I, too, have played a fair number of MMOs over the years, yet RuneScape's the only one that has successfully kept me coming back for more than a few months. I'm sure nostalgia is a big part of it (RuneScape being one of my first big experiences on the Internet when I was a child), but I think it says a lot that, even as a player who has been maxed for over 2 years, I almost never feel like I'm running out of things to do. I've been back for almost 4 years (tl;dr: started in '06, first quit in '09, came back in '18), playing heavily most days, and I've still got plenty of loot to chase, achievements to conquer, and bosses to master. And even when there's nothing left for me to do on RS3, I imagine Old School and all of its unique content will suck me in with its siren call, too.
I can be hard on Jagex sometimes (you have to show some tough love when they make mistakes), but their talent when it comes to making worlds that you want to spend thousands of hours in is astounding. It really isn't much of a surprise that RuneScape is one of the few old MMOs that is still alive, let alone thriving, two decades after it first took the world by storm.
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