On this day in 2001 a new MMORPG called Runescape was released! Runescape is now a whopping 17yrs old!!
I have missed the first 10 years of this game. Lets hear some of your first memories of playing Runescape
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Happy Birthday Runescape!!
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Re: Happy Birthday Runescape!!
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Re: Happy Birthday Runescape!!
I remember when I first started playing in 2003. I have been around for a bit over 13 years of this games 17 year existence. It was actually introduced to me by the brothers of a child I was a 1 on 1 aide for (he had/has severe cerebral palsy)...they played it in the afternoons after school, and I looked at it as the type of game I always wanted to play, as a child of the late 70's and 80's and growing up with Dungeons and Dragons and Choose Your Own Adventure books...loved it from the start.
I remember when you would have to fight for ore rocks, and there was NO Grand Exchange. The economy ran on player to player interactions and trades. I had a higher level player who would buy coal off me. I would get up at 3am to mine, as there were less players at that time of day and I could actually get a couple coal rocks to mine. I'd mine coal and silver for hours and then eagerly await him logging on to sell it to him; then using it to buy my first adamant and rune sets (when those sets were actually a big deal, lol!).
I remember Dragon Medium Helms and Dragon Chain were the poop for armor, being 2x more expensive than party hats. A time when there was no D Long or D Scim, only Dragon Dagger. A time when making your first mil was a HUGE deal and combat lvl 90 was high level and very well respected. I bought my first Santa Hat for 200k and my first Party Hat for 20mil and never forget these moments.
A time when getting a 99 was an enormous deal, and quite harder than it is today, and all your friends would come and celebrate.
A time before Player Owned Houses.
A time when there were NO maxed players and when Zezima and The Old Nite battled for the top spot in all of RuneScape.
I remember actually being at the Fally Masacre and watching Durial123 decimate players (and yes, I was actually there).
A time when Fally World 2 garden was the buying and selling/trading place. When there was such a thing as Unid Herbs...
A time before Barrows and all of the GodWar Dungeons. A time before the Gods returned to RuneScape and they were only thoughts in payers minds; and there was only three; Guthix, Saradomin and Zammorak...
A time when player killing ruled...
Oh the days and the memories
This game has seen me through good times and bad. I will never forget it and probably never leave it completely...I have spent over 430 days in-game. An entire 15 months of my life...
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