In its early days, the gameplay experience for the training of nearly every skill or the fighting of nearly every monster was little more than 'click on the thing and wait for x to happen', which made the core of the game open to www.mmobc.com anyone who could work a mouse. Advancing in any one of the 19 skills (upon 2004 release, currently 27) was often a simple task - but it was notoriously an extremely lengthy one.

For example, to advance the Fishing skill to its maximum level 99, a grand total of 13,034,431XP must be acquired - and considering catching a mid-tier type of fish would fetch around 90XP, just under 145,000 would need to be caught. This was grinding taken to an extreme level, Rocket League Prices the obsessive desire to level up one's skills was a staple of the playerbase - despite the enormous time sink. Indeed, skilling in RuneScape was nothing short of harsh self-punishment, but the sense of achievement when the level-up messages for Defence or Cooking or Woodcutting appeared was sublime, as was the gratification that came from finding a new, faster method of advancing skills.

RuneScape always found a way of making you want more of the monotony, no matter the social or mental health implication. It made you a prisoner - albeit one of your own device. Fans of the Civilisation series of games will be familiar with the notion of "Just one more turn", but for RuneScape players this was "Just one more inventory full of lobsters".