But as an adult, it's like having an OSRS Gold extra job. In a good way I believe. However, I'll still be on the couch in front of the television and on the laptop I've just used to spend eight hours at my job. I'll be grinding at my magic levels due to the fact that I've decided that my character is a cool wizard. The next day maybe I'd like to realize my childhood goal of getting the complete set of black armor, so now I'm a knight, think.

Lead designer of RuneScape Dave Osborne, alluded to this when I asked him about the continued popularity of the game during its 20th anniversary. "There don't exist any courses to pick from There are no walls that divide players.

It's not a game that's locked off from a certain player type," he told me in an earlier interview. "Everyone is a participant in RuneScape has the ability to play any game in its world. Everyone is aware of your accomplishment because they're likely to be aiming for it as well."

And that's it: when one first arrives in Lumbridge, all the high-level players could be you one day. It's intoxicating. "More than other games I've ever played the character is me - it's a culmination of my achievements in RuneScape and is extremely valuable to the players."

Many games try to take over your life, but RuneScape is the most transparent about it. The appeal isn't the quests or lore. When people talk about the win-state it's about getting all their stats to level 99. There's no way to think of getting all the settlements from Fallout 4 to be the ultimate goal. Instead, it's about the story, the journey. But here, the numbers are what it's all about. They're all there has to be.

RuneScape could be whatever you wish it to be. It's fitted into my life in the same way that it was when I was seven but in a totally different way. If you're a fan back in the 2000s, I would strongly recommend going to Old School - just be prepared for a lot of conflicting emotions.

On the surface, RuneScape The First 20 years is the perfect holiday present for the 2000s-era kid in your life. Full of nostalgia, it's difficult to browse the pages without wanting to open Old School RuneScape. But as you read it's a very bittersweet story because it was lightning in a bottle, and won't likely to happen ever again, certainly not on Buy RuneScape Gold the same scale.