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Number 3: Record
breaking
"RuneScape"
currently has players in more than 150 countries. In 2008, Guinness World
Records crowned the game with the title of "World's Most Popular Free
MMORPG," but this isn't the only world record that "RuneScape"
has won. The game also holds the Guinness World Record for the most updated
game, as well.
With content
releases nearly every week, the game is constantly changing and evolving, meaning
that there is always a new adventure every time players login to the game. What's
more, the number of minutes "RuneScape" players has invested in the
game has also been calculated: more than 443 billion, to date.
Number 4: RuneScape
players love to lol
Hundreds of
thousands of "RuneScape" players would login every day just to chat
and hang out with their friends. A recent analysis of the chat in
"RuneScape" showed that the most popular word spoken within the game
was LOL (which means "laugh out loud"), with a staggering 6,048,000
"lols" per week, perhaps suggesting "RuneScape" players on
the whole are an exceptionally happy bunch.
Speaking of
chatting, instead of starring offensive words out, the chat filter originally
turned any offensive language into the word "cabbage" automatically.
This was because the Gower brothers hated cabbages so much that they felt that
they were just as bad as the word they were hiding. Although this has now been
changed, you can't miss the subtle cabbage references hidden around the game.
Number 5: RuneScape
has penguins with a plan
When the game was
first launched, one of the original quests players encountered
asked you to go to a farm and shear sheep. In order to give a reason why the
farmer couldn't just do it for himself, "The Thing" was created -
something so scary a farmer wouldn't dare go at the sheep-shearing task alone.
At the time, the developers had no idea what this could be and it wasn't until
a number of years later that "The Thing" took form in the shape of
penguins dressed as sheep. What exactly the penguins were up to was still a
matter of debate both among the game's developers and the wider community.
The penguin
situation wasn't fully explained until 2007, which revealed the penguin's
diabolical plan to take over Gielinor, the world that "RuneScape" is
set in.