Hello,i figured that Wow/World of warcraft and runescape,which one is better? i found out that runescape and Wow is the same thing,there both good,there both 3d,and there both fun online games.If you agree with me that both is very good,please reply.If you want to reply with something to do with this,reply then.

I have to admit, WoW is cool-looking but you have to use keyboard to move, attack, etc. like that just like Diablo. RuneScape is where you can move freely with your mouse, talk, etc. I believe they are just same.

RuneScape.
Why?
1. It's free.
2. The graphics are run on Java, not some formatted game design program.
3. Been around ALOT longer than WoW.
4. You don't have to install it, pay to create a character or pay all that extra money.
PWN3D.
~Vincent

When WoW was first out, thousands, maybe even millions, were playing it after several days. It's amazing, and it's like paying for membership on RS.

WoW is waaay over-rated I admit that its graphics are better than Runescape's, but the amount you have to pay to play is not worth it. I don't want to go on a rant about WoW because I have no time, but I have to say that Runescape is more flexible, interesting, and and worthwhile

Having played both there two completly differn't games.

Wow gives you a bigger world more gear choices better graphics and a lot more fun for your money. Wow is based on skill choosing when to do your abilities. Runescape has a few things you can do but it is a lot more luck and stat based. Wow also is a very social game. Players working together to achieve one goal really is a great thing. Sure runescape has a few things that require a group to complete but it doesn't compare to the cordination of 25 man Raids or huge Winter Grasp Battles.

I'm sure Runescape will win the poll here but that is because Sals is a Runescape Forum. Wow really is a better game. I mean Wow has over 11 million subscribers compared to Runescape's 1 million. 10 million people really is a huge differnce and I don't think that many people could be wrong.

No, it is not.
1. You have to buy the game ($30+ I believe).
2. You pay $5 to create an account (more possibly now).
3. It is then, what? $15/month? Almost 3X how much RuneScape membership is
~Vincent

Actualy The orginal Wow can be downloaded for free all you need is a CD Key which can be bought online for about 5 Dollars. Theres no five Dollar fee to create an acount. Sure it is 15 a month but in terms of games you get what you pay for WoW is a way better game.

I'll give you more info on that messege.You need to buy the game for $15.Then you need to create an account for free.Then if you want membership you can pay $15 a month for it.Wow membership USED to be $50 a month man!!!

Wow Membership was never 50 dollars a month and if you read my post you can download the game for free and activate your acount with a CD key for 5 dollars if you buy one online.

i would have to say runescape because it only costs me 13 dollars were
WOW cost alot more

Runescape it is free and WOW is not!

I know,but know WoW is giving a 10 day free trail download.I tried it,but every time i log off and back in my character is deleted.Wow 10 free trail players please be warned with that,your character WILL BE deleted if you log off and back in.Thank you

Ehhh, I agree with Stickman_sam. It's a good looking game with nice features but paying every month!!? That's outrageous. Man, you pay enough for it just buying the CD itself. So I play Rs and Guild Wars. Guild Wars may have less features and less people but at least it's a one-time-pay game.

I've only played the trial of Warcraft so I can't give a very honest and accurate opinion. However, I did notice that it took a substantial amount of time to get used to. It seems like a very complicated game; one that would take me a very long time to fully grasp. I think that Runescape is much more friendly for those less experienced in MMORPGs. I've been playing Runescape for a bit over four years now and I still consider myself a medium experienced player.

So like I said, it's a pretty biased opinion but I'd say Runescape.

RUNESCAPE PWNS WoW. All I need to say. First of all, you've got to pay $180 a year. Secondly, it's confusing. Thirdly, it's stupid. 'Nuff said. And yes people, I've played WoW before.

Lets see

Runescape:
Pros
Free
Many Skills, fully developed/complete.
Advances friend system (much more then WoW at least)
Pretty good PvP (even if old wildy is gone, b4 u might complain)
Cons:
Not gr8 graphics (HD owns, even tho WoW is much better, even if it doesnt have a client)
Trade Limit
Not a big world or as many weapons as in WoW

World of Warcraft
Pros
Enourmous world,
Many Weapons
Best PvP out there,
Developed Combat

Cons:
Its all based in combat,
Skills arent as important as in RS
The patches are a pain,

Overall i consider RS the best even tho WoW owns too.

-Gaia

I haven't ctually played WoW much, and I doubt many of the people who are saying Runescape is better have.

Both games are fun(ish), but WoW is clearly superior.


Religion.

Id like to say, i have played WoW with a frends account for a while, but it gets veeeery monotonous after a while, i mean, its all just about killing things, meanwhile rs has skills so its not completly focused in combat.

So yeah, i still think RS > WoW

-Gaia

Neither.

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Think of it like this... If you want to beat the living hell of of things you should play WoW, if you want to have fun, just casual fun play runescape.I personally do not like WoW because after a certain level the only thing left to do is daily raids, after that theres nothing.

RuneScape, because there is freeplay, and the membership does not cost as much as WoW's membership. I find RuneScape's gameplay more fun as well.

Have you made your own account and enjoyed the entirety of the game?

Let me add to this, it will be in bold.

Oh yeah, I have played WoW before you ask.

runescape and wow are similar in that they're both horrible games. the only real differences i can see is that wow is mostly brainwashed beginners to gaming that don't realize the vast collection of other mmos there are, and runescape is mostly children that wouldn't know fun if it bit them in the face.

advantages of wow over runescape: you don't lose every item you have when you die. pvp isn't about getting rich, its about pvp, and defeating other players is highly satisfying. when there's less to lose you can enjoy pvp more often. some people get a thrill of risking it all, but to them, i say go gambling high stakes and put your money where your mouth is.

advantages of runescape over most mmos: storyline. runescape has a questline that is actually relevant. most games have a main storyline, but for the most part your questing is "kill X of this monster," runescape created slayer to be similar to failquests. the true gold, however, is that runescape is a combination of a puzzle game and a grindfest mmo, and requires a little of both. most people don't think quests are fun, however, thus making the game not fun since they blow through them with guides and don't come out of the quest having actually done anything. runescape also has lots of rather unique minigames which can be very entertaining as well. for the longest time most people insisted castle wars was the best thing ever, really its just capture the flag on a slightly strategic playing field

in most scenarios you can find games that are better than both of them without much searching, usually free with a cash shop, but not necessarily pay-to-dominate. still, games you've played for a long time hold a special place in you, and you can't help but go back every once in a while. 'ats why i'm on runescape for the time being.

Coopah you made an excellent point, and I agree. I don't see what is so fun about WoW anyways, from what I have heard from friends playing it all you do is go around and either run through instances with friends to get DOUBLE EXPERIENCE!!! or just raise random skills so you can make small amounts of gold. The only thing seemingly good to me is that the pvp looks crazy fun. I believe my friends said it was like 16v16, and you don't lose your items, now this is just me but I love big battles. Runescape on the other hand, well apart from the quests has some real fun people on it. Honestly I have not come accross an idiot in a good month, while in WoW if you run an instance with random people they will A. make fun of you becuase your a higher level or B. Make you worship them because they are higher leveled than you.

Just to make it better, people hate Runescape because it has bad graphics or you just grind like a mad man until all your skills are 99. While there is some truth in this, it's getting there that is the most fun. In WoW you will spend like a month to get the highest level character possible, then just move on to some other character. WoW on the other hand, sure it does have really good graphics but if all you care about in a game is graphics I'm going to have to say that you are an idiot. To me its not the graphics that makes the game, its the actual gameplay. Graphics are nice but are not nessecary.

Plus I doubt that there is any clan as cool as Sals in WoW, so that automatically makes Runescape the better if the two But ya, not sayin that I'm not curious about how WoW actually plays, but I'm gonna have to support Runescape on this one.

PS. Thank you for this topic, because this post was really fun to type!

PSS. Well as I was looking through some of the posts on the first page, I saw scoobywoohoo's second post. Me and my friend were having a debate about the exact same thinga few days ago about a totally different topic. It ended in him saying that and me saying, and I quote "Just because more people like something over the other thing, does not mean that it is better. It is your opinion, and you choose which is better." That probably was not an exact quote but hopefully you get the idea. Thank you and good night!

wow is absolutely impossible to play alone
so meh for wow for me

i don't want to join any guild/clan/whatever i only play when i feel like it
not when others feel like it

I think you just failed putting it onto a Runescape forum. Runescape for me, because the WoW fanboys make me want to die. But game wise I can't decide because I haven't played WoW but WoW just looks like some fancy game only playable on a super computer.

I think the outcome is pretty obvious on a runescape forum

There IS a reason why WoW is the worlds #1 paying MMORPG, but i prefer RuneScape

It's pretty stupid posting that kind of poll on a Runescape forum.. obviously the will will be Runescape as you posted it on a "Runescape Fan site"

I choose Runescape, because I prefer the Gameplay in Runescape to that of World of Warcraft. And I feel that Gameplay>Graphics, and the Graphical difference isn't even that big anymore now that we have HD

Oooh this ones a toughie, i won't go an say that one is better than the other, i will however say that both mmorpgs have their distinctive key qualities that i find awesome, WoW for it's mounts and easily accessible battlefield and PvPing functions, also its rich graphics, deep storyline and "team work" directive thats implemented through its faction based system, the alliance and horde, which ensures that everyone on each side is working towards a common goal, rather than just fighting amongst eachother which is typical in most non-faction based mmorpgs. And Runescape for it's friendly community, easy to access from anywhere java client, it's giant world and not too complex crafting systems such as cooking, smithing etc etc, and though it lacks in graphics compared to warcraft this works as even a cardboard box can run Runescape on full graphics, but to get the full experience of WoW and an edge on your opponents, you require a pretty hot off the market up to date computer, that of which not everyone has or can afford.

Both excellent mmorpgs and its not fair to say ones better than the other, in my opinion, the two best mmorpgs to ever see the light of day.

Runescape is better.

Cheaper, funner, easy to load and any computer can play it. I've tried WOW, it was a waste of time. nobody talks to you much, clans kick you out. Ect...

Wow is ok for a while, killing things and getting their loot but after a while you'd get bored. The 'skills' in wow are very limited you can only choose 2 of them and you have cooking, fishing and first aid, while in runescape you have all of them without having to choose. Speaking about choosing things, in wow you got the first choice what race, then what kind of person you want to be (mage, warrior, rogue, etc) and then you have what 'skills', that are a lot of choices and to be honest very irritating when you see that if you choose something else you'd be able to do that. While again in runescape the only thing that could hold you from doing things is levels and membership.

And one last thing: The quests in wow [s-word], you are a delivery boy that is constantly send out to kill 5 of those 100 of those get 3 of those, speak to that guy, etc. While in rs you got some more thinking to do...

Conclusion: Rs > wow

It used to be different maybe when wow had one more advantage over rs, graphics but with the HD update and the fact that if you play a game for the graphics you'd be better of seeing a movie this is gone.

WoW scares me, everything is so intense: the graphics, the people, the addiction, the price. Also my comp couldn't take it.

RS of course!

Seeing as this is Sal's Runescape Forum. Runescape FTW!

I play both, and I like them equally. I enjoy wow for the pvp and graphics, while RuneScape has better quests I believe.

~~Night

TBH, world of warcraft is much better than runescape, but its not worth the 15 bucks a month which makes runescape far much better but if it wasn't that much, i rather play that

i love doing quests in rs and the wow quest are terrible. every one of them is little more than a glorified fetch mission,

Exactly ^, I understand that you wanna know which one is better but still, you're going to have the bias towards RuneScape because YOU'RE ON A RUNESCAPE FANSITE.

The only reason I vote RuneScape is because it's cheaper, plus f2p wise, you don't have to pay, it's pretty much free for as long as you want to play. WoW doesn't offer that. Plus a 10 Day Trial doesn't seem long enough for me. xD

I think theyre equal IMO. It cost more well because,
1. Blizzard wants $$ for WoW,and hopefully not for Diablo 3..
2. Its a much more vast world than runescapes P2p.

I used to play WoW, but I instead started to play Runescape because of the community. No one in WoW talks. They're always too interested in getting the next level >.>

Just what happened to me, not necessarily true.

RuneScape

Why? Because I'm still trying to get proof from my friend (who spends his whole day playing WoW) that it is better, and the only proof is a 3 year old video that showed the old low detail pking with really bad music, then WoW PvP with dramatic adventurous music.

Then, I read... Redmonke's comparison for the newspaper, and I still thought RuneScape was better. Then, I created a trial account and wondered around. And there was fighting. And fighting. And fighting. And a fishing tutor. And fighting. Although... the Magic looked ownage...

Anyway, I can't say because I am obviously biased towards RuneScape, as a RuneScape player, on Sal's Realm of Runescape

And RuneScape is free

It is a bit silly to ask this on a Runescape Forum. Sure, there are a fair few WOW players on but they are unlikely to look in Runescape Discussion

I say Runescape, purely because I think Gameplay > Graphics, and the Graphics on Runescape are pretty spiffy now anyway

I was going to quote everyone who brought up cost and say

"WAAAAAHHHH MY MOMMY WONT PAY FOR WOW A MONTH"

but I realised my post would be too long.

Anyway, WoW is much better. WASD along with jump gives you a much appreciative look of the world and an easier method of travel than CLICKAN CLICKAN CLICKAN and if you want to type (which is WASDing may limit) just hit num lock for auto run.

The combat is based more on how many Lobsters you or the enemy has. And the trade skills are alot less grind than runescape. Level griding WoW might put people off, but if you quest/instance for levels, you cut out the grind. Where as the quick way to level any runescape skill is grinding.

Dood before me (althought someone might have chipped in since) said that it's all combat. Yes it is, but the combat isn't a catch all CLICKAN ATTACKAN like runescape. Each class has a different combat style, and for some, several combat styles. And it's learning them that's vital for the end game.

Boss tactics are vital on WoW, it was only the other week the first confirmed kill on the hard mode Ulduar boss. Even though the criteria to meet him in combat was trickey, people were still getting whiped because nobody had a tactic. Something you don't see on runescape because it's just clickan attacking eatan sword fishan.


Ofcourse on a Runescape website you'd get more people saying runescape, but alot of the comments are just fanboy logic D:

World of Warcraft is a very cool game indeed. The graphics tromp RuneScape, by far. I played it over at a friends house.
BUT:
RuneScape is coded in Java, not run on a game engine.
RuneScape is Free: With WoW, you have to buy the game, pay to create a character and pay every month.
RuneScape can be played in your browser (no downloading).
RuneScape has a larger community than WoW.
~Vincent

I feel dirty for replying to this thread

I have played both, and I can easily say Runescape is more fun. But it's all opinion.