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DARK SECRETS: Osrs | Vintage Vibes

13 years in, Old School RuneScape is winning the war against MMO bots

"The Day the Bots Disappeared," cry OSRS players

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Venezuelan Victims of Socialism Are Using RuneScape To Make Money

Venezuelan players mine in-game resources and turn hours of gameplay into dollars or cryptocurrency.

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Old School RuneScape players riot as YouTuber's account is reset hours after finishing ridiculous 3-month grind, but Jagex has receipts

OSRS is at the center of a bizarre controversy

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Ex MMO dev allegedly hacked 68 players for in-game gold worth over $700,000 and sold it for Bitcoin, UK court finds the gold legally counts as "property" and can be stolen

A previous ruling on this person's alleged MMO gold theft was reversed in an appeal

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6 years ago, an MMO player of focus, commitment, and sheer will demanded a pair of custom sandals in-game – at long last, the devs decide "it's time" to add them

The Holy Moleys! At last!

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An MMO player spent 3 years building a legendary treasure collection just to burn through it all in one glorious binge: "When I click 'Time Played' the game just tells me to touch grass"

These treasure chests aren't gonna open themselves

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Strip club DJ returns to a truly inescapable MMO, accidentally becoming a community legend and real-life GTA character: "Stripper saw me playing, I have been deeply judged"

There could be an MMO player anywhere at any time

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Hundreds of thousands of MMO fans show up to watch the first video from a game dev who made an entire app just to make Old School RuneScape stupidly hard

Old School RuneScape is now literally SlayerScape

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There's a guy in Old School RuneScape trying to eat over 500,000 trout, everyone keeps giving him more, and he might actually be a master market manipulator

This is going to affect the local trout population.

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"I literally feel like I just got my life back": To escape MMO prison after 1,200 hours, one player resorted to an army of Discord ninjas and divorced dragon fan fiction

Old School RuneScape challenge runs are not for the faint-hearted

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Old School RuneScape says no more Mr Nice Guy, it's time for permabans and confiscations if you're caught buying black market gold

But some players will believe it when they see it.

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"When I explained to her that everyone at Zeke was a real player who came to pay their respects, she burst out in tears": Parents of late baby son overwhelmed by huge in-game MMO tribute

Old School RuneScape players give humanity a much-needed win

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"Of all the problems to have in the world, too many players is one of the best": The 2025 summer MMO migration was huge for WoW players, and for Old School RuneScape devs

Jagex says it saw a noticeable spike in new OSRS players and learned a lot from WoW streamers

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Somehow it took an MMO's entire community more than 2 years to find an impossibly rare, 1 in 500,000 fishing drop – and after all that, it's basically worthless

Old School RuneScape players have tracked down an extraordinarily rare fishing find

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When your MMO's community is "practically forming a religion" based on a big crab, you just go with it: "Oh, the Gemstone Crab's taken another life. And it's funny"

Mod Kieren says "it has been awesome to see the love the crab's gotten"

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With a new record 240,000 players online, Old School RuneScape is roughly 8x bigger than its sister MMO and would be the fourth-biggest game on all of Steam if not for a technicality

Old School RuneScape enters its "golden omega platinum age"

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10 years later, Old School RuneScape is still the best MMO I've ever played – and seeing over 200,000 people jumping on reminds me why I fell in love with it in the first place

Opinion | Come on in, the water's low-res

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This is what MMOs were made for: dev declares "there has been a calamity at the Crab" after 3 hardcore players who purposely gave their characters one life somehow die to a harmless crab boss

There have been advancements in crab technology in Old School RuneScape

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MMO history has been made after 21 years: all the blank spaces in the Old School RuneScape map have been filled in for the first time, right as the game hits player count highs

"Enough to make a grown man cry"

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Gold is not enough: MMO community declares "Platinum Age" as Old School RuneScape hits 200k players amid WoW migration, dev says "we've expanded our live infrastructure to match"

"We are immensely grateful for all of the support we're being shown"

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MMO streamer says he turned down a $5,000 WoW deal to keep grinding Old School RuneScape, player declares "RuneScape won the MMO war" but a dev quickly counters: "You can love both games"

No wars, only games

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"There isn't FOMO and your progress matters": An MMO migration turns to revelation for some, with a World of Warcraft horde becoming a wave of RuneScape enjoyers

A collision of MMOs has been a nice change for some fans

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RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'

Makes the Moon landing look like a walk in the park.

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2 years ago an MMO player locked himself in a virtual cage of his own making – "after 10,000 hours" he is finally free

Old School RuneScape challenge modes strike again

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'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events

Jon Bellamy claimed the choice to dramatically curtail pride was to prevent backlash. That's caused an even bigger backlash.

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