I hesitate to post this because it's generally a very toxic community (and on reddit too 🤮).
Jagex, the company that owns RuneScape, recently got acquired by yet another private equity firm. As any of us could have predicted, they are now testing the waters with new profit-seeking methods and the player base is unhappy.
Already a decent number of communists agitating in the comments, but for anyone who's bored and can tolerate the hellsite this is an opportunity to practice your agitating and educating skills on one of the worst demographics to ever exist: gamers
Ugh, I remember the EoC back when it happened and that's well over a decade ago. Mod Mark was a smug piece of shit saying anyone who doesn't like it is just being nostalgic and implied we should just quit.
RuneScape is unironically a very well-written game, and now that I'm an adult, I can't help but think it was totally done dirty by capitalism and growing enshittification.
I watched the Josh strife review of rs3 and I actually felt bad for speeding through the quests all those years ago, despite rushing through them I actually think a fair bit of the humor stuck with me.
One of my dream games would be Runescape but a large singleplayer game, like Kenshi and Zomboid. I used to like it a lot but I just can't justify playing a grindy, subscription-based mmo anymore.
I don't think it's like RuneScape (but I never played it), but CrossCode was really interesting for capturing some of the magic of an MMO without the unpleasant parts like other people and subscription fees