Places that used to RuneScape gold be vacant are now brimming with NPCs, quests and stories. Every inch of the planet was filled in, or in some cases expanded, so as to incorporate all the characters, enemies and also features that Jagex have been busy stuffing into the match for the past decade. The simple fact that Runescape is an online game is now a bonus rather than its primary draw. Jagex may take their game entirely offline and it might still be worth playingwith.

But that's the biggest gap between Runescape and its running Old School Runescape counterpart. Both share roughly the same number of concurrent players, but the way that players interact in each is very different.

Old School Runescape might just have about 25,000 players at any given instant - barely a scratch on the amounts it used to achieve in 2006 - but its players've understood the game for years. They have decade-old friendships there, they know the best way to hang out, how to interact and almost every talking point the game and its storied history has ever produced. They wander beyond each other without laughing, don't all throw at buy rs3 gold the very same spots for no motive or attend pretend parties in vacant attics... they just get on with enjoying the match.