The exchange of words between Runescape 3 players and OSRS players is endless. Ever since the birth of  Runescape 3, this “Word War” has been non-stop. “OSRS is better because of this.” “Runescape 3 is better because of that.” Yeah this exchange will not stop anytime soon. Maybe I have to agree with one side sooner or later. This time, I had time to think that if I were to play an old game AGAIN like OSRS, which a game I already gave up on, what reason would it be? Nostalgia will the first thing in mind. Let us remove the nostalgia effect of the old school days, what else could there be that will make me play OSRS again? No more?

Mind you I haven’t played Runescape 3 so I searched for reasons why people play the newer version.

RS 07 Gold: Looking for Reasons

Yeah I was browsing and Googling reasons why people play Runescape 3 and maybe there were attached reasons as well on why prefer Runescape 3 over OSRS. Again, I don’t prefer any of the two but reading upon these reasons, hopefully maybe I can pick one.

I stumbled upon Reddit and saw a thread close to my topic. This was the original post:

By veterans, I mean people who have played before or during 2007.

As someone who’s played since 2004, I find it hard to play RuneScape 3 and enjoy RuneScape 2007 much much more as it’s a redone portion of my childhood. A lot of people wanted the nostalgia kick– and so did I, however I like the new content brought forth in the game.

So, I ask, why RuneScape 3?

Just like what I was thinking, he did like the nostalgia and nothing else about OSRS. Comparing to Runescape 3’s new content, nostalgia has nothing to show for that.

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One good and somewhat complete reply and I think this made a lot of sense:

In order of importance:

1. Levels aren’t transferred. Really not looking forward to burning another few hundred days leveling. I’d even be happy being given the stats I had in 2007, but restarting from scratch is too much.
2. Screen size. Switching resolution back and forth is a hassle, and the window is too small on current monitors.
3. Graphics / technical. I can’t get any of my friends to join the old version, it’s just too dated for them to consider; especially given that it’s the same price as the live game.
4. The community is much smaller than it was (on the order of 10x smaller based on simultaneous players). It’s not getting any new players, and the existing players are overly focused on staking / scamming / luring. There are lots of players that do this in RS3, too – but there are enough “regular” players to offset these toxic activities.
5. I can’t play both RS3 and RS2 at the same time unless I pay for more than one account.

As I read through the thread, people trying to give out a good comment about OSRS have nothing else to say unlike for Runescape 3 that has new content and a whole bunch more. Maybe I’ll be playing Runescape 3 more because of the said reasons.