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Manga, on 14 April 2013 - 02:28 PM, said:
Nah, the community was laughed at before the GE. The date that people consider the game's community to start to degrade was as early as 2004-2005 when the game was heavily featured on Miniclip. It got noticeably bad back in 2006 though. The GE did ruin player relationships, and I really agree with most of your thoughts on the GE. I however disagree with your ideas that 2007 was the prime of the game.
I agree with this. When skill capes came out there was a noticeable change that brought out the "no xp waste" crowd, many (not all) of which are bleeps, in my opinion. Also, it's not really a matter of x-year-is-when-the-community-went-to-crap, it is that we aged. Most of us started playing when we were young, we didn't really have any malice then. As people got older they started to think more about themselves and less about others. One of my complaints with OSRS servers was that it wouldn't bring the game back to its prime, since the same community would just be transferred over, and that it would only detract and split the community even worse than it already was. My 2 cents, at least.
