The Real Reason RuneScape Classic Closed

[@ColonelloRS]

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[@roxaskinghearts]

jagex honest who expected that

[@azrane]

Ad ends at 4:48

[@Meandmyshadowclones]

It's heartwarming that Jagex delayed the server shutdown so one last player could complete Legend's Quest

[@Viroidss]

titus is in my clan!

[@MissGloriosa]

I was standing with him outside legend's guild when he completed the quest. I had tears when he finished it because it meant an end of an era.

[@HughJaeness]

​@@MissGloriosa Jesus Christ, get somewhat of a grip.

[@Raymoclaus]

@@Viroidss not anymore he's not XD

[@XeroNeroZero]

Thats the sign of a great game company.

[@Lisa-pk6fq]

"The mods saw that one player was trying to finish a quest, so left the servers up" that's so sweet! i wonder if any other players helped them complete the quest- "the other players thought that maybe the mods would keep the game up forever if this guy never finished the quest, so they started trying to interfere with every quest step" nevermind.

[@doggosuki]

kinda hilarious that people would think jagex would just never shut it down if he didn't finish it lol

[@DaveHayes-i8f]

A perfect example of just how ridiculously selfish most human beings actually are…. It also shows the sheer stupidity of some people and how out of touch with reality they truly are!

[@Lisa-pk6fq]

@@DaveHayes-i8f i'm not sure if I agree. I think it was a stupid, selfish move, but it was a move made out of love for a thing they desperately didn't want to lose. I think it's kind of sweet, in its own ridiculous way. They should have let the guy finish the quest in peace though haha

[@doggosuki]

@@Lisa-pk6fq what a wholesome way of looking at it

[@DaveHayes-i8f]

@ I understand where you’re coming from, I’m just saying anybody with any common sense knew the game was inevitably over for good no matter if the guy finished the legacy quest (or whatever you call it) or not….so really they were just being assholes for no reason at all!

[@ColonelloRS]

Hey all. In this video, I stated that Kryme DDOSed the APOS website. This was based on accusations made at the time, but Kryme has since reached out and denied these claims. I should have presented this as an allegation rather than a definitive fact, and I wanted to clarify that here. I've since removed this section from the video.

[@ColonelloRS]

He does not deny that he was behind the crystal chest bug though

[@Based_Goddd]

ColonelloRS’s router was threatened by Kryme 😂

[@meursault7030]

Always good to see people being honest about their mistakes. Respect

[@Vojem]

Yeah because you publicly stated that he did something illegal. Of course he's going to deny it.

[@ericwoods9586]

@colonelloRS The vet world chest was untouched. He wasn't the only one to break the chest but it seemed like there was an agreement to leave the Vet world chest working, I played a lot during this time and only recall the chest on the Vet world breaking once and the servers would be restarted once every few months (server restarts fixed the chest). Bugged NPC's were a big problem too. The longer the server went without a restart the more NPCs became un-attackable

[@vahn_legaia]

Long live private servers. Honestly, the biggest nails in the coffin were removing classic's F2P and then shutting down the ability to play if you didn't log in in 2005/2006. It was staggering since then.

[@johnmarksmithmiller9895]

Can you play classic on a private server today?

[@dk9]

Yes Google rs classic server

[@vahn_legaia]

@@johnmarksmithmiller9895 Yeah theres RSCPreservation, RSCVanilla, etc.

[@mrmanown]

I thought they did a few times where you could login? I remember logging into RSC around.. 2010 or so when they opened it for everybody

[@enok7934]

There were tons of bugs and content was literally broken until server restarts due to bug abuse. The lack of support for the game was its demise. The good thing is though, private servers. I've got nothing against them. I even ran my own so a few friends could mess around on it with a local server and low ping since most RSPS are hosted on the other side the world to me.

[@duke605]

"Money wasn't the reason for the shut down" "The game was shut down cause it would cost too much to update" Dude spent 16 minutes to tell us the reason jagex already told us

[@The_Autistocrat]

Granted these sound the same, they're not if that makes any sense. Shutting something down because of money is because you don't have the resources to support it, as in it might cost too much to maintain compared to what it brings in. "Costing too much to update" is a lot different because while you can theoretically throw money at the problem, you're having a lot of other factors making it worse. For example, it's an old fucking game, they'd probably have to effectively recode the game and make it more modernized within coding. There was probably a huge tangle of bad code supporting itself where changing a singular thing could have disastrous end results so having a dedicated team to test and run through all of these to make sure everything was kosher. Doing this requires you to employ more people who have that particular skillset and desire, something not exactly common as it would be seemingly like an entry job, but it isn't due to there probably being a bunch of quirks and silliness that you had to have played with it to understand. This is why airlines a decade ago were having a hiring crisis, nobody these days learns Cobol, all the people who knew Cobol were retiring. It's one of those catch-alls that is basically just code for "The amount of shit we would have to do just to make this happen is a logistical nightmare and there's no way our company will greenlight the resources because we can't prove it'll recoup that investment." The ONLY reason we got OSRS was because they found an archived version that they could tweak and boot up within a few days if that. If it involved something like say, WoW Classic where Blizzard had to go back and hire people to effectively remake the game by threading all the code and assets together then it wouldn't have happened, and the only reason Blizzard bothered was because it was very apparent they would recoup the investment within that year alone and all they had to do was code shit to work right. Assets were already made, bosses designed, gear statted and designed... Part of this driving decision funnily being how OSRS eclipsed the actual game in short order and was a running argument in favor for Classic servers about how going back then taking a different fork is better than full steam ahead into the abyss, like Retail WoW and RS3 were about to do. At a point yeah, you can argue "You can just pay people for this" and consider it a money issue, but from a corporate perspective it's more that to do this one thing you had to do 1000 other things and it is one of those "This is too much shit to do so I don't fucking care anymore."

[@teratoid7702]

Thanks for saving my time @duke605

[@drswaqqinscheckingin7210]

@@The_Autistocrat I'm glad you wrote all that so I can refute it with two sentences. Not being able to afford to update something and not being able to afford the upkeep costs to support it is the same thing.

[@Scrofrogoly]

@@drswaqqinscheckingin7210 Especially since most of the updates would be security and bug focused, so 100% required maintenance.

[@bugz000]

@@drswaqqinscheckingin7210 i can middle this :D the implication was that it was shut down for a lack of paying subscribers, the real reason was red tape from the EU, the core reason of both; not enough money

[@denryuu3]

The lore of these bugs is cool to consider in-game, a cursed chest and a demonic summoning ritual. Using black magic to teleport unsuspecting players from all over the world to their doom and no one knows what is happening to them lol

[@dk9]

Classic is now defunct, and lives on through completely free open source projects like Open RSC, 2001scape, rscplus, rsc wiki and others

[@Virelith]

"games nobody cares about:" *Shows Arcanists* I feel attacked

[@Jordlaa100]

I miss that game so much

[@rbc8639]

@@Jordlaa100there is the fan project arcanists 2 if you’re itching for some nostalgia

[@aKjohn8798]

You can still play it ​@@Jordlaa100

[@Someguyhere111]

The real reason for the shutdown was because the Sandwich Lady wasn't in Classic, so they realised there was really no point in playing.

[@eliop14]

We getting 92 runecrafting to this one boys

[@Yuuzu]

gl on the max grind #sike

[@RamminRanch]

@@Yuuzudoin tricks on it

[@roachdoggjr2883]

Woah we're halfway there

[@goinjones]

Lmao​@@roachdoggjr2883

[@stevenson1142]

w1gger

[@ro0b0]

16:55 I do indeed thank GDPR for preventing companies from putting 800 tracker cookies on my pc actually :)

[@CyberVeggie]

Yeah dude said that sarcastically like he was annoyed by the popup not realizing it's a good thing lol

[@nobodynothing1469]

Because of your annoyance with pop-ups, rs classic got shutdown. How dare you not tolerate 8,000 trackers and nonstop pop ups!

[@YM-kn1qz]

Not really, it only makes big companies ask first. Smaller ones just do it

[@lijger1]

@@nobodynothing1469 There are more pop-ups now.

[@xXswagy0l0blazeit420]

I really hope he was being sarcastic lol

[@ashthecanman]

The nostalgia... logging onto classic in 2002 and playing to 2014, it felt so magical at first. It's an experience none of us will forget. Genuinely the best game I've played

[@sinisterisrandom8537]

Aces Of Spades was only ditched because everyone stopped caring for it since Jagex ruined it. Essentially turned it into what is considered now a Hero Shooter. It's why the game now is open-sourced in 3 variants all compatible->the Original Ace of Spadez, Build and Shoot, and Openspades. There is also an indie game in development called Born to Build that's in development. Oddly enough there is even a Robox version of it that somewhatfunctionsn the same. Pretty neato.

[@Shikamarana]

skip to 13:51 if you want the reason it closed. the other 7/8ths of this video is not relevant

[@AnriDarkmoor]

Yep, sadly I listened to it all, but I tabbed away to play my game till it got to the point. It reminds me of those stupid story links that are like "AND THEN YOU WOULDN'T BELIEVE WHAT HAD HAPPENED" (Click next) and repeat that x 100 before it gets to the point.

[@jameshood802]

I feel seeing Colonello trying to keep from laughing when he's talking about having chafed balls during the promo was pretty OSRS related.

[@kormysh8]

Is about the journey man. We're here for THIS specific content. Thanks for the hyperlink though

[@bugz000]

i must admit this is one of the lower, if not THE lowest quality video colonello has uploaded, let's hope it's a one-off, i'm pretty sure he slowed his voice by 10% aswell to extend the watchtime... that really gets under my skin, respect my time, i'll respect yours and watch the video, thanks for the skip

[@austinwilburn1772]

Do not go gentle into that night. Rage; rage against the dying of the light.

[@RickJamesEstate]

ok redditor

[@austinwilburn1772]

@@RickJamesEstate funnyjunk

[@austinwilburn1772]

@@RickJamesEstate also that poem is far older lol

[@deathound]

"C'mon, TARS!"

[@ST3PF0RD]

A solution for the chest could've been just having the game servers reboot automatically once every 2-3 days. It would've probably fixed some other instance-based issues as well. It's a bandaid fix, but would've gotten the job done to make players lives a bit easier up until its shutdown.

[@danielvandersloot543]

Everyone knows this, the point is that Jagex DID NOT WANT TO DO IT

[@nickmeyer238]

Literally just // the code that changes the object ID to an open chest. Lol

[@razorednight]

Jagex didn't care. They wanted to close down Classic. They certainly did not want to make it fun to play

[@diablo.the.cheater]

They could had just hired a single developer, a single sysadmin, and a single moderator, calculate their salaries, add the server costs, add a 50% markup and ask that monthly from the community in the form of a donation pool to keep it alive. It would had literally cost them nothing even if it did not gave them much benefit.

[@Specialistkay]

Teleporting bots to the demon fight was pretty clever! Thats some easy money! I almost wish it had been me doing that shit.

[@stephentrueman4843]

ever since i learnt about that glitch i'm really curious why the teleport was even needed? Why did the player need to be on that square? My bro has met Andrew Gower and if I ever get a chance I'm going to ask him

[@trussik]

@@stephentrueman4843 there is an entire video how they did it on youtube, i cba searching for it, but its there and explains everything

[@verloser]

Cookies warning saved those poor individuals from getting attacked as soon as they visited a website so be glad for that

[@mrsnatural2368]

Honestly having a lot of trouble feeling sorry for the people whose bots got demon'd. What a funny way to mess with bots and take their stuff. That's hilarious.

[@ChronoSquare]

If the stuff was obtained legit, I'd feel sorry for the dead flex bots

[@tsbworld]

I have never played nor do I think I have the desire to play runescape, but finding your channel a few days ago has moved it up my list of most fascinating Game franchises I've seen. Thank you can't wait to learn more👏🏿

[@Marksfish]

Don’t play it bro. Run escape

[@tsbworld]

@ it genuinely scares me 😭😂

[@latergator9622]

Go on, taste the forbidden fruit 😉

[@redrepublic5557]

it is considered one of the pioneers or founding fathers of mmorpg

[@TheMrFancyKiwi]

I'm sad that Runescape Chronicles got shut down. I enjoyed it.

[@ChronoSquare]

Same! It was a unique take on the formula for card based games, with phenomenal visuals. I loved the osrs cards as i only play rs3 & got to be introduced to new characters.

[@HughWanztino]

I was there that final day of RSC and it was just fun to celebrate runescape

[@HughWanztino]

We all were following that guy finishing his quest for like 45 min. It felt like we were part of a historic moment

[@gazman2626]

Your comment needs more love

[@redrepublic5557]

Glad he had some support and wasn’t out there in the trenches alone. I was there just another face in the crowd behind draynor bank. Waiting for the meteor to strike.

[@deekin2134]

That Underground Pass glitch is insane lol

[@healthyminds9279]

Gotta be one of the craziest in RS history. Straight up teleporting anyone to their doom.

[@DankSeouls]

@@healthyminds9279 to their Doomion

[@Orinslayer]

-ion​@@healthyminds9279

[@N0ffz]

I was a mod on APOS/Shizzled forums and Kryme was a ridiculous person. I'm also in this video at 15:38 as N0ff. Helped Titus do legends quest.

[@PharaohOfTheDamned]

He sounds like a character... one of those ones that gets voted least liked by the community

[@---ti4qg]

Only thing Kryme did was glitch the crystal chests. Everything else he accused Kryme of doing is untrue.

[@p529.]

​@@---ti4qglol are you Kryme or what

[@ConnorMyG]

@@---ti4qgKryme, is that you?

[@amixofgeekcontent]

Got any stories to share???

[@SwitchyWitch_]

I am still so heartbroken to have funorb be taken offline, it had so many good memories for younger me and I wanted to revisit it for nostalgia reasons but then I found out it was offline permanently

[@hazeljoy1]

I don't remember exactly when you started adding the cutaways to irl you (it seems recent?) but they surprisingly add a lot of personality and polish to the videos

[@vinny4765]

Classic certainly makes for a great social experiment. Really shows that if there's no form of enforcement around then people simply do what they want. No one really thinks about longevity or how their actions will ultimately harm them.

[@healthyminds9279]

This was a legendary episode. Can't believe there's a story this major about RS history that hasn't been told yet! The Underground Pass glitch was people straight up playing God; apparently no lure or tricking the player required. Insane.

[@playercode01]

14:17 short version

[@ThePlayerOfGames]

Thank you, hero!

[@lupusk9productions]

I miss classic pking so much. almost relying on "3 hitting" someone or "catching them" was so fun. also iban staff pking was amazing since magic and melee can happen simultaneously

[@prasg1186]

100%.. til this day nothin comes close! Imo the maths/mechanics behind f2p pking was truly something to behold.. it was just soo balanced!

[@celestialsylveon6453]

Wow that's wild, I mean technically the tech debt was part of the reason indirectly because it cost them too much to fix and work with. R.I.P Classic I was there for the final shutdown and saw the Titus stream at the time. That was really nice of them to leave it open for him! :D I also saw the video on that warping bug, that was so wild to me then and still is!

[@redrepublic5557]

Same. was nearly biting my nails hoping he was gonna finish before they finally said ok bud it’s time.

[@OfficiallyCaptured]

Classic was my favourite version of the game.

[@Rscapeextreme447]

That’s so cool that they gave titus 2 extra hours, it shows they cared

[@RealKacho]

reminds me of osrs updates, 1-2 hours after an update you see the real player count, 200-500 people per world if that.

[@SparcMac]

Well made video, if they ever brought back classic I'd give it a try

[@redrepublic5557]

First they’d make you do 10 consecutive pushups; meaning you wouldn’t be able to give it a try.

[@jpkush5198]

It would be cool to see a classic style event for a week during osrs.

[@ColonelloRS]

I would love that

[@MoliorRS]

Always love the old videos, I was talking to someone the other day about why RSC closed, then this video comes up ;p

[@ColonelloRS]

Good timing haha!

[@sadasdafa]

reason: 13:49 saved you a million minutes

[@jameshood802]

You mean you don't appreciate Colonello telling you about him shaving his balls for the first 5 minutes?

[@AbradolfLincler]

man I miss my rsc acc.. all the adventures I had on my way to level 2 woodcutting..

[@DefileOdds]

Ironic it's called APOS, I wonder if the acronym existed prior to the program.

[@BirchTreeReborn]

They did Ace of Spades so dirty...

[@Crumb]

13:10 Ay there's me in chat :-) RIP Classic

[@Cyann33andaThird]

Thank you for mentioning Ace of Spades, albeit briefly. That game rocked. I played the hell out of it before I ever knew about Runescape. I think it'd be interesting to look at the history of Ace of Spades, everyone talks about funorb but nobody talks about it, or Block N' Load, which was similar-ish but had more moba mechanics. That game rocked too. I don't know why Jagex were so interested in Class-Based Build-and-Shoot FPS games. I think there's an interesting video topic in there for you. "Jagex's Forgotten First Person Shooters" And if you want an interesting factoid to put in there, here's one for you! When Block N' Load launched, you could spend RS3 Bonds for a free steam key of it, which makes it the only video game you could buy with Runescape Gold.

[@abk1424]

I’m a 35 year old man now… rsc was the first online game I fell in love with when I was young. I have so many amazing memories… Rs2 never felt as good. Thanks for the video! So much nostalgia.

[@Shadersdmx]

Dude I’ve never touched or had any interest in RuneScape my whole life. I love your vids. I’ve watched all of them.

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you so much!!

[@RoyRope]

Kryme, what a sad sad person.

[@tonyspooky7874]

Funny thing is i was playing rsc and was close friend with zephyr when the whole incident happened and he never mentionned me anything about it, he told me he swapped osrs gp for rsc gp lol

[@IPrayForHam]

Always nice to see content from Colonello!

[@ColonelloRS]

Glad you enjoy it! :D

[@mpg272727]

I really never understand why Jagex could not have just assigned one single mod to check up on classic once a week. That's it. That's all it would have required. A couple of hours a week to reset the server or to fix any little bugs that crop up but nope seems that was too much to ask. It's a shame. Much as the RSC private servers are fun they are just not the same as the real thing. And yes it was full of bots and glitches before it was shut down but I still miss it.

[@TheTotallyRealXiJinping]

How about no

[@CyberVeggie]

Cost > Reward

[@AetherNoble]

Because you gotta pay that 1 employee $160 bucks a day and RSC makes no income.

[@Rrezz]

Because paying a dev 60k+ a year to update a game with 200 average players 95% of which being bots is actually insane. Your talking about paying someone 60k to update a game mode only about 10 actual people are playing at any given time. Not to mention by fixing one thing you could break 10 others considering how old the code was there was probably all kinds of things integrated with each other and things that wouldn't make sense to do in today's world or without context of why they did that at the time.

[@JVDAWG1]

He didn't say to have the mod only do that, just do it a couple hours a week

[@Nekozah]

I really wish they'd bring classic back like they did with OSRS, and actually give it support. I'd definitely play.

[@S.y.t.h.i.k]

Got here 2 minutes after posting! Last time I was this early, my wife left the room crying and now I only see the kids on the weekends 😭

[@lucidloki2814]

Thank goodness right? Way quieter now

[@S.y.t.h.i.k]

@@lucidloki2814 truuuuue! A lot more free time for RS now, too! 🙏🏻

[@merk.9285]

Wtf that sounds disgusting bro. Not cool joke at all.

[@vargvikernes6366]

Gheyest comment this week

[@thomasraayman]

It's funny, stop being butthurt

[@SomeOne-gq4dy]

As a Runescape vet of 22 years, your channel is SPECTACULAR! Well done, man! Excellent content. Please keep it up 💪🏼

[@HughMungusXD]

We deserve a version of RS2 that never updates. Like classic but for the 2007 era, they should give us the August 2007 port they used for OSRS but never update it. Only fix bugs and ban bots. That would be worth paying for.

[@Rvndrkk]

For me it would be pre-desert treasure era, slayer was then already added to the game couple months earlier, miss those times. PK'ing was such a blast back then and alot more simple. Hell, even pre-slayer time was great fun. But I guess ppl would get bored pretty quickly these days with that content 😅

[@HughMungusXD]

@@Rvndrkk Goldfish attention span ipad children are half of the players now unfortunately

[@callmeFOFO83]

3:08 when it breaks, it breaks, -mod balance. remember that, because the mod team is now split to run two different servers but it remains updated with stuff that was never there, coincidence or is someone else breaking a game they knew nothing about? who had ideas of bonds to cause inflation? who decided to add/who removed rsc are good questions, who decided to make nightmare zone to train on quest monsters? who has forgotten about stealing creation, fist of guthix and who asked for soul wars *with more quests* again?

[@trevoreinspahr2786]

6:17 All I want is to be able to play one account like an idle game on OSRS so I can play with my friends, for me it’s an accessibility feature, I played when I was a kid but I just haven’t been able to get back into it for years despite numerous attempts.

[@zenmello7616]

Play Melvor?

[@trevoreinspahr2786]

@ You missed the part where I want to play with my friends, that does look super cool though but it doesn’t help me play RuneScape again, I appreciate the suggestion though.

[@idle4717]

You should check out the Gower brothers' new games (the original minds behind runescape) they recently released a new MMO similar to runescape with good idle options for skilling.

[@Broseftoast]

I'm a recent subscriber, but seeing a new video posted got me so excited. Hope you have a good week bro!

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you so much! Hope you enjoy it.

[@Ozzianman]

Jagex did Ace of Spades dirty. Thankfully they can't take Ace of Spades Classic away from us.

[@mistahkrazy805]

I died twice doing the Legends quest after release. GJ Titus. You had it way harder than me!

[@lazylightning9378]

nice to see the face behind the voice - wish we could sit in a brewery and talk RS for hours

[@andyhenderson8757]

This helps to explain why i cannot recover my classis account anymore :( Thanks for the closure !

[@TheJitterbug]

Me spotted at 11:27 and 13:19 😆This was a time I'll never forget. Kyle Fer and I got to see Titus get his Legend's Cape. Kyle's one of my good friends and we just stuck around there until the server shut down. I did cry a little bit after he got the Legend's Cape because I knew it was the end and I didn't want it to be because it had been a huge part of my childhood.

[@BallisticDamages]

RIP FunOrb 😭 I miss Armies of Geilinor and Arcanist sooooo much it hurts my chest. I was so close to rank 1 in the leaderboards, I even passed Zezima and took their spot at #2. Damn I miss those games.

[@oKiiwi]

4:29 that headshake really unearthed me for some reason, you an alien?

[@LandreuLazer]

I'll be honest, coverage on how much GDPR effected video-games and multiplayer titles on PC in general would be a good watch. For instance thousand of players lost their characters, account and even ownership of titles like Black Desert online if they did not consent to a message within a short time. I suspect maaaaany old games retired all together, similarly to this one!

[@ildarm]

i sent them dozens or reports throughout the years on botting but they ignored me. i botted 2 days, after RSC2 came out, buying from shopkeeper and i get banned while those ppl i reported were still botting on their spot.

[@ChronoSquare]

This reminds me of Cartoon Network's Fusion Fall MMO. Some bad actors figured out game breaking bugs and the game became unplayable. NPCs got despawned - quests broken, bank access denied. Making it worse is how the MMO was basically left to on house development since before the first year. The original contracted company to run the game went under without telling the parent company; as a result, the same department running the Cartoon Network WEBSITE now had full fledged Unity engine MMO to run. Poor game, the planned vision didn't get a chance to fly.

[@Klabikins]

GDPR is not the reason for cookie warnings, that is due to 2011 cookie directive

[@nathanloosemore4141]

Hate to break it to you but what you mention falls within the regulations rules. The cookie directive was one aspect of the general regulation that was passed.

[@Klabikins]

@@nathanloosemore4141 Cookie banners have been mandatory since 2011, GDPR has nothing to do with it

[@belstar1128]

put ze cookie dauwn

[@WhatIfRune]

Very well produced documentary bravo

[@thesimslover82884]

Personally, I think Jagex should release Runescape Classic as a stand-alone game. They could totally do it, at least it would be around. I'd love to have a chance to play Classic. Runescape Classic was crazy confusing when I tried it, originally. I found Runescape later in 2008 again, I'm in a massive love affair. Having the classic game back would be legendary.

[@thepainsight]

Could have sworn I just heard somebody else mention the chest bug recently, interesting to hear more detail about the bug regardless.

[@robjones-io]

That was really cool to see them let Titus finish his quest. Also, I don’t want to sound like a Jagex bootlicker here, but why do some community members expect them to keep RS Classic running forever? If there are only a handful of players left, it’s unrealistic to expect them to update a dead game forever.

[@erickchristensen746]

I miss FunOrb

[@C_Engineer]

Good detective skills Colonello, keep up the good work! :)

[@Pony_Law]

I miss virtual colonello transitions.

[@dei_stroyer]

This is just proof that all players care about is griefing, which is why I never pvp, if roaches find a way to succeed, they will.

[@coyotetu]

That full rune thumbnail took me back 😢

[@IdentityChrist]

14:42 Most normal American: "Yay, I love when megacorporations steal my private data, force feed me targetted ads and track every move I make on the internet! ❤ After all, in the land of the freedom where our piss is red white and blue and we shit bald eagles, we never have to click a button to reject cookies! We're free to play a barely-functional mmo from the stone age alongside three other human players 🎉!"

[@LewisDM]

Your sarcastic "Yipee" was a stupid thing to say regarding GDPR.

[@Dean.....]

Am I remembering wrong? I thought it was A Friend who broke the rest of the chests. Maybe the chests were reset at some point after Kryme broke them only for dovydas to break it again. Edit: I re-watched his video from 8 years ago, he just reported on the bug, he didn't actually break the chests.

[@brettryman3982]

I so badly want a single player little to no changes version of rsclassic could be so fun to run through that game as an ironman

[@99heartbreakofficial]

I havent played runescape in years, but I always feel compelled to watch these documentary type videos on what will always be my favorite childhood game. Classic was such a weird thing to play compared to RS2, I remember trying back in 2008/2009. Anybody else remember playing it AFTER rs2, but before EOC?

[@belstar1128]

i thought there was a time when you could only play if you had an account made before 2004.

[@99heartbreakofficial]

@belstar1128 I remember they had it open to try, I do have the classic cape from trying it back then, i found when they were introduced in 2011, but that was right before EoC, and I've not played that account since I quit. I might have to log in to rs3 and check w Hans to see

[@MrHangman56]

I love your videos, but why did you switch to a facecam? Its very jarring when you swap back and forth from game to camera. Go back to your RS character pls

[@catch.22]

GOD I loved Arcanists on Funorb, and I miss chronicles SO MUCH

[@xdx1990]

Shout outs to all of the other 30+ year olds who played this when it was current content back in junior high/late elementary school I was there... I was there 3000 years ago

[@GoDly887]

Thanks for making these docs, you’re a class act brother 💎

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed them!

[@Romino94]

Played with Titus furious in classic 2013. Greetings from Grabbe

[@ivycutler1907]

I loved RuneScape Classic. Had some friends that helped me do Heros quest. Solemo and Dragon were their names. RSC was awesome..❤️❤️❤️😥 Wish it were still here.

[@tekt_real]

I AM SEETHING!!! Ace of Spades was NOT Minecraft with guns, it's like saying Overwatch is Call of Duty with a class system. It doesn't make sense. It was a fantastic game that Jagex ruined all by themselves. Like, shooting themselves with a shotgun to the foot. Multiple times.

[@jedjade4002]

I mean let's be clear, Classic died because not a single soul at Jagex seemed to give a damn for many many years. They could have taken it on as a small project, move it over to something usable, and maintained it forever for very very cheap, as plenty of other games (GW1 for instance?) have done, but they never cared to. They kept it members only which destroyed the population, they put negative effort into making it easily usable/accessible in my opinion, and worst of all, honestly insane, they couldn't even find the time to set up auto restarting on a daily or weekly schedule. Kind of insane in my opinion. They clearly wanted it to die. I'm surprised it was left up as long as it was, but that was seemingly only done because it was easier to leave it and not care. I miss classic. I didn't play much in the end, and wasn't there for any of the events in the video, but when RS2 (07/OSRS) came out, I stayed on classic for a long time grinding some of my stats to 80+ which was GRUELING. When I finally felt forced to jump to RS2, my stats were crap, but grinding them up was so fast in comparison it felt like I was cheating or botting. That account was stolen, banned, and I didn't get it back for 15+ years. The stats were rolled back heavily other than fishing and cooking, which were clearly botted to 90. What's wild is I'm actually sitting on that same account right now in RS3 AFKing combat while I watch this video. The game feels even more cheaty, and in the past month I've pushed ALL of my stats to 80+ and will be going for max/completion. RS has been a wild ride for me, but I'll forever have a place in my mind/heart for classic. I hope some version of it makes a return some day.

[@jonshneebley]

Jagex is greedy. Boycotting

[@SqailChch]

I still get the arcanists itch to this day, rip funorb

[@KillerwinsGaming]

Love this game. Been playing RSC+ preservation and having a blast. Found a half shield at level 18 and made a video about it. Old game but super fun!!

[@Real_Ivan_ooze]

RIP Classic

[@IluKoru]

The end of Classic being delayed because botters were sabotaging the one remaining legit player is poetic, hilarious, and so RuneScape. Great vid my man.

[@dan_loeb]

14:40 if that's a sarcastic yippee that's a bit shortsighted. before gdpr every site would just store all the tracking and advertising cookies they wanted and didn't need to get consent.

[@Bobby1Hines]

Another incredible video! Thank you for what you do for the community Colonello!

[@Snakeyes244]

You're so talented at KZbin dude. I love your channel

[@xirogs]

Would be dope to have FRESH classic server with quality of life updates. Modern rs doesn't even feel like runescape anymore.

[@PhunkieZero]

I played RS back when it started.I have good, and sad, memories of the game as it evolved. It's sad to see that Classic got removed, but it was kind of inevitable seeing how the game was getting worse. Also, it makes me REALLY question botters. What's the point of botting in a game where 95% of the players are bots? Why even boot it up at that point, what's your goal?