

It then subtracts the Old School player count from the Old School player count to show the current RuneScape 3 playersĪt the time of writing, there are over 93,000 total players, with about 66,000 from Old School and 27,000 from RuneScape 3. This convenient webpage runs a script that pulls the total player count and the Old School player count from the respective websites every five minutes. Old School displays it’s own player count as well. Old School RuneScape has, on average, about double the playerbase of RuneScape 3. Jagex displays the total number of RuneScape players across both versions of the game on the game’s website.
RUNESCAPE CLASSIC RELEASE UPDATE
75 percent of players must approve an update before it gets a release. Paying players vote on the game’s updates. Unlike RuneScape 3, Old School is entirely community based. Jagex released Old School RuneScape in 2013 as well. However, this iteration received a lot of criticism from players. It’s the third iteration of RuneScape, with updated graphics and gameplay compared to past versions. The other, newer version, RuneScape 3, just finished a round of testing for its app. One version, Old School RuneScape, got it’s beta today. The publisher runs two main versions of the game and announced last year it was working on a mobile version of both. U.K.-based publisher and developer Jagex released a beta version of classic RPG RuneScape on mobile.
