Runescape popularity on the decline?

Do any of you feel the same way? I've just returned from a long hiatus and it seems like there way less people.

 

It's since botting's gone, not many people play anymore i've noticed.

 

Yeah it doesn't hit 100k people playing often Anymore(I don't go on much tho)

 

The lack of people you have noticed, could be that Jagex recently launched a bot nuke campaign and subsequently lost over 2/3rds of their player base.

 

Amount of players playing at a time =/= player base

 

It's because half of runescapes population was bots lol now that there gone the game has less players but its become really addicting

 

The thing is though, even during Runescape's "peak" before botting took over, we never really knew how many of the constant 100K+ players were actually bots.

 

2/3's of the population was made up of bots.


Pre-Nuke players online: Something like 160,000.
Post Nuke players online: 50,000.

 

moan if bots are farming, moan because the amount of players online are low. I feel sorry for jagex sometimes, 80k people IS A LOT to have on anyone time lol.

 

Bots were controlling the game, now legit players

 

I've seen a rise, when there was botting, there were 100K people online the majority of the time, after botting there was like 45K people online and now there is 60K+ so i think it's increasing in popularity.

 

It's definitely increasing in popularity , But all the new buggy updates are driving lots of people away at the same time

 

I wouldn't say its decreasing.... The boys are gone so not as many players. I still think its popularity is about the same if not more.

 

i feel as if its declining, world 1 and world 2 used to be a pain in the ass to get into, now i never see either of those worlds full.

 

Lol...

On topic though, I feel as though Runescape's popularity will increase. I see them going in the right direction to increase their legit player base.

 

The population is in a decline but it doesn't really matter since they were all bots. So the real population of runescape was around 50k the whole time.

 

For my timezone, its constantly around 70k-80k people online during the evening hours. Weekends have over 90k.

 

That happened when Jagex updated the GE. Trade worlds kind of went down the hole.

On topic: I don't really see the popularity declining...If anything, the nuke will draw back people that couldn't be bothered to compete with bots before.

 

I'd say its slowly increasing since the bot nuke. It's a way better game without the bots.

 

It was actually more like a drop from 210,000 to 60,000 the day of the update. Update days are always the best for gauging population since it breaks almost every bot for at least a few hours.