Runescape is down!

**Money** · 08-09-2011

The most popular MMORPG in the world, Runescape, which can often has upwards of 300,000 players logged on, appears to be having technical difficulties at the moment. When attempting to connect to the Runescape lobby users are redirected to a 404 error.

According to Mod Easty, this downtime has been caused by memory leaks in the game.

Originally Posted by Mod Easty

Hey all,

We're currently shutting down all Runescape worlds due to some memory leak issues. We hope to have these back up and running shortly.

Apologies for the inconvenience,
Mod Easty

For the less programmer oriented readers, this means that the new graphics which have just recently been released are not being seen by users and conflicting with other parts of Runescape.

This raises a lot of questions as to the new face of Runescape. What exactly will we be looking at in terms of graphics in the months to come? Will Runescape experience significantly more downtime and require more system maintenance in the future? And will Runescape, famous for being playable within a browser, have to raise the minimum specifications to play?

If the minimum specifications are indeed raised, we may find gold prices rising as well as a decrease in botters due to the extra CPU power each botting client will consume.

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**Montecristoe** · 08-09-2011

I thought WoW was #1...

**zulzarax** · 08-09-2011

Originally Posted by davee

I thought WoW was #1...

Lots of sites say they are #1.

This is old news, I was at frost draggies with 30M on me, hope i aint dead :l

**temper** · 08-09-2011

Probably just another way to catch botters.

**cVashtiValenciaj** · 08-09-2011

People might now see daylight again! Anyways WoW doesnt look entertaining to me ;(

**Money** · 08-09-2011

Originally Posted by davee

I thought WoW was #1...

Argh! You're right! Editted to say it's the most popular MMORPG!

And I can prove that! Look! Even Runescape says it's popular!

Originally Posted by temper

Probably just another way to catch botters.

Jagex is going to have to do more then just change the scenery! It seems like some bots are already back online!

Originally Posted by The problem

People might now see daylight again! Anyways WoW doesnt look entertaining to me ;(

Haha! I think the new graphics will revitalize Runescape.

Originally Posted by The_all_spark

I don't think gold would rise much, if any, because bot clients have features for all of this, like the "Use less CPU" will help a little, plus in my opinion it's not the fact of that which you think will rise the price, it's still going to be as easy as ever to actually get the gold, such as botting fishing or whatever.

Ah you're right... >< Fishing and mining have been crashing through the roof recently, if anything it's becoming harder to get the gold and easier to buy it. Jagex sure is in a tough fight against botters...

**Kandor** · 08-09-2011

This probably just means they'll have to re-render the entire game in order to use the graphics they want. 'Aint life a bitch.

**Dan** · 08-09-2011

This is killing my cash, I had 2 bots on the go, 1 fishing, 1 mining :L

Stupid runescape

**Money** · 08-09-2011

Update! Runescape is now back online!

**jak27720** · 08-10-2011

WoW is no.1 Runescape is just... bad!!!
i hope they just shut it down, its not even worth playing :L

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