This 200,000 player peak has come days before the release of a major OSRS update adding "the final chapter of the Varlamore trilogy," and on the heels of weeks of publicity from World of Warcraft streamers and players who've flocked to the game for a bit of an MMO summer migration. "200k on a regular Sunday evening, Sailing release is going to be wild," reads a top Reddit reply from user Stone-J, referring to the upcoming-ish release of the Sailing skill, the first new skill to come to OSRS since its release. On the opposite side of the fence, with mainline RuneScape trailing far behind its old-school sibling, Jagex has apparently decided it's time to clean up, with new CEO Jon Bellamy declaring, "The era of a tainted RuneScape 3 is coming to an end."
Author: austin.wood@futurenet.com (Austin Wood) , Austin Wood
Published at: 2025-07-21 21:04:22
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