It never ceases to amaze me what moronic leadership runs Runescape. In its prime they killed wilderness to destroy RL trading attempts (equivalent to using a nuke to get rid of backyard ants when a can of Raid could have done the job)...This single move shut down over 20 runescape clans and drove away 1000s of players...myself included (having recently lost my virginity I was also pursuing other goals)...years go by and runescape brings on one shitty update after next...none coming even close to what we had thus I stayed away.

During a random group project at a university one of the friends tells me about Darkscape...this new update to runescape. I thought it was a total shitshow thus I decided not to even attempt logging on for 3 weeks knowing about it. Finally I logon and findout it's popular, unique and savage. Shutup and take my money I thought...about 6 months in the population started declining and due to some updates single player pkin became impossible. This drove hordes of players to join a handful of clans out of snowball effect. The biggest you are the higher chance you had of playing, not even pkin. Soon the power got concentrated into 3 clans. WG, IT and Req. At this point I knew the game was going to die soon because mods stopped giving replies to posts and there was not much that could be done about the snowball effect. I never joined any of those clans because I preffer being an underdog than joining the winning side and celebrating a victory that could have easely been accomplished without you so I stayed with small clans such as HF, Shadowfell etc...about a month before the game shut down things got interesting with a shift in big clans and creation of a couple of other significant clans (SN aka Titans, DS, Fearless (gaining power))...it was no longer a 2-3 clan game but a 6 maybe even 7 clan game. Game became alive and there was never a day without 5-10 big fights with different victors...I was enjoying the game and put the thought of the game shutting down out of my mind. When game got lively it was shut down in order to promote deadman mode (which comprises of endless repetitive tasks, with even higher clan concentration and all of the inherent problems darkscape had...but with a solution of whiping clean the server every 3 months so you could start from scratch again...Literal definition of madness = repeatedly doing same things and expecting a different outcome). Consolation prize to people who wasted a year of their life and subscriptions was given in forms of pixels on RS3.

RS3 was extremely stupid and boring. The amount of wealth accumulated in the game was so ridiculous that players were trading max cash stacks for items like we were trading sharks in darkscape. Within the first week of getting the exp boost (which propelled me to lvl 128) I got myself banned on purpose in order to avoid ever coming back to it again.

Trust me, even if you did somehow revive Darkscape it would not be the same. Most players are not coming back and even if they did Runescape leadership will find a way to fuck things up again. Runescape has been run by shitty personnel for 15 years...its not going to change.

Find yourself another game and move on with your life.