mate? what community are you talking about? the classic negative ass community? we have 100 players and that's because half the people multi log. around 30 iron man accs, 7 other accs with 13bil+ that sit at GE and afk. then we got the solid pvmers that kill bosses all day just to see the prices crash because of the stake kings* lol then we got the pkers like 3 of them. I'm not knocking thomys work but clearly something isn't working since its been what 3 years with the same 80 players? old emps scape had 700+ for a reason bud.
Private servers were in general way popular back then. Then they slowly but surely died after OSRS release. There isn't too many of servers left with 500 players
in total, but back then there were dozens, maybe hundreds. The top 5 servers on Runelocus currently consist of an OSRS clone, a spawn PK server, a 2011 pre-EoC server with summoning and shit, another spawn PKing server and a complete custom server. The currently sponsored server has 347 users logged in on the forums in the past 24 hours. Emps has 371, and I doubt ppl multilog on forums.
You need to understand the fact that private servers will never reach the good old days ever again because of OSRS, which has over 50k players logged in at the moment.
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