People really like to throw the"you are wasting so much time on
OSRS gold! You could have heard 69 languages in this time! Etc" belief around. Well, guess what, most people do what they do in their free time anyway, except they play with RS at exactly the same time. Similarly to you, I read about subjects while enjoying - probably more than I would if I didn't possess the discipline of sitting down and playing for hours at a time. Sure, some folks do go a step too far with RuneScape, but I feel like people who say things like that do it for the play and appearing like a victim. zomg"
It's sadly true but people will people will either refuse to accept it (Since that is the RS subreddit that might be a little bit biased) or they'll accept it and keep playing. It's easy to get addicted due to what OP's picture points out. In my private opinion. Approximately 90 percent of RuneScape is a total waste of time because achieving a high degree isn't a matter of skill ironically talking, just a matter of time. This is the reason why I sometimes look at people who purposedly acquire 200M XP in some skill or get 99 in abilities they never use and wonder why the fuck do they worry or why people celebrate it as an achievement when it actually takes no effort. People can literally play RuneScape paying hardly any attention to it while doing something different, I don't recall a game requiring so little effort and thinking to be great.
Contrary to my expectations, it might seem that a great deal of players agree that RS dependence is real and severely impact people's lives. Originally I was very curious to see how a lot of folks would disagree with the suggestion that RS is addictive (or like you mentioned, just not care), downvote this, and move on. That's why I suggested (in a different remark ) this community may be somewhat poisonous, since there is continuous self-deprecation centered around RuneScape being exceptionally addictive and its players a hopelessly and endlessly hooked group. Although I found this very amusing, but so slowly did I begin to find it sad and frustrating. As for what you said about 90 percent of RuneScape being based around dull time investment rather than developing any ability inside RuneScape (along with the depressing irony of this being known as the"skill system"), god damn is an eye opener.
I always told anyone who asked that
buy RS gold was unique but it was always hard to put my finger on what I meant by that. But now I realize that"grinding" means to simply put time into something instead of develop any sort of ability or ability within RuneScape, that is foreign to any other present game, even most RPGs (I think). PVP is the system in RuneScape that I can think of off hand, and a very small minority of the playerbase does that. It is a bit embarrassing to reflect about the truth that my parties of my own and others'achievements have literally just been"discriminated on investing X quantity of time to nothing rather than becoming better at anything inside RuneScape or otherwise". I guess I simply never framed it that way in my head, although it should've been clear that this is the reality of RS.
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