Runescape future #1 game?

[krisc6]

No way,wow is at a moment in its life when the content is really starting to come out with the expansions but you could say the same about runescape.With the godwars dungeon,mith dragons and the upcoming summoning thats a lot of content coming to the player.However i think summoning is the denoumant in the fairytale of runescape.Ive read that mechscape website and the creative designers who were working on it were really keen to move onto mechscape and i think that jagex will shift its focus to mechscape when a beta is announced.I just have a feeling that its one last hurrah because theyre giving what the users have asked for and more with trying to get rid of rwt for good.Also how long has it been out for?they must be really struggling for original ideas that the users havent already of thought of.When the games pretty much plugged theyll anounce this brand new shiny mmo which will have all the anti rwt features that rs has and will be teh exact same thing that rs is with a far more diverse locale.

 

 

 

i dont know i cant see rs topping wow with all the advertising its getting and the reports that theyre getting more and more members,plus the ps3 will start to come into its own and the 360 is...i dont know the first party is crumbling.

 

Im not sayings it going to be but its got some big competition and anyway its fantastic that its done so well.

[kasperski]

You don't understand. The Wilderness's PvP element was removed and hence for all players with protection prayers and/or a brain its danger has virtually vanished. Risk has disappeared. A huge, dynamic, open arena has disappeared. Getting loot from one-on-one kills has disappeared. Fair PvP is gone, too. All this in the name of stopping Real-World Trading? Killing a trademark and arguably the most exciting part of the game? Let's face it- chopping magics and runecrafting just don't compare.

 

 

 

And if anyone bothered to apply a little thought here, they'd realize it was largely unnecessary to remove the PvP aspect of the Wilderness to stop the vast majority of goldfarmers. Many other measures could have been taken, and Jagex chose the worst

 

 

 

Yeah i agree that removing PvP was a really bad idea but than again there is always PvP in the arena but that's not the same as PvP in the wildirness. I guess if everyone complained about it and actually came up with a better idea and presented it to Jagex maybe they would change the PvP.

 

 

 

On the topic i'm sorry but i don't think that RS will become a better game than WOW or even Hellgate. It certanly has the posability but that would require the game to become same as WOW as far as the grafics, world size and gameplay are concerned and with that most likely the price of the game...

[fat_klutz]

WoW will be the number one MMORPG until Blizzard stops focusing on it. (May be soon as SCII is coming out) But until then WoW simply has alot of people want in a MMORPG.

[Runeman231]

Wow is overrated, sure the graphics are nice, but the quests suck(and yes, I'vep layed WoW).

 

 

 

IMO Guild Wars is awesome. Good story, great graphics, only problem is that Level 20 cap, which will change with Guild Wars 2.

 

 

 

Now as for RuneScape being #1? I doubt it, because they are those idiots(flame me, like I care...) that judge a game only on its graphics(which is really stupid, gameplay is a huge factor). And since RuneScape's graphics are pretty bad(but improving!) next to games like WoW, Guild Wars, Silk Road, etc. there's no way Runescape will become #1. Not unless JaGeX goes against their name(Java Game Experts) and starts making RuneScape in say C++ or something...

 

 

 

On a second though, Runescape doesn't have the advertising basis that WoW does, either, and that could be a huge factor. Come on JaGeX, advertise on TV! =P~

[Str4lif3]

funny how i play these 3 games, but I enjoy playing runescape the most

[deep_pain]

It's not at all representative of how many people play but Runescape was the number one game on Yahoo Buzz for a long time (search query based).It's had cosoles and things come above it when they were released but not other games, but WoW has consistently been below it.. does that just mean Runescape players are more likely to search?

 

 

 

Recently it's been taken over by club penguin and Webkinz world whatever they are.

 

 

 

http://buzz.yahoo.com/video_games/

 

 

 

The UK Buzz is pretty funny, there were more searches on Runescape than Christmas.

 

 

 

http://uk.dir.yahoo.com/buzz/

[BBC3]

as much as i love runescape and hate wow.

 

 

 

wow is better they have about 9million members and ALL of them pay.

 

runescape has a bit over one million members.

 

 

 

in ten years i dont think runescape will pass wow unless something drastic happens with a BIG rs update or a BAD wow update.

[SanFranciscoGiants]

If it keeps getting updates like it has, no.

[jimbob9999]

Runescape has what, just over 1 million paying customers?

 

WOW hit 10 million a while ago I think.

 

 

 

Not to mention WOW subscription fees are higher, the recent merger with Activision and the release of Wrath of the Lich King coming up sometime next year.

 

 

 

Runescape isn't going to beat WOW next year for paying members, no way, if you include F2P accounts then maybe, but you may as well include all the active WOW characters (that's up to 8 per account) as F2P accounts don't generate any real profit.

[Lemeja]

I thought Runescape was the #2 MMORPG.

[jimbob9999]

Wow is overrated, sure the graphics are nice, but the quests suck(and yes, I'vep layed WoW).

 

 

 

IMO Guild Wars is awesome. Good story, great graphics, only problem is that Level 20 cap, which will change with Guild Wars 2.

 

 

 

Now as for RuneScape being #1? I doubt it, because they are those idiots(flame me, like I care...) that judge a game only on its graphics(which is really stupid, gameplay is a huge factor). And since RuneScape's graphics are pretty bad(but improving!) next to games like WoW, Guild Wars, Silk Road, etc. there's no way Runescape will become #1. Not unless JaGeX goes against their name(Java Game Experts) and starts making RuneScape in say C++ or something...

 

 

 

On a second though, Runescape doesn't have the advertising basis that WoW does, either, and that could be a huge factor. Come on JaGeX, advertise on TV! =P~

 

 

 

Runescape's combat is extremely shallow, the only gameplay element RS beats Wow in is skilling, but as most casual gamers would rather have the quick simple pleasure of killing stuff it's not a great strength for RS.

 

 

 

Also, you may have played Wow, but by the sounds of it you didn't get past the grinding to the raids and proper PVP stuff (I havn't either, but I've played enough of RS to form a decent educated opinion of it and compare it to my current Wow experience) a lot of my friends say that Wow really begins at level 70.

 

 

 

What exactly would Jagex do to advertise RS, they couldn't really show gameplay without showing one of RS's greatest flaws.

 

 

 

PS: As for Wow's graphics not being all that great I disagree, they're amazing technically speaking, but the artistic style and scope I think is fantastic, I would also say Wow has fantastic lore behind it, there's so much of it and it goes pretty deep.

 

 

 

PPS: I think one of the Lineage's beats it, also Eve for paying subscriptions perhaps.

[Da Pirates]

That paper is outdated.

[gg_kk90]

nah unless they give free members id say #1 rofl

[Shahrazad]

Interesting information.

 

The ranks won't be steadfast at its positions. They might go up or down in the recent years. Who knows anyway.

[sithlord_man]

Woah, 30k? Awe-frickin-some! Come on, that is simply nothing. The trade cap shouldn't be there, the whole RWT business isn't worth that much.

 

 

 

RWT thing is a big deal...You buy gold for $8 and look what you did you enter the horrible world off the black market.

 

 

 

30k gap seems a bit low for the people who have maxed out quest...why not 40-50k? If you think I'm wrong don't flame me...I'm only making a suggestion that it should a bit higher...

[darkmage099]

1. Link your evidence

 

 

 

2. Runescape is limited by Java and being a browser based game. There's only so much you can do.

 

 

 

3. WoW has over 9 million subscribers....yeah...That says enough

 

 

 

4. [link]

 

Rs doenst even rank in top P2P. Dont know how old this is, sorry

[highlanders]

Hahah, thats never going to happen.

[Kenshinjapan]

4 words:

 

 

 

WRATH OF LICH KING.

[Wheaties]

1. Link your evidence

 

 

 

2. Runescape is limited by Java and being a browser based game. There's only so much you can do.

 

 

 

3. WoW has over 9 million subscribers....yeah...That says enough

 

 

 

4. [link]

 

Rs doenst even rank in top P2P. Dont know how old this is, sorry

 

 

 

^Yea he just summed it up, Runescape has 8 million subscribers to go until they even reach WOW's level. Mabye Mechscape might have a chance :-k

[deep_pain]

1. Link your evidence

 

 

 

2. Runescape is limited by Java and being a browser based game. There's only so much you can do.

 

 

 

3. WoW has over 9 million subscribers....yeah...That says enough

 

 

 

4. [link]

 

Rs doenst even rank in top P2P. Dont know how old this is, sorry

 

 

 

You say Link your eveidence and then only place one link for your 3 other points to a site that doesn't provide any evidence at all. In fact it says "This ranking is based on several factors and some are entirely objective"

 

 

 

Also another reason Runescape is not on there is it would usually be considered a free online game not p2p, The majority of Runescape players are f2p, the game is f2p, you do not need to pay. p2p games have one primary entry requirement. You are required to pay to play. On Runescape that is optional.

 

 

 

Whether Runescape makes as much money as WoW isn't really a debate, To be number one in it's purest form needs one thing only. That Runescape have more players than WoW.

 

 

 

Jagex claim they have over 6 million active players:

 

 

 

http://www.jagex.com/corporate/Press/pressRelease.ws

 

 

 

Blizzard Claim 9m.

 

 

 

http://www.blizzard.com/press/070724.shtml

 

 

 

I don't personally see Runescape overtaking WoW, but a 1/3rd jump wouldnt be imossible.

[Alex_Ewan_1]

I have a hunch.

 

 

 

People have heard of WOW and Guild Wars becuase they are on every other page of gaming magazines.

 

 

 

RS is not so less people know about it and you can understand why taht causes it to be lower in rank?

[bored321]

RS will never beat WOW, unless there is a major change in how java works.

[Guest]

simple: rs

 

wow :uhh:

[Master_Smither]

I don't see it getting #1 as it is too repititve to ever get anything done in. #3 is still pretty good imo.

 

 

 

Recently i was reading the newspaper (the daily news i believe) and i happened to see the top 5 computer games of 2007. The same old world of warcraft at #1, some halo game at #2 and then all of a sudden i was shocked....Runescape was at #3 (at this point who cares about #4 and #5)?

 

I couldn't believe this because recently so many people seem to be ranting about runescape all year but then all of a sudden number 3? That insane, and then I look at the game to be a potential #1 in the next comming year. Its highly possible. So many people seem to be quiting but does it matter? Newer players fill their shoes daily and with newer updates like summoning comming out many people are even comming back.

 

 

 

Runescape just seems like it can beat World of Warcraft, if not 2008 then maybe 2009.

 

 

 

~Link

 

 

 

Hell no, rs has gone so far down I wouldn't be surprised if I seen it In dead last..

 

 

 

Well if it's stupid then quit and quit whining.

 

 

 

To everyother person who is going to whine and complain just leave and quit cause I don't want to hear you cry bout pking any longer.

 

 

 

Go whine and complain Here

[Sam]

Runescape is a popular game, so I would expect it to be in the top MMORPGS. Runescape has a huge player base.

 

 

 

They'll need to release something good to push WOW off the top spot.

 

 

 

 

 

Off Topic: Why do people compare Runescape and World Of Warcraft; WOW is a disc game, Runescape is an online Java game #-o