Still not able to play on Mobile

I have been playing OSRS since I was a teenager playing on my older sisters computer. I used to play with my friend Ryan and created so many memories and friends. Sadly I haven’t heard from him in years and lost the accounts that I had but OSRS is one of those games you just keep coming back to regardless. No matter how long I am away from this game I always end up coming back which brings me to the next half of this review.. This game is just all around enjoyable and I hardly have ever had any complaints. Except for this: I just hate that for months now I haven’t been able to open the app on mobile (IPhone 11) whatsoever. No matter where I am I get a “connection error” and even tried re-installing 2x but nothing. I can play on my PC fine but I work away from home for 20 days out of the month and I don’t come home until after those 20 days are over. It used to work fine until a certain update came out (no idea which one) and then later it was apparently fixed from what I’ve seen since other players posted reviews about playing on mobile. I’ve tried VPNs and that seems to work at least until the trial runs out but I’m not gonna pay for subscriptions to VPNs when I already pay for an OSRS membership every month. That’s another thing I’m paying for the membership and have been for years and I can’t even make it worth it anymore. I just miss the game and have been itching to play it lately when I have free time..

Love it 12 out of 10

As a veteran from prior to 07, I love it. Most of us vets are the ones that demanded that they brought back game we loved before they tried to turn RuneScape into like world of Warcraft or some other recent mmorpg. Also for those of you that have limited high speed, this game runs smooth on 2g after ya drained all ya 3g,4g, and or lte doing god knows what else. Noticed this while trying a few other games that would run poorly after they drained my data ( ex Diablo immortal release was massive data killer for me haha) I’m an avid gamer. Hope ya don’t mind me mentioning other games, because like others keep saying, this is a childhood favorite an can’t stop from coming back an creating a million different accounts every update to try and find a better, more efficient way to train. As of now, can’t wait for you guys to finish mobile beta cause the mobile chat glitch is still annoying. If anyone still has that issue, either hop worlds or fumble around tabs on both sides until it gives ya options to toggle through chat tabs an it will eventually let ya type after a little frustration an work. Forcing ppl to log after 6 hours is great bot buster but god they keep getting creative with bot scripts. Still see bots but less prominent than what I have seen throughout the years. I’d love to see randoms attack players again. Miss that evil chicken terrorizing skillers and bots XD

Best mobile game ever

I have played Runescape on and off since I was a teenager(28 now). I always loved the game, but couldn’t play as much as I wanted since I have had kids now. I loved when they brought out osrs because that was the game I fell in love with. I play when I can and work on grinding here and there, but this coming out on mobile is the best thing that could have happened for me now as an adult. It is the full game just as it is on PC and it’s the same character I have on PC. I can log in on either device. The mobile game controls really well. I wasn’t sure about the camera controls at first, but you can adjust the look speed and slowing it down made things feel better for me. I like that they have the screen control options on the left side allowing you to one-tap or always right click as it is on PC or tap to drop. This makes it to where I am pretty comfortable doing almost anything in the game from my phone. I don’t think I would do PKing on mobile, but I was never much of a PKer anyway. I have done quests, trained Melee, magic, done farm and birdhouse runs and had no trouble with any of it. Being able to play this game from my phone anytime I want is amazing. It’s even better on my iPad. The 1 star reviews I have seen are nonsense. People who don’t understand the game and get mad way too easy. From someone who has played osrs for years and understands the game this is really great on mobile.

Long time RS player

I’ve been playing runescape since the early 2000’s, I’ve really enjoyed watching Jagex expand and improve the game. As an organization I put them in the top 3 developers worldwide in terms of commitment to keeping the majority of the game free to play, respecting the players, and avoiding the ever-encroaching practices of embedding adds, adding energy to play, gacha nonsense, you know the types I’m referring to. At this point the only problem I have with the old school rs app is bots. Bots bots bots. They’re everywhere. Their usernames usually consist of two words plus a series of numbers 3 or 4 characters long. I picked up the mobile app again after a break, and in the multiple weeks I’ve seen a ratio of bots to real players that’s got to be 10 to 1 conservatively. To be fair, I intentionally play on low pop servers to prevent lag, so they may just be using those worlds more. I report as many as I can, I have no clue if it makes a difference, it probably doesn’t. I don’t know what can be done, and realistically it doesn’t have a major impact my character or development, but I loathe cheating, and it makes it feel like my achievements within the game are lessened, especially given that these bots exist to make real world money for other people by allowing others to buy their way through the game. Despite that, please get the game, get RS3, support James, they are both wonderful games, and Jagex deserves all the accolades they’ve received and more.

Just pure joy!

So I’ve been playing RuneScape since I was just a little kid (12 or 13 years old back when RuneScape 2 was just released) and I took a break when the updates happened that took away free trade and the wilderness. But I started back up when osrs was released. I’m now 28 years old and I play every single moment I get the chance and it’s all thanks to this mobile app that I can even do that. I don’t have time at home to play on the computer because I am raising my daughter ( just a newborn baby). The mobile app is the best thing to me. Now I have an account that I have had for about 4 years now and have 97 ranged and 92 magic and am getting into the pking scene for the first time In my life. ( a life long dream of mine was to learn to pk, but I was never able to make it happen) I have more fun playing RuneScape now than I have ever had before. I had no idea that was even possible given how much fun I used to have as a kid. Thank you Jagex, thank you so much. You guys make my life so much better. I am now almost 3 years sober and osrs is a big part of what helps me keep my mind away from my demons. Along with a healthy lifestyle and the support of my friends and family. So you guys have helped me more than you know. And I think that this whole RuneScape experience is something I will never forget. Here’s to the future of RuneScape!

A large amount of the bad reviews are uninformed

After looking through about a hundred of the 1 star reviews i saw that a very large percentage of them were people upset about the progress of their characters they made a decade ago not transferring over. What they don’t understand is that jagex re-released oldschool runescape in 2013 and everybody needed to start from the beginning if they wanted to play. Their old accounts are still available to them on the “main” game. This is the oldschool version and the reason they are upset does not at all reflect the quality of this app. Oldschool runescape is a fantastic game which has been massively growing since its birth in 2013. Against all odds the outdated graphics and grindy gameplay has thrived in this generation of video games which are typically the opposite. If you’re looking for a mobile game with flashy graphics and an instant gratification gameplay loop giving you rewards every 15 seconds to keep you interested and offering you the ability to skip the gameplay for small amounts of real life money, then this isn’t the game for you. It is old runescape (the pinnacle of last generation MMOs) in all of its glory. Oldschool runescape has the best gaming community out there and is run by an extremely dedicated developer team who update the game almost 100% based on player feedback. Anybody who hasn’t given it a try is very much missing out.

Nostalgia at its finest

I started my RuneScape journey playing RuneScape classic with my older brother and some of his friends until the release of Rs2 “OSRS” the goat of my childhood gaming! I played for several years still to young at the time to truly enjoy or understand the game but still had some of my greatest gaming memories bank sitting skilling or doing low lvl pvm. I was an avid player until school and life caught up to me and I gradually stopped playing shortly before the release of rs3. I have now since returned to the game shortly after mobile release and played on my phone exclusively for about a year in f2p leveling and getting ready for p2p content. I presently have a sizable bank and only have two quests left till I get the coveted quest point cape this game gets knocked on a lot but I truly believe it’s by players who don’t understand the game or have never been really good at it. RuneScape is not for everyone the community has its ups and downs bots run rampant in f2p and p2p alike but the games hardships aren’t any different then any game similar and all the negative aside it has brought millions of people together made life long friendships and even nurtured love leading to irl marriages and families with all that said if you don’t mind having to earn your way and aren’t opposed to a grind RuneScape in any form is for you.

A Disappointment with RuneScape

I am new to OSRS and I am giving my first opinions about the game.(Don’t know if my opinion will change later on or not) Transportation,Traveling, or Maneuvering around in Old School RuneScape is unbearable. I have 100 points of agility to start off with and the depletion rate is quite quick to where I can’t travel around Lumbridge or other neighboring towns without walking majority of the time. It makes me not want to travel to different locations and check out things that are off the beaten path because I have to walk to those locations and walking is slow. It doesn’t incentivize you to explore but rather follow paths of other players before you so you can have the most fun while being rewarded. I believe that the only skill that I would love to be free-to-play is agility since it’s the only one that seems to fundamental to a character’s exploration and in a large mmorpg that is an important feature to the game. I don’t care if it’s grindy like the other skills in the game I just want to be able to have a better time with exploration. I know later on with a high magic skill there are teleports that open up but agility being locked behind a monthly paywall is such a terrible decision for transportation around the world of Gielinor. My final thoughts are this game seems to have a great community and I cannot wait to interact with more people and have fun playing in the future. Have A Nice Day! Toodles

Opinion | OSRS is more popular than ever, and I'm a big fan of the love it's getting.

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