Quote Originally Posted by gllt View Post
Yeah I think there's a lot of misunderstanding if you haven't played something like old school. Old School RuneScape is actually not like RuneScape once was, it has tons of qol changes on top of it and we're all playing it on new computers with better server infrastructure and an officially sanctioned client loaded with plugins.

Like do I like playing older versions of games truly as they were? Sure, but even when people do bring games back, that's never truly possible in the sense of recreating every detail of the old experience. It'll always be a little different and sometimes that's (obviously) for the better.
I've had the invitation to go back to at least one classic version of a game, in my instance I've always declined. First of all, the community isn't the same, and that makes a dramatic difference. Secondly, as a veteran of the game, as opposed to someone going through the content for the first time, you know all the shortcuts and the content, so you can't replicate the learning experience- so that's really no way near the same experience. Third- in each case when the classic version was brought back - it was "improved" - either the graphics, or job skills , or even some content was modified - all of which again doesn't replicate the original experience.

So, in at least one case, I was happy to keep my memories, unfortunately many people ended up being disappointed and leaving after a relatively shorting period of time after one classic version was released.