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Jagex Claims 3 Guinness World Records - Runescape - MMORPG.com
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Jagex Claims 3 Guinness World Records - Runescape - MMORPG.com
Runescape News - The list of Guinness World Records continues to grow at an exponential rate. Jagex has now laid claim to three more World Records for RuneScape. The game now has more original pieces of music in a video game, the most users in an MMO and the most "prolifically updated MMORPG" up to the current time.
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Once this mobile version of the game launches (that is on the PC servers) you will see a HUGE increase in population. I know so many people who want to play on mobile just because it's easier while out and about or at work.
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Music,i would hope any gamer would want quality over quantity.
Most players,using WHAT criteria,multiple logins by the same people?Like how could anyone possibly track that kind of information and call it legit.
The ONLY games that could post legit numbers are subscription model games.
Most prolifically updated?wtf does that even mean? I had to look up the definition to see if there was something i am missing...nope just a nonsense bs record.
prolifically....abundant,plentiful,sooo.......a plentiful update?LMAO the word would actually be an opinionated word,how can you set a record with an OPINION?lmao yeah pretty much tells you how little we can trust the record books.
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Actually you have, the glory early days of this game were legendary and just as good as any other large mmo's "glory days". Maybe for someone who's in their mid-twenties (myself) it was a childhood game. Me and my friends used to rush home from elementary school to log into RuneScape and go PKing, it was a rather rewarding game, grindy, but rewarding. I remember the first time my parents paid for a month of premium "members" access on my account, man I was so happy that I could go into the blocked off zones of the game. I know for a fact there's millions of people out there with similar RuneScape stories.
If you like quests with depth beyond that typical of MMORPGs of the post-WoW era, you may enjoy the game. If you want your in game actions to determine how to improve your character rather than adapting what you do to constraints of a class someone else designed, RuneScape may be for you. If you want playing prepared adventures to be an option rather than an absolute, this could be right up your alley.
If you prefer form over function, RuneScape is a poor choice. If you want to be led along a track, from one mission chain to the next, with vibrant cut-scenes and professional voice acting popping with regularity, you will be disappointed. If you like the comfort of a class based system, with standard MMORPG game play, you aren't going to find it here.
Many say that the game has a lot of grind. There is grind, to be sure, but the extent of it depends on your choices. Perhaps an example will help give you an idea of what RuneScape can be.
Let us say that you use the bow as a ranged weapon, but after your latest trek into the wilds you have run out of arrows and you must restock. You can do this multiple ways, of course. Let us first assume you are a do-it-yourself type of person and like to keep coin costs down.
To get your arrows you will have to: Collect wood, ore, and feathers. Carve the shafts, smelt the ore, and form the arrowheads. Fashion the arrows from your collection of shafts, arrowheads, and feathers.
To use your bow with regularity you will have to fashion many arrows. You can only carry a limited amount, so you likely have to make many trips just the gather the resources you need, and then many more trips to finish those resources to a usable state.
You may be thinking at this point.... No way am I going to do all that just so I can use my bow again. At that point you instead go and buy already finished arrows... perhaps several different types... as there is a reason that arrows can be crafted in such detail. Different types of components within those categories create different types of arrows, with different in game properties and affects. Once you have made your purchase, in but a few moments, you're ready for action once more, as you would be in any number of MMORPGs with more standard play.
Such a simple thing, the crafting of an arrow, illustrates just how different RuneScape is from the standard fare. You can be an adventurer just like that in most games if you like. Simply buy them and get on with your day. What if you don't want to be that?
You can be a full-time crafter if you want. Practicing crafts in abundance takes no small amount of time, and becoming a master even more so. Due to the constant wear on things, your skill will always be in demand. Who knows, perhaps it time you will be crafting the artifact another seeks. If only you didn't have to prepare all those materials before you got to the interesting work.
You can be a full-time producer of finished materials, producing an ample supply for those crafters that simply can't be bothered to do prepare their own materials. You're happy not to be bothered by all that fine work that the crafters must do. So finicky. If only you didn't have to gather all that material. Your back isn't what it used to be.
You can be a full-time gatherer, collecting all the raw materials that others will get ready so that crafters may finish their wares. None of that bother for you, just gathering out in the open air, and then selling to others to do whatever with. If you only had some bigger sacks... Say, didn't I hear someone say some sacks were on sale for a good price in town the other day.
You can be a maker of sacks... and so on.
RuneScape in a nutshell:
You are what you do. You do what you want. There is lot more of 'want' to pick from compared to a whole lot of newer and fancier titles out there.
This is what you have been missing. Whether it is much or not depends on what type of game you like to play, what kind of experience you want to have.
So... RuneScape... To try or not to try...
Hopefully this will help you decide.