Have you ever tried to quit runescape?

@velah1 (102)
India
August 12, 2008 2:00am CST
Hey, I tried to quit runescape twice now, mainly because my grades were being affected and my family was getting angry at me for spending too much time on RS. The first time I 'quit', I was called back to the game by a real-life friend of mine. I was a lvl 26 at that time and was training mining. I could only manage to keep away from www.runescape.com for about a week. Not enough will power, i guess :/ The second time, I abruptly 'quit' it. I was a lvl 58 then and was killing hill giants. Suddenly I thought, why all this effort and waste of time. It's not gonna benefit me in my real life anyways. I managed not to play RS for full 2 months(yikes!). But I commited a mistake and forgot to delete the RSS feed which informed me of RS updates. So I came back on RS after the Fist of Guthix was introduced and am playing it to date. No regrets though. Well, that's my boring story. What about you ppl? Have you tried to quit RS? If yes, then why? And how did you manage to not succumb to it again?
5 responses
@8bitHero (20)
15 Aug 08
I've quit like 3 times lol... for like 7 - 8 months once... I've played on and off for years and it's usually my real life friend who gets me back into it. You just have to get the balance right... sometimes other things interest me much ore which make me effectivley "quit" even though I didn't actually say... i'm not going to play again. I'm playing it now again though and I'm enjoying it at the mo:P
@velah1 (102)
• India
16 Aug 08
Thanx for replying. Yea, real life friends are the culprits! :P :P . what level are you? f2p or p2p?
16 Aug 08
been playing for ages lol currently level 102 on P2P. If I wernt a member I wouldve quit years ago i reckon... it really extends the life of the game a lot. It's definatley worth the £3 a month or whatever it is. :)
@ThisBeIt (22)
• United States
15 Aug 08
About a year ago I stopped playing, just because I got bored. I recently came back to it, and was surprised to see all the stuff they changed. I've been playing pretty strongly for the last week or so. It's kind of addictive, but I like it.
@velah1 (102)
• India
15 Aug 08
thankx for the reply. well, your story is a bit similar to mine- got lured by new updates. but you quit it for one whole year, thats quite an achievement. congrats! now get addicted again :P
• United States
14 Aug 08
I'm not a member so it gets boring after a while. I'm a level 52 also killing hill giants. But I mine and get about 100k a day. But they are adding some more stuff to Runescape so F2P won't get bored.
@velah1 (102)
• India
14 Aug 08
thanx for your response. Jagex sure is trying to keep f2ps happy. The RC guild, Fist of Guthix, HD Display et al.
• United States
21 Aug 08
I started playing around 3 years ago, but didn't really start to get serious at all until two years ago. I played until the end of last summer alot, but then I sort of just stopped playing. I wouldn't say I quit, but I just sort of only get on if theres a new update that looks interesting. So I've never really quit, persay, but I don't really play either.
• United States
20 Aug 08
I tried quitting runescape before and i couldnt do it. I then came back and played for awhile then slowly stopped playing so yeah. I havent successfully quit "Runescape" yet but i will eventually get tired of it. I am level 115, named, Dukes16. Look me up!