I've been playing Runescape since I was 10 in 2008 and i'll tell you one thing, it's addictive, you can play it for hours and days on end but what makes it any different from any other MMO?

Pros:

- You can play entirely FTP like i have for the majority of my time playing.

- Every combat system is inter-changeable, wanna play a mage one day and ranged the next? well you can absolutely 100% do that.

- Hours of quests and content to keep you enticed for a very long time.

- A wide array of skills which intertwine nicely with each other including Attack, Strength, Defense which are Melee damage stats, Ranged which is for Ranged stats (that's archery), Prayer which will help you in PVP or PVE situations, Magic, Constitution, Crafting, Mining, Smithing, Fishing, Cooking, Firemaking, Woodcutting, Runecrafting, Dungeoneering & Fletching.

Need some food for your quest or some PVP? just get some fishing and cooking in, cook up some delicious lobster.

Don't have a stove nearby? just use your Tinder and make a fire.

Need some runes for your mage spells? all you need is some Runecrafting.

- Minigames (who doesn't love minigames, my personal favourite is the clan wars where clans battle against each other in an arena).

- Customisation.

- Multiple zones throughout the entire map that players can play through at any time with Teleports that anyone can use between them which makes it easier for players to travel and not get lost.

- Old School Runescape: if you ever get bored of the current iteration of the game and you wanna go back in time and play the old version, you can, whenever you want. (not on steam). (or you can just play with Legacy mode enabled and play the game just like the good old days)

Cons:

- Name changing is locked behind Membership.

- some skills are locked behind Membership including Agility, Herblore, Thieving, Slayer, Farming, Construction (build your own house Sim), Hunter, Summoning, Divination & Invention.

- The grind to level 99 for skills can be very exhausting and time consuming and can take literally days or weeks to level which has caused some players to even use bots to attempt to reach their goal.

As you can see most of my issues with Runescape is the membership system but even that you can buy with Bonds in the game which creates a free system to allow players to play on Members accounts for entirely free.

I highly recommend this game and OSRS, I've put so many hours of my life into both and I think it's a very enjoyable game.