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RuneScape's monthly membership now costs as much as a World of Warcraft subscription as Jagex announces its second price hike in less than 2 years

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Submitted ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨commander@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨games@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/mmo/runescapes-monthly-membership-now-costs-as-much-as-a-world-of-warcraft-subscription-as-jagex-announces-its-second-price-hike-in-less-than-2-years/

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  • slazer2au@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just a gentle reminder that 2009Scape exists and you can play it offline with member benifits.

    gitlab.com/2009scape/singleplayer/

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    • RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      There’s a scape for every major version of RS you could have nostalgia for. It’s beautiful.

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Nostalgia, then I remember all the grind involved and lose any interest in grindy MMOs…

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    • radiouser@crazypeople.online ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Very cool, thanks!

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    • CorvusCornix@piefed.social ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      This is amazing, thanks for sharing!

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  • x00z@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And for that price WoW offers 65? character slots, while RS offers the whole 1.

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  • wildman@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also worth noting that they fucked over their longest continuous supporters by rug-pulling their grandfather rates after promising they wouldn’t be touched. That is a huge slap in the face for anyone who considers supporting them going forward.

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  • SleepyPie@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I also want to not that they’ve just:

    Removed all pay to win elements Removed all loot box and fomo purchases Added the ability to toggle off other people’s cosmetics in the settings Removed all “dailies”, “hourlies” and any content that would pressure you to log in or not do the activity you’d rather do They overhauled the combat system last week to be more intuitive Are releasing a whole new continent on the 28th to give new players a taste of endgame activities like bossing

    The price increase is on the annual subscription, and as a new player I’m letting my monthly sub roll another month. Not saying it doesn’t suck for long-time players but it’s what, another $40 for a game you intend to play for a whole year and will get hundreds of hours out of?

    I just started playing RuneScape last month as part of a “group Ironman” and have been having a blast. I want to note this is the new RuneScape and not “Old School”. I honestly think it’s going to surpass OSRS at this rate.

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    • traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I highly doubt RS3 will outpace OSRS ever. The majority of the money Jagex pulls in is through OSRS, that’s why it gets so much more content. RS3 can be fun for the certain group of people but OSRS is just a behemoth.

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  • Widdershins@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It comes as a surprise to me that they charge to play RuneScape and people fall pay for it

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    • Zizzy@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      “i dont like something and so no one else should” there are people who like the game. Its an mmo, so there are costs inherent in that, server, full time staff etc. It is not unreasonable to ask for some amount of money to keep the game going with updates. Is this price point unreasonable and greedy? Sure feels like it. Is your comment even more unreasonable? Definitely.

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    • boonhet@sopuli.xyz ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s pretty fun these days actually, new endgame bosses come out every now and then, they’ve added a ton of new skills, and they removed their lootbox mechanic and have done a lot to get rid of the daily FOMO grind. Lifted daily caps on some activities, gotten rid of others.

      I haven’t played in half a year, but honestly, a lot of the changes they’ve been talking about are a huge positive for the game.

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  • RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Does the game have a cash item shop? Will they be removing that? I can understand if they are removing a cash item shop or something, that is technically a trade of that tevenue for subscription revenue. A little late to the subscription party though, people are wisening up to the fact they end up paying more on subscriptions.

    I am not unreasonable though. Nobody ever likes price increases but from the perspective of the business price increases are sometimes necessary to keep up with inflation and cover server costs, etc. I dont know Jagex’s business and financials enough to know if this is necessary for the game to stay online or if it is just greed.

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    • Wataba@sh.itjust.works ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They’ve done a massive purge of MTX throughout the game.

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        they removed 99% of it, including daily scape. alot of new players and returning ones depend on it to restart the game. Auras are totally obliterated

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  • Snowman_sir@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I wonder how active it’s monthly playercount is going to be after this. Of course they won’t make it public. Heck, even support doesn’t exist as far as I have played it.

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    • Akrenion@slrpnk.net ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I will be back for the next osrs league with my gf I bought at GE. I do not know what the price was for the last league but I was not appaled for the 3 months. I wonder if players like us will smooth out the long term players who have less or no membership after this.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      from what ive saw on the subreddit, orS has mostly bots in it, skewing the player count.

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  • West_of_West@piefed.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If people keep playing there is no reason to not increase prices.

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    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      its mostly bots in both games. they are sustaining the game by keeping in game items cost low, rs too grindy for irl people to play so its bots/alts are doing the dirty work.

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  • Sanctus@anarchist.nexus ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Just play 2007scape. It was hardly worth 5 dollars in the heyday, its not worth fucken 3 times that now that its washed.

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    • Damarus@feddit.org ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Oh that got more expensive as well

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      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        they eliminated 6month membership , plus premiere privileges is rendered mostly moot.

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    • traxex@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      OSRS is a completely new game. They’ve added so much content, it’s absolutely worth it if you haven’t played in a while.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    thats what they(ors) get for complaining about TH/MTX, runescape had to cut costs somewhere. most recently they removed alot of content dailyscape, and what not from the game. they have to earn that revenue back somehow.

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  • melroy@kbin.melroy.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Give me 1 month and I vibe code runescape for free if you wish.

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