[Atilla]

Topic says it all.

Starting here, IMHO it's just become too much. It was fun about 3 years ago when there wasn't 34590374509357 different quests, armor combinations, etc. I honestly felt I had enough to work up to back then. I pretty much feel the game's been overkilled. F2P isn't enough, but P2P is too much is basically what I see.

If this thread is inappropriate, it can be deleted/locked. I pretty much just had to get this off my chest, and would like to hear others' reasons.

[Ratty]

It's not why I 'quit', or 'stopped playing'. =P I just started playing different games, that's all. It's a little hard to continue playing a game that you played a lot a long time ago, when you've got other games and uni to keep up with.

I don't see anything wrong with the thread, so it'll stay where it is.

[Neraphym]

I got sick of the in-game environment. People are either assholes or beggers, there are a limited number of 'spots' for mining, training, etc., which are often filled, and I simply found a better game, Guild Wars.

[Phalanx]

Ive Retired From RS lately due to school but as Magic Johnson and Michael Jordan did retirement is not always permermant. But yer i agree that being a F2P'er i got bored easily not enough to do. now i play MU online and Enemy Territory

[Ratty]

I got sick of the in-game environment. People are either assholes or beggers, there are a limited number of 'spots' for mining, training, etc., which are often filled, and I simply found a better game, Guild Wars.

Yeah, that too. Kinda forgot about that :$

[Res]

I was able to see the worst of the worst. And then with collaborating with the staff, you realize just how fruitless any effort you make to improve the game is when it's simply thrown out the window. I got tired of being beaten by scammers and jerks because Jagex kept wanting to give them second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth chances when it's so very blatantly obvious these people have ripped others off.

I got fed up with literal groups of people who would collaborate and plan things along the lines of "Okay, get everyone you know on -day- and -hour- in -city- and we'll all spam @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@. It'll be fun."

I got discouraged from searching the web and finding endless communities of people who spent their time doing nothing but find ways around rules or whatever.

And I got sick of abuse.

Ragnarok Online ftw.

[Aaron]

Items that I wanted either became ridiculously expensive or I just didn't see any I liked.

[Phieta]

I never really quit; I just... faded out. :|

Contributing factors:
--Lost the membership I wasn't paying for, and don't want to (can't, really) pay for it myself.
--Busy with RL crap.
--It got too big... not that I really cared about "doing everything" in the first place, but... yeah.
--My RL friends quit.
--My RL friends quit. Every last one.
--Most of SeeD's old-timers quit. (Though you silly newbies don't all suck. ;P)
--If I have time to spare, I'd rather play Guild Wars, assuming I feel like gaming in the first place. (I'm not much of a gamer anymore.)
--"Leave you people alone for a few minutes and the whole world's gone to pot!" (Even on member worlds...)

[PissedBuddha]

for me, its the fact that I could be considered a runescape 2 veteran, because I started in 2004, about 10 days after runescape 2 was let out of beta. Its just boring now. I dont really care about the scammers and the beggers, its just so boring to play runescape now.

To be honest I miss the old runescape 2... the old songs... the old interface... the old graphics... the old theme song..... world 2 being more peaceful and only crowded on friday nights..... hell I even miss spending all those hours at coal trucks trying to get coal, but when the member worlds started to overcrowd, people were all over that place, not allowing me to mine for coal there as much.

But now that all those old former values are gone.... it just makes it sad and not even fun to play Runescape anymore.

[Atilla]

I've always thought if there was one main storyline similar to most other mmorpgs it might not be as boring. E.G. WoW being Horde vs. Alliance (Or Horde/Alliance vs. Scourge/Burning Legion). If every quest seemed to actually relate to something in the game world it might not be as boring of a game as it is. Everything is just too arbitrary in RS.

That being said, the community (or lack thereof, mostly because of Jagex) certainly doesn't help either.

[Neraphym]

I actually love the skills, activities, quests and such, it's just I can't stand to be around horrible people all the time. If runescape added a main plotline and took a page from guild wars by making only the towns massive and the zones private, then we'd be in business.

[Bodom]

i only play it to raise my skill total now, pkings {expletive hax0rd by Cspace} cos of little kids, the games {expletive hax0rd by Cspace} cos of little immature kids, its just a good game that got ruined, but i dont know how you can say theres too much too work with on p2p when its either rune or barrow ;\

[x..]

I got sick of the in-game environment. People are either assholes or beggers, there are a limited number of 'spots' for mining, training, etc., which are often filled, and I simply found a better game, Guild Wars.

I was able to see the worst of the worst. And then with collaborating with the staff, you realize just how fruitless any effort you make to improve the game is when it's simply thrown out the window. I got tired of being beaten by scammers and jerks because Jagex kept wanting to give them second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth chances when it's so very blatantly obvious these people have ripped others off.

I got fed up with literal groups of people who would collaborate and plan things along the lines of "Okay, get everyone you know on -day- and -hour- in -city- and we'll all spam @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@. It'll be fun."

I got discouraged from searching the web and finding endless communities of people who spent their time doing nothing but find ways around rules or whatever.

And I got sick of abuse.

Ragnarok Online ftw.

Compleatly the same apart from the last sentance.

[SlainThrax-]

i quit 2 years ago to play wow. then i quit wow and came back to rs.

[Goto]

Wow, that makes me feel old. Not trying to diminish what other people are saying, but when people talk about being a veteran of RS2 or about missing the 'old' RS2, it reminds me that I was already quite an experienced player by the time RS2 was anywhere near a beta, and that the time time since I first played Runescape was a reasonable fraction of my life (a third, perhaps).

It's been quite a while since I left, but it went something like this. I took a break from the game for a while, as I'd done several times in the past. As I got out of the habit of playing regularly, it became more and more apparent that I hadn't been having fun on the game for a couple of years at that point, it was only ever really that sense of improvement. Spending hours and hours in the same area doing the same repetitive actions so that a number would clock over and you'd get slightly better at something. At lower levels it was exciting and there was always something new, but higher up that just gets less and less frequent. Some skills were less boring than others, but there's not a lot that could actually be classified as 'fun'. Or at least not for me, as I never really got into PvP, and only did quests when there was stuff from them I wanted. Anyway I played around with a few other games a little (as I tend to do anyway), but didn't really find anything that hooked me. Mostly just free MMOs, or stuff like Gunbound. Eventually Darkie picked up Guild Wars and convinced me to get it, and that seemed to get a much better balance. Much less monotonous gameplay, and very little grind. Admittedly there isn't as much new stuff to do on GW by now, but there's a much stronger aspect of playing in groups, and our guild has a lot of really fun people to play with, or just to chat with. Even if I'm just soloing and accomplishing goals, what I usually have to do is much less boring. Fighting my way throughout the continents an area at a time, capping elite skills from high-level Boss enemies, playing through the games with a totally different class (and as such, a different strategy), or even just inventing possible build ideas and discussing them with the others.