Hi All,
just to let you know that RuneScape is #1 on this portal in the top 10! That’s very good! 
Contents and game play is very important in games…
/me fails to see the connection between those two statements.
I kid! We all love runescape!
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What I meant is that what ever the language/technologies used, what makes a game a success is the contents and game play more than the visuals. We have a live example here.
Yeah, I was jokingly implying that runescape has neither content nor gameplay.
Runescape is the best. you can find me flow259 and my friend molly926 on it. oh yeah :-*
Do u wanna be m m8 on RS
Well, I did volunteer for this topic 
of course it is its like the greatest online game ever if there is any game like it please tell me - conversekid9-
What I meant is that what ever the language/technologies used, what makes a game a success is the contents and game play more than the visuals. We have a live example here.
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http://www.dofus.com/en/images/Screen_06.jpg
a good example of this is Dofus Online a quite successfull niche-MMORPG in drumroll stand-alone flash!. you can sign up for a trial account if you like.
Someone I know recently got a job developing content for Runescape. I was impressed.
Runsescape is a great ambassador for Java.
I suspect that what makes it so good is that it is so easy to get working despite being so advanced (MMORPG and 3D) - as hard as java is to distribute they somehow they made it fool-proof (kid-proof). I works as an applet i think.
As a game it’s a bit simple. My little brothers love it - and I liked making a macro that ran overnight to train up and beat them!
Keith