140,228 people currently playing online worldwide!

[Leoo]

Is it me, or is RuneScape increasing in the amount of players playing at anyone time? Last month, I could barely remember the figure going over 130,000 and the other day I saw a figure of around 166,000. Could this be because of the summer approaching giving the chance of people to play more often?

 

EDIT: I'm referring to the era of 2009-2010. I'm aware how popular RuneScape was back in the days but it just seems that the figures are raising again.

[Kalafai]

Summer vacation.

[Central_Keeper]

Summer vacation.

 

Enough said,

 

I wonder how many people play back then? Like 2001 to 2009 annual stats, I am sure there was a huge drop in 2007 or 08 when all the big changes implemented

[Star_Fox]

nothing compared to 2007 summer which had over 200k online.

[howbadisbad]

nothing compared to 2007 summer which had over 200k online.

 

Gf wildy lulz

[@Dan3HitU]

I think the highest its ever been was around the 240,000 mark.

[LatinII]

Let's not forget the massive amount of autoers pre 2008.

[anScooter]

I remember when i first started it playing, it was rare to see over 100,000 people playing.

[Low C]

I remember plenty of 200k+ days but I believe those were auto/bot influenced quite a bit.

[justcallmedaddy]

nothing compared to 2007 summer which had over 200k online.

 

That was when RS was at its prime. (Gameplay and players)

[Lugia_Lvl138]

nothing compared to 2007 summer which had over 200k online.

 

That was when RS was at its prime. (Gameplay and players)

 

RS wasn't in it's "prime" until August 29, 2007(essentially the end of Summer).

[Mike_Ike111]

I remember when 5-10k players was a lot. I also remember when 200k players was normal.

 

The amount of players on Runescape now-a-days is so unstable. Jagex makes way too many mistakes and fails to release wanted content. Jagex' single best content update in this game, ever, was the summoning batch 1 & 2. The skill completely changed the way Runescape was played, and brought so much life to the game. I remember, I had stopped playing for a month or two and when summoning came out I got hooked. However, there hasn't been a single update since Summoning that is worth while, even beyond all the small updates, nothing is making this game fun anymore.

 

I think it really shows in the numbers when Dungeoneering came out. You would think that when such a big update comes out, especially for F2P, more and more people would come to play. Although, the numbers didn't rise much at all.

 

It's been years since Jagex took away free trade, bots, wildy etc. By now we should have been well above the 200k players online. I believe if Jagex ever got some actual competition and there was an MMO that was accessible as RS, we would see the numbers go into the 70-90k's. However, because Runescape is really the only game of its kind and a big monopoly in the browser base MMO field there is no other game for people to go to.

[gspbeetle]

Summer vacation.

 

Lets get to how would that affect us. So... what will happen to GE?

Will this bring us more supply of monster drops and materials or more demand for them?

 

By past experience, the usual trend is price going up at the start of summer, then fall slightly and crash when summer ends.

However, if you remember well, last year didnt quite follow that, the rs common market price (from rswiki) are keep going up from the start to end of summer.

Something to do with 76k and the herblore update i guess.

 

Let us review some big dates of our market last year:

Oct 7 herb update

Oct 26, anti-76king

Dec15, onyx change and curses

[Adam007]

@Mike_Ike111 - Great sig, great movie.

 

I would love to see a graph made of max players over time. It seems for all the time Jagex puts into updates it only seems to retain its numbers and has yet to achieve real growth.

[Mil]

thanks to Cruiser

 

The online record for this year is 200,681 set on Apr 18 2010. (RuneScript)

[InkofDeath]

Let's just say Jagex got rid of at least half of their player base back in 2007.

[Barihawk]

Let's just say Jagex got rid of at least half of their player base back in 2007.

 

I wouldn't say half, but the vast majority of those were gold farmers.

[Barihawk]

Let's just say Jagex got rid of at least half of their player base back in 2007.

 

I wouldn't say half, but the vast majority of those were gold farmers.

[Maximusa]

Wow. There was me looking at that a few days ago and thinking the number hasnt increased at all and was kinda worried by the figure and maybe even dropped on average past few years. :mellow:

 

Cant be sure about figures but there seems less players than years ago. Depending on the time of day the average count always seems lower.

 

Obviously half of who is missing where bots/farmers though.

 

However I see a steady supply of new people so I dont know why jagex are struggling to maintain a bigger audience. Update are alot better today than years ago.

[luke1608]

The holidays is one thing, and i think runescape is generally attracting a bigger audience these days.

[Krampell]

Not to burst the bubble.

But due to the Runescape Lobby, it might seem that alot of people are currently playing.

But the fact is that many of them could just be in the lobby, afking.

 

But yeah. It's also because of summer vacation.

[@Dan3HitU]

I believe if Jagex ever got some actual competition and there was an MMO that was accessible as RS, we would see the numbers go into the 70-90k's. However, because Runescape is really the only game of its kind and a big monopoly in the browser base MMO field there is no other game for people to go to.

I agree with this completely.

[Omali]

Let's just say Jagex got rid of at least half of their player base back in 2007.

 

Let's just say you have no idea what you're talking about and pulled that figure out of your ass.

[Den]

nothing compared to 2007 summer which had over 200k online.

 

That was when RS was at its prime. (Gameplay, players, rubbish graphics and bots/goldfarmers)

 

I fixed that for you with the stuff underlined. :)

 

Let's just say Jagex got rid of at least half of their player base back in 2007.

 

Let's just say you have no idea what you're talking about and pulled that figure out of your ass.

 

Kinda agree with Omali. :P

[Pret]

nothing compared to 2007 summer which had over 200k online.

 

That was when RS was at its prime. (Gameplay and players)

 

 

 

actually, the gameplay has gotten better over the years. the amount of players back then was the only prime of runescape.