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With a new record 240,000 players online, Old School RuneScape is roughly 8x bigger than its sister MMO and would be the fourth-biggest game on all of Steam if not for a technicality

Old School RuneScape enters its "golden omega platinum age"

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Gold is not enough: MMO community declares "Platinum Age" as Old School RuneScape hits 200k players amid WoW migration, dev says "we've expanded our live infrastructure to match"

"We are immensely grateful for all of the support we're being shown"

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"There isn't FOMO and your progress matters": An MMO migration turns to revelation for some, with a World of Warcraft horde becoming a wave of RuneScape enjoyers

A collision of MMOs has been a nice change for some fans

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MMO community fears PvP bots have formed a "cartel" using false reports to get you banned if you kill them for their illegal loot, bringing Old School RuneScape's bot problem to a boil

There's no clean and actionable answer to the bot problem, it seems

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Jagex CEO breaks glass, hits PR emergency button by promising an end to a 'tainted RuneScape 3' via microtransaction overhaul

DEFCON 3-to-Play.

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'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events

Jon Bellamy claimed the choice to dramatically curtail pride was to prevent backlash. That's caused an even bigger backlash.

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"Games and studios are being cancelled because of content that is perceived to be 'woke' or representative," new RuneScape CEO reportedly said in internal meeting explaining decision to stop or shrink the MMO's Pride events

Old School RuneScape's Pride event was also scaled down to a community event

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Anonymous employee accuses RuneScape of kowtowing to Trump as it puts the kibosh on new Pride events: 'The content… is now controversial in a way it didn't used to be'

Players and Jagex staff are both upset by an executive decision to scale back Pride celebrations.

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Old School Runescape private server development is paused 'indefinitely' as Jagex says it has more important things to work on

"There are other areas of the core Old School experience that deserve more attention right now."

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Jagex lays off RuneScape staff and indefinitely pauses Old School RuneScape's Project Zanaris private servers, but says the MMOs won't be hurt in the long run

Jagex has made some significant changes behind the scenes

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RuneScape studio Jagex confirms layoffs 'to reduce complexity, increase agility, and ensure we are fully focused on the areas that matter most'

Jagex said the cuts won't impact ongoing development of its game.

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American RuneScape players are recreating the Boston Tea Party after Jagex hiked taxes: 'They took a page from the British Empire, rather poetic from a British game'

Taxation rates can be a surprisingly emotive topic.

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Defying the British dev behind their MMO's "casual doubling of our taxes," Old School RuneScape player recreates the Boston Tea Party: "You think the British would have learned by now"

We got 'em again, patriots

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RuneScape: Dragonwilds creative director says survival crafting has more in common with MMOs than you might think: 'It's almost like the genre was born from MMOs'

Two sides of the same coin.

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RuneScape: Dragonwilds is Steam's newest survival game hit with 600,000 copies sold and over 13,000 user reviews that are 85% positive

And it's only been in early access for two weeks

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New RuneScape co-op survival game debuts to 79% positive Steam reviews in Early Access, but it can't escape Valheim's shadow

RuneScape: Dragonwilds is off to a good start

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New Runescape game hits number one on Steam

Get ready to grind in an all-new genre for Runescape.

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RuneScape: Dragonwilds' build mode is easily the best I've played since Valheim

Survivalcraft homemakers have beautiful tools right at launch, for once.

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Surprise! RuneScape: Dragonwilds has launched into early access only two weeks after its first trailer was released

Surprise, surprise!

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Nobody told me that Old School RuneScape was home to a perfect time capsule of mid 2000s cybersecurity

The Stronghold of Security was not what I thought it was going to be.

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Fear not, potato gamers, the RuneScape Dragonwilds system requirements are pretty light and hallelujah for a new UE5 game that doesn't require ray tracing

Just 25 GB of storage is required, too.

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RuneScape's open world survival game adds a new twist to chopping down trees and smashing up rocks: magic

RuneScape: Dragonwilds is set to hit Steam early access this spring.

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24 years later, RuneScape gets its own survival game – RuneScape: Dragonwilds turns the MMO into a co-op game with RPG juice and Valheim energy, and it's out this year

RuneScape: Dragonwilds will launch in Steam early access this spring

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You can finally try out Old School RuneScape’s first new skill in nearly two decades right now

If you voted for shamanism like I did, you’ve got a boatload of consolation prizes in store.

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Runescape is finally wrapping up one of its earliest storylines, 24 years after the first quest debuted

The Return to the Desert Trilogy.

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