OSRS will never go offline. It doesn't make any business sense to do so. It accounts for a large portion of the player base and I believe it will outlive RS3 by a long shot due to how ugly RS3 has become.
Life is an illusion that time goes on forever.
When games aren't growing as fast as other investments they may be shutdown. We see that with RSC.
RS3 certainly will outlast OSRS because it can make far more money and grow their revenues and profits even further.
Survival of a business product relies mostly on its quality and profitability. OSRS actually doesn't account for a "large" potion of Jagex's player base. They just appear to have more concurrent players but it doesn't mean it is a "large portion of Jagex's player base".
Be afraid, and be even more afraid too... when Jagex is diversifying now. There will be far more Jagex games than just RS3 and OSRS. Just Pipeworks alone already has about the same 300 mil player base as RS3 and OSRS combined. Actually Pipeworks alone has the larger portion of Jagex player base than OSRS, and close to RS3 and OSRS combined.
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Dilbert2001
You know why OSRS is dying faster than it should be? Bots? Too old school? Technically trash?
While these are real factors, the worst one is actually the OSRS player base has no confidence and no clues in their own game, and all they can do is to hope for the impossible that all the games in the world die.