Most people like the easy-to-play aspect of the game. The fact that there are no downloads/low CPU requirements to play the game and just the fact that the game's been around for a while means that it has a big 'built-in' fan base. Those that stick around through thick and thin. You can't really put RS and WoW in the same catagory for comparison because they're two totally different games. WoW has a lot better graphics but you also pay for it in regards to the big CPU requirements to play it and the monthly price being something like $30? a month. RS has decent graphics for Java, a low monthly membership cost and is updated rather frequently. For the price RS is a good game. You get what you pay for. Price/CPU taken into consideration, RuneScape is a great game. I know if I had an old computer, I sure as hell would rather have RuneScape than be stuck with minesweeper and solitaire. Thanks for bringing that to my attention; I hadn't even thought about that. And for future reference, World of Warcraft is $15 a month. ;) I was totally addicted to RS for a little more than 2 years, then I got into WoW for about a year and a half. WoW is definitely a lot more visually pleasing, but it lacks all the skills that RuneScape has (professions are a joke, IMO). WoW is also aimed more towards team/party play, which I prefer. WoW has way more options for PvP, too. They are completely different games, but they do have quite a few similarities. The biggest being that if you play, you are going to be doing the same thing over and over. Kill. Loot. Repeat. Mine. Bank. Repeat. It just gets old after a while. A little more on topic: I started the week that the rubber chicken was being handed out south of Falador. That was one of the first things I did when I got on. Good thing my buddy was telling me where to go, who knows how long it would've taken to find where I was supposed to go. I remember asking my friend who got me into RuneScape how to make money. She told me cowhides. So I went and got an inventory full (killed with my rubber chicken, of course) and tried to sell them (unnoted, lol). No one bought them. I remember killing the same ice giant over and over until I got 50 ranged. God damn, that took a long time. I remember killing farmers to get all the tools. I payed 15k for the boots, because they were the last piece of farming equip that I needed. Then the skill came out and I hated it, lol. Miscellania was great for a while too, when maples were 100gp each. Man, I made some mad bank off that scheme. The seeds were a gold mine, too. That place was great. I remember going to the green dragons and getting killed because I had no knowledge of the dds special attack. Good times. I remember Zezima, and when The Old Nite died. N0valyfe (I think) comes to mind too. I do have some fond memories of this game. It's so fun learning all the stuff when you first start playing a game. Tip.it forums were a great time for a while, too. It got to a point where I would spend more time on the forums than on the actual game.