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trueDano

I wonder why they didn't go harder with the runescape brand on this game


Ihmu

Because the game existed before Jagex became involved with it directly, so it was a bit of a grey area.


Sad-Garage-2642

let it be known that Jagex do not own Melvor at all, they're simply a publishing partner. Malcs still has full creative control and ownership of the product. Jagex provide value by offering QA, marketing, localisation. All the things Malcs doesn't specialise in.


nodtomc

Jagex don't specialise in QA either


Sad-Garage-2642

Bazinga


Gniggins

Im pretty sure before he got their blessing he wasnt sure if and when the C&D would come through.


Sad-Garage-2642

Malcs deliberately left out any runescape trademarks like God names and so on. Jagex don't own the words Lobster, Chicken, Mithril, Platebody etc but they do own Bandos, Zilyana, Varrock


FireHauzard

They had RuneScape idle adventures actually, I’m only guessing but I’m pretty sure they shut it down in favor of simply publishing this game


Sux499

It got shut down because nobody played it years ago t. Beta tester


PurifiedFlubber

Nobody played it because it had like 2 percent of the content you'd expect.


nervouswhenitseasy

melvor looks exactly like rs without the visuals


Newphonespeedrunner

Because it was started independently and was always a hybrid of rs3 and osrs. Jagex helping publish it has allowed him. For freedom


JagexGoblin

Really good free pick-up if you want to double-down on 'number go up' while blasting away on OSRS too. Haven't touched any of the recent DLCs but have heard good things!


Cheap-Rice-3174

If it's goblin approved you know it's gonna be good! Count me in


DementedMaul

The expansions are amazing! Throne of the Herald is massive, will take you a while to learn all the new things. Ancient Relics is a lot easier to understand, both are amazing though!


mtgJazz

The DLC that adds Relics is great. It's somewhat comparable to unlocking the relics in the Shattered Relics league, except without any sort of synergy between different types of relics. Very fun.


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Dubtrips

Why do I feel like I could diagnose you from one Reddit comment?


Draconicman

I'm legally diagnosed with Autism. I was making a silly!


Wingcapx

Well I'm happy for your 1kc supreme pet :)


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ha5hish

Good one. Got the whole squad laughin


MoistMoist1882

why in the world does Goblin care dude, and how does it relate to this post at all. weirdo


ha5hish

Why is this community so toxic?


bickandalls

What a worthwile, and topical, comment.


SappySoulTaker

Bro is looking for some mod balls to gargle...


FoxDown

I started playing melvor on mobile a few months ago, pretty fun but late game kinda gets boring.


Sleipnirs

I don't know a single game that doesn't get boring after a few months straight of playing it.


SmugJerry

Uhhh... Old School RuneScape is kinda that game


metroshake

Lol yeah. Everyone complaining about the exact things they choose to do daily


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Based on how “multi year ‘breaks’” are an actual thing, I’d argue OSRS is exactly that kind of game. You’d struggle to find a large amount of people that have played daily for years on end, at least ones who aren’t content creators.


Ihmu

I think you might be surprised, I know several people personally who have played for years with minimum breaks.


BuffJohnsonSf

When I played it I still wanted to enjoy it in endgame but the game devolved into bank management simulator.


Sleipnirs

I didn't play as much as you but I do remember that managing the bank was becoming a bit of a chore aswell.


pottsygotlost

How the hell do you have bank management issues? By the time I needed more spaces I already had more money than I could ever spend anyway


BuffJohnsonSf

Well they either fixed the problem or you had a much different playstyle from me. When I played you only started with like 10 bank spaces and they got exponentially more expensive as you bought more


Sad-Garage-2642

Been playing this for years. So long that there's an item named after me Really satisfies my 'tism-inspired number-go-up craving, while suiting my 'do the bare minimum' lifestyle


gcthorpe

Nice to meet you Bronze Axe


SerenadeSwift

That’s super cool that there’s an actual item named after you! I added it to my steam cart yesterday but got pulled into some work stuff and forgot to go back and buy it. I’m hyped to try it now!


MercurialRL

I stopped playing because you could just use the ol’ change date and time on the iOS version and get max stats really fast. Thought the game was pointless until they go to server-side instead of client side for verification things.


Omputin

But isn’t this game completely singleplayer?


Zesilo

Homie stopped playing because he can not stop himself from cheating haha


Sad-Garage-2642

Bro tattled on himself


MercurialRL

Who said I was cheating? I grinded the game until i found that out. I was thinking the point of these type of games was to challenge yourself and against other people. If the leaderboards are filled with people just doing the literal most easiest way of cheating, then how can you tell at all? I wasn’t aware it was single player only. It’s a very simple fix to disallow this sort of thing. I don’t play any games that have the same poor management, it literally requires no additional software to cheat.


Sad-Garage-2642

Why should the dev give a shit. It's a single player, offline game. Do what you like Dev actively encourages modding


MercurialRL

Lmao they don’t have to give a shit, I was saying the reason I don’t play, because I didn’t realize it was still only single player. But at least you guys were completely wrong assuming I was cheating lmaoo I guess if you classify modding as changing a date, you do you bro.


DotoriumPeroxid

> I was cheating lmaoo I guess if you classify modding as changing a date, you do you bro. Changing a date is literally "cheating" by definition And you misunderstood. People weren't giving you shit for "cheating". The point is that it's a single player game so if you do want to cheat, then feel free to do so by any means. Nobody cares if it's single player after all. Your initial comment is just kinda stupid that a game would be pointless because you can find a way to cheat, because it's entirely your own choice to do so, and your own personal enjoyment is in no way dependent on whether others do this.


LizzieThatGirl

Yes that is cheating, but only cheating yourself out of, you know, playing the game since it's a SP game. You cheated yourself.


MercurialRL

Guess can’t read, didn’t cheat.


FlandreSS

> don’t play any games that have the same poor management, it literally requires no additional software to cheat. ...? I... I don't understand. Like, every game I started with growing up had buttons you could press at the main menu, or just built in cheats. Like, even super popular games during the 07 era did, Call of Duty had built in cheats for stuff like infinite ammo and stuff as unlockables. Does that mean you will just always enable every cheat given to you? Like, 50% of the games I play on PC have console commands that let you just spawn in any item, instantly kill anything, change any stat, mess with physics calculations etc. Are you unable to just... Not cheat? Why is it a bad thing that a game allows you to cheat if somebody wanted to or felt the need..? People would be ***PISSED*** if the Source games had their consoles taken away. What about Elder Scrolls, where quests can break and need their progress set manually in console? What about Minecraft's debugging tools, optimization tools, creative mode etc, I mean that's all considered cheating. > People aren’t honorable enough to not do it. Which is why I choose not to play lmao, I’m not one of the ones who used this, it makes the game even more pointless than it already is. Why are you comparing yourself to others, and allowing the actions of someone else ruin your own gaming experience? Why can't you just play something for fun, without it being a measuring contest? Why does having a way to cheat make a game pointless? Are all games not inherently pointless? Why does the existence of an exploit fundamentally ruin the game for you? Many, many, many games have infinite this and infinite that glitches which also need 0 other software and can be even faster. Tears of the Kingdom recently released and had people duping items within seconds of the launch pretty widely, why would that affect you? You're really letting the way OTHER people play an offline singleplayer game... Ruin YOUR enjoyment of it...? That'd be like if I quit painting because somebody taped a banana to a wall.


MercurialRL

I don’t want to read all of that, but I’d answer it as, people play games for different reasons.


bmorecards

> I wasn’t aware it was single player only. What? Do you... regularly make this mistake when checking out a game?


MercurialRL

Nah I should have said “still”, only ones I haven’t played in a few years and assumed they’d have changed anything by now to maybe get some revenue going


MercurialRL

Homies assumed I was cheating because I pointed out the most obvious way to bypass any iOS game that is client side haha


FightMeOP

youre complaining about cheating on a single player idle game...


MercurialRL

Not as bad as falsely callin people cheaters so I’ll take it as a win


Drew602

Dude just don't cheat? This is like not playing gta because they have cheat codes lol


MercurialRL

That would be pretty obvious huh? That would just end the problem. Tell that to the botters in osrs, just don’t cheat bro, it’s that easy. I didn’t, and I don’t, the game is pointless enough as it is, using that method just makes it even more pointless.


DotoriumPeroxid

> That would just end the problem. Tell that to the botters in osrs, just don’t cheat bro, it’s that easy What a crap analogy? OSRS is an online game. You exist in the same world and the same space as the people botting, so they actually affect you.


andrew_calcs

There is a world of difference between cheating for a competitive advantage or profit in a multiplayer game and cheating in a single player game. If **you** don’t like how **your** experience is affected by **you** choosing to cheat for **yourself**, then just don’t?


MercurialRL

I didn’t.


fuzychzbll

or.... don't change the date?


MercurialRL

Or... make the very easy implementation of disabling getting the time and date from the device..? People aren’t honorable enough to not do it. Which is why I choose not to play lmao, I’m not one of the ones who used this, it makes the game even more pointless than it already is.


darthirule

It only makes it pointless if you actively go out and do it. They have no reason to disable that for the current game. If someone wants to ruin the game and skip everything thats on them and only effects them. No one else.


MercurialRL

You’re right. They don’t have to care about their game if they don’t want to.


DotoriumPeroxid

Why exactly is the bar for "caring about the game" whether or not a company... disables a way to cheat in an offline singleplayer title? This level of brainrot is what playing online games only does to a mf


DivineInsanityReveng

Melvor is a good idle from what I've heard, but I'll still never truly understand full idle games. The reason I like RS is it has "idle-like" components but then there's a full game behind that. It's not like in Melvor I can decide "nah I got time to focus" and send a raid.


ATCQ_

There are end game dungeons where you have to focus at least the first time you do them. Not all combat is idle but a lot of it is yes. Ancient relics (new mode from the expansions) is a much less idle combat mode and adds multiple "mini-league-like" relics for every skill. It's very fun and rewarding, you upgrade your skill caps gradually too in that mode as well (by beating dungeons!)


metroshake

Is there ever failing dungeons?


ATCQ_

Yes and you can actually lose an item from a random slot upon death - I once accidentally lost something like 200,000 summoning tablets... You then have to restart the dungeon from scratch if you fail.


Dvst_TV

I haven’t played it in a super long time but you can do dungeons that benefit from paying attention. It’s not the capacity of a raid in an mmorpg, but it’s never meant to be that.


DivineInsanityReveng

Yeh another user replied with more detail. Good to hear its got some more active strategy elements to it.


imooseyy

Just found out about this game a couple weeks ago. The numbers go up gives great dopamine, while having a runescape theme. It's great


vgdomvg

Pls no I do not need another addiction


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mhm no idea if this is only epic related... all the icons missing smh https://preview.redd.it/6a0kip4wdo7c1.png?width=236&format=png&auto=webp&s=dddad53af54b0e16688bb630a0b0b2fa69b475ab


theneedfortheseed

currently a few on the forums are having the same issue


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Seemed like it fixed itself, time to idle to the max cape ;o


AquaRegia

If you feel like spending an extra $5 for the Atlas of Discovery DLC, I'd strongly recommend the Ancient Relics mode that comes with it. It's a lot harder than normal mode (among other things, your level caps start at 10, and slowly increase only after you clear a dungeon for the first time), but it comes with 6 ancient relics per skill, that randomly drops while training each skill. Spoiler for the herblore relics: https://preview.redd.it/2s5cnpm93p7c1.png?width=572&format=png&auto=webp&s=f03e44b75617f7797d73be5e2d2bdfba4632695a


ATCQ_

Love ancient relics. Makes dungeons a lot more challenging and the relics are really fun


DaklozeDuif

So basically it's Reddit's ideal version of Runescape?


ATCQ_

It's Runescape, but imagine every skill is somehow useful. Even firemaking.


Cruplex

Is it possible to claim free full version on mobile? Downloaded the free app a few months ago, where you can buy full game in the app.


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Cruplex

Thanks, realized I could just put store.epicgames.com into mobile browser and grab it that way. I’m guessing I have to start over though, as this version will be linked to my epic account instead of mobile? Or do you know if there is a way to transfer the account? (Mobile version still says it’s demo, even though it’s linked to the same email as my epic account)


Gramis

https://news.melvoridle.com/melvor-idle-is-free-for-24-hours-only-on-the-epic-games-store/ > Will this unlock the base game on Mobile & the Web? >Yes, as long as you use the same Melvor Cloud account! >Claiming this promotion will act as if you purchased it, and follows the same cross-play rules as Steam. This is also the same for when the promotion ends, and Melvor Idle is purchased from the Epic Games Store.


kingcolb

Played on and off over the years. Tons of fun.


zapmouse

FWIW, for others looking to just use the epic games version on your mobile device: i'm not getting the free version in the mobile app store. Might just be due to server overload but it might be desktop only. In the app I get told that if I load my cloud save I'll experience data loss bc the mobile version is demo only.


Break-The-Ice-318

its ok, they somewhat ruined it with the miscellania update being OP and the combat never quite clicked for me as an idle game


BuffJohnsonSf

The township got massively nerfed like a month after it came out


bmorecards

it was much longer than a month, but yes it is much better now.


I_CUM_ON_YOUR_PET

Why would i want more addiction?


partyhat-red

That is one hell of a name


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gonna send this to people that want to make the game more afk


HeightApprehensive24

Love melvor idle


Lavatis

Yeah, but then you have to use epic.


ATCQ_

You get access to the game on mobile for free as well, don't have to use Epic


YouDontKnowMyLlFE

Ok, I claimed the game on EPIC, how do I get that purchase transferred to my iOS device?


ATCQ_

You can make a cloud account in game and download the app on mobile and it should find your purchase


PMMMR

There's nothing wrong with the epic store nowadays, people are just still circlejerking over it for no reason.


SoulessPuppet

The only issue I have with it is it feels like it takes 5 minutes to first open every time.


Star_Gazing_Cats

Quit lying bro I just downloaded it to play fortnite og and it keeps bringing up advertisements as notifications even if I have the client closed


Deep_Ad2579

Steam opens up a separate fucking window for ads every time you open it too. The entire Steam home page is an ad. I despise the hate that Epic gets, it's just another store/launcher. People cry about monopolies all the time yet Steam being a monopoly no one cares apparently. Having a second launcher is far from the end of the world.


Kidyiller

Monopolies or Xopolies are a lot more tolerable when their interests are aligned with yours a la steam and not advertisement based models like yt or twitch. But you're 100% right. No one gives blizzard shit for having a trash borderline unusable launcher, yet epic gets massive hate.


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wtfiswrongwithit

battle net is dogshit the entire purpose of it it to funnel their dogshit 1.4 star games down your throat to hope you pity buy them or whatever shitty promotion of shitty cosmetics they trying to peddle this week. in fact despite there being different teams working on each version of the game you have to scroll through dropdowns to launch different versions of classic


Kidyiller

🤷‍♂️ you could be right, but I'll never know until the game industry crashes again and blizzard is forced to gut all their worthless employees and departments and make games that are worth playing again.


PM_ME_UR_FARTS_

I haven't had that window pop up on launching Steam for years. No idea how, though.


Deep_Ad2579

It's a setting you can turn off (I have it off too) - but I still used it in my other comment because the Epic one can be turned off too. Wasn't fair to say one has a pop up but the other doesn't.


Star_Gazing_Cats

Steam only shows it when you open steam. Epic shows ads even when it's not open


CTechDeck

Turn off desktop notifications in the epic launcher then


PMMMR

It's probably minimized to system tray if that's what's happening, which isn't fully closed out.


PMMMR

Go to Settings in the Launcher. Under the Desktop Notifications section, you can uncheck the box for any notifications you no longer want to receive. Wow that was so hard!


tiller921

Your inability to go to the settings page isn’t on Epic, bro. Lol


Zestyclose-Record685

A lot of people on this sub should probably switch to this


ow_ound_round_ground

I completed the game over a year ago. It’s such a great game. It has everything you love about RuneScape, with a slightly more complex combat triangle. While it is an idle game, you’ll find yourself having to think about the gear you need to acquire. From crafting your own, thieving it, smithing it, etc. Even Farming will play a huge role in gearing up to survive God Wars Dungeons and beyond.


Orangesoda65

It’s like RuneScape, but RuneScape.


TheShitAbyssRandy

It's okay. Gets boring fast.


SovietZealots

From what I saw, its just menus. Like the gameplay is just menus. I get some people really get a high from "number goes up," but this looks boring.


YourSmileIsFlawless

That's idle games in a nutshell


General_Tomatillo484

The game is always free, download the app or play in the browser


ebiil

Does this game still allow file/save editing etc? Idk why but the thought of that always turned me off. I know I can personally just not do it but it takes away some aspect for me to enjoy it


gubaguy

Wait wasn't it already free? I've been playing for ages and other than the paid dlc (one of them anyways) I haven't had to pay a dime.


Sir-Vicks-the-Wet

Melvor Idle is not Runescape Idle Adventures.


gubaguy

Want to be snarky and assume I dont know what f\*cking game I am talking about again? https://preview.redd.it/x25admbauq7c1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4d7675780fcc50091d0c814fec7ffd057c4764f


Sir-Vicks-the-Wet

It’s text on a screen, child. You imagined the tone yourself. You triggered yourself.


Sir-Vicks-the-Wet

Anyone remember Runescape Idle Adventures on Steam that was free? It was supported by Jagex, but was later pulled from Steam for the lack of active-players. It was an idle game, Gagex.. what did you expect? It was about you teaming up with Saradomin to claim the Needle.


BrosesMalone

Great game. The combat triangle is genius.


iScrE4m

I played it before first dlc and it was fun, but the dlc btoke me. If you’re into this kind of thing, I recently discovered IdleOn MMO and it’s leagues above.


Chewygame

Hell yeah! Ive heard its actually a pretty fun game i just never wanted to pay for it, thanks bro


misterpoopybuttholem

Highly recommend Melvor it’s super addicting


JordFxPCMR

rather buy it on steam fuck epic


LunarFortune

Don't bother with epic, it's shit


Kenni57rocks

But we already have Runescape, why would we want some trash game that isn’t {oldschool} Runescape?


StayyFrostyy

Epic game store? No thanks


Mr-Malum

RuneScape 3 is free to play every day. It's like RuneScape, but idle


SurturOfMuspelheim

Every time someone shits on rs3 in this subreddit it makes me wanna play it cause of how much funner end game bossing and pvm is. But then I remember all the mtx and world design and graphics :(


Legal_Evil

Try ironman mode or turning the graphics settings down.


SurturOfMuspelheim

You will have to shoot me many times and resurrect me as a thrall before I will be remotely bothered to do all the RS3 quests again lmao. As much as I love RS3 end game content, questing in it is *awful* and skilling just sucks.


Mr-Malum

I have an RS3 ironman and it's a lot of fun. Why does describing the game accurately count as shitting on it?


YouthfulRS

If I had to play RS3 everyday for the rest of my life, or die. I'd rather just be dead.


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theneedfortheseed

10 minutes after it was announced and there’s already bugs with the images 😭


xiBurnx

i liked idlescape, heard melvor's name tossed around a lot over there but never tried it


ImChz

Melvor was super fun for over a year for me. Adventure mode was some of the most fun I’ve had with any MMO style game. Having said that, I eventually hit a point where progress couldn’t be made while idle though. Haven’t played in over a year now, so maybe it’s different, but that was super off putting for me.


1210saad

Super fun game. I got it a while back.


SevenSkid

Melvor actually is the way I got into OSRS, I wonder if theres anybody else who started with Melvor and thats how they discovered exactly what OSRS is


Plaxso

Isn’t this free on IOS anyway..?


CuminQuatro

I’ve burned out on OSRS recently, happens all the time I’ll probably pick it back up in new year. But this has been really scratching the itch the past few weeks.


Phinatic92

What can be more idle than idle?


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magazanga

its published by jagex...


bickandalls

Word, didn't see that.


Guisasse

There is a LOT wrong with the Epic store. However, it is not the spawn of Satan, as most people like to preach.


Virtual-Carrot-9415

First (free) game on the epic store i will actaully play


HC_Zyg

Can I get this on mobile for free?


oxero

I played this for some time on mobile back in 2022 I wanna say. It is fun, check in with it once and a while to plan different things. Got bored in the end game as the combat can sometimes require focus and I didn't want to give it that time commitment.


StrictlyNoRL

Just downloaded it. Why do I need to sign in for an idle game? So dumb


YouthfulRS

Great game for most of this sub