Runescape made a lot of changes that people didn’t really like, but they mostly just kept pushing forward with everything, and it eventually became modern Runescape 3, which is the non-old-school Runescape. Then, because a lot of people were lamenting how different the game had become compared to the classic experience of the mid-2000’s, the developers opened up old school runescape, based on an old copy of the game from 2007 they happened to find.
Over the years new content was added to the old-school version that separates it from Runescape 3, making it a completely different experience, and that new content can only be added if enough of the playerbase agrees to it, making the changes generally positive in the eyes of the players. Old school really feels like a game from the mid 2000’s, where pay-to-win mechanics and the like are few and far between, while modern Runescape 3 feels like any other modern game where you either pay your way through or slog through content that seems tailor-made to make you just want to open your wallet to avoid it.
Runescape made a lot of changes that people didn’t really like, but they mostly just kept pushing forward with everything, and it eventually became modern Runescape 3, which is the non-old-school Runescape. Then, because a lot of people were lamenting how different the game had become compared to the classic experience of the mid-2000’s, the developers opened up old school runescape, based on an old copy of the game from 2007 they happened to find.
Over the years new content was added to the old-school version that separates it from Runescape 3, making it a completely different experience, and that new content can only be added if enough of the playerbase agrees to it, making the changes generally positive in the eyes of the players. Old school really feels like a game from the mid 2000’s, where pay-to-win mechanics and the like are few and far between, while modern Runescape 3 feels like any other modern game where you either pay your way through or slog through content that seems tailor-made to make you just want to open your wallet to avoid it.