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General Discussion / Re: Future of Emps-World - Popularity Discussion

« on: October 17, 2017, 09:37:27 pm »

Veteran player here, been ages since I logged in. I've gone through college and started a job since I last played Emps-Scape. Those were the good old days.  It saddens me to see such a great game become obsolete.

I think popularity has gone down for a few reasons (my apologies if this is redundant, I haven't read the rest of the thread):

When Emps-Scape went offline for a few months, this was during a time of resurgence for Old School RS. I think a lot of players just switched over to OSRS, because it was more or less the same game, but a larger community and more grinding. Did you know that OSRS has surpassed the number of players from '07? Just goes to show you how popular of a game it is. RS3 struggled for many reasons. It eliminated the nostalgic feel, it focused on creating a brand new game, where people just wanted the standard Old School graphics and activities. Now OSRS is focusing on keeping everything the same, but creating new content.  They've done a great job, but they also have a huge budget, advertising, development team, etc.

Back when I played Emps-Scape 4-5 years ago there were about 500-700 people online at peak, 100-200 online during off-hours. Don't know if I could return because IRL happens, but I'd love to see the game return to its prime.