Old School RuneScape
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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
By Austin Wood published
News Old School RuneScape players have tracked down an extraordinarily rare fishing find

An anti-FOMO approach would be unthinkable for most MMOs and live service games, but it's the secret to Old School RuneScape's new peak of 240,000 players: "Everything you earn matters forever"
By Austin Wood last updated
News 12 years after launch, evergreen MMO Old School RuneScape passes 240,000 concurrent players

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"
By Austin Wood last updated
News Mod Kieren says "it has been awesome to see the love the crab's gotten"

Beaver-collecting mastermind behind 13,000-hour MMO account suggests things got a bit out of hand: "I sort of realized it would be possible to do something unique and stupid and get the most beavers"
By Austin Wood last updated
News The only goal is "more beavers"

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
By Austin Wood published
News Old School RuneScape enters its "golden omega platinum age"

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
By Andrew Brown published
Opinion Opinion | Come on in, the water's low-res

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
By Austin Wood last updated
News There have been advancements in crab technology in Old School RuneScape

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
By Austin Wood published
News "Enough to make a grown man cry"
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