Current Events > This year's Halloween event in Runescape is a sad joke

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Granted the past many years it's been pretty bland... generally the events were concentrated in grounds of the Draynor Mansion and they would have various skilling stations for you to AFK XP in. But they also at least had a few mini-quests and quest-like activities to complete, too.

This year it's just about participating in "Pumpkin Parties" - every 30 minutes a pumpkin party spawns and you just smash pumpkins until the limit is hit, and each drops holiday items with a chance for cosmetics... That's it.

In a way it's kind of similar to early events in the game when you just had random items dropping around the world. But for a modern day MMO and compared to what they've done in the past it's a big step back.

edit: Worst part is they don't even have stuff from previous years, which they built up over the span of several events. I just don't get the logic.

dont u buy xp for runescape now

99s arent cool anymore

whats the cool new thing ppl do?

the team behind the game must be like three people by this point, right?

I started playing OSRS the very day it launched, and I never looked back

occasionally I'll log into RS3 for Miscellania (keep some GP stored away for bonds), and I am baffled by everything that pops up whenever I log in

it's runescape. how cool can anything about it be

GuerrillaSoldier posted...

the team behind the game must be like three people by this point, right?

RS3's team is still pretty big, just seems like most of the effort goes into mtx

ironman2009 posted...

it's runescape. how cool can anything about it be

it has multiple ironman modes

FL81 posted...

I started playing OSRS the very day it launched, and I never looked back

occasionally I'll log into RS3 for Miscellania (keep some GP stored away for bonds), and I am baffled by everything that pops up whenever I log in

The problem for me is that I started in Runescape back before the game could even track player account age (i.e., before the anniversary capes become available). Buuuuut... I took a pretty long break not too long after RS2 launched and then I didn't get back into it until after RS3 came out. And of course all my progress is on RS3, and I just love all the QOL updates and additional content that OSRS can't compare to.

And I just don't have the OSRS nostalgia.

Idk. To be fair I'm not even max skill or max quests or anything, and at this point I doubt I can ever catch up.

tc i think ive typed in your clan chat once. your name seems familiar to me lol

but maybe im misremembering it

i havent played rs3 since like 2016. quit when i got hacked (i should have put an authenticator). came back 2 years later and started playing OSRS since rs3 gave me bad memories lol.

Ratchetrockon posted...

tc i think ive typed in your clan chat once. your name seems familiar to me lol

Maybe? I remember being in a tiny clan for a while and it was pretty cool until this one guy came in and started trying to micromanage everyone's time when the rest of us were just trying to chill and socialize more than anything else. And he wanted to organize events so he could stream playing with us, just felt really odd.

Glad to hear you're playing again, wish it were RS3, I miss having people to talk to in game :(

Not gonna lie though I had to go to this "City of Um" in the Underworld and it made me start the Necromancy! quest (I am trying to avoid any "World Guardian" quests until I complete the 5th age stuff) and Necromancy is actually kind of intriguing. Coming from the perspective of someone who hates combat in RS and hasn't maxed out the skills for it >_>

The OSRS halloweeen event just dropped. Also a sad case; just a straight up rerun of last year's event, which was the worst one yet.

comicfire posted...

The OSRS halloweeen event just dropped. Also a sad case; just a straight up rerun of last year's event, which was the worst one yet.

that sucks

I was looking at the OSRS history and it looks like it's always just a short quest?

I don't get why MMOs do that. I remember The Secret World, they always incorporated the previous Samhain events and introduced new content, too.

The reasoning they gave is that they're focusing hard on the new kingdom/landmass we're about to get, Varlamore.

Yeah, generally it's a fun lil sidequest type event and then they dump all the previous items and music from years past on you all at once. This time it's just kind of a shit trick or treat deal

That sounds like a pretty big addition to the game. I need to look at the maps again and see how Gielinor differs in each game.

We dont have things like the Wushanko Isles, but we did get the continent of Zeah, Varlamore will expand that and we got a few incidental areas like Fossil Island.

Some parts were expanded differently as well, like southern Feldip Hills in 3 was for Mobilising Armies iirc, and we got the Myth's Guild there instead

comicfire posted...

The OSRS halloweeen event just dropped. Also a sad case; just a straight up rerun of last year's event, which was the worst one yet.

As least the Trick emote is nice, I guess.

OSRS is the only real version of RuneScape.

RS3 is a sad joke.

Jagex is an awful company and idk why people still support them

Sunk cost fallacy?

people still play that crap?

Northlane posted...

Jagex is an awful company and idk why people still support them

Sunk cost fallacy?

Not so much about supporting Jagex as it is about playing something that is still enjoyable and novel after all these years.