History YMMV / RuneScape

** [[ThatOneBoss That One Puzzle]]: Dear whoever made the puzzle in Elemental Workshop Three: ''fuck you''.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: In December 2010, Jagex put up [[http://runescape.com/wilderness a vote to bring back free trade and the old wilderness]]. The response from the players was [[{{Understatement}} enthusiastic]]. In April 2011, Jagex announced that on death, you would keep your three most valuable items ''as determined by market value'' (previously it was your three most valuable as determined by alchemy value, a totally arbitrary amount. Partyhats, some of the rarest and expensive items in the game, therefore were never kept on death).

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: In December 2010, Jagex put up [[http://runescape.com/wilderness a vote to bring back free trade and the old wilderness]]. The response from the players was [[{{Understatement}} enthusiastic]].

** {{Lampshaded}} once when Jagex sold T-shirts with "Worst update ever" written on them.

* WasteOfTimeStory: It's common to find players with this attitude, clicking rapidly through all the dialogue in quests and consulting a FanSite {{Walkthrough}} instead so they can get the rewards as quickly as possible without bothering with the storyline.

** '''Every''' update gets this reaction from at least one section of the BrokenBase.

* AudienceShift: The demographic grew older with the game, resulting quest storylines to be more mature, deaths more graphic and eventually profanity filter was made optional.

* {{Scrub}}: Lots of them. Use anything to keep yourself from dying easily and you will, at some point, be called a "defense noob," "prayer noob," "food noob," etc.

* SomeDexterityRequired: In the early days of Runescape, things including, but not limited to mining, woodcutting and smithing required much more clicking than they do in these days.

** Loads of these now exist in Dungoneering. [[BadassBookworm Lexicus Runewright]] is very good at [[OneHitKO Oneshotting anyone who's never seen him before]], And Stomp...See LuckBasedMission.
** Another Dungeoneering boss, Shadow-forger Ihlakhizan. It can kill a player with maximum HP with a single attack by splashing acid on them, since the puddles spread out and the damage from each puddle stacks if multiple ones land where you are standing. His special attack alone will reduce your combat stats by a ton if it connects, as well as most likely killing you instantly. The only way to dodge this is to hide behind the pillars he hangs from, but if you stay there too long, the shadows will literally tear you apart. You only get a few seconds to get behind the pillars as well, so if you walk into the boss room just as he uses his special, you can expect to have to walk back all over again. Did I mention none of these attacks can be blocked by Prayer?

** Nomad. The custodian of a minigame as a fight, shouldn't be hard, right? Well, he's been gathering the souls of everyone who's died there for a year, and has harnessed their power for himself. He will freeze you, hit you to the literal maximum your body can withstand without disintegrating, summon land mines in a circle around you, and call up clones that fight at 100% power. What's that, you think you're going to win? He heals himself once you get him to a quarter of his health, and if you do it again he'll knock off the nonsense and just smack you around faster than you can blink. Your reward is a solid red or blue cape. Enjoy.

*** A solid red or blue cape with the biggest prayer bonus of any item in the game.
*** Plus a lot of xp. Just saying.

** Or a "safer", which is basically eating food when you're not at, say, 2 HP. Um, excuse me for not being ''completely insane''!
** If you stick to the walls during the Fist of Guthix game, you '''will''' be called a n00b.
** More crazy is you will be called a hider noob if you hide in a game that's basically ''Hide and Seek!''
* SnarkBait: The game is considered the aforementioned laughing stock of [=MMORPGs=], to a rather unimaginable extent.
** Diehard Runescapians tend to retaliate by mocking the originality of, say, World of Warcraft.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The 12-10-07 updates.
** '''Every''' update gets this reaction from at least one section of the BrokenBase.
** This is because some of them really are [[ViewersAreMorons Idiots.]]
** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] once when Jagex sold T-shirts with "Worst update ever" written on them.

* SnarkBait: The game is considered the aforementioned laughing stock of MMORPGs, to a rather unimaginable extent.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: Jagex has now put up [[http://runescape.com/wilderness a vote to bring back free trade and the old wilderness]].

** [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] once when Jagex start selling T-shirts with "Worst update ever" written on them.

** This is because some of them really are [[ViewersAreMorons Idiots.]]