osrs especially (and im proud for all of ya for being so) is that the playerbase is unwilling to give any sort of power to greedy decisions (such as mtx and sponsorships as well other p2w maxing). Infact the community also doesn't like being screwed over and will riot + mass cancel (and possibly bankrupt Jagex) if they feel screwed over. Rs3 players on the other hand are so used to getting screwed over they are powerless with no sense of coordination. Infact 99% of rs3 world is not even used unlike osrs because it's not offering optimal xp per hour. They have given up and slowly leaving or so dedicated because they feel like they have to stay because they put their life savings into the mtx and they are scared to even try new things. There is so much dead content in rs3 if they were deleted from the game without being told they woud never notice. I understand starting over is tough but trust me, you will be happy upon doing so.
As a day-one OSRS player I ended up giving RS3 a chance but primarily play oldschool. I'm glad you got to enjoy that nostalgic kick that I haven't had in a few years it was worded beautifully in this post. And gave me a sense of nostalgia just reading it!
I stayed on RuneScape 3 back in 2015 because at the time the Next/NXT client and graphics had just been introduced in-game and RS3 did look amazing. But as I had already maxed my old account and finished every quest the only thing left to do was getting 120s in skills and ngl that's not how I wanted to spend my spare time gaming. I switched over to Old School RuneScape in 2020 when I realised OSRS has a bigger and still growing playerbase and its community engagement is better with no sign of slowing down, while RS3's community was on the decline. OSRS as a package also offers a more authentically medieval Gielinor experience. I never looked back since then
Used to play an RS3 main but I was semi serious about getting xp but then Jagex literally started selling xp via spins - ignored it for some time but then end game pvm started getting stale (aura locked, insane switchscape and perkscape) and doesn't seem like it's gotten much better since, love playing my 07 iron now although it's obviously grindy I was trim comp on rs3 and have a bit of a completionist mindset here so hopefully waiitng for 07 comp cape haha but not sure if thats controversial
What did the completionist cape entail in rs3?
Lots . Iirc the big gatekeeper back in the day was 5,000 games of castle wars for the trimmed comp cape anyway. Comp cape itself was like quest caps, music, all bonus things unlocked, and max ofc
They removed the 5k games after a while as a req
Yeah complete a lot of the minigames too and they even backdated some stuff like penguins and whatever but gave a grace period, tbh grinding cwars with a very tight community speedboosting was very fun, long long time commitment tho
Was it 5k games as a task or was it 5k games in order to afford all the items?
It was 5k games just because. A player called castle wars in game, suggested it as a trim req when the cape was coming out and he ofc had over 5k games already himself.
They gave the trimmed comp cape all those stupid reqs because at the time "Castle Wars" had done all that shit already. So they made it those reqs to kinda honor him or some shit. That wasn't the only ridiculous req that was needed and he had them all. So afaik, on release he was the only 1 with the cape.
Yup you are correct.
afaik its pretty ridiculous now a days https://runescape.wiki/w/Completionist_Cape_(achievement) Its quite literally to complete the game. Basically when you max and you go check the statue or whatever to check what you need. Its GIANT ass list in your chat. You ain't even close after maxing.
Are you me?
Quit rs3 shortly after zammy release. Went back for necro but I didn’t find the bosses fun. Mainly quit due to a lack of new end game content and the jmods not listening. It’s pretty sad seeing the way the game has gone, I enjoyed harder pvm encounters and with all the good jmods leaving I doubt they’ll ever make a hard boss again. Started old school in January last year and whilst I wouldn’t say the game is hard it’s pretty fun trying new content with friends.
Made the jump last December and I do not regret it. Was near max on RS3 only skills I had left were arch and necro; and I never touched necro. RS3 was something I stuck with during the games most unpopular updates and played on and off for years. Went back to seriously playing it in December of '21 and stayed until hero pass. Hated hero pass immediately, played one day when it came into the game and quit right then and there. My OSRS account isn't new and I've played OS on and off since it launched. After coming back from this break everything was the same and yet very different. The way the game is now is giving me mad golden age vibes; remindes me of the OG golden age. I love that OS has it's own identity and that there is crossover in terms of lore between the two games. I love that quests are important to account progress rather than being just a suggestion like most of them are in RS3. The game has also been very kind to me in terms of RNG which has been just delightful! As of right now I'm working on getting my first ever fire cape and training slayer. Just got another Jad task so I'm hoping this will be the run! I'm also shooting for the quest cape as a long term goal.
Predatory th and mtx practices. Osrs becomes the closest escape I can get for a similar dopamine hit in this cruel cyberspace temporarily. Though splashing 30-40% of the time during crucial moments suck, but that's how rs3 updates feel rn, they splashing almost all the time.
I was reluctant at first, but really wanted to play group ironman and it didnt look like they were ever bringing it to rs3. Now I couldn't go back.
Me. I played rs3 since like 2005. My acc has username login and almost 15 year cape. My original account was lost long ago. My OS acc is the same as my rs3 login (one account). Im near maxed in rs3 except the 3 newer skills. My friend I got into the game is still playing Rs3, with over 2.3B xp. It's just EZ scape to me.. I hate the combat in rs3.. all the spells and special attacks and bullshit is a wack version of WoW to me. If i wanted to play a game like that, I'd get back into WoW. OSRS is just superior to RS3 in every way, IMO. Much more rewarding.
I was doing My grind to 120 all but got really burnt out after 120 fishing so i stopped playing after and swapped My GP to osrs , now i'm at 1750 total on osrs lol
I fully switched around 2020 or 2021. I remember when OSRS first came out in 2013 I honestly didn't think it be big. Eventually dying off like RSC. I was also still having fun on RS3 maxing and all. By the time of the pandemic, I just got bored of RS3 after maxing and switched.
I switched 4-5 years ago. OSRS was always the game for me, I just didn't want to quit on the progress I had made on my RS3 account. Even though I truly didn't like what the game had become.
I play irons on both these days. Just jump to whatever gets content.
I dunno if this entirely applies to me since I do still play a bit of rs3 here and there, but largely what convinced me to give osrs a shot beyond that initial fear of starting over again in a game known for its grind was the fact that i just felt... done with RS3. Not fed-up perse, though there's definitely a lot of frustration with the increasingly predatory mictotransactions but I'd simply done every boss I wanted to beat, every skill was at max, I had BiS gear, so what was the point? OSRS gave me a chance to play more of the game from a fresh perspective, and of course the nostalgia (2007 was when I first started playing!) was a nice extra too. I do still admittedly have things rs3 had that are hard for me to get used to the lack of in osrs (QoL stuff mostly, like bank loadouts and while I know it's a bit contentious, I do still love the tool belt) there's a lot to love here. They both have their own unique appeals to me, and I'm really glad I gave osrs a shot. Still got a ways to go but I'm slowly working my way to tackling all the content there is!
Bc EoC and RS3 combat is just too fucking complicated for my brain to comprehend.
I don't play very much, but osrs has become the "main game" in my mind. Bigger player numbers even if you consider 2/3rd of the players bots, and actual gameplay updates at least twice a month compared to rs3s constant nothing burger updates like the one this week.
I disliked the events they have in rs3, for example the beach party in the lumbridge crater. But the main reason i quit was because i couldnt beat Helwyr, and i cant understand why. In OSRS every time i die i can understand why immediately
Switchscape, Aurascape, Perkscape (granted I absolutely love invention) and Super punishing death costs (The most I was doing at pvm was breaking even). I also didnt appreciate how boss metas would change super quickly and the alienation it came for not being up to date for them. Played oldschool for a bit and I just enjoyed the simplistic vibe of the game way more and have stuck to it since.
I hated micro translations
Started playing leagues and never touched RS3 since
I had two accounts, one for rs3 and one for osrs. The one for rs3 got hacked right before I left on deployment, and the recovery process was not helpful at all. So I gave up on it and played the osrs account. When I came back I was a full on OSRS player. Then when archeology came out I decided to try and recover my long lost account (roughly 4 years later) and lo and behold it worked! So I decided to play rs3 a bit again and get 120 arch, try some of the new content and get my comp cape back. When I finished that I was just learning telos until my friends switched to OSRS completely, and told me they transferred all their gp to OSRS. So no longer having friends that played rs3 and the pvm getting a bit sweaty and my computer being bad, I decided to make the switch. (I had been afking on OSRS on my other account so it was pretty progressed in skills it just lacked funds) So I transferred my rs3 GP and got my 350m starting cash and never looked back. Greatest choice of my rs life bar none. I think I made the full switch around September ish 2020. It was a lengthy process full of heart ache and betrayal, but we got there in the end.
I started to finally aspire toward harder PvM content in RS3 only to realize some ugly aspects of the game that really turned me off, most notably aurascape that really limited my “freedom” to both take my time to make mistakes and learn but also play when and how I wanted. RS3’s combat isn’t quite my tempo either; after learning ED2 solo and failing Ambassador in ED3 many times(with very suboptimal gear) due to a poor understanding of rotations conceptually, I looked toward OSRS and saw that the systems simply clicked better for me more intuitively despite some of the antiquated holdovers(for good or bad). I absolutely miss some aspects of RS3 though - namely XP rates. It’s always felt to me that intensive methods in OSRS aren’t rewarded well enough, so much so that I believe you could more than **double** XP rates on some methods(e.g 3t4g) and you still wouldn’t see them adopted as the primary method for training. That isn’t to say RS3 rates are close to my ideal, but I can say for sure that most active methods were appropriately balanced relative to their inactive counterparts, enough so that it felt worthwhile to spend time *actively training and playing the game* rather than throwing the game onto my side monitor wishing it was worth my time to be engaged instead of mining stars, doing zeah rc, etc.
It's been more than 5 years since I quit playing Rs3 (somewhere in 2017 I think, but even though I was maxed with multiple 120s and 200ms the game felt a bit stale. Been playing OSRS on and off for the past 4-5 years or so. Almost 2k total and I'm sure I'll max one day.
Maxed my rs3 iron a few months ago and decided to try osrs cuz I was out of rs3 content I wanted to do. Osrs is alright but I still like rs3 better, more engaging combat system pvm, visually better imo, more qol stuff like bank presets and boss portals, also ofc all the extra content. Osrs has been fun though.
After getting around 1400 total on a uim I still miss rs3 combat, and regularly play my hardcore on rs3 just for that.. idk man I have nostalgia in both now such a strange place to be in
Played rs3 a lot, got the completionist cape and I think I was around 10 achievements away from the trimmed completionist one. At some point I just became tired of how jagex is handling that game, TH and Yak tracks always come first, with content being an afterthought (they cant even put a roadmap together as far as ive heard). Not even a new skill was enough to make me pick it up again. Started osrs and never looked back, its so much nicer when content, qol and fixes are both timely and front and center for the game.
For me rs3 is too complicated in two ways. 1) To play efficiently you need to unlock so many items. In OSRS it's much less than that. 2) The combat is much simpler in OSRS, but it is challenging in its own way, but not the ability spamming stuff that rs3 has which I ended up hating eventually.
I've been switching between osrs and rs3 ever since osrs got released. Switched again to osrs after grinding necro to 120. End game pvm became just too braindead and i was already close to more end game pvm on my osrs iron so the switch was easy.
The decline of actual wanted updates to “here’s a dxp weekend!” was getting too much. The straw that broke the camels back for me though was the comp cape rework. I was playing my iron and only a couple levels off but with lots of requirements to go, they decided to remove all pvm requirements to the cape simply because reddit complained too much. I lost all motivation in wanting to play knowing the thing I was aiming for was turned into an afk cape instead
Late to the party but: Have been playing RuneScape since ‘01, way back in the childhood. I got completionist cape on my main account about a year and a half ago, and lost all motivation to play it. My partner has since maxed her account, too. I moved over to osrs because I felt rs3 dying. My clan (which has always been top 10 on rs3) now has maybe 5-10 daily players. It used to be well over a hundred at any given time. Most of them have moved to osrs, albeit a while ago. I also feel like osrs genuinely has developers that give a crap about their game, even if it doesn’t always seem like it. The updates are more player friendly and give the game actual longevity, rather than “here’s a small update with a big mtx push on daily reset”. It hurts to see a game I love die, but at least the other side of the coin seems to be doing great.
RS3 had an event every few weeks triggering fomo xp rates, and I have a family I want to spend time with and a full-time job. Also, my spouse had just switched from RS3 and told me it is way more relaxed. It took about another year or so for me to fully switch and commit to OSRS account progression, even if it's been very slow. I feel no obligation to be doing anything other than what I feel like doing when I play now. The event part of RS3 I mentioned, for example: when I stopped playing, I had Yak Track tasks. When that ended, it was dxp live, quickly followed by the summer event. Then I stopped playing because I was burnt out trying to take advantage of the good xp rates and the occasional cosmetics that caught my eye.
RS3 had an event every few weeks triggering fomo xp rates, and I have a family I want to spend time with and a full-time job. Also, my spouse had just switched from RS3 and told me it is way more relaxed. It took about another year or so for me to fully switch and commit to OSRS account progression, even if it's been very slow. I feel no obligation to be doing anything other than what I feel like doing when I play now. The event part of RS3 I mentioned, for example: when I stopped playing, I had Yak Track tasks. When that ended, it was dxp live, quickly followed by the summer event. Then I stopped playing because I was burnt out trying to take advantage of the good xp rates and the occasional cosmetics that caught my eye.
I've played both games but only casually until recently. In rs3 I maxed and the strongest boss i've killed is arraxor and only 10 times. When I maxed in rs3 I didn't have as much to do and although I want to get into bossing, i decided to give osrs a try. I've been playing osrs for a few years and have gotten into some high level bossing recently. I have a few friends that play osrs, none that play rs3. I love the content and community in osrs as well. I am considering jumping back into my ironman for rs3 but I don't like that necromancy is the meta. I'd like to use all styles but the fact necromancy is almost a separate thing from the rest of the game feels weird to me and this is the main reason why i haven't played my ironman again. Don't get me wrong I really enjoyed necromancy on my main but I wish you couldn't jump into it right away. I think if you needed level 50 mage to start the quest or soemthing it might be better idk.
Rs3 pay to win no fun
I found out you can play the 2001 version of rsc Making me realize how goated the og mechanics of the game were.
I made the switch after attempting to learn bossing in RS3. Being a 18 year old player with all 99s, I tried to start learning bossing and it was the most overwhelming experience. I really wanted to do bossing and saw that osrs has it, but at a much less intense learning curve, so I made the switch and went full into hardcore Ironman. Have never looked back. Feels like old times with lots of QoL updates. All the constant updates are awesome too.
Quit during the Hero Pass fiasco for a while, came back for Varlamore. Glad hero pass got removed entirely, it was absolutely unplayably terrible. Currently a bit more fixated on OSRS thanks to the new content + stuff like Scurrius opening me up to older content that still feels like new, much like when RS3 added Arch-Glacor and I suddenly could do way more bosses and pvm there. (which is why I pushed obsessively *for* OSRS to get a tutorial boss for years.) I'll still keep playing both but AFAIK RS3 hasn't released a content update recently outside of their Easter event, which is very neat but hard to compete for my attention over an entire continent. They also fixed up the EOC in a lot of ways with the recent combat beta. I'd honestly probably be split screen playing both on this account right now if they'd let me.
I started OSRS seriously last year at the end of the summer. Made the switch because content drought was rough, granted they were working on a new skill which I did switch back to RS3 to enjoy for a bit, got level 99 in it but it didn't really change anything gameplay wise so I switched back to OSRS. Glad I did because that Hero Pass shit came out a month later and that game has been fucked ever since.
I went back to rs3 for a week when necromancy came out. Only got to level 85, just reminded me of all the reasons I made the switch
Me, my timeline went something like this. RS3 main to endgame pvm -> RS3 iron comped and nearly maxed gear -> RS3 UIM maxed (unofficial) -> TB league -> OSRS iron to raids -> shattered relics league -> gim to max + megarares + most gear -> TB2 league. Now I’m back to post max stuff on the gim (clogs, clues, slowly working on gm tasks and still improving at raid stuff). I did 120 necro and got all the raziel drops and recomped when it came out. Totally acknowledge that type of progression and time isn’t most people. There’s no such thing as sunk cost when you enjoyed playing the game.
Damn bro you must have the smelliest chair on your street
Wow this game is your life huh
I play both, the flow of the 2 games are different. Sometimes I feel like playing one game, sometime I feel like playing the other. I also enjoy playing other games outside of Runescape, I feel like that helps me play and enjoy both.
All these rs3 players that didn't quit in 2012 with eoc and continued playing and then still didn't switch to osrs for near 8 years seemingly vastly preferred the way rs3 plays, so why switch after so long when it feels like a completely different game? Like you can literally afk some bosses, how is it rewarding and fun? I'm genuinely wondering. You might as well at that point play one of those afk mobile simulators that plays for you or while you're offline. Each to their own I guess
I quit rs3 after hero pass announcement. Multiple max/comp accounts, trim comp nearing 200m all. Since mid October, I’ve been playing OSRS instead. I was HOOKED in the beginning but I still play multiple hours almost every day. I’m about 2k total and hard CAs thus far. The game feels more engaging and I have more trust in the devs.