Old School Runescape might just have about 25,000 players in any given moment -RuneScape gold hardly a scratch on the amounts it used to reach in 2006 - but its players have understood the game for years. But that is the biggest gap between Runescape and its running Old School Runescape counterpart. Both share roughly the same number of concurrent players, but how players interact in each one is very different.
They have decade-old friendships there, they know where to hang out, the way to interact and almost every talking point the match and its storied history has ever produced. They wander beyond each other without laughing, do not all throw at the same areas for no reason or attend feign parties in vacant attics... they simply get on with playing the match.
There are online experiences to be had there, but the ones that I played through were more structured and buy RS gold curated than anything else in Old School Runescape.
My thoughts of Runescape in 2006 entirely revolve around interacting with others. I had been duped or lured into PvP zones and killed almost daily because I was promised some gift from a top level player, but as frequently as gamers exploited my ignorance that there were also countless times they provided to assist me, taking me under their wing into testing boss fights or giving me free gear.
