RuneScape

RuneScape is a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game where players level up 23+ different skills, completing quests in a fantasy world with monsters, gods, demons, dragons, and so much more. You collect gold and items growing your bank fighting, trading, and teaming up with thousands of other real players living in the same world.

There are currently 2 version of Runescape with similar but different gameplay. Both versions are easily accessed from your single Runescape account and membership benefits are universal between versions.

RS3 (RuneScape 3) also known as EoC (Evolution of Combat) this version is a lot more developed and has been online since 2001 with many changes over the years creating RS3. It has years more worth of updates compared to OSRS and has higher quality graphics and more combat options with game play similar to World of Warcraft.

Old School RuneScape - OSRS - is a rolled back copy of the game code from 2007 released in 2013. It was demanded by the players when the games major update known as the Evolution of Combat came out. A huge percentage of the player base had quit playing, so OSRS was born from demand. Now majority player vote cast in game chooses updates to ensure community approval.

Its been fun watching the splitting of RuneScape into these separate directions in a butterfly effect type of parallel worlds scenario.

It should go without saying but I'll say it anyway, obviously Old School RuneScape is the best version of the game. So play it

Its a good game. You can chop wood, mine rocks, beat up cows and bandits, craft a bunch of stuff to become super strong and do quests. Its perfect for those who want to play an mmo but don't have a very powerful pc.

Best mmo-rpg of all time. Buying membership is completely worth it, and the service is fast! I accidentally bought a bond for runescape 3 but they transferred it to old school in less than 24 hours.

I only play for Old School Runescape but I can tell you the game is amazing. I played for years back in the good old days and being able to go back and relive some of my fun childhood memories is awesome. Go ahead and give the game a try.

Get hype! With runescape recently released on mobile the playerbase has increased tremendously and that made the game quite fun again cuz its easy to find someone to play and trade with. There's so much to do here and you can get a memebership by earning enough gold coins so its totally fair

The game of my childhood... So many hours, weeks, months spent on PVP, farming and talking with my guild-mates... A truly perfect game!

I used to play this all the time when I was a kid. I remember coming home from school and being excited to log in and play. Good game.

GREAT game

Only downside is that customer support is not there at all.

If you are having a problem good luck you will never get helped

Runescape.com or runescape.co.uk is a british owned online game based in Cambridge created in 1998 and is the largest MMORPG game in the world.

When you made a account for the first time you had to go around a island before you could start playing on the main map of the game and you could get certain skills on the island to a max of level 3, since then they have changed the start point when you make a new account, you help a knight defend and kill a dragon that is living under the city of lumbridge.

After you get out of the underground you can start training your skills and save thing up to put in your bank you can only carry 28 items on you (this does not include the armour and weapons you are carrying on your body and in your hands as they don't show in your inven unless you take them off)

Then you can sell your items at the grand exchange and buy other items for protection, doing other skills ect.

Now for the skills each skill starts off at level 1 and you build those skills up untill you get to level 99 (if your a member you can buy the skill cape once you hit level 99 in any skill for 99,000 gold).
Many of the skill you do are free to play but for the rest you have to become a member and pay a monthy fee of £3.50 (for the uk) or $5.99 (usa) these are the cheapest way to pay for membership the other way to pay for membership is by going to game.co.uk, gamestation.co.uk or gamestop.com to buy a 90 day membership card but the only time you can get them is when jagex advertises them on the runescape homepage.

You may have heard people complaining that runescape is full of bots that is true but there is a easy why to avoid seeing them, i tend to play on server 127 the only way to get to that server is by scrolling down to the bottom of the page to where you can see four little flags click on the green one and the whole page will change into the Portuguese Language, or you can click on the French or German flags these will let you play on other servers that don't show up on the english homepage of the site.

All in all it is a great game to play.

Edit. 3/11/11...
Jagex Staff got out the banhammers again last week and terminated an estimated 98% of the botting accounts.
The week when Jagex got out the banhammers for botters they give the players a week long event (monday to friday). The players got bonus xp for shooting stars and evil trees at the rate of 3 times the normal amount and few more. Double the amount of castle wars tickets and soul wars points and many more, the bonuses giving was different for each day, with the triple xp for shooting stars and evil trees on the same day.