What it actually amounted to once I looked at OSRS buy gold, performed it and saw exactly what was entailed... was that skill was nothing more than a"skill" put into place so as to give all the obsessive/compulsives some thing to do after they'd done everything else to perform under the RS sunlight. Can you say... level 120 anybody?!? I knew you could! The fear at the time was the level 120 was likely to become the new standard for many abilities but for those of us who were still sane and exercised common sense logic, we saw nothing more than the empty shell with a great paint job.
Let's face it... mindless clicking to level some abilities to 99 was already bad enough but if you wanted it then that's what you did. Besides getting some items to show off such as capes and the like... titles... yada-yada-yada... being on the top page of the hi-scores table... or on the individual skills tables meant you're"the best" and ought to be worshipped.
Or at least be highly considered. Adults understood it was only hours of your real life invested in a game clicking away ad nauseam. Anyone recall Zezima worship? I saw him in a bank ONE SINGLE TIME back around 2006 and it was pitiful! A small army of followers a fall-fall-following him everywhere. OMG times three!! Get a life nooblets!
The point is that in many ways some of the skills became worthless after you reached a certain degree though I shall concede Jagex made some type of effort to change that over the years with fresh content. The thought was to make them fun or at least for there to be some point. Observation: a lot of that content was also buy RS gold pointless or downright dumb! Oops! So much for change.
In any case, simply because there's new content doesn't mean it'll be fun or rewarding in a small measure. It also may only be installed for uber fast leveling up so that each of the crybabies will be pacified. Believe Divination ability here... and the principal mini-game made for leveling. It all was there to do was to allow people to reach a 99 ASAP.
