Guild Wars 2

Yeah sorry, but no. If you have to lie and exaggerate to make a point, then your case is weak. Too much of what has been said here about RuneScape is horribly inaccurate and I feel that someone needs to step in.

First off – the game doesn’t have four combat modes. It has two: the old one you know and love, and the “new” one that was released in 2012. Switching between the two is a matter of opening game settings and checking a box.

In the “golden years,” RuneScape used to top out at ~250k players online simultaneously. These days, it tops out at ~70k. The claim that it’s therefore lost 70% of its players might then be true were it not for the fact that bots are gone. Yeah. Bots are pretty much dead these days. Do you have any idea how many of those 250k players were bots and not real players? A crapload. 70% isn’t even close.

The claim that Jagex completely ignores its players is also bogus. They interact more with the players these days than ever before – like using social media, offering power-to-the-player polls, adding ingame Twitch support, and increased Jmod interactions, and more. Hell, two of the four updates coming out this month were requested by the players.

The game isn’t dying, either. It’s actually grown players – albeit very slowly – over the last year.

I love both GW2 and RuneScape, but don’t use lies and blind nostalgia to try and build an argument. “Pulling a RuneScape,” in GW2’s case, would be a good thing. At this rate, however, GW2 won’t last a whole lot longer.