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Opinion: Time-gated content and dailies

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Opinion: Time-gated content and dailies

Opinion: Time-gated content and dailies
Type Opinion
Videos 1 (first 2025-03-26, latest 2025-03-26)
Main source Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS)

Opinion: Time-gated content and dailies is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 1 video on 2025-03-26. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says that if he had his way there would be no time-gated content in OSRS: no daily herb boxes, no daily battlestaves, no daily charges on the Explorer's ring or Phosani's / Phalador shield, no daily spellbook swaps; instead items would be recharged or bought.1
  • Gnomonkey says he comes from RS3 and has seen what dailies do to a game.1
  • Gnomonkey says he will vote no to anything time-gated on hourly, daily, weekly or monthly timers, regardless of whether it is good, bad or dead content.2
  • Gnomonkey says time gating is what keeps him from playing WoW or any other MMO, which time-gate raids and add dailies to make you log in.3
  • Gnomonkey notes even FPS games such as Apex Legends, Overwatch and Escape from Tarkov use daily challenges and bonuses to inflate player numbers.4
  • Gnomonkey says OSRS avoids these pitfalls because it has no microtransactions and only very minor dailies, and nothing in OSRS makes him feel guilty for not logging in.5
  • Gnomonkey says he has over 30,000 hours in OSRS, more than 10 times his time in any other game, yet it respects his time more than any other game.5
  • Gnomonkey says OSRS lets you grind a boss as long as you like (for example 100,000 kill count) with no daily kill cap, and lets you switch to any skill when you are not enjoying something.6
  • Gnomonkey says the OSRS grind is impossibly long but fair because players have many options and nothing forces them to three-tick fish or 1.5-tick woodcut; they can AFK redwoods, anglerfish or Karambwans.7
  • Gnomonkey says he does not want any more hourly content added to the game.8

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-03-26 Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS) Page created: 10 statements (opinion)
## References

  1. Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 12:24 ↩↩

  2. Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 20:19 ↩

  3. Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 20:50 ↩

  4. Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 21:22 ↩

  5. Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 21:54 ↩↩

  6. Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 22:22 ↩

  7. Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 23:18 ↩

  8. Demonic Spade and WHY it was NERFED (OSRS), 2025-03-26. ▶ 24:00 ↩

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