RuneScape's First Year Was TERRIFYING
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- RuneScape used to be absolutely lawless. During the first year of the game: clans ruled over iconic cities, everywhere was dangerous, and playing alone was terrifying. This is the insane story of RuneScape's first year and why Jagex stopped it.
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The fact all of this existed far before most of us played the game is just insane. There was an entire life of RS before 10 year old me even saw. Even then; I was too young and dumb to realize. It’s insane looking back on these people who were probably my age now just vibing on 2000s RS.
As I remember the player base was anywhere from 10 to 40+ yrs old. I was 10 at the time, didn't trust the bankers to hold my money and got pked shortly after, lol. Joined in on the fun of pvp with a fresh account and met some awesome people and friends throughout the years. I was in The Sabres, then switched to The Titans and Higher Force but none of those clans came back for Osrs launch and the last of us quit when they closed RSC for good. :/
I was 12 when I played in like 2003ish? It was RuneScape as it looks now though. Not this old classic version. Good times ! I used to chop magic logs all day long to try and save for a whip when they first came out 😂 I’d always sell them at the bank and then waste my money on some other shit, so I never got my whip 😂
Back then the whip was around 5.7m which I remember being a LOT back then.
@@IsaacFNghost Whips were added with Slayer in 2005 and were a lot more expensive than that. They didn't drop in price until late 2006, I used to stake and merch a whole lot those days.
Rs2 was launched in early 2004, although there was a public beta for couple of months before that.
@@Silent_Depths ahhh I thought I might have had the dates off! Thanks for the info! so I was a freshman in HS 😂. I remember some rich person putting a red Phat into the fally party room and I was like 2 ticks away from getting it
The fact that this ancient Runescape history is still being kept and told through such a long time is really amazing. Runescape always had clans even from the start, and the first 2 are known to us, why and how they came into being, all of it. Incredible.
Your mother
@@elzach0 that's true
Funny how both the addition and removal of the wilderness were seen as the end
Wait it’s gone ?!
@@memenazi7078 Its there but dead...
One thing I can never find is how in the first RuneScape there was a Clan called the Black Knights they used to be all really high level players that wore only black armour besides a good weapon.
I used to see them roll through Varrock and Falador and I always wanted to level up to join em lol, until I got into a pretty big clan at the time and fought against them.
Edit : I typed that before watching the full vid and you actually mentioned the black knights , that’s actually wild.
The BlacKnights, the k is shared
It was crazy seeing them in game! They always wore a white apron over the armour too. It was the only clan I knew of back then, and I wasn't even sure they were actually players. I would just see the rare hoard running through a city
Even rs2 was far more brutal back when I was a kid than today, running back frantically panicking to loot your gear before it disappeared or got looted 😂 the armour trimmers etc.... new players will never know the struggle
New players is a bunch of softies lol, even I’m not a poker but I enjoy the idea for pking lol
Very interesting! The first few years of Classic are very interesting to me, especially since I started playing shortly after rs2 released, so I didn't experience any of this personally.
Same time frame. I had friends who got me into the game that had kegacy phats and stuff tho. Times were good
You can try 2001scape. Google it my friend.
Runescape was the bees knees..I started playing in 2006
Started 05 it was magical!
Before I started playing Runescape, I saw my younger friend play it once. I am pretty sure wilderness was already in game. He freaked out when he saw a skulled player and explained that "it is a player killer, I need to get away from him!"
this video was so nostalgic to me, i remember picking classes and player killing option but didn't do any clan stuff as i was so young. Ah the good old days
same here i didnt understand what was actually going on in the game at the time since i was so younge
My RS3 account is from Feb 01, I was actually in The Messiahs hah. When the god spells released my friend and I made some of the first ever mage defence pures and made so much bank from dueling in Lumby. Dressed up in addy and maybe a piece or two of rune, swap to full rune + dragon med and guthix claw to death.
I was a Sabre for a short while but eventually ended up in BK 😂
I came back to OSRS a few months ago, and I'm absolutely shocked by how many talented content creators there are for this game. Subbed!
Thank you!!
We didn’t have content like this back in the day! All I had was my book from the scholastic book fair that I can remember page by page basically.
@@ErinMar no we really didn't. I've learned so much about the game since returning. Plus the game has hands down the greatest Wiki of all time haha
@@ErinMarI found the book on eBay and bought it right away. My dad never let me play RuneScape back then so I would play at a friends house. I bought the book at the book fair and would read it every night pretending I was characters in the book since I couldn’t play. So seeing it on eBay, I had to get it
@@hebrewskyyou speak a lot of facts! Glad to see you back, of you want a friend in game im always lookin for more people to scape with! I came back 3 years ago and got quite a bit of hours stacked up lol! Truly the best mmo imo
damn I miss runescape classic. made my first account in 2001. varrok and edge lvl 1 pking will always be some of the best rs memories
Man said pking back in MY day
haha damn right@@SlottoZex-uz5ox
Pking, getting "bsed", level 1-2 varrock clan wars, edgeville castle when your squad was strong enough.. I started / ran one of the largest pk groups (level 10-17)
Ahhhh the good ol days ❤
@@jonb8431 hell yeah man, great times!
Level 40s with 40 attack 62 strength and 1 def. The rich guys always had 1 prayer so they had more strength because of no need for protect item
The idea that the ruthlessness of the first year of RuneScape lead to clans forming out of a necessity for order, and that the Wilderness removed the necessity of self-policing players, is a compelling story. But if you look at PK worlds and Deadman mode, you see that there's more to it than that. Today it's easier than ever to connect with people, and organize groups for things, but we're also a much larger community now, so it's much harder to have a widely known and organized clan. In that first year, everybody probably knew the sabres, because they were a significant part of the player base, and with only three worlds it would be hard to not notice them. These days even the largest clans are less than 1% of the full community, so they can't have nearly the same impact. If the Wilderness hadn't killed the clan dynamic (or at least changed it significantly), then the growth of the community inevitably would have.
i love stories like this about social events back in the day. wish we had some of that magic now
Closest thing we have to the old school social aspect is f2pers goofing around in in w301. and clans still rule DMM
I remember spending hours and hours talking to other players and running around doing all the social events man.. I’d have ed edd n eddy on in the background (usually the Christmas special if it was the school year) good times man .. 😅
I remember the time clan wars and all that made a comeback in the late 2000s before RuneScape switched over to EOC. People actually used to go do clan wars and all the different game modes
I remember I started watching your videos back in 2015. I was just getting into OSRS. You and Mote Plox really showed me how amazing this games history is and also how amazing this games community. I can't wait to see the future of this channel :)
Thank you!! Crazy to think its been that long since I started making videos haha
@@ColonelloRS really is crazy haha. I started a podcast and have been interviewing some of my idols on TH-cam. Would you mind being on it. Would just take 30 mins of your time. Already done with the first interview :)
Another fact about the 3 hit combat days. You could catch someone if they ran by moving diaganol at the right time. Even without having run. It was basically the pre cursor to run and possibly why they added it
Its impressive how you found all the information for this. Considering that these clans were probably populated with kids and TH-cam didn't exist yet, there probably weren't a lot of people recording these events.
Thank you! Yeah this was way harder to research compared to some of my other videos. Luckily The Wayback Machine preserved some of the more popular sites from that era :)
There's a popular rs classic private server. Guess who I saw in their discord doing research for this video? :)
I was 14 at the time. And can attest to this.. 0 recordings lol I DO HAVE A TON OF OLD PICS THOUGH.. of me.. blaze.. ashley, ladykilljoy, lightning, Sir.. and few others...
Miss it.. bc we all actually grew close in THAT rs.
Holy crap this was a cool video. I started playing just after the first Christmas Event. Granted I was a dumb kid in Middle School but man I had no idea there was this much PK and Clan activity back in the day. I don't think I was killed more than once or twice and didn't actually lose anything.
Such a trip back in time, so crazy to remember how it used to be. Glad to watch a nice recap of it though, damn near 30 and still remember the bad times in classic.
Runescape was running on Honduran prison rules back then.
I wish classic servers were still up... idk what it is but those graphics and just everything was cool to me. The 3 hit combat system was actually amazing.
Agreed, everything looks so vibrant compared to RuneScape 2
You still can, Openrsc/rscvet. It's a team of people that have worked for 5 years to restore the game, the classic version, and there's even a 2001 version on there, which is amazing.. So many hours have been put into this, reading old archived websites and forums, trying to recreate 2001 version. Such an amazing feat.. Open rsc is what was used for this video. Atleast a lot of the footage is from there 😄
Yup
With a few changes
I think they did a poll recently if they should bring it back, unless I was dreaming
@@ErinMar What to bring classic back? 🤣
The peak of Runescape Classic was the best. I started in 2002 or 2003, it was so fun. So many great memories.
This is so interesting! I started playing late 2001 and knew about the Saber clan, but had no idea about the lore behind it. I just knew them for giving adamantite long swords to players who joined them.
You just nostalgia bombed me. I forgot all about that.
I sometimes, although rarely watch these short documentaries of RS on TH-cam and you never disappoint. Thanks for reminding us who did play back then as my own memories have begun to fade and I only remember some conversations and key moments of play. Glad to have been part of those days however shitty my internet connection was and having only little time to play. I still have my original prayer beast Vorpal Sabre. :)
1:23 Lumbridge, like the 80s, you HAD to be there.
I first starting RuneScape at the end of my Junior year in highschool, at the beginning of Summer 2001. My character was Moondog, a non-PKer with the Miner class. I remember one time when I and a couple other players followed SUOMI around in the woods protecting him from goblins while he leveled his Firemaking. He wasn't even famous yet, just some random new player we just decided to help out for a couple days. Afterwards we formed a (very minor) clan, The Noble Society of Goblinslayers, headquartered in Rimmington, patrolling the woods between Rimmington and Port Sarim and keeping the area clear of goblins by killing every goblin we could find. We had a side gig giving free food and low-level weapons and armor to new players in Lumbridge, and selling higher-level food at the border of the Wilderness.
I pretty much quit RuneScape around 2004-2005-ish, but every couple years I log in for a bit just to check out how things have changed.
I try explaining this to people and it was absolute chaos but so much fun. Thanks for the memory :)
Gz on 100k, always great content bro!
Thank you!
I’m 34 made my character at 13 and yea I distinctly remember having to pick a class (Wizard) which was integral to my class identity for much of my early play.
I don’t remember the PvP outside Lumbridge though - I think I must not have picked the option to do so and I remember the wilderness was created not long after I joined.
Cool burst of nostalgia for me, thanks 😊
How did u first hear about the game?
Thanks for the flashback! Man I miss these days! Being able to 3 hit people was awesome. My first ever pk was in varrock general store lol. I was hooked on pking after that. The clan wars were great. I was 23 when I started playing. I literally had kids crying because I pked them and they lost all of their stuff lol. A lot of the time I'd feel bad and give it back. Anywho, thanks for the video! Brought back a lot of good memories!
you are living proof that my dad was wrong about gamers appearing out of nowhere after I was born.
I played runescape from the beginning. Before the membership came into play. My fondest memory of classic is having Bluerose13x make a rune 2 hander for me, took me ages to get the money for the rune bars!
I'd like to say I really enjoyed this video and I don't think people realise the amount of research you had to put in to make something of this quality. I often look up old runescape stuff myself due to nostalgia and it can be very hard to find information sometimes.
I was in the Gladiators and when runescape 2 came out I was briefly in Damage Inc, but had personal issues with a member called Bible boy and left.
Thanks again man, really liked the video!
I also got my first r2h from Bluerose, traded 4 santa hats for it
the guards actually guarding players sounds like a pretty cool concept
Been watching these videos, me and my friends played back in these days, and considering how much we played back then in 2001-2003: having second accounts with PK in the name, literally crying to my mother losing my gear after getting ambushed (seeing magic from off screen while mining in wilderness was terrifying!!), being affiliated with the Messiahs, the wilderness, Rune equipment coming out being a game changer (and then dragon being a joke), and waiting for the Kandarin update. My personal achievement was being in the top 500 mining, but I never stuck around until Runescape 2 and eventually lost my login info. Back then, there was no good account recovery system if you forgot a password.
It was just a drop in the bucket of all the history afterward, and I have no context for anything after this! So fascinating
Great to see this. I cant tell you how many thousands of hours i put into this og / classic runescape.
A lot of it had to do with the times we were living in. The internet was in the stage of onboarding / mass adoption and it was one of the first ways to truly communicate and network with people from all across the world.
I started in 1998 and will be forever thankful for those memories ❤
I was in the Wanderers clan back then, there's some artwork saved somewhere from our clan of the whole clan drawn together. I then left Wanderers as it was during the time where most old clans became dead and joined another clan called The Rainbow clan (Yeah, another the.) which was also an anti pk clan.
I love actually seeing stuff from this era. I experienced it and played it back then, but I was a young kid back then so whilst I remember a surprising amount of it, but it's different seeing it.
I saw the thumbnail and was instantly reminded of the old geocities sites made to scam new players in RSC. One of them advertised they could get you the rare Jade Armor and used a very well edited screenshot of a player in full armor with the armor being recolored emerald green.
I remember my first time seeing RS at my friends house one new years night. We got off of GTA 3 to play it. I watched him wait till the clock struck 12 and thousands of party hats dropped. He picked like 2 up or something. Years later I didnt realize hoe huge that moment was. They make MMOs to safe now.
Amazing video, glad to see the return of your iconic OSRS character
thanks for posting so much recently! your videos are always refreshing for the community, it reminds us of exactly what we have already gone thru in this community. and yes alot of it is terrifying
The three rounds of combat is where the term 3 hit comes from too. You’d want to 3 hit whoever you wanted to pk so they couldn’t leave combat and eat food or pots. You would ideally want to get 2 or 3 bolt hits then attack with a R2h. 1 defence accounts were so much fun. Low level mage accounts with 44 magic but other base stats at 1 were the biggest money makers. Most accounts were 15-20 hit points and so easy to kill. Ah man. The good old days
3 Hit U
So many pures running around wilderness 2 shotting people, it was fun while it lasted lol. Everyone hunting for each other's R2Hs.
@@RiggedandReadyhe's got a couple vids on TH-cam he's legendary
I remember finding this game on a MUD website, where it was listed as a “Graphical MUD”. RuneScape and Tibia and others were basically just free to play clones of Ultima Online back then
That website was absolutely right: those early MMOs were - in terms of mechanics - indistinguishable from just slightly fancier graphical shells for MUDs, as anyone who has played MUDs will tell you. Personally, I'd play something like that today if it was available (OSRS et all are just too time intensive and grindy for me) and would happily settle for traditional MUDs if they were still alive.
@@paulie-g there are plenty of MUDs that have active player bases even today
@@mmocracy Active is relative, I suppose. The ones I've tried the last time, although it was many years ago, didn't grab me - the ones with the cool setting and mechanics weren't active, and the ones with more players were meh and seemed to not care about the new player experience. But that's just an impression, I'd be happy to be wrong.
Man, I remember playing back when the game looked like this and watching this takes me back
after all these years i still love the "oh dear, you are dead" so british!
The option to choose whether or not you can PK is kinda rad. I feel like it could work if the option wasn't permanent but maybe had a cool down. If you chose to PK you have it for at least 24 hours then you can change again or something
One of your best latest videos man. History, drama, cool visuals, and more. Love it.
Thank you!! I really appreciate that
I started playing in March of 2002. RSC will forever be my favorite. I played until they eventually shut it down for good. The 3 round combat system was the best. Being able to duel anywhere was amazing. And the fact that it was SUPER hard to max, made things even better.. I still play OSRS to this day under one of the main accounts I started on RSC. These videos are super nostalgic. Thank you.
Kinda cool that enormous scale allied pking and anti-pking wars, as well as bounties created by players made a comeback on RS3 with Wilderness warbands. Same with land claims RP, although those were fought in Clan Wars rather than wildy.
100k !!!!!! You deserve this man!!
Back in the day there was x3 r2h in the game. But no one had the crafting level to smith them. It would be great if you could shed light on this in an episode!
I’ll be eligible for my 20 year cape here in the next few years! I created my first account when I was 8. They’re going to have to make a 30 year cape soon. I didn’t play during these times obviously, but I’m sure I would’ve!
That's awesome! Its amazing that the game has been around this long
How do you find your information? Haha
I love your videos man
It depends on the video, but this one was mostly sourced from backup copies of RuneScape fansites sent to me by community members who were around back then. :)
@@ColonelloRS
Well you do an amazing job and I love your videos. Keep up the good work!
I played runescape in the early 2000s when it first came out. I remember seeing Zezima and The Old Nite in the level 20 - 40 range. I was also playing when holloween mask, party hats, and santa hats dropped. It seemed every holiday something stupid would drop, so even though I had like 20 party hats at one point. I ended up dropping them all, basically throwing them away to be deleted lol
Shout to the RSCAngel, RSCEmulation, and RSCRevolution Private server players.
I had a party hat when they were 30k, sold it super early, way before they had any value.
Ngl that sounds fucking awesome
Imagine being in an actual war with another clan, the outcome of which has actual significant ramifications on the game. Imagine bounties, bounty hunting and being a hero of justice who protects noobs from PKers
Im 38 years old, i was 17 when i first started playing runescape in 2002, I remember everything (probably because i was a grown teen while it was happening), there was s lot of stuff from back then that people just don't know about and the people making video's were too young to remember.
I'm a big PKer, it's cool seeing the Classic clan action
ALMOST 100K SUBS!!!!!! WELL DESERVED 💯💯💯💯
Thank you!! 🎉
I was 12 years old in 07 when i made my first account.crazy that classic players are all well over 30 years old now.i wish i could have played back when players had pretty much 100% control of the gameplay.classic clans sound like so much fun.that would have been something to behold
I still remember when Draynor was THE dueling spot for level 60+ and under 60 was Lumbridge. Personally my favorite time of Runescape seeing 1000+ players crammed into Draynor. All of the sudden a duel would break out of 100m (which is equivalent to 1k usd back then, the economy wasnt fucked like rs2/rs3 is now) and it was so exciting watching everyone crowd around cheering on who would win.
That little 3 second timer is what made pking/dueling in rsc so much better. Even tho I play OSRS now (rs2), it's only because Jagex was butthurt people still played rsc and shut it down lol.
They should release a version of classic, that would be amazing.
They did, but it shut down
I took part in all of this. I remember the day runescape came out.. Me and 2 real life friends played alot together. Man.... Those were some insane times.... I was more obsessed with runescape than anything iv ever been obsessed with.. Other than maybe Ultima Online back in the day
I was in the Gladiators. Shouts to Jericho
How did you get all this footage I wonder? Are there private servers for RS classic?
so many
You still can, Openrsc/rscvet. It's a team of people that have worked for 5 years to restore the game, the classic version, and there's even a 2001 version on there, which is amazing.. So many hours have been put into this, reading old archived websites and forums, trying to recreate 2001 version. Such an amazing feat.. Open rsc is what was used for this video. Atleast a lot of the footage is from there 😄 oh and the best part, EVERYTHING is open source.
the code is out there if you want to run your own server. a lot of the footage he used was actually from staking, not pking
I love watching your videos! Genuinely one of my favorite things to do while I'm doing my own grinding on osrs. Keep it up!
Thank you! Good luck on the grind :D
gosh the memories, i played back in 2001 and still do sometimes. Miss rs classic so much! ty for the video
I started with Oldschool during 07. Good times! Glad i missed out on the crazy years tbh lol.
Oh how i miss this version of the game clanning was on another level back then
I remember the museum back in the day that was crazy and I was only like five or six years old playing at the time.
I remember the phrase PK being used in ultima online I think it goes back further than you think.
I feel like this would have been fun. I honestly agree that the change from pvp everywhere vs designated pvp zones probably ruined it for a lot of people. The idea of being a literal knight in shining armor to a new player seems like one of the only reasons to form a clan at all.
Its why i quit.. + i got hacked in 01 LOL. Cried as a 14 yr old as I lost my full mithril.
You make great videos man, I love taking a trip down memory lane, and a lot of your stuff even predates my early days on RuneScape
Glad you like them! :)
I love the explanation of range/magic in classic. Kids these days didn't get it.
I'm a June 2001 player and i remember making new accounts just to get arrows. New accounts would start with 10 arrows and a shortbow and it was the easiest way to get arrows by just making random accounts with names like 'ghygh7b', logging in, trade the arrows, and repeat.
100k subs lets go! def one of my fav runescape channels for sure
Thank you!! So excited, never in my wildest dreams did I think I would get to 100k haha
@@ColonelloRS of course congrats! love to see the channel grow and every video seems to get better and better
^^
Props for giving Ore Sabre the sneaky mention, The actual mother of King Sabre
From my recollection of the time I don't really recall any wars in the first year. maybe like small spats like 2v2s and 3v3s maybe just friend groups. but wars were more towards mid-end of RSC and then very heavy in RS2
Where does one find these alternate runescape tracks? Your editor is a god 😭
Ancient runescape military history goes hard. You are the Herodotos of runescape.
Fun fact: The Gladiatorz are still an active clan to this day
Holds the title for the oldest clan in RuneScape too by the way!
omg it's so crazt seeing The Gladiatorz name dropped here haha they are still active on Rs3
@0:40 THANK YOU! I was telling people I remember this and I had made a ranger main named "x sirrobin x" and none believed me! the account was hacked/password lost as soon as rs3 came out.. 99% sure Jagax deleted it for no reason other then I didn't play it for a long time.
I miss the days where you could chase a dude in dragon who was getting done in by a swarm and trying to pick up his gear.
Congrats on the 100K!! You deserve it! :D
Thank you so much!! :D
10:46 I guess you could say... the museum had some history.
All these screen caps are giving me a nostalgia trip
The look and feel of this reminds me of realm of the mad god when it first came out
back when I started, the Zamorak robes were the reason why I wanted to be on members, I thought the Robes of Zamorak were F2P since we got Monks of Zamorak
This video has better History and Lore than actual Jagex produced stories. I loved it! :D
Thank you!!
I think you just unlocked a core memory with castle gamesdomain
Great video colonello! I especially loved the ending! :)
Glad you enjoyed it!
The idea of non pk players supplying the army with food, is an awesome concept
guess im going to sleep at 1:30
😂
4:10 somehow I seem to remember that it was the first 3 items in your inv that you kept, not the most valuable ones. I could also be remembering wrong, it’s been over 20 years lmao
Wilderness was released on August 13th 2001. I discovered Runescape about 10 days later. I had no idea all this had happened until now. It was wild!!!
Great video, still miss playing Runescape Classic. I'd be down to play Runescape Classic with the original PK-Mode.
In MUDs (the text pregenitors of MMOS) most of them always used the term PK. I didn't hear PVP until much later.
bro you have the coolest osrs content on youtube, your videos are awesomely well done and super interesting
God i want this RuneScape back... the pure terror of possibly losing everything was game changing
Was sad to have missed out on this. I joined almost immediately after this update and I remember people complaining about its removal.
Classic was my childhood, thanks for this!