Simply put, Runescape has no competition.
Almost every MMO on the market is a themepark MMO- one with a laser focus on combat where all players are railroaded through an area, and after a few hours there's no real reason to go back there ever again.
Runescape is different. Not only is there a massive amount of
meaningful
non-combat content, but everything and everywhere continues to be useful later in the game.
Take potatoes, for instance. Level 1 farmed crop that anyone can just pick out of a field.
In any other game, you would never touch a potato again once you hit like farming 5.
But in Runescape, the potato is the basis of higher-level consumables throughout the game.
Later on, you're adding butter, which you can actually make yourself, corn, which is a slightly higher level crop, and tuna, a mid-level product from another skill line.
So with a little time and that variety of ingredients from different players or tasks, you turn that potato into a pretty solid consumable, which for your effort is disproportionately-better healing than easier options at similar levels.
Runescape is an interconnected world, not a railroad.
07-May-2023 21:31:19
