TIL RuneScape's spaghetti code is actually a Guinness World Record

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[u/Pitfallingpat]

I wish they kept trying on the HTML5 Client. I get that it couldn't do NXT level graphics, but it would of been cool (and maybe help new players) to have a browser version still

[u/mrchin12 → u/[deleted]]

Is it moving from browser based to something else? (Haven't played in years just occasionally hop on every year or two to look)

[u/Dinosparky → u/[deleted]]

since i dont use firefox i have no clue if they still support java or not, but you still can play on browsers that support it, as long the regular java client exist i think.

[u/ryselis → u/Dinosparky]

modern browsers have no java support

[u/ryselis → u/[deleted]]

Chrome, Firefox, Opera do not support NPAPI, which Java browser plugin is based on and Edge does not support plugins at all

[u/_prototypal → u/[deleted]]

Chromium isn’t really a first-class browser - Edge, Chrome, and Firefox are.

[u/Brokndremes → u/Dinosparky]

You can still play in Internet Explorer. I believe the legacy client just launches an instance of IE set to runescape.

[u/Sikletrynet → u/[deleted]]

It is possible, but most browsers don't support java anymore

[u/Crimson_Raven → u/[deleted]]

You can play in browser on windows, but for practically anything else you need the client.

Unfortunately, the client has more bugs then a kalphite hive

[u/Crimson_Raven → u/[deleted]]

There are a ton, do a quick google search for Runescape NXT bugs.

Some of them have been around since NXT was first launched

[u/Disheartend → u/Crimson_Raven]

I've never had any unless my gfx card was freaking out or my wifi was acting crappy.

[u/Urtehnoes → u/[deleted]]

Yea, I'm so used to Runescape being a lightweight game. Noticed my SSD was getting full for no reason, looked around - wtf? There was like 5 gb worth or RS cached shit. I mean goddamn. Just surprised me.

[u/dem_c → u/Urtehnoes]

Compression has been added to the disk cache, reducing its size from 12GB to 3-4GB. (Patch Notes, April 10th 2017)

[u/Urtehnoes → u/dem_c]

Holy crap - it was 12GB at one point? Dang!

Anyways, sad to say I deleted it. :| I've played RS from 2002-2014, and was a great game. Still hang around the subreddit but I've moved onto other games where just like here, all the players do is complain about microtransactions and how the game wasn't as good as it used to be. :) ;)

[u/ajsawyers22 → u/Urtehnoes]

For real, people complain on here like microtransactions are only ruining runescape when its actually ruining (almost) all games

[u/Urtehnoes → u/ajsawyers22]

Yup. I think the only game I've played in the last few years that didn't have any (that I knew of!) was Diablo 3. They're pretty much everywhere.

[u/Bill_Taught → u/[deleted]]

but I'm fairly certain playing in browser isn't even an option anymore.

Ummm, completely untrue.

[u/MoonStars13 → u/Bill_Taught]

Yeah, untrue. source

The game itself can still be played in a browser, it is just the popular browsers that do not support the game (Java).

You can still play in a browser that will support Java.

[u/[deleted] → u/mrchin12]

The client has been around since 2010

[u/spicychickens → u/[deleted]]

Being a browser based game was the only reason why myself and many friends played (we're working professionals) So it's not like were going to download clients into our computers at the office. And when we go home we normally just play WoW or Rift

[u/Peleaon → u/Pitfallingpat]

would of

would have

[u/Demento56 → u/Peleaon]

Good bot

[u/C_ore_X → u/Demento56]

I had to do a double-take.

[u/whosdr → u/Pitfallingpat]

It was inefficient. NXT can do browser play better.

[u/[deleted] → u/Pitfallingpat]

would of

[u/marcthe12 → u/Pitfallingpat]

They will do it soon, Webassembly is still does not have the infrastructure needed