don't forget it's economy. It's gone from training skills to high levels and getting good drops/good supplies and getting a good price for them, to killing the next uber boss 100+ times. (I know this is because bots destroyed the market for anything valuable. Still, Jagex's solution, and acting too late, have not helped at all)

Also the amount of players. Their world size was fine for their amount of players 3-4 years ago, but now there's not enough worlds, and not enough areas for stuff to get done as efficiently. So you have to grind longer for less money.

In fact, I find it hard to find anything that's the same. I can't go to my usual training spots without switching. Where I go to find monsters is different, what I use to kill them is different. My back up money making methods are either filled to the brim with people or unable to make close to the amount I need to make it worthwhile.

And you're getting downvoted because you're generalizing the graphics and combat are the only things that changed significantly, but the economy (which was the biggest interest to me and most of my friends in the game) is the biggest thing that has changed, and it has completely changed what is worthwhile to spend your time on in game. I don't want to fight bosses that require a big team, all 99 combat stats, and a few lucky chances. It'd be nice to have some, but not have them be pretty much the only thing worth striving to do.

I started playing in 2005, and have put over 100 days worth of play time just into my main account (i had a failed pker and a somewhat successful skiller as well). Jagex has been known to be bad with listening to the players (we had to wait years just to get free trade back, one of the key components to the game that had virtually no support and ruined PvP and dueling), and they haven't really changed. Their ideas sound good, but the way it affects the game is what makes the updates look half assed. Of course, I don't play anymore. They pushed the envelope too far for me to be able to play. My skills that I spent hours and hours working, and the majority of my money, seemed worthless. Seriously, I can't find much to do that could make me any gp, maybe about 250k an hour. Theirs also no incentive to go back (and is the biggest reason to not play), because anything I work on can be destroyed with one update. I had it happen with my merchanting and GE, I had it happen with slayer, I had it happen with hunter (although this was more indirect, people were pushed to red chins, and even with 99 hunter it slowed down my gp/hour significantly) I've just had it happen a lot. And now with so many money drain skills (construction/summoning/herblore/crafting, you get the idea) and the only way to make that massive amount of money that you need to level (herblore/crafting can be done w/o the investment obviously, but the opportunity cost would still be the same w/ all the extra time spent) is to beat Nexus, or the QBD, or the Corporal Beast (spellings?, I haven't actually been able to fight them, and they were released when i started drifting away).

Oh, and let's not forget dungeoneering. The skill that was just a really good minigame idea they had and just merged into a skill so that we have something else that we have to do. Seriously, it's not a fucking skill. Every time, they get the idea, and then just miss the mark.

From my favorite game to a game that I can't even jokingly play anymore.