Gonna throw in my 2 cents because I played both games and I have sided with WoW.
Gonna start with some pros and cons RS vs WoW
RS-pros
1. Free to those who decide to play without the extra benefits gives them some free leway until they are ready for the extra content $5 will offer.
2. They are allowed to server transfer as much as they want allowing them to see more people.
3. More options they can chose the player they want to be with a large selection of professions.
4. You can see more content playing by yourself.
5. More realistic in terms of the person you play.
RS-cons
1. All of which are stated in pros are limited.
2. The dependancy to level from quests is low and players are forced to kill monsters to level which gets boring if you stay in one place.
3. The worry of losing items makes player killing hard when your target will do ANYTHING to survive.
4. The game also forces a sense of solitude making it hard to create pacts for teamwork because players can easily turn on you.
5. Low Standards also apply to the players, the level of maturity found in the game is more common.
6. The gear is like a cookie cuter everyone will look the same eventually.
7. The graphics are too low.
8. There are players that choose to be Pures which they have trained in one combat art.
9. There are many races found in this game but you are allowed to play human.
10. When fighting you cannot perform abilities, except if you wield a [D] weapon or decide to use spells.
11. Inventory space is limited to 28 items and most items that should stack dont.
12. Travel is confined to walking or running if you do not wish to teleport or your teleports dont take you to the location you want.
13. Those who have fallen to scams are basically screwed because Jagex doesnt do much about it.
WoW-Pros
1. Player vs Player is found alot because one will not lose items meaning the player doesnt have to worry about dying but still the sense of survival will still be present making the fight more challenging for both players.
2. Organizations of friends can be made with "Guilds" there are many types and basically made up of people who share the same interests.
3. After paying for the game you are allowed 50 characters total across their realm selection with a 10 character max on 1 realm meaning it would take $250 worth of Paid RS accounts to match what WoW offers.
4. The Pures of this game are combinations of race and class 10 races (2 more in the future) 10 Classes each with their 3 talents provides a more unique player with the option to play in their style of choosing.
5. The vast selection of items with multiple stats allows a player to further set themselves apart.
6. Travel is split in the following catagories: Teleport (only by being a mage or getting one from a mage) Mounts ground and flying, and running.
7. Leveling professions is easy but the true challenge is getting the recipies to perform such skills are difficult to obtain.
8. Leveling is a combination of quests, killing monsters, and participating in pvp battlegrounds.
9. Those who have fallen to scams and hacking have hope for Blizzard will do something about it, as long as you have the necessary info your account will be restored to the way it was.
WoW-cons
1. Such a large game requires maintainance with means down time is often, however this is to prevent the quality of gameplay from dropping and also the date of downtime is set by a servey on the least played day.
2. To see further content you have to have a good sense of knowledge of the environment and also of your own player, you also have to ge in a hardcore raiding guild.
3. You are confined to stay in the realm you chose and most changes requre payment.
These are some of which are listed, I will admit I am a slight bit biasd on WoW because some of the cons drew me away from RS.
I tried to stay within the forum rules so if this gets deleted so be it.
EDIT: Also I was formeraly known here has Hunter15shadow RS account Hunter15ope
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