The community of Buy RS Gold people were quite different. Remember, this was before troll culture became popular and people realized it was cool being an edge lord and hurling vulgar words.
What that made Runescape different in this sense is that it was a browser-based game that had decent sprite quality and 3D graphics. So you had a small minority of hardcore players drudging away and being venerated as legends, whereas the other players were packed with people who were having interactions and trying to get to know the game and make friends. In stark contrast to the current internet that is filled with information where people can look up guides in a flash and be taught the most efficient form of playing. For instance, in regular game of resource gathering you are able to hold your mouse button down in order to chop down a tree until it's cut or simply click one button and your character is put into "tree cutting mode until the tree is gone".
The game Runescape Classic, you're clicking every single damn moment you're trying to swing the axe. It won't auto swing if it misses the mark, or something similar to that. It's utterly brutal. This is the reason AFK-Scape exists and why you can see swathes of people, yet maybe 1 out of 10 would respond in response to a conversation about the world of the open game when you play Runescape today. Apart from Roleplaying Servers, or even outside of highly-attentive content at a high level it's a barren landscape in terms of connecting to people. I'm aware WoW isn't the only one to suffer this. features like auto-Dungeon Locating and so on.
However, I'd like to clarify the infamous grind of the game, and the fact that most of it was the result of an accident and an absolute failure of player persistence estimates (keep in mind that our understanding of the distance gamers could go back at the time of 2001 was practically not even existent). It's far easier today to play the game on a casual basis than it was however this comes with a degradation in the status one might have normally. Also, the excitement that comes from being part of the same thing that everyone knew about as they went, isn't something that can be easily captured in any game. The guide is coming out in just a few days for virtually all content in games nowadays.
Another thing I would like to see OP had mentioned was that it suffers from a problem almost all similar MMOs are suffering from. Is that the game doesn't have a classical multi-tiered armor and weapon system. Some items have value even to end-game content, even though you only need level 60 out of 99 in order to use the item. Also, there isn't a "class system" that lets players achieve proficiency in whatever they want in theory which makes combat thrilling as people change gear during battle to strike back at the enemy and defend against a specific kind of damage. As if gamers want that when instead we want the content made by highly educated/experienced/qualified people.
This game has a wide-open world however, not intentionally and not because of its humble beginnings and a combat system that is simple, yet thrilling, particularly when it comes to PvP. I have a firm belief that there is no MMO has replicated Runescape in a proper manner, due to the sort of technology it relied on and also due to the fact that they don't have the capabilities (meaning they literally aren't capable of imitating and building upon the same kind that MMO Runescape is) to think of the type of osrs gold for sale cheap system Runescape was founded on.
