How people get addicted to Runescape

How people get addicted to Runescape, what happens to them and what someone will do once they become addicted to Runescape to play Runescape...

Some people get addicted to Runescape, then will do anything to level up their runescape accounts.  This is how the process goes: You start playing Runescape and its really fun, your a level 3 or 4 and you have pretty bad levels but your having fun, which is what the game is about.

But then comes the greed.  You see players with shiny amour and lots of runescape gold, with levels way higher than you.  And you suddenly want to get all that cool stuff!  So you go and spend hours on end each day mining to or woodcutting to get that sort of money.

After days and days you earn your first 10k, and your so happy!  You go to the grand exchange and buy expensive amour only to find you can't wear it at level 3.  So you go to the cow paddock and start the long haul of training to get your combat level up.

After a while it gets boring, but you have found out all the cool stuff members can do, so you go and beg your parents to get membership, they may disagree but you keep trying and trying until you get it somehow.

The Second Stage - Membership
Membership is so great!  You can pickpocket, you have double the map, you can go into members worlds, you can have 200 people on your friends list, its all fun again. For about three to five months, then your back to slaving away mining or woodcutting, trying to make two pennies to rub together to buy all the cool members stuff.

Thats how Jagex reel you in, the sole purpose of the free world is so you get a bite of it, then you find out what members is like, so you buy it. Then your hooked!  A good way to not get addicted is this: if your not having fun playing, then stop playing.

Then, before they know it they will do anything to level up their account.  And doing to manually is both boring and time consuming.  So quite a lot of people may download a macron to get their levels up for them.  Though this puts the account in danger as Jagex can detect any macron so your account can be banned forever!

The other option for fast leveling up is to pay a power leveling site to do it for you.  This can cost up to hundreds of dollars but some addicted people will pay the price for a high leveled account.

The Truth Behind Power Leveling Services
Power Leveling is where you pay someone to runescape power leveling your account, getting its levels up fast.  But its not the people who own the power leveling websites that are training up your account, its done in sweatshops in China! (As well as other overseas places)
So, instead of making plastic junk for the first world countries they level up people's runescape accounts, which is much worse.  Its a game and its meant to be ENJOYED by people, not played by someone in China for 2? an hour!

The reason that people in Chinese sweatshops do the power leveling is because its very cheap.  The people that own these power leveling websites don't want to spend 14 hours a day on Runescape so the cheap and easy option is Chinese labour.

I chatted online with a staff member of a power leveling site and they said that they don't do the runescape power leveling and its done overseas.  (There a some other articles on the internet that say the same thing as this)

So Runescape can be fun if you don't let yourself be taken over by it.  Remember, if your not enjoying it: Stop playing it!