Where Runescape used to involve offering up one's hands , or even days, of grinding for piecemeal RS gold, now it hands out level increases with a regularity that's difficult to stomach if you are able to remember sinking 20 hours of constant play into acquiring just half of the XP you want to level up.
Out of blind custom, I spend my first hours mining ore, killing cows, burying bones, chopping wood and light fires. Pleased with my progress, I put an extra eight hours into fostering my abilities. At this point my general belief is that Runescape has only gotten prettier and easier, which would not be enough to drag me back to its F2P clutches.
What did handle that (I begrudgingly admit) was that the amount and quality of quests to be performed in RuneScape. They also come in all shapes and sizes, from shearing sheep and running errands to slaying dragons or planting your prison escape. There is even a pursuit where you take charge of a seagull and use it to bomb zombie pirates with bird poo.
Runescape's tone is joyously light, and with fewer degree cap hurdles to leap over you're free to embrace and explore cheap OSRS gold it without submitting to the mill. That is great, because Runescape's quests haven't actually required one to use skills aside from combat, and have generally incorporated puzzles or interactive components that have more in common with old school point-and-click adventure games than fantasy questing.
