After So Many Years, I've Done It

Note:This is not a goodbye post, far from it in fact.

Today, June Sixth, 2006, I beat Runescape. Yes, you read the words in front of you correctly, I think I've beaten Runescape.

Thousands of you, Hundreds of thousands more likely, are saying "That's not possible unless your name is in the High Scores and have all 99's and have killed all the chompies and have Killed Dagganoth Kings and etc."

Today with about an hour left I officially completed the Legends Quest and therefore have completed all that RSC once held for me. I've been playing this game for somewhere around four years and perhaps I actually made the account a year before that, but never really touched it. Runescape has been riding along with me for all four years of my High School Career. Just recently (June Second) I graduated from High School and have been accepted into the college of my choice (that was earlier, but just throwing that into the mix).

To me I feel like this the apex of my Runescape career and also my High School Life. Runescape "Classic" as it is being called was the most amazing game. I personally never saw a single thread or post about someone being "scammed" or "hacked" letalone a person actually trying to scam someone out of their hard earned gold. In RSC I wanted to be a powerful player and do all that sort of stuff and had delusions of grandeur (typical Freshman stuff right :wink: ) how my character was so much more "awesome" than everyone else.

I've changed so much in the past four years, not from some Psychotherapist, or medications, or strict control over my life, I am a kid who is free to do as he pleases so long as it doesn't get anyone into too severe of trouble, understand that I'm your average kid with parental rules and guidelines lowering above my head. I changed through my own doings. I "developed" into who I am today and that is what the High School Experience is all about. Runescape Classic stayed constant and was there along with me as I grew and "developed".

It is today that I say that I have finally concluded a chapter in my life. The Runescape that I once knew is no longer an ever-present red text in my quest list, now it is but a Green blur along with the rest of the RS2 quests that muddle about there. I do not dislike RS2, if I did this would be a goodbye thread because I have beaten all of the old and all that is left is the new. RS2 is a wonderful game and I'm sticking with it for as long as it's willing to go on.

It is now that I have reached a no going back stretch of land. Now that the final quest EVER made for RSC has been completed I have no link to the past except the screenshots I took (which number at about 1) and the name I wear proudly as people hover their cursors over my digital avatar. I still can access RSC on the Jagex page as I was one of the fortunate few that decided to log on a week or two before the cut off date and see how things were going on in the living-past. Now with nothing to connect me to RSC I am left almost emptied as I must continue my existence knowing that there is nothing left for me to look back upon and remember the "good ol' days" when my now strong character was simply average and yet I still managed to have immensly good times with people I have never shooken hands with, made eye-contact with, knew in the real world.

I leave behind many friends I knew in RSC who are most assuredly no longer active in the game. They are gone and my memories of them begin to fade away with them. I have made some truly unique and interesting friends during my time in RS2 but none have that same bond that I had with these RSC men. We were there at the beginning of the game, when there were no 3D player characters, when we had simple minds. Now the world advances and so do we but it seems always to have been more fun in RSC.

The grass is always greener on the other side I suppose. Do not take this as a sad thread or a thread lamenting about a fallen game. Take this thread and read it with celebration in mind for I have completed nearly four years of work on this day. The future, while always uncertain to every man, will be bright for both the game and myself. I will carry on and live my Runescape life to the fullest and enjoy the gifts of RS2. But forever will a part of my digital-heart belong to RSC. It was there as I grew and it may not be there in five years from now, a year from now, a month from now, or even a tomorrow it could be taken off of the 'net and it too would fade out of my memory just as the old friends it once exposed me too but mark these words, it is written down that RSC was a game for true people and there was no room for unkind words to be shed. Know that RSC will always be greater than the latest version of Runescape as it was the first, it was the closest community ever. I may have been young then but old enough to remember the world as it was and it was a grand one at that.

No matter what I have said above (it is often that I go off on tangents) since having "beaten" Runescape I have never felt such an urge to train, to build up what stats that are miniscule in comparison to my other more impressive stats. The noble art of Herblore is my first target and soon I will move onto the next, completing each quest as it comes by and reveling in the fact that I know something that these younger/newer players do not know, and that is the glory of what the game truly was, I will be confident in that fact for as long as the digital blood keeps pumping through the veins of my old and tired avatar. He and I have had quite the journey. It does not end here, no, this is just a quick rest before the real adventure begins.

Sorry for the length, normall I wouldn't post this but the feeling of pride and accomplishment was too much to bare alone. I will understand if few reply or it becomes locked, I know now that I have done what I came here to do and if I were to quit tomorrow, that would be okay by me.

Below is a picture of what I've completed from the day RS2 was released (publicly) to today (June 6th, 2006). I was F2P in RSC and I moved up to P2P sometime in 2004 when I received a debit card. Note the Legends cape :wink: . Thanks to everyone who read through and posted. This is my mind being thrown out onto a canvas. I may refine it just as I plan on refining a speech I will post everytime an infamous member of our illustrious forums decides to retire.

I am happy for you :) RSC was the best. I still miss it dearly

That was very well written if I do say so myself. ! Nice job mate :)

Its funny, this post was in the middle of about 8 tabs I opened as I came for my nightly visit, and it just so happened to be your avatar that peaked my interest, and it was well worth it.

I must say, congratulations! If only RS2 was filled with a few more people of your maturity level, and gift for the written word, you might not be hearing about all the scamming, etc.

Although, it does allow people such as yourself to really stand out amongst the masses.

Enjoy your time while you can, never sure when it will come up for you.

=]

To me I feel like this the apex of my Runescape career and also my High School Life. Runescape "Classic" as it is being called was the most amazing game. I personally never saw a single thread or post about someone being "scammed" or "hacked" letalone a person actually trying to scam someone out of their hard earned gold.

You didnt see it - Doesnt mean it wasn't there.

I guess everyone has "beaten" the game, with their own weird definition of beating something.

If you've beaten the game... Goals and Achievements? :wink:

I remember RSC, i first started RS back then, but i never liked the graphics and i quit.

Congrats on completing your goal and i hope u stick around.

That was very inspiring.. I wish I could say I was one of the few fortunate to have created a RSC acc before the cut off date :(

That part of runescape will be forever cut off to me I think.. I'm sorry I couldn't experience it; it sounds awesome.

EDIT: Your pic is so funny gehjl! :D

I remember RSC, i first started RS back then, but i never liked the graphics and i quit.

 

 

 

Congrats on completing your goal and i hope u stick around.

LOL at your sig.

And tefda, congratulations for beating your goal, and good luck in the future.

All these damn RSC topics are depressing the hell out of me. It's like all the other things in history that only a select few got to experience in it's former blazing glory. RSC is low on the list compared to many other things that man has accomplished (who wouldn't have wanted to witness some great building or bridge built or watch a massively world altering paper signed into law?) but is one of the recent ones that I missed. It is just frustrating watching things that I never got to experience firsthand fade away. Since RSC was public I have been much to busy getting married, being in the army and Iraq, which I would never replace, but it would have been nice to get to experience smaller things such as RSC, etc. Oh well, times change and spilled milk and all that. :wink:

Well done on the story of your RS life, I enjoyed reading it. I wished I came across RSC a lot sooner and play it, I hear so many stories on how RSC is much better than the noob ridden RS2.

I enjoyed the reading, good luck in real life.

Awesome man! congratz a ton :D VERY nicely done indeed! It's still something that i'm waiting to do lol, but then again, with playing 2 hours a month, it takes some time to beat the game, or at least get your goals done lol :D

Very nicely done though.

Yah, I can connect with you hear. Back in RS1, I finally "beat" it about a week before RS2 came out. I had done all the quests, gotten all my skills as high as I wanted and then just purchased my full rune and my rune 2 hander.

Then RS2 came out. First thing I did was sell my rune plate for 60k thinking I was proffiting, only to find out that I had been scammed and that I no longer had that extra 10k to buy it back :oops:. Soon, though, I found one of the good people of the game who just came by and gave me another rune plate for free! :D. So I saw it both the first day and soon after the RS2 launch became member along with my friend that I had always schemed with (ways we thought were making extreme money like making silver holy symbols and selling them 20 each to the shop :oops: , he's also the one I got full rune with).

RS1 and the beginning was a different kind of fun, but I find RS2 very enjoyable too... just different.

Well Legends in RSC is much harder than in RS2...Not the same...and some other quests.

Congratz on completing Legends! I too hope to complete it some day. From reading your post it seems we are very much alike. :wink:

No! Not you! Everyone is leaving me here! Blipo and now you! Well I congratulate you on your graduation from Runescape and of High School. I wish you the best of luck in college, but make sure to stop bye every so often so you can enlighten us with your presence. Well I am sorry to hear you go but glad you did what you wanted to do. Long live RSC! Cya man!

First off, I can't say more then you are absolutly right! Runescape has changed alot and yes, there are much more scammers etc.

This is because of 2 reasons (in my opinion)

1) An increase amount of players. If RSC contained 1% scammers/ autoers .. well, the amount of players in RS2 has multiplied with 10 to 15! :twisted: (amazing.. but true)

2) More and more players play Runescape as a game of their own, instead of enjoying it as an MMORPG and playing to have fun with themselves and the entire runescape community. This creates an envirement where personal happiness comes before the succes of it all and therefor they think autoing and scamming is good.

--> Everyone has beaten the game or is trying to beat the game, but it isn't the game, its the system :twisted:

My personal victory of the game was 900 total F2P and high Runecrafting F2P and ofcourse staying F2P. Nowadays I am almost retired from the game, because I have done most or almost everything on F2P and there is nothing new. (no im not becoming member), so when an update for F2P comes out, I check it out, do something i want and then 'quit' again since I done everything (again)

You may have just motivated me to play RSC more. :wink:

I'm not actually leaving the game :wink: . If I had to or I wanted to leave the game today or the next day or whenever, I could do so with ease as in MY MIND I've beaten Runescape.

But instead of completing this life-long goal, this longstanding dream of mine, and being finally able to lay down my sword and shield and live my life as a regular human being I am now more than ever engaged in advancing my stats and seeing what lies in store for myself and my digital avatar.

To clarify, I consider I have beaten the game. The Legends Quest was the last RSC quest ever released in RSC. You did not need 99's in every stat to complete Legends, neither did you need to have killed 10,000 chompy birds for a feathered hat to complete legends.

I guess everyone has "beaten" the game, with their own weird definition of beating something.

To each his own. We all have some idea of what amount of the game is possible to defeat. To me I have routed the evil demon from this plane of existence thrice and to me that is beating the game, the game that I once knew, the game that exists in a living-past but is now a shell of what it truly once was.

To the few that comment upon my lack of seeing any scam threads or posts or whatnot I have a comment of my own. Does a hermit, a man who lives secluded from the rest of the world, find his world cruel and unjust when he sees no poverty, no death, no nuclear war threatening his country? He sees only what he has seen and will see the next day. He lives in his own world and that is not being ignorant, it is what he sees and that is all that he can judge his world around, by the information given to him. Perhaps there were some scammers or cheater or liars floating about in RSC but they were too few to really have a presence in that world. Perhaps it may have even been the fact that the community itself was not as pessimistic as today and did not post about these scams as they knew that they were having fun and that was all that mattered. Believe me, I am an advocate of the fact that many people are not being scammed and they do not post about it. All we see are scams and "hacks" on the boards because people find it as something to post about. It's very understandable to begin to become depressed or afraid of the world in which your digital-self exists as all of the "scams" and "hacks" seem overbearing when in fact it's just that some silly people who didn't know better at the time were taken advantage of and they felt like posting and lamenting about their situation.

My experiences on RSC is now a memory and that memory consists of both what I actually experienced in my limited time there as well as my limited capabilities and because our memories are fickle and they can change it may have some falsehoods in there as well. I can never know EXACTLY what happened in RSC but I do know that the overall feeling is a happiness one that IS shared with RS2 but it's a more primitive happiness as I know I was not the best, I was not a Legend or a Hero at that time so there must have been something there that made it more special. It also may be a result of my growing up that I am "less" happy with this game as sometimes I find it's harder to laugh or to smile as many other factors weigh down upon me such as knowledge that I am privy to now which I never knew four years ago.

For all of you whom read this know that it is an opinion. Everything you say is an opinion as well. The definition of "Beating" the game is different for everyone else, the definition of a good time is variable for each person as it relies so much on our past experiences and just about no one goes through the exact same experiences as someone else. The only time that our words are not an opinion is when everything we say is factual, but with our natural tendency to embelish what we say it is not often we find a statement that is pure fact and not biased in any manner at all.

I am not quiting, I am not giving up Runescape, I am riding the Runescape wave for as long as I am financially and physically able to do so. My mind says there is so much to do still, I better get cracking! But my heart says You've done good pal, you've done good.

Thank you everyone for reading and replying with your comments it does my heart a great pleasure to hear both positive and negative comments towards my mind unfolding into this little textbox that I have spent days worth of typing in. Tip.it is a wonderful community, so vast, so intelligent, and I appreciate all that it's done for me and all the aid it's given, both the website and the community itself.

This is a new time in my life. I've completed so much and I start on a new chapter of both my real and digital life. They for now are stepping in the same pace and I doubt either will be stopping anytime soon :wink: . I will endeavor to be a greater person. Not in the way of levels or digital wealth, but in sharing what wisdom I've had. There is but one problem with sharing of wisdom that I can forsee. As Siddhartha showed in Herman Hesse's novel, Unity cannot be taught, it must be experienced. Many people can say "Do good unto others" and you can say you follow along with that and believe in it, but it isn't true. The best way to truly believe in something is to experience it, be it by some action by the hand of God or by a digital stranger aiding you with no possible reward for himself, it being a selfless act.

I'm sorry for going off on another tangent here but if you look closely enough there's a spiderweb connecting them all. It has truly been a treat and pleasure playing both the archaic Runescape Classic and the modern Runescape 2 and being able to watch both of them grow as well as seeing Tip.it grow and expand into it's all encompassing force that it is today. I was not there at the beginning of Runescape so my knowledge is limited in what it began as. I am confident though in what I know of the past and that I enjoyed it. Respect others beliefs and ideas and you'll see the world transform before your eyes and be a better place so long as you can not just believe it but know it.

 

Nothing personal against you, tefda, but it really just seems to me that you're posting this to give yourself some sort of satisfaction. Not to show off or anything, but to actually try and make yourself believe that you actually accomplished something. Its good you did accomplish something, but it isn't really what you claim it to be. If it makes you feel good, great... If it lets you sleep easier at night, even better. But typing these long and exhausting topics and replies isn't making me believe that you "beat" the game. If anything its telling me that maybe your time could be better spent trying to write a book (and no, not about Runescape).

 

 

 

Either way... Carry on. And if anyone wants to pull the dictionary out on me again... Please know what you are talking about. I don't go around telling others how to use grammar. So don't tell me how to either (especially when I'm RIGHT).

Try not to make this a flame fest :? .

Now to defend myself. Have you ever taken a foreign language in school? If you haven't then this will have no meaning to you, but perhaps someone will be able to explain it further. When preparing for a vocabulary test I always write down all the terms needed and I keep on writing them. The more I write them down the deeper it become embeded into my mind.

I may be trying to "convince" myself that I've done something here but even if I were to simply trying to prove to myself that I've done something there has to be an inkling of a feeling, deep down inside, that I've completed something. It doesn't matter if it's true or false, all that matters is right now and when I look back upon it years from now. There has to be some sort of sliver of myself actually "knowing" I've done something here. If I can make myself "Know" it as a fact then all the more power to me as I've fabricated my existence as you have, as we all have.

It is no way wrong or bad that I think I've done something. Will you be proud when you have a child, when you are a father in ten or twenty years? Why is that then not something to be proud of, to consider that you've made an accomplishment when you're just bringing another person into the world, millions of people have done that before, what's the big deal? Do you understand now? Your opinion never mattered to me. It's wonderful that lots of people decided to post and give me encouragement and surprised me to see how many people sort of knew me on the boards. In truth no one here knows the actual person behind these lines of text.

You and I both want to see a happier Runescape community and yet you are seemingly slamming down a joyus thread! Would you rather have me crying how the three adventurers and the demons made me lose five or so prayer potions? I'm trying to set an example for others, the few that haven't been around as long as you or I have. Follow my example or make yourself and example. We don't have to take the same path, so long as we reach the same place, a place where Runescape citizens are friendly towards each other, where you don't have to offer 5k for a law rune just for someone to say "more" and extort you for even more gold. One last thing, these posts are the most speech-like I've ever given on Tip.it because it feels like I have the right to. I've done something that a small percentage of the Runescape population has. Let me be happy about it, let others congratulate me. When you do something you consider amazing do you want people belittling the achievment that you consider to be great?

Holy ****. Why can't "I'm quitting" threads in the Official Forums be like this?? :evil:

To me I feel like this the apex of my Runescape career and also my High School Life. Runescape "Classic" as it is being called was the most amazing game. I personally never saw a single thread or post about someone being "scammed" or "hacked" letalone a person actually trying to scam someone out of their hard earned gold.

 

 

 

You didnt see it - Doesnt mean it wasn't there.

 

 

 

I guess everyone has "beaten" the game, with their own weird definition of beating something.

 

 

 

If you've beaten the game... Goals and Achievements? :wink:

Well, if he actually read the forums, he'd have seen it.. I remember being scammed in rsc.. Remember why they added the second trade screen? And some of the bugs that came with it...?

But anyways, congrats on beating the game in your eyes & I wish you the best of luck on your future goals:)

That was ... Amazing.

I just cried! :cry:

wow,

congratz. That was very inspiring, and I must say you are a great writer

u rock mate! now i really wanna do legends (i only need another 5 herb lvls :D ) excelently written too.

p.s. im one of the few who can access classic as well 8-)

I remember when I -first- saw runescape. A kid in my communications class showed me the game. I remember when I first created this char and logged in. I think I lasted about 30 seconds before I wondered out of Lumbrige and was killed. I remember watching Alchemon kill black knights and think 'wow'. I remember the steel plates. I remember the cabbage patches. I remember when my newbie mage made his first full adam kill, I about had a heart attack. ..I instantly switched to 'non-pk' so he wouldnt come back and kill me. I remember making a second mage due to my slip up. I remmeber peeking over the Varrock walls at the empty poh buildings. I remember when I first saw Mooncricket in the wilderness. I remember people wearing party hats to pk because they were just a holiday item. They weren't overpriced like today. I remember running from Robin Hood2, Never understood why he disliked me. -sigh- I miss runescape.

Runescape[2] is still a great game though. Im coming back from a break now. I miss my friends who quit but I look forward to making new ones. Congrats on your completion of the game and best luck with future playing/college dude.