the 2nd article made an interesting point, but I have to disagree for the most part. The article acts like luck is just a minor part of the game, when it plays a major role in player sucess, both in game and from real life. Monster hunting, barrows runs, and even slayer all depend greatly on luck in determining how much money a person makes from these activities. Sure its a choice to play a game of chance, but that doesn't mean its the players fault that the some other guy got a godsword hilt from GW and they did not. Then there are outside factors beyond time that affect a person's success in rs, like money to be a member, I spend my first few years playing rs as f2p because I was younger and lacked the personal income to become a member. That wasn't really a choice for me. Then there's factors like connection and the specs of the computer is using. Take fishing for example. Fishing can be quite boring to level up or power level to 99, making it seem crazy to spend that much time doing it all at once. But with a good computer and decent connection, you can split screen and do other things like watch videos, or, in my case talk on forums, making it ten times easier to fish so much without getting bored. But if you were like me a few years ago with a mediocre computer far away from a tv, it requires a will of steel to sit there, doing nothing else but watch yourself fish. Hardly fair. Now I know some of these situations were specific, but I'm sure there are plenty of others that affect a person's ability to level up or make money in rs. I'm not saying its Entirely luck based like the people calling author lucky for having 99 fishing. But to say that being successful in rs is a choice is a ridiculous exaggeration on the other side of the spectrum. And yes I felt so strongly on this that I made an account solely to comment on the article XD
