Discord: discord.gg/DZS39S5Fxj I know I missed a few things: Motherlode mine, the clue expansions which released beginner, elite, and master clues, and the steam release. I'm sure there are more things that I missed which will be obvious to some (its to be expected in content using information spanning a decade or so). Apologies for that! Also the record of 172k players or so that hasn't been surpassed yet was referring to OSRS, not Runescape in general where player peaks hit over 200k multiple times in the past.

Damn, The Historian actually looks like he is from 2003 himself.

funny that 60 percent said that they dont want pride events in the game yet they continue to do it to this day.

very cool to see the avg player count per quarter to put into perspective how each update affected player count. great job!

Everytime I start playing this game I go harder and harder. I look back thinking I was grinding, yet I was a mere rookie. I’m addicted af.

Wake up babe, the rs historian just uploaded

Great video. I remember disliking the graphical updates in 2008, I wasn't so upset about the Wilderness like everyone else back then because I wasn't a major pker, but it definitely made the game feel less dangerous, and the risk vs reward just wasn't there anymore. I hated free trade restrictions the most because my friends and I often gifted things to each other. I played for a bit longer til about 2012 where I just stopped playing competitively overall. The EOC is what made me switch off entirely and at that point the game was already beyond unrecognisable. It just wasn't RuneScape anymore, but rather a WoW clone. I'm so glad OSRS happened.

Great video. I started in summer 2007 and watched all the updates that slowly killed the game. Found out about osrs in 2015 and still playing today. There’s a ton of content I haven’t experienced yet.

nice job, love the level of depth to this one. really puts into scale the updates i missed before i got hooked again in 2017 haha

I remember seeing a chart of the Sub count of the day EoC. I have Never seen a chart show a 90* angle, going down, before. Like it make a perfect pixel line straight down.

Love the nostalgia trips your vids give me and interesting info. Great as always brother!

I literally saw a vid on these yesterday out of nostalgia. Perfect timing for this release!!

u just keep putting out bangers non stop

Brilliant video. Super interesting with great pacing and attention to detail. Thank you for the content!

glad you mentioned 2006scape, seems to get brushed over a bunch in these types of videos

I was there on release in 2013. Sitting on campus at my college's chick-fil-a. Sweet tea and chicken minis on hand... what a glorious morning.

Wow best Rs vid i have scene in awhile! Very good thank you!!!!

Absolutely amazing video! Also, I loved hearing Stella being called a, “known scammer” :)

Great job. Love this

Good video really enjoyed it! very interesting

i love it when you come back to making time lines and how jagex destroyed our childhoods lmao!

Thank you for the video I started old school RuneScape three days ago I'm having fun so far and the people have been friendlyer than the experience I had with rs3.

2006scape was goated. Ps. FUCK MOD VAULT

Great video once again

Fire mod trident

My first time actually seeing what you look like, good video too 👏

Yowza that haircut… 😂 TONIGHT WILL BE THE NIGHT THAT I WILL FALL FOR YOU

Great video!

This video about to blow up, and I’m here for it

Great stuff m8

Honestly even tho the rs timeline is a bit overdone this has a alot of details passed over in the usuals great content as always brother wish u well

Love your content

3:40 I never thought I'd see Vault's manuscripts on youtube. There was so much controversy on Rune-Server, Moparscape, Runelocus & every other forum that shared the same members across outdated forum websites, I hope one day someone will offer serious awareness for the work blakeman8192 & Graham have done to make the memories we've all shared for a decade. I mean it too, there's a history that has been completely overlooked by our community; EOC pushed a lot of us into this side of the game no one acknowledges

The whole addition of runelite and 3rd party clients i think also contributed to the player counts rising drastically, mostly due to the QOL they offered, also i think twitch and content creators on youtube really got a lot of players invested as well as influenced a lot of what jagex did and their direction with the game

Great video. The average player count is really interesting, thanks for including that in. It does worry me that EoC is currently on 22k players, that seems incredible low when you factor in bots too? If EoC was to die, I wonder what would happen to OSRS

A big reason why I imagine the release didn't get so much players/staying power was.. so many didn't know it came out, thought it was a private server deal, and had moved away from Runescape News areas like myself. I had no clue it came out until much later around the mobile release. Some issues I could see was as soon as player count drops it was harder to get items/sell items and reduce scams.

This is a great video to send to people who vote "no" to any update without even reading the posts about them because "keep OSRS oldschool'"

I remember boaty had his one man army series or whatever it which was his iron man mode before iron man mode came out. That had to be the big reason jah ex brought into into the game. A LOT of people were watching that back in the day.

Some of this timeline is wild how much it stands out from eachother. "Woox got an inferno cape that was pretty dope, there was a homophobic riot in the streets of Gielinor, oh and then revanant caves dropped :)"

Such an underrated channel.

Lol! That Gerhard Quest 2 thing has got to be one of the most stereotypically British things I have seen in a while. Only thing that was missing was tea and crumpets with a picture of the queen on the wall. Oh, and hilarious!

So weird to think that the release of EOC worked out

awesome video

I'm fairly new to the game still, this is really helpful for forming an image of the game's state and health

Love it!

Wintertodt the most intellectual and thought provoking conversations in all of osrs 😂😂😂😂😂😂

What hat is that? I think I had the same one! Also, great videos! Thanks for the content!

We need another old old old school

You’re joining history yourself buddy. Out here doing God’s work.

The sad part is... them adding things to 07 ruined it for me :(

Still to this day, the greatest petition I’ve ever signed. Solidarity brothers!

You sound EXACTLY like a dude that does car story videos on Facebook and I really just need you to confirm or deny if you're him.

I see one thing that hasn't updated was your hairstyle 😂. Love the vids btw.

I came back to RuneScape after a 6 year hiatus in 2020 after playing for 8 years prior and didn't start playing osrs until 2022 fully and this video is blowing my mind 🤣🤣 damn I didn't know some of this content was that old

I wish they would do a new 2007 server. I know the complications that come with it, but this makes me wish I was around to experience it in 2013 :(

I had that exact hairstyle you have in like 2008 as well

Twisted league 2 is what got me back in

miss your osrs classic series

I enjoy your vids alot, very wellput. Nr 2 OSRS youtuber for sure

nice video :) and about eoc it sucked alot for the first few years nowadays its alright if it was like how its now expect later released abilty's i wouldn't have received as bad as it was because yeah back in 2012 i hated it alot too

Ayo let’s go!!!🎉🎉

i like your self portrait in the background very hot

i call bullshit on randomly finding a backup from 07, im sure they have backups from all years

It's true I had 4 or 5 99's on before i quit after EOC came out. I finally came back and now I'm on old-school.

And here iam hoping they will also put some love in rs3

They need to get better customer service and also bring back dungeoneering!!!

I think that one thing I will always remember are the songs.

22:19 2 years later still no official RuneScape HD, still barely even any official Runescape plugins lol. Jagex is going the same path as in 2008 ignoring player polls, adding in unpolled content, and telling players they're not welcome if they don't support one specific event.

3:40 it actually had close to 800k registered users by that time. trust me i remember

00:00 don't jump scare me like that

I’ve said this once, I’ll say it a million times. I’ll scream it from the mountains if I have to. Jagex. Is. Stupid. They are dense. They are not a good company, and the fact that they can be compared with how 343I has handled Halo is 1000% NOT a compliment. This has been proven time and time and time and time again over the years. Lol. But in the case of OSRS, someone in the company had a brain. The original dip in player count after the novelty of OSRS wore off could have been all the proof they needed to justify shutting down the game, shelving it, and telling the player base, “Well, I guess you didn’t want it that badly! Look at how low your numbers are! If you truly don’t want us investing into this game, then good riddance!” But, what did they do? The complete total opposite. lol. They worked to make the game better, add original content, improve it, and went from a dedicated team of 2-5 people to a whole heckuva lot more. In a lot of ways, OSRS has redominated itself as RuneScape in general, with 3 being what pales in its shadow. So of all the stupid things Jagex has done since 2001, culminating in the release of EOC and all the bs that has happened since, the hands down smartest thing they’ve ever done was OSRS, and realizing it’s potential beyond just the player counts. “If you build it, they will come,” and oh boy is that true for OSRS.

I remember the trading post it was a straight copy of the trading post in the old Ikov private servers 😅

i hesitated with osrs because i didnt want to start over. I dpent my childhood on my character..... Took me a year or so to really invest my time into osrs. Hardley touched rs3 since it released.

i switched from rs3 to osrs full time in 2017 because of mobile

15:05 slayed me 😂

Yeah !

the only thing id like to see return that was in pre eoc is item lending. ill never be rich enough to afford a tbow, and ill certainly never meet anyone willing to loan me one on trust alone. i really enjoyed getting lended a rune 2h back when it was like 75k and i was too broke to even afford a full set of armor.

YES

Yayyy

i only play deadman now bc its like easy scape plus hardscape its fun

In a weird way I kind if wish old school never got the GE

The hat is real

Notification squad

Great video. I just hope jagex wont fuck this again with sailing or bounty hunter / new op items - fucking nerf korasi it should have a smaller accuracy

forgot about sowr3cked lol. dude got gigacancelled

Quest speed running?

best time i play runescape in 2012 need jagex make 2012 runescape

You do realize old school RuneScape goes back to 07

I remember all the nerds who presured jagex to go through with eoc. They were gaslighting the shit out of it on the forums, Just like they are now with the new updates. It seems like a case of deja vu. Now I get to sit back and watch the same nerds ruin the game again slowly on reddit; with more powercreep this game doesnt need or meme skills from 2009.

😊

Wtf you look just like me

So people complained about eoc and asked for the return of on old version of the game and then when they got that, they didn’t play as the game was dead asf in the first few months 😂😂

I’m upset Jagex canceled the new Prayers. I was looking forward to truly embracing RuneScape 2’s pre-EoC era with something similar to Curses but Jagex is simply too afraid to powercreep anything.

There seems to be an insane 😢number of toxic/racist/hateful people in rs especially the past 5-10 years I don't understand the constant hate and cognitive dissonance/ bias that is more and more frequently manifesting in my old home

4th

First

If this has taught me anything, it’s that OSRS players will riot over the dumbest stuff.

Hear me out

New release w/o ge is the only resolution

Ah now that's the homophobic gaming community we've grown to love! Bruh we've grown up we can handle a little politics in our game bunch of babies