Both games are great. I say all this as somebody who played a whole lot of RS3, was comp’d, and did all its articles. Frankly the most important reason I changed is because I felt taken advantage of. I was getting very frustrated with all of the guaranteed upgrades at RuneFest getting delayed and finally shelved. I was getting really frustrated playing out of a period where we got four match updates a month, to 2 game updates per month, to a single game upgrade per month, to OSRS gold just ninja fixes at a month with purposeful game updates once every 3 months. It feels really bad to play a game in which the devs are suspicious about exactly what the expectations should be, and how that gets perpetuated for years now.

I know Jagex is also responsible for OSRS, so it feels a little weird saying”I left Jagex’s RS3 for Jagex’s OSRS because of Jagex.” However, the OSRS dev staff is able to offer realistic expectations for updates, doesn’t miss deadlines, and is plugged in to the community. There are not many big upgrades, but they are large hits: CoX, ToB, Inferno, MM2, DS2, Prif, etc. such that I do not mind only getting one or two large updates annually, and some tiny ones like mahogany homes peppered in here and there otherwise.

All game developers”miss” some kind of”deadlines” because project plans change often in this industry. By way of example, The OSRS pursuit A Kingdom Divided was initially planned to be published this year but is now delayed to”the first half of 2021″. Don’t say OSRS does not miss deadlines. Yeah. A global outbreak happened. Find me another instance from if there was not a global pandemic? Big issue is that it was communicated too. You’re right that it happens often in the industry, but it happens an undesirable amount in RS3.

There’s a laundry list of all RS3 upgrades which were delayed, scrapped, etc. crossing back over the last five years… that honestly I’m sure is better outlined with an existing article on this subreddit. They tend to just not communicate these things too. It is a huge point of frustration for the playerbase. It’s a literal meme with this subreddit. This doesn’t even factor in how updates that DO get published often times leave players thinking”was this tested AT ALL?” (example: ripper demon familiars, omegalul).

I was a comp’d RS3 participant. I still enjoy the sport. This isn’t an OSRS vs RS3 position, this is merely a”RS3 always *** their update schedule and buy RS gold it is incredibly upsetting” stance.