Runescape is jacking up their subscription prices next month, going from like 12 bucks to 14 bucks a month. The increases range from 20% to 56% in price depending on currency. Players are PISSED about it especially since the company got bought out by some investment firm earlier this year, and they see it as a shameless cash grab.

Here's a mega thread about the price increase on Reddit. Overwhelmingly negative feedback on the price increase

https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/s/samPRjFSCn

So I decided to make a post on Reddit basically asking in a neutral way if it would deter people from playing.... And I was met with the most hostile, toxic keyboard warriors basically telling me "maybe stop working at McDonalds and you can afford it" and defending the company for the price increase. After an hour, my post was removed, and I was banned for a year without any explanation.

I'm honestly in shock that I would get banned just for asking a question, like they are that angry about people talking about the price increase?

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[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 67 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Shout out to the open source Runescape remakes

https://rsc.vet/ - 2003 era remake

https://2009scape.org - 2009 era remake

https://darkan.org/ - 2012 era remake

There are other open source remakes (2004, 2006) but they're not as popular. I've actually contributed upstream to all 3 of the above, it's a very nice community!

[–] jecht360@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Thank you for this, I'm going to set up my own Open RSC server tonight.

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oh no a massive time sink

(thanks! I have a lot of nostalgia for Runescape but don't want to waste months of my life, so I'm considering getting a single player server up and running with a like 10x exp multiplier. Now to decide on 2003, 2009 or 2012...)

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

I downloaded a single-player server a while ago, 20x XP let me actually experience the damn game, lmao. It was neat, getting to see what I only got glimpses of as a child.

[–] xelar@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

https://vidyascape.org/ also anon client

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Vidyascape is the best real 07 remake, but is it open source?

[–] xelar@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I just found an quite old repo https://github.com/Terremer/VidyaScape and issue tracker with website code on https://gitlab.com/vscape

It seems the source is closed, but you can ask on irc.rizon.net OR odelvidyascape@gmail.com.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Thanks!

I played it a looong time ago, mined a lot lol.

Tried it later and it was more 3D-ish and I didn't like that very much.

Any idea which one I should try out?

Cheers!

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

I would say play whichever era you played in the past :P. If you played RuneScape classic, OpenRSC (the 2003 remake) is the best, otherwise 2009scape is a good shout. You could also check out 2004scape.org, their beta starts soon

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Those things normally get shutdown for copyright related claims though, no?

[–] OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Historically, only for-profit ones have been shutdown

[–] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 2 months ago

Good to know!