Are the good days coming back?

The worlds are offline

Wildy PK parties, item scamming, dragon being one of the best armours in the game... This is what 2006scape offers. If you played Runescape (2) in the early days like 2003+ you probably, or probably not I guess, remember it as a game you could actually respect. Something fun and challenging with a sometimes rough, pixel eat pixel world of things like item scamming and Wildy luring.

       2006scape is an exact replica-in-progress of Jagex's Runescape, but captured in the year 2006 at the height of the game's success and enjoyability. 2006scape offers players a portal to the good 'ol days and all the features it did and didn't include. Thank god for no trade limit of Grand Exchange

       Now, I haven't had much time to play it myself, being busy with other games, school and work. However, I can say that as of a couple days ago the game was up and running with just 2 worlds online and only a couple hundred players. If you were a new account it would spawn you in Castle Wars (as the game is not technically finished yet) and you would start as the basic bald guy with a goatee and green pants. All worlds are labeled as "free" but they are really members worlds. They can't charge you a membership fee, now can they? The worlds are occasionally online, but considering the game is in stabilization test mode means that they aren't always online. So if the game is down, just check back later when they boot their servers back up. Since it's a tough kind of thing to get up and running, you might just want to check back every few weeks to see the progress, if you really want to play.

      Unfortunately there's a bit of a downside. Players that had donated to the site via PayPal before the stabilization test were gifted with a special tool that would allow them to spawn any item in the game. I'm not sure how long they can utilize this, or how many spawns they get, but it can be considered both fair and unfair. It would help get trade going, and they did donate their own cash to play a game that would otherwise be free. Either way, 2006scape might be worth checking out if you aren't ashamed to admit you used to play Runescape.