8 years

[wakka102]

Been around seven and a half years for me.I still remember the first time I played and the several other attempts I made thereafter before finally "getting into it."

 

I have so many fond memories of "rsc" I could probably fill out a small book.

 

It is ridiculous how much Runescape has influenced my life, even though I didn't constantly play for those years I can't begin to imagine how different my life would be had a member of my Age of Empires 2 clan not shown me this game.

 

To this day whenever I hear old linkin park songs I just picture my runescape character with a blue shirt and white shorts walking around near falador or varrock because at the time that was what I almost always listened to while playing runescape.

 

 

 

I don't mean to sound like one of those "I started before you, I'm bettert han you" people.. but people who started in 2003 or later and especially those who started with rs2 really have absolutely no idea what they missed.

wow dude, same here, I was f2p all throughout my short (half a year to a year) of rsc but anytime I hear a KoRn song below the album "take a look in the mirror" including that album I remember all this stuff I did in rsc. I remember having my boom box sitting next to my PC and playing Hybrid theory and KoRn and Distubed and Limp Bizkit while mining my butt off in the mining guild, which is about all I did in RSC. I remember getting to mithril smithing, which at the time, to me and my friends was HUGE. Good times :thumbsup:

[999134]

RuneScape beta was launched January ~4th 2001, so we have a few days until the game's birthday.

 

 

 

Consisting of 2-3 servers of just a few hundred players, nobody, not even Gower, could have predicted the evolution that would ultimately bring us to where we are today: over a hundred servers with over a million active accounts

 

 

 

Yeah, a quote from my #RuneScape logs of Tue Jul 17 2001 (MrAndrew is Andrew Gower):

 

[23] <@MrAndrew> had a record number of players this evening :-) I was very pleased

 

[23] <@MrAndrew> I saw 3067 at once!

 

[23] <@Crash> really?

 

[23] <@MrAndrew> yup

 

[23] me to

 

[23] <@Crash> i've never seen over 3k

 

[23] i remember when we hit 1000

 

[23] <@MrAndrew> yep me too, I was so excited when we hit 1000 months ago

 

[23] <@MrAndrew> now 1000 seems like hardly any

 

[23] Andrew plz add more popups

 

[23] <@MrAndrew> I've added all the popups I can find, I have 3 different ones, which are shown once every 12 hours

 

[23] what about the wilderness

 

[23] <@MrAndrew> e.g you will only see each one once a day, so they aren't too annoying

 

[23] that´s good

 

[23] <@MrAndrew> I hope so

 

[23] <@MrAndrew> I don't get to choose the banners unfortunately

 

[23] <@MrAndrew> I know they are pretty dull

 

[23] <@LS> btw, thx for getting rid of the porno banners. last thing I want to see when playing RS

 

[23] i'd click on those

 

[23] lol

 

[23] least i am honest

 

 

 

he would get a ban nowdays for the porno stuff -.-

[Zierro]

Runescape reminds me of the good old days when the only thing I had to worry about in life was a random event killing me. It might just be retrospect speaking, but those were some fun times.

[BloodArgon]

Makes me laugh at all the people who said "runescape is deadz! pk3ring iz teh g0on3z! RIPEEE RUNEZCAP3!"

[me]

Makes me laugh at all the people who said "runescape is deadz! pk3ring iz teh g0on3z! RIPEEE RUNEZCAP3!"

 

Yup, its also nothing new

 

• [*:2i78rq4i]"well i wanna go back to the old times like when i started out i went to the east varrok mines and only 1 person was there" -Xavier, 6 May 2001.
   
  [*:2i78rq4i]"ahh the old rs days i loved it back then i wish andrew would just restart every ones names and cut the max users on to 500 then it will be fun as the old days" -Death Chick, 1st August 2001
   
  [*:2i78rq4i]"Although it may seem like Runescape is at it's peak and will keep growing, im my eye it's dieing. It's original players are losing interest and this game has lost it's original spirit. So I say in advance... Rest In Peace Runescape" -Poetry in Motion, 14 March 2002

[Lordjake]

my 6th year anniversary is coming in the next few months - kinda depressing :|