The end of RS3?

So i went onto w54 yesterday to stake and the servers are pretty much empty! Least amount of players on RS3 i've ever seen...

Is this because of the comission staking ban? You think RS will let it come back? You think the majourity of players will return if another way becomes possible?

Is RS07 better than rs3?

 

osrs is a million times better rs3 is garbage

 

I do like RS3 but i'm going to start out on RS07. Looking for some skill trainers currently. Do you think main or pure is the way to go?

 

main first

 

I got a zerker pure in the making not sure weather to turn into a main. You think gambling will return?

 

I don't think it will

 

The end of Rs3 was a few years ago

 

I think it's not dead, and people are just ignorant when they say that it died years ago. If anything, the game that is saving the franchise is RS3 itself. Yes, OSRS may have more players (not by much - many are bots), but guess which games brings in the revenue?

Regardless of what people say, the game that'll keep getting more support, more updates, more attention, will be RS3.

Why?

Simple, first of all, it's the main game of the franchise. They've worked years to get to where we are, so they won't just abandon it. Second of all, during the year 2015, revenue from micro transactions alone was approximate $38 million dollars, thus increasing their profits to levels it hadn't reached in years. If anything, Jagex currently makes more money than it did back in 2007 when the game peaked.

So, to finish this off, many people think just because RS3 looks rather empty that the game is dying. Truth is, both games are somewhat similar in players. OSRS may have about 20% more at all times, but a big portion of those are bots. It's insane, bots everywhere.

If for some reason Jagex were to start losing revenue and the franchise itself started to die out, trust me when I say, OSRS will be the first to go. It generates almost no revenue yet they have to pay a developer team to maintain it. No, RS3 is not dead, RS3 is what is paying for OSRS and everything else.

 

the end of rs3 has been coming since 2006.

 

SMH really please stop

 

Rs3 staking is dead for now but I guarantee stake of w54 has something coming very soon

 

Dont think rs3 is dead, still quite a lot of players on it. I doubt it would die anytime soon especially since loads of people are finishing school around now/next few weeks. Not everyone who was on rs3 staked lol they might just be off because they have exams.

 

The staking community is still active on rs3. There are still plenty of 50/50 bettors and x-ers to call a bet. It looks smaller because the clans aren't there, and some x-ers left because a lot of their activity was coming from hosts. In the end it's a good thing for the game overall, not necessarily for this community, but in general rs3 will do better without x-ers and hosts. Almost all of the gold in the duel arena was falling in the hands of them.

Also, this is by far accurate. Rs3 still has almost double the active playerbase as 07. Also consider, as stated, many of 07 "active players" are actually bots. There are much less bots on rs3, due to better detection systems. Refer to this photo taken at the time of this post.

 

Lmao that isn't accurate at all. The front page ticker is for ALL versions of Runescape. Meaning 54k are on Old School out of the 110k. Also a very misleading time to be taking such a screenshot since it's double XP in Runescape 3 right now.

Meaning OSRS still commanding half of the playerbase during RS3's most popular event, DXP.

And the bot narrative is just the angry RS3 mob mentality on Reddit lol. Both games have bots.

At best for RS3 it's a 50/50 split. The only reason RS3 isn't dead is not because of the playerbase, it's because of the Treasure Hunter whales that contribute MILLIONS of dollars to the company through their promotions.

Also to add- that ticker also includes players sitting in the lobby doing nothing and those on the forums. If you don't believe me just go onto RS3 and add up all the players online and then compare it against the player counter page on OSRS website.

 

Well that's fucking stupid. Why would they be so misleading?

 

I think Jagex knows that OSRS is slightly more popular if we're looking at it from a playerbase perspective. Yes, the bots are a problem, but at best that maybe makes it 50/50. Maybe 60/40 for RS3, maybe. But people prefer a core game from 10 years ago over their current "main" game. That's a little embarrassing to them I'd imagine, especially since a lot of people in the company are not even responsible for the content that was around in that era, and they see their creations being passed up in favor of an archaic version of the game. I don't think Jagex wants to admit that they alienated a lot of people with EoC, Runescape 3, etc etc.

The real reason Runescape 3 will always be alive is because Jagex makes disgusting amounts of money on their TH promotions. Old School Runescape players SHOULD ACTUALLY APPRECIATE Runescape 3 and that there are still whales spending money on it, because that is the ONLY thing stopping Jagex from turning OSRS into MTXOSRS.

I just wanted to let you know that counter is bullshit and a lot of people fall for it. It takes into account lobbied players, players on forums, OSRS player count, and RS3 player count. It's usually 60-65 percent OSRS players from what I've seen. And again, you're right, some are bots, but I don't know how many, I've seen a good bit in both versions.

If there was no Rs3- OSRS would become MTX Scape. If there was no OSRS, Runescape would not be popular at all from a player count perspective, and more importantly, from a streaming perspective, which likely brings in organic new users. DMM Invitational is massive and pushes Runescape near the top of Twitch when it happens, and likely brings in a good amount of new players.

Jagex relies heavily on its RS3 whales monetarily though, so Old School Runescape players need to realize Runescape 3 is actually valuable in terms of keeping OSRS "wholesome" in their minds.

Jagex doesn't wanna fully admit that a 10 yr old version of the game with a fraction of the development team commands almost or more than HALF of their current player base.

 

Im an X'er and I can tell you it's completely dead. 1/5th of the bets. The x'ers ate up most of the GP but who else is going to call 30b bets? Don't bitch cuz ur a broke ass mother fucker. Nut up and cover some of these large ass bets yourself. Removing rs3 commission staking will hurt the overall player base. Not to mention they insane BANS they've been dropping 2-3x a week. Rs3 staking is dead to me. Way less bets, way more bans and the game is just a pile of shit to began with. I went back to 07. It's nice going home

This^

 

What did I bitch about? I stated the truth. I said most of the money in the duel arena ended up in the hands of the x-ers and the commission stakers. Which you verified in the same paragraph...

I'm not going to go into why it was bad for the game, because we're on a cheating website. If you're going to enjoy the spoils of not particularly honest earning, you at least should acknowledge the damage it causes. In my original post I said that the removal was a "good thing for the game overall, not necessarily for this community," this community being the cheating community.

I also don't need to go into how big of scumbags the x-er community is and why it's better for the game that they're out of there, because you're a self-proclaimed x-er and should know all about the scams and bullshit. I read your wall of a sob-story on your ban dispute. Enough said. Lastly, if you're "glad to be home" fucking faggot then stay there and don't come into an rs3 discussion thread being disrepectful towards someone you don't know.

 

Obviously you have NO IDEA what you're talking about. How on earth is it dishonest staking people for odds? I stand there and spam my message. YOU come to ME. YOU put up what you want to stake and I counter it with what I'M willing to do. X'ers get paid to insta call bets. PERIOD. If YOU dont like it YOU can wait for someone to call it 50/50. Oh wait none of you fucktards can cuz you get cleaned every 32 minutes.

As for the X'er community in general. Yes most are scumbags. You really have no idea the things they do to prevent competition. Milotic and Replica used to kick any competition from the Elite/Staker 54 teamspeaks. They'd pay and have other X'ers spammed out claiming them to be scammers. They use stalls and other game mechanics to get even more advantages. Most of them are heavy tweeters. They want you to get banned and have financial ruin. The list goes on and on. However were not all like that. All I do is run my open message and put up what I'm willing to do. No one is forcing you to accept. Take responsibility for your impatience and ignorance. Cuz all you're doing is paying my rent.

 

Rs07 > RS3. RS3 has been dying for the last 3-4 years, rs07 has only been growing over that time period