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When I first played Runescape I had been a snivelling preteen with too much time on his hands. This had been the only game of its own size and scale I had access to – all it required was RuneScape2018 a dial-up internet connection and a browser window. As an added bonus, that meant I could play it both in your home and in college. Ten years on, despite cataclysmic adjustments and additions, its distinctive brand of overall access is still going strong in a world where free MMOs are commonplace, and also you don’t have to wait for your parents to get off the phone to log into.

Connected: speaking of free MMOs, here are some to check out in case your Steam pocket is empty. I recently tried to log into to a very old email accounts, which I can only do by searching down an even older login for Runescape. A username can bring back a lot of memories as it happens, especially one like g0ds1ayer94. Fuelled by nostalgia, I created a new account and began exploring the fantasy world of Gielinor once again.

In the ten years I’ve been away, Runescape has gone from a fantasy-themed chatroom to a fully fledged MMO, complete with its very own annual festival, a card game twist off and sufficient material to make 12-year-old me weak at the knees. If you can think it, you have to really download the most recent version of the game.

It is a game that’s preserved many of its players via constant updates and unrivalled audience interaction; log for a month and you might have missed something that the community will likely be referencing for the next few years.

And OSRS gold those are only the largest changes: Runescape has also received around 650 other attribute updates in that moment, not to mention countless patches and fixes that have been deployed. The fact that Jagex eliminated the Wilderness for three decades still feels like an insult into a past self – even though I was not playing at the time.

Returning after so much has changed is uncanny, since basically it’s exactly the way I remembered it from 2006. Lumbridge is still there, with its pair of Mischievous Imps still wandering the castle grounds amidst a sea of gamers barking the exact same immortal question at each other:”Will u be my gf?” Ten years has done nothing to weather this beast.