I’m currently playing through Leagues again on a second account in order to play alongside my wife, who is essentially your definition of the average, casual midgame player. It’s no secret that everyone generally shares the opinion of “questing in Leagues sucks”, however this experience has made me realize two things that I think make it genuinely detrimental to the game experience for these types of casual players: 1) You’re essentially spoiling a whole storyline by throwing people straight toward the end of a questline. In this particular case, she hasn’t done A Taste of Hope and is being sent straight into Sins of the Father without any of the prior story context. 2) These are, once again, casual players; they are absolutely not going to want to have to then work through this content a second time in the main game For veteran players like you and I, having to run through Sins of the Father is annoying because we’ve already done it and it’s just a 45 minute nuisance derailing us from our Leagues experience. In her case though, she is currently on day 3 of spending her daily one hour of active playtime trying to complete SotF instead of actually engaging with all of the fun content Leagues has to offer. I cannot imagine a world where she then returns to the main game and decides to complete A Taste of Hope, followed by the repeated entirety of SotF any time soon, which is really unfortunate. As someone who really truly loves quests in OSRS and consider them to be one of the best parts of the game, I think this is such a shame. The Myreque questline in particular is really awesome, and I wish she’d been able to enjoy and experience it properly. And yet people like her likely represent a hidden majority of the playerbase, which is easy to forget if you’re like me and the people you interact with in-game are mostly people who live and breathe OSRS. Hell, if you’re this far into reading a several paragraph long text post to the 2007scape subreddit, you likely aren’t part of this casual playerbase either. TL;DR
- Leagues questing makes the Leagues experience worse for veteran players, but also makes the main game experience worse for your average, casual players, which is very unfortunate submitted by /u/Brvcifer
Originally posted by u/Brvcifer on r/2007scape