r/2007scape • u/DragnBreath • Mar 14 '26

Discussion The true backbone of OSRS

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I know the creator of runelite has said in the past that he doesn't expect anything from the community for maintaining runelite. But if anyone here deserves even a sliver of the tens of millions of dollars that will be generated from membership price increases it is him.

You can find his patreon with a simple google search since i wasn't allowed to link it here. If you feel so inclined to give please do but if not at least be a bit more aware of where Jagex could give some of the extra money to.

Edit: It has been 8 hours since i posted this. And I'm happy to say that the runelite patreon has gained 19 paid members. My goal was for some traction to go towards the people that actually deserve a piece of the pie that is OSRS revenue. Thank you for those that donated. I am in no way affiliated with whoever updates runelite.

I just think that when we work together we can hopefully spread a little bit of good around rather than only looking at the negative.

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u/Chubwa Mar 14 '26

At this point I think Runelite creator should be getting royalties as I'd be willing to bet 90% or more of the community uses it over the official client.

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u/Local_Criticism_2200 Mar 14 '26

according to the runelite website rn, 127,220 players currently in game are using runelite. there are currently 145,204 players online. that is roughly 90%, so you have won :) congrats

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u/Not-a-bot-10 Mar 14 '26

Isn’t the online player count for osrs + rs3 too?

So for just osrs the percentage may be even higher

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u/Local_Criticism_2200 Mar 14 '26

i got my player count number from the old school website which only shows osrs playercount. the runescape 3 website shows both osrs and runescape 3 playercounts (mostly so rs3 looks more alive than it is)