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Enter New World. The most recent MMO is run by Amazon, a company with massive violations of the rights of workers as well as an indefensibly rich CEO. It already costs $40 to get started, after which you'll get microtransactions in addition to that. Perhaps, RuneScape popularized the live service model years before the big players got on board however, all its imitators have bastardized the concept.
"It really wasn't making any money, however we had invested so much effort towards this point that there were so many people who were playing the game," said Andrew Gower in one of the book's numerous interviews. "It was exciting seeing 2,000-3,000 players enjoying the game at once, loads of players on the forums, and everyone was enjoying RuneScape. I just wanted to keep creating it. It was enjoyable, even if it wasn't profitable".
This is the reason we let the free membership tier remaining - they did not want to scare off their members. We know that it did work, the game's popularity only increased. However, as The First 20 Years explains, RuneScape didn't reach its top levels without making some mistakes throughout the course.
Even those of Buy RuneScape gold us who played the game regularly during the 2000s might struggle to master the first ever release which is now referred to as RuneScape Classic. There was no way to defend yourself or even one another. The graphics were beyond basic. It was only able to hold about 1200 people at a time without crashing.