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Opinion: Old School RuneScape membership value

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Opinion: Old School RuneScape membership value

Opinion: Old School RuneScape membership value
Type Opinion
Videos 1 (first 2025-10-15, latest 2025-10-15)
Main source Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS)

Opinion: Old School RuneScape membership value is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-10-15. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says depth and complexity of content is maybe the most important factor for him in valuing a game like Old School RuneScape, as he loves thoroughly picking apart PvM and mastering it.1
  • Gnomonkey says intuitive gameplay controls matter to him, and that much of that ties into RuneLite.2
  • Gnomonkey says gear keeping its value (such as Bandos armour still being Bandos armour years later) is important to him, but it is not world-ending if something becomes devalued.3
  • Gnomonkey says clear communication about upcoming game changes is more important than everything else listed in the survey, on par with depth and complexity, especially since he tries to influence making the game as good as possible.3
  • Gnomonkey says Forestry was an example of unclear communication: the vague question was effectively whether players wanted a Woodcutting overhaul, he voted yes, and then Forestry arrived with nothing like what he expected.4
  • Gnomonkey says some of the worst updates in the game's history came from a lack of communication.4
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex communicates well before release but then drops the ball after an update launches, like throwing a ball down the street and giving up.5
  • Gnomonkey rates 'loyalty, game time is rewarded' as quite important, saying he takes it for granted since RuneScape is always rewarding and does not have seasonal content where things stop mattering, as even Leagues give rewards in the main game.6
  • Gnomonkey rates the amount of new content released each year as not very important, saying he loves new updates but wishes Jagex would delay them and take more time, including more time on content already released.6
  • Gnomonkey says he cannot wait for Raids 4, but if it turns out rushed like Tombs of Amascut he will be very upset, and he would not mind it taking two years to get a good raid.7
  • Gnomonkey says he does not care about new updates as much as about fixing up the game and making it more solid, and suggests that rating new content as very important may be a veteran-player answer.8
  • Gnomonkey wants player support to give back things that were lost through Jagex's fault, such as hardcore Ironmen dying to server disconnects or world shutdowns, and says Jagex does not refund status although it has started refunding items.9
  • Gnomonkey rates player support as important but less important than depth and complexity or clear communication, and says Blizzard would refund anything it bugged out, which Jagex does not.10
  • Gnomonkey says Old School performs very well on returning after a break, on content not becoming obsolete, on depth and complexity, on multiple characters and on game time being rewarding.11
  • Gnomonkey rates Old School one notch down on intuitive controls, saying movement such as true tile is confusing and RuneLite bridges much of the gap, but he does not know how Jagex could improve it without making it not RuneScape.11
  • Gnomonkey says the headline price of subscription membership is expensive.11
  • Gnomonkey says Old School does well on ease of playing passively AFK, since he always feels he can be doing something.12
  • Gnomonkey says that compared with every other game Jagex's devs are the best at communication and talk to the community individually, but they have also dropped the ball many times, so he answered well rather than very well.12
  • Gnomonkey says Old School does worse than most other games on effective player support, and does very well on the amount of new content released each year, probably a bit too well for his taste.13
  • Gnomonkey says his overall enjoyment of Old School has stayed about the same over the last six months.13

Events

  • The two most recent updates in a row broke Moons (the Moons of Peril), trapping players who took constant damage and could die if they did not realise what was going on.14

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-10-15 Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS) Page created: 21 statements (event, opinion)
## References

  1. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 18:24 ↩

  2. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 18:43 ↩

  3. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 19:12 ↩↩

  4. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 19:40 ↩↩

  5. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 20:39 ↩

  6. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 21:08 ↩↩

  7. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 21:39 ↩

  8. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 22:06 ↩

  9. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 22:34 ↩

  10. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 23:30 ↩

  11. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 24:03 ↩↩↩

  12. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 24:37 ↩↩

  13. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 25:10 ↩↩

  14. Annual Survey is HERE! (OSRS), 2025-10-15. ▶ 23:03 ↩

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