Runescape popularity on the decline?

[Rogerthatfeddie]

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

 

[sm321]

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

 

[JJones2]

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

 

[Zerkerfist]

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.

 

[ifh]

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

 

[FLIP IT]

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

 

[Grrr]

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.

 

[Meeder1]

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

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.

 

[matt_sells]

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.

 

[Keizer_rs]

Bots were controlling the game, now legit players

 

[rstrader1471]

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

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.

 

[Kenpen]

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

 

[.James]

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.

 

[kyl3macmillan]

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.

 

[Baller85]

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.

 

[Zolar]

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.

 

[Chris7]

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

 

[Sillymonkey]

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.

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.

 

[stinger43]

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

 

[Tgump]

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.

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.