Why is RuneScape Addicting?
This question means different things to all of us. Over time RuneScape has evolved and the reason why we play the game could have fluctuated, maybe it was to pass time, maybe your just a little kid with nothing better to do, or maybe it was the pure fun factor of the game that had you coming back for more like that girl you know in school. Its different for all of us, but ill tell you guys about me.
I started playing RuneScape in December of 2004, and i was around 12 years old. I had alot of time. I wish i had that much now. Anyway, you know, tech was still evolving, its always evolving. I was just simply hooked on the game. I started off with a level 70 that my friend told me to cut wood for him. Little did i know he was using me to make cash, so i made up around 300k gold and one day i tried to login and i couldn’t! Well turns out my friend took the account back. But there is one thing i realized after that, i was good at making money. I knew how to work hard and achieve, and since there were no macro bot armies or anything back then well, legal gold making was easy!
So i got my best friend into playing it with me and we both made brand new characters. From there forth we would spend every waking moment we had on RuneScape. We made money the hard way, and quite frankly to be honest, we made alot of money the easy way. We designed scams and tricks for people to fall into, we got tons of santas, masks, and even a few phats. As time passed, playing the game didn’t just revolve around making money, but it went into pking, where we spent hours training pures. It went into main skilling, which i spent hours and hours questing/and obtaining my skills. I wanted to be the best since there was nothing else important.
…Or so i thought.. i started to get older and my school work started to slack. But by playing RuneScape so much, i kinda didn’t care. I put RuneScape in front of my work, my grades started to slack, and my parents started to get infuriated, especially since they are so strict about grades. My life started to rot. But of course, instead of fixing it, i just found “refuge” by playing RuneScape. It was like a drinking addiction, i just had to have more.. to fix things that i thought weren’t fixable, or better yet, i was too lazy to fix them.
My life rolled by and i started to finally realize that Runescape is killing my life. I quit, or maybe, im not sure what happend. It’s like one of those relationships that have no trouble but eventually, they just simply fade with no hurt. So around my 15th birthday, i put the game away. My logins became less frequent, and soon, i rarely even thought of it. But RuneScape had already taken its toll on my life, i became a geek. Maybe it wasn’t a bad thing. It taught me to be the young man i am today. I got into computer programming, learned alot of life lessons, and well, it made me grow as a person. Im not sure exactly how, but it did. I was one of the lucky ones i’d say. I was smart to begin with and RuneScape came out to be at least a bit beneficial to me.
….But this isn’t the case for everyone.
How do you know when your addicted?
I remember one of the funniest thing’s i still remember seeing in RuneScape was this quote by a couple of kids in Varrock East Bank. Excuse the profanity by the way.
“Omfg! My ****ing mom is telling me to go outside and play”, “I hate this *****”, “Ill be back later”
Still reminding myself of that moment just makes me crack up. It also tells you a lot about how young these kids actually are and what their saying. I mean honestly, you can see kindergarteners running around screaming “****”!!
Well, we all have our own idea of addiction to something but in my personal opinion, i would say, you devote most of your free time, and maybe even your work time into playing it. But as the above example shows, it could just generally be obvious.
How do i stop my addiction?
Ok your in for the lifetime classic, THROW AWAY YOUR ACCOUNT!
I’m serious about this one too. It does actually work, but it might just be a little hard. But heres a list of other ways i thought up on how to quit.
- Many of us have routers at home, and 95% of them provide website blocking. Ask your parents to block RuneScape.com and tell them seriously to never unlock it again. Unless at the rare chance that your parents play too, or you have another sibling, it will work.
- Go get your a$$ outside. Im not joking, don’t be lazy and end up like one of those fat kids you see stuck in their bed. Sure, it sounds harsh, but wouldn’t it be great if people stopped dying from heart attacks?
- Spend time with people. This can be very serious. Girlfriend, parents, friends, anyone! Go do things, goto the beach, hang out outside, skatepark, basketball, anything that doesn’t involve sitting around.
- Study! or.. attempt to! You learn something both ways and comes in more handy later in life. Trust me im not saying sit around and be a nerd. But devote at least an hour to your books, it’ll help you.
- Play MMORPG’s, ok, this may sound completely pointless, but once you do establish a fine line of control over your time, go ahead and play! Our new tech world wouldn’t be the same without geeks like us.
- Get a girlfriend! not a gf. ps: c’mon, you know the difference.
- Finally, be creative! I can’t obviously cover everything you can possibly do, but go out and do what your heart tells you to do.
So yeah guys, really. Life isn’t anything that should be given away to a company, but like my story. Something like this can compell you to learn cool things and do some awesome experiements. So thats really all i have to say, i hope you guys take this advice.
I have to say…admitting this takes GUTS..especially admiting about the going outside part, you should be glad you realized this at a tender age before destroying your life…how insightful about what you said about escaping into “Runescape” reality rather than face your own reality..I have seen and repaired shattered remains of families where one was addicted to this game…it just does not happen to kids, but to adults as well and it is sad.
Addicts lie, cheat and steal to keep going…they deny love, family and compassion and they live with the lie they are not addicts…even after they lose everything
i was a complete addict at runescape and i didnt even know it. i started playing when i was in 7th grade. during school i would just think about it non stop and whenever it came to my mind i would get butterflies in my stomach and had so much anticipation to get home and play it, it was the main thing on my mind when i was a kid. i would play hours on end and not do anything else with my life. the enjoyment i got out of playing that game was incomprehensible, and i cant explain why to this day.
one time i got scammed when i tried to sell something and i flipped out and started crying, i said to myself “im not playing anymore” and i did..for about a week and a half. there were so many things that kept reminding me of that game and i just had to play it again, it was down right disgusting. and due to it another year of my life was wasted with playing it.
i was pathetic, my brother and i would literally talk about it every second we could, we shared a room when my sister was born. we were so hooked on the game we literally would stay up every night and just talk about the game, thinking of things they should do with it and stuff we wanted, shit like that. we couldnt shut our eyes for 10 seconds without thinking of something else about the game and having another 30 minute to hour and a half converstaion.
i was an ok player, i never did any pking or stuff like that i was too afraid to get killed. i just wanted to make, money kill monsters, and get cool gear.
so towards the end of 8th grade my account got hacked by my closest friends that played RS with me. i got them into the game and they scummed me over. i let one of them use my account to help me do a quest and he had done several quests for me before, so i trusted him, and i did stuff for him too. i knew his password and he knew mine. im an honest guy id never do something like that to a friend. so i found out one of my neighbors played and he decided to quit and he had alot of good stuff he was giving away, so he gave me most of it. and when my friends saw me in it, they got so jealous. so one day the friend who did my quests called me saying my account got hacked, making it look like he didnt do it because he called me, and framed my other friend. i flipped out on him, and i didnt know who to believe, and i ended my friendships with them. and still to this day i dont know the truth, they both say the other person did it. i have no care for the game anymore, i just wanna know who did it.
so i tried to make an effort afterwards but it was way too much to play without the stuff i had. so i slowly and slowly stopped playing. and ive been runescape free ever since.
im a junior in high school now and i must say it did ruin my life, during the time i played it couldve had a life and due to that i have no life as of now. im not a nerd or anything, im far from one. i play football and alot of other sports for my school. but i kinda made a name for myself when i played RS in intermediate school, like i was an unpopular, not outgoing kid because i was too wrapped up in fuckin runescape. so now im not out going, im very sociable but i dont get asked to go places with people and stuff. so i dont do anything when im not at practices for sports. im the type of guy that has to talk to people to do something, people dont come to me unless im like “higher in social status” than them. so it really screwed me.
and there are certain times where my brother and i think back and talk about it sometimes, and then we get that sick urge of playing it again. and thats when i realized its like a sick drug that really should be illegal.
im very glad i stopped playing, and im actually happy my friend did hack me. if it never happened i would still be playing that game and not writing this. knowing what its like to play and be hooked on this game, i feel terrible for the players of today. and for those who read this that do play, look at all these comments, put them into consideration and stop playing. i am one of the unfortunate people who got screwed over by some pointless online computer game.
i recently looked up my friend in the high scores and hes still playing…a junior in high school, hes been playing since 7th grade.
so for the love of god, stop while you can. dont let my situation happen to you, but who knows you may have a positive outcome like other guys who posted here. but just stop playing.
I know where you’re coming from. I used to play too, but I stopped when I started getting as many hours of homework as I did school. My mother plays though, and she literally does nothing else. I would appreciate an email or something with your advice?
P.S. Seriously considering and intervention.
man, must of took you some time and effort making this, I have great thanks. Alot of things you said were the same in me
Hopefully i’ll quit someday, wish me gl 
peace out gl to u
Hey….
I was 7 yrs old when i started and im 12 now
It all started when my cousin Chandler told me about it
So i went on the website ,i was young at the time and i made about 5 accs
I spent all the time looking on youtube for ways to make money lol….
( Real life )
My parents were making jokes about me at first and they were fine but wen i was playing every second of my life for 4 years they were bugging me and stopped talking to me
Now i look at my self and say i could have been a professonial guitar player
If anyone wants to stop ban the website or/and change ur pass to: j38dka02
I can completely relate to this. I began playing runescape in 2001, when I was in 7th grade I think. I played for fun for around 6 months, then discovered pking. The next few years of my life were dominated by runescape addiction on and off. I played mostly on classic. Tonight I finally got the balls to give away all my characters and have a huge drop party in RSC giving away everything I own rs related. I had alot of fun, and it felt great. Before, i would get angry when I lost a few million gp worth of pixels in a stake. After giving away my mills and rares, I felt a sene of peace and excitement. Rs was a good game, and I met alot of great people there. But that chapter in my life is over now, and it is time to move on. To anyone else who is suffering from a RS addiction, take my advice and do what i did, give everything away. You wont be able to come back unless you start over, and it is much easier to stay away this way. Good luck everyone else who reads this, hope you can quit as well. I will now be enjoying life without the nuisance of RS. Good luck
C’mon Runescape isn’t that bad unless it is really making you think of it every second, it’s just like any other game whether it be on a console or computer, it’s all the same, i myself am not too addicted, i don’t get over excited wanting to go home or something and always thinking about it etc.
Point is you should be making time for other things because seriously, there’s always something better then sitting around staring at pixels.
I love the game, i find it interesting but i don’t devote my life to it
So it may be hard for some but do make up time for other things then sitting around, ride a bike, walk, run, anything but sit.
This game has taken 1 year and a half away from my life where i would’ve done something else than stay 12 hours straight looking at a bright computer screen clicking endlessly. This game seriously became an addiction when I reached the 6th Grade. It took a while for me to get rid this game away from my life.
When I first played this game at 13 years old, it soon turned into an addiction when all of my friends started playing it. Soon they would start to quit and I would keep on playing. I wanted to become a member desperately and begged my father to pay for my membership (still can’t believe the money wasted on this crap). I soon reached a high level and just when everything seemed to be getting exciting, my best friend’s account gets hacked. I felt really bad to be able to play with him so I made a sacrifice and gave away ALL my valuable stuff (Like my whip) to some other kid who I was friends with in-game.
Having done the unthinkable I slowly started to regain my life back. I quit wen I turned 14 and I am now 16 years old. Having got rid of this game has brought wonders into my life, such as a Girlfriend, more friends, respect. And I agree, if you want to quit this game, get rid of your “MOST CHERISHED VALUABLES”, trust me, quitting Runescape would help you get back on track with your life, it worked for me, it will work for you.
My life was fine until I went into 3rd grade.this kids beside me were talking about runescape, so I decided to try it. I thought it was dumb,so I stopped playing.in grade 4, my friend started playing, so I gave it another go. I started playing too much, neglecting my family, friends, school and even meals. I would literally run home after school to play it. I would complain when my parents asked me to get off. After I eventually did get off, all I could think about was runescape. I’m in grade 8, and I’m still addicted. I play and play and when my parents kick me off I immediately go upstairs and watch runescape videos…. I’m still addicted to it to this day… I need help. Please, someone tell me what to do. To Anyone reading this who has quit rs, please tell me what to do. To people who still play rs, I’ve wrecked 4 years of my life. Get out of this game before you too become addicted. You will waste yor money on membership ( I’ve wasted $100$), you will lose your friends and your family. So would you rather kill pixels or lose everyone close to you?
I still play it so if anyone can help me I need it my life is being destroyed by this disease called Runescape.. Don’t let it infect you too.
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my friend got my to play when I was in the fifth grade, and now im a sophomore in highschool, I quit right before my freshman year, and things went great for me I got my life back and im so glad i Did
Everyone stop playing when I was 12 and I found out I had to move houses to a nother state all I did every single day was play rs with my best friend instead of having a life plzzzz stop playing rs it has ruind my sport and my life don’t let it happen to u Ty and quit rs
Dear Mr. Rsnerd,
We understand you are having technical difficulties. Please kill yourself so you don’t think about run escape all the time.
Dear guys who play runescape,
I am 20 now and i quitted rs already for 1 Year,
i just threw my acc away,
If u need help!
I am willing to give it to u for free
Add me on msn
Jonathan_galle@hotmail.com
(dont wurry i dont want ur runescape account) i will help u with ur addiction.
You sound like me, I’m a runescape classic veterian and got my own account a perm banned after accounts were transfered to runescape one. so I started a new account dondiomj and been playing on it since 2003 (been playing since 2000) eventually sometime during 2008 i quit for a year and got back into runescape =S. FUCK IT!
I just quit
I am going to use your advice to get my life up and running again… thanks for the help 
im 16 years old and i play runescape. ive been playing for about 3 years ever sense 8th grade. when i coem home from school i get on rs and play till i go to bed. alot of people have thier opinions about runescpae and how its dum and how people spend time wasting time and cash on it, how ever i dont. runescape to some people is another world were race or looks dont matter, its all about how well you treat others. my familey also jokes about me playing but listen to this, my older bro aint worth a damn, my little bro is a pot head, my sister is stupid as hell, ive got straight a’s in school because i listen and dont tihnk about runescape alot, in the summer, i go outside and do alot of things, it aint wrong to play runescape all it is if u abuse it, just dont let ur life depend on it, yea its a fun game but thats just a little aspect in life, runescape can teach you some lessons as such as u have to work to get what u want and be commited. all i am saying is its alright to play just as long as u put time in on other things as well X D
Yo i’m not a runescape addict, I play like an hour a day tops. I DO like runescape a lot but too many people think it’s ruins your life. Don’t throw everything away, just limit your playing time and make sure that you have better things to do. If you already are a sad sap with no friends quit, if your like my who has a girlfriend, a job and gets all a’s and b’s, and still finds an occasional period of time to hop onto runescape, do it! It’s not that hard people you just have to not think about runescape and don’t think óu could be the best because only homosexual fat greasy 40 virgin nerds can be the best and I hope the person reading this isn’t on of them. Thanks for listenting hope I helped!!!
I hate you. You designed scams and tricks? I hate you. I hope you burn in hell forever.
Here is my story:
I began playing when I was in 7th grade; my parents only had an internet connection on our home computer towards the end of my 6th grade, so I started playing just a bit after I got used to the internet (we are not poor or anything; we just didn’t really need the internet (my dad had the internet at work, and my mom went to work to use the internet; I’m an only child, but I found other ways to amuse myself)).
Why did I start playing? One of the first best friends I had in grade seven was playing; I never really had any friends in 6th grade, so it was nice to have a friend, and so I decided to play the games he plays.
But the funny thing is I never really got addicted. Sure, I wanted to play, and must have played a lot for 2 months or so. Perhaps the reason is that I tried other games which I liked. I started at a reasonably addicting game, and slowly returned to less addicting games until I started playing such a boring game that I gave up online gaming for good.
Just today, I thought back to my days of runescape (now 4 years ago) and decided to create an account and start playing (I lost my old account). But having seen these comments, I’ve decided that it’s not worth it; I should do the things that will be useful for me. I hope that others take the same thing away from these comments as well.
How to prevent addiction? I think the best thing is to play less addicting games; many online games have the “same old thing going on” (i.e. the same objectives). Play these games until you get bored, and soon you’ll stop playing online games altogether.
But I think ultimately the real deal is to be mentally strong; prevent your urge to go to the computer for runescape. If you do that for a few days, you’ll find that you don’t want to go there to play. And make sure you don’t start playing again and fuel your addiction. Throw away your old account if you have the mental strength to do so.
On the other hand, however, you can play that game if you like, but you should remember that it isn’t going to drive your life forward. Perhaps that’s the best thing to remember when reducing/terminating your playing time.
hey guys
i played for about 2 years back in 2005-2007
and now im starting back up, its real bad i used to do school every day now i do it every 5 days, im in college and its really not helping me out to play this stupid rs every day for 5 hours plus.
wish me luck?>
Hey. I can totally relate. I played runescape for 3 years of my life, and i was the total nerd. It feels so good now now to play anymore.
I wish much more other people realize that those kind of games are an adiction…because i mean, you allways want to level up! Make money, and level your pure!
I played it for about 2 years and a half, and i was extremelly adicted, i couldn’t stop thinking about it (it happened to many people as i read this :O)
and well…my friends played and we went to the school to talk about runescape…i missed making a lot of friends, and girls that i think liked me but i was just to bussy thinking in the game…
Luckily, reaching 14 years old, i made myself get permanently banned.
let me tell you something: DON’T PLAY THESE GAMEs, THEY RUIN YOUR BRAIN, YOU SPEND YEARS OF YOUR LIFE LEVELING YOUR ACCOUNTS FOR WHAT? ONE DAY YOU’LL REALIZE THE ONLY WAY TO LEAVE IT IS DESTROYING YOUR ACCOUNT, AND ALL THOSE HOURS SITTING IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER TRYING TO REACH 99 STRENGHT WILL HAVE BEEN COMPLETELY USELESS.
Guys i am so adicted to runescape when i asked a girl for cyber sex on it and she turned me down i ran upstairs and forced my mom to dress up in “dragon armor” and then raped her ass
Also my rsn is p0ke n die add me
Tell me this, anyone…
Does it feel like you’re losing something, wasting time or anything along those lines when you’re NOT on RS?
That feeling is the hardest to overcome. Don’t quit all at once, you have a high chance of failing.
Cut back 1-2 hours you play each day. Eventually cut it down so you’re basically coming on for an event that occurs once a month or so.
You will eventually not care anymore and be finished.
Good luck all!
I played rs since 4th grade now i am in 7th and want to quit but the acc used to be my bros and i dont want him to think i wasted the account by quiting and i dont want to give the acc back to him since i lost 50m in a recent accident, WHAT SHOULD I DO.
Im so addicted to runescape i turned down an uber hawt girl for runescape….. FML
i understand what you mean, i used to be a runescape addict too, i used to play about 18 hours a day, but when i was like 11 years old (im 15 now) my mom canceled the internet for a reason i cant remember, and its good because it helped me forget it, but i thought about it every day. i even cried seriously lol. when i was 13 i got the internet back and i played for like 3 hours but it was so boring to me for some reason that i played so little, now i get on like every month and log out after 10 minutes because i get so bored lol. so yeah, Runescape addicts, STOP PLAYING RUNESCAPE!! trust me, if youre playing runescape because you have no friends or you think no one loves you youre wrong, i used to think that but now i have so much friends, and i even have a girlfriend i love her with all my heart, so stop playing it will help you alot with your life trust me i know because i used to play i know what its like, but do ANYTHING to stop, ANYTHING. im now an electric guitar player and i teach my girlfriend how to play we have so much great moments together, that could be you if you quit. the bad thing with me and runescape now is, it left me scarred…spend 18 hours a day staring at a computer and what happens?… now i have very poor eyesight, dont let it happen to you…I’m now aspiring to play guitar in my own band and sing Melodic Death Metal, Rock On Dudes, **** Runescape \m/
Runescape really ruined my life when i played. But things got a lot better after i quit. Not at first though, it took a little bit of time, but i’m so glad that i finally did quit. Watch this video i made about how much runescape affected me. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTneRRHfGwk
I wasted 4 years of my life playing a fantisy game called “Runescape” I was so hooked i played 5 hours a day. I got introduced to the game then I was 9. I didn’t know what the point was, or anything. But what went through my mind was… hey, I need to get more money, and hey! i need to be the best! My friend and i shared a level 97 account as we still do today (I am still trying to quit. I only play an hour a day.) But other then that, I play three sports. Football(defensive line, Basketball Forward, and swimming, swimmer) lol. My grades went from a 3.9 to a 1.8 because I didn’t study, and all i wanted to do was play runescape. So today, I only play an hour a day and I play three sports. I am also studying more…
my addiction stared and ended much like your. i started at a yooung age and later found my life rotting away. i later thought myself as a geek and wanted to stop asap. i leaarned manythings about computers and, as you said,” grew up ” I now work with the U.S. military at computer programming with satellites, im proud of my addiction now
Thank you. This article made me realize that i’m addicted. I need to stop. I’m gonna Party Room all my stuff and give my account away.
hey guys i know some of you can get hooked but alot of us just play for the fun until we have the time to go hang with friends so all you parents out there reading this take into consideration that your kids might just like it just cuz its a great game to play. and i have to say i am a level 124 and i play it and its fun i cant lie but i can say i am not addicted. so good luck on reading more of these bye [=
I started playing RS when my friend told me about it in sixth grade. I was addicted to the game, but the effects of the addiction were not that big because I was young and had not may responsibilities. Finally, I quit all computer games and stopped playing for 6 months. So, then I decided to try out RS a couple of weeks ago. At first, I wasn’t obsessed, but then I realized I was playing up to three hours a day. I was a lvl 7 with 175k on my acc and 32 mining. I decided to quit again, and in order not to be tempted to play again, I dropped all my items, and gave away my money to noobs; this made the account virtually worthless. So anyway, RS is just a game AND, once you turn off your computer, all those achievments, EX, and GP dont really count in your real life (It’s really just some pixilated images).
I started playing runescape when I was 10, and I quit when I was 13.
1. How I quit was by selling all my stuff, and buying crucial non-member items, you can keep your skillcapes if you want.
2.Once I had only non-member items left, I quit membership, and played as a non-member for about a week.
3.Once the week was up, I quit runescape altogether for another week.
4.After that week during which I quit, I never wanted to play runescape again.
I also decided to play a less addicting game, such as Age of Mythology, which was fun, as well as less addicting.
I went outside more often and played sports with others.
Doing anything outside helps, including climbing trees. LOL.
Nerds hahahahhahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I play rs like any other game like cod not hard to get over at all I just do it for fun not seriously like some of u….
I agree with you, Kyle. Addiction is only for the weak-minded. And besides, getting addicted to a game that has such poor gameplay (e.g. chopping down 300 yew trees to make 9 mil gp after spending a month) is just pathetic. Go get a life, losers.