Since the release of Old School RuneScape (OSRS) in 2013, RuneScape 3 (RS3), the original game that has been updated through the modern era, has been on a downward trend, having now lost over 57% of its player base, with an average of 46,403 concurrent players in 2013 down to an average of just 18,3
Everyone left after EOC and now those that returned play OSRS.
When I started playing OSRS last June I checked the player count that evening, 10k players in RS3 and 90k in OSRS.
The game has turned into one giant “limited time” event mill, and many of the new places are missing things like cute examine texts that gave it soul.