My experience of Runescape in 2006 was mainly this: mill for hours, buy some shiny new gear, smash computer keyboard upon realising my combat level wasn't enough to equip it, grind combat degrees, equip gear, get killed in the RuneScape gold, lose shiny new equipment, replicate.
Every few months I'd decide it was time to start a new accounts, inspired by some specialist build I'd seen or a inexplicable urge to live an easy life and become some kind of fabled hermit. Honestly, 12-year-old me believed that would be a fun thing to do.
Initially you might sulk and long for your dog that was, but soon enough you begin to notice the pet is gorgeous when compared with its haggard predecessor. It will all sorts of new tricks, it has character and charm, heaps of endgame content and does not need to be fed or walked often.
Where Runescape used to involve offering buy OSRS gold up one's hands to hours, or even days, of grinding for piecemeal progress, now it hands out level raises with a regularity that's difficult to stomach if you can remember sinking 20 hours of constant play into acquiring just half of the XP you want to level up.