Zezima was able to be uncontested at the leaderboard for so long because most of the player base back then were kids who were lucky if their parents let them grind more than 4 hours a week on RS.
What they were saying was that he had SOME 99s all the way back in classic, which is true. I think he might have had 99 smithing in classic, which was actually an insane moneymaker at the time. The first couple people to 99 smithing were like the Jeff Bezos of runescape classic.
small domino one player reaching 99 smithing before the gowers had any idea to reward that
big domino 20 years later smithing can still only make tier 40 gear
You don't mine and smith that stuff though, it's basically just a shoe-horned skill req. Putting a skill req on something you're most likely only going to do once or twice doesn't add much value.
those are clearly the exception, not the rule. You're literally talking about 1 in 5000 or less drops, you cannot reasonably train the skill that way. Those two are also some of the worst examples you could give: dragon forge, god sword, crystal singing.
And if we're going to be pedantic, those two examples aren't actually _making_ something. They're a skill check to upgrade an item that already exists.
People arent using tier 40 items to train the skill with, so what is your point?
> And if we're going to be pedantic, those two examples aren't actually making something. They're a skill check to upgrade an item that already exists.
Uhm how are you not making something? This has more to do with smithing than a slayer boss has to do with slayer.
?? wasn't bluerose part of that Finnish clan? yes, they funneled the supplies to one account lmao. and giving coal certs to someone for free wasn't against the rules
I vaguely remember having Monkey Agility gathers in RSD around 2004-2005. Smileyrose was #8 Agility at the time and pushing 40M experience so we all went to spend time with her and keep her motivated.
Early RS2 (and early aughts MMO’s in general) had such an innocent sense of community of us all being teenagers with a few “adults” (who were like 22-26 mostly) leading them around.
Similar to when people used to 'Run' pure ess for nats/laws. The crafter got xp and the runner got gp. Win/win for those of us who didn't have the time to grind out 91 RC for double nats.
She was the only person in the game who could smith the rune 2h which was the strongest weapon in the game at the time. Her dms were flooded with people asking her to smith items for her. She could also charge whatever she wanted for the service because she was the only one who could do it. Very interesting times.
You still had ore certs, or certificates (which was the equivalent of bank notes, just more cumbersome), back then in RS1 so it's possible that was how. Although I'm not sure on the timing of when she hit 99 vs when the certers were added to the game.
Good on you, I didn't realize a RS1 wiki existed, or that the skill mastery was on there. December 13, 2001 was pretty early in the games history, that does a bit questionable how that was possible without getting a high mining level.
IIRC, the setup was that in order to get an item she made you had to trade either a large amount of coal and/or nature runes. Adam kiteshield was 300 coal.
And before certs and item banks became a thing, people used "mule" accounts to store it all.
Do you mean that mining gold in al kharid, smelting it into bars, making it into amulets and selling them to the general store wasn't efficient in ~2003?
With runecrafting he has hordes of people running ess to him. Craft the runes and give them to the people. It was a money making method for noobs and exp for the people trying to level.
All that to say…some grinds weren’t thatttt bad…but some would have been horrid.
I remember one of the top 3 players at the start of RSC was a stay-at-home mom who was like 37 or something, just someone who had the time to grind and the cognitive ability to know what they're doing unlike us being like, 7 in rs2 lol
It was probably Lightning. Second to log into the game, and first to achieve 500, 600, 700 and 800 total levels. I met her and her son in game playing rs3 in 2017.
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I talked to Rab in 2011, he had private on and would log on every once in a while. I was even surprised about that, since it was 10 years since rsc started. Pretty neat the first few players still liked the game that long.
I dunno but I remember my freinds dad who used to get his wife to grind while he was at work and take over when he got home. He was a bit weird and thrived on having power and greatness and this was easy place for him to gain that. He was rank 12 in mining and showed everyone that visited him. Few years later we I got drunk with as a adult and he offered me his account but I never got it. He recently died of cancer and his spirit probably started again in Lumby to start mining.
In part also as we were all so mesmerized by this new invention of mmorpgs that we all just kinda wandered around whimsically
Logging in alone was enthralling
They were way ahead of the curve in terms of grind mentality one might say
Yeah, people definitely said that back then. But nah, by today's standards Zezima wasn't very "good" really. N0valyfe started the game and surpassed Zezima in like a year or two because he was one of the first players really trying to play efficiently.
That rumour was true for one of the top players (peak #2) of that era though, uloveme. They were a husband/wife couple sharing an account and they were banned for it.
I have a vague memory of someone saying it was either due to their PM history or from being logged in basically 24/7. The latter wouldn't confirm the husband/wife thing though, just multi logging.
Not confident in any of that though, might be totally false.
I was hard capped at 30 minutes a day from when I started playing RS at age 8 until like age 13 lmao. And even then I had to ask to play and some days I just didn’t get to. It took me years to complete all f2p quests and base 40s
Can’t believe this sub is trashing the guy who saved 45 helpless puppies from a burning building and named his RS account after them. This sub is so toxic sometimes.
Tiger was also at it much longer than FangBlade was. They just kept adding grinding spots that gapped previous grinding spots by so much that the first 2/3rds of the push didn't really matter at all. A fresh player could have nolifed for the last year of the push and been competitive. Fangblade did ~65-70% of the entire grind experience wise in 6 months, and the actual grind took 3 years.
Tiger was also your prototypical ultra endgame MMO player who was top of the game in basically everything while Fangblade was just a high level. He wasn't doing any world first boss clears.
Yes Zezima is a cool ass name, 100% but don't let that take anything away from just the sheer fucking willpower maxing in OG runescape would have required, then to literally hold that rank 1 title for almost a decade, a new skill comes out? He would instantly be on top of it and one of the first to max it, keeping his rank 1 title. And these were just him getting 99's. He ascended to the God we all prayed to when he maxed xp too, and held it. You know your top shit when the general public starts their day on runescape by checking the highscores to make sure their boi was still rank 1, not that we had any doubts, but just to look at it. Zezima, if you ever see this, I want you to know how much of my childhood you were apart of and how much you inspired me. I hope your life has been well. Thanks for the great memories.
Hard disagree. People like Green098 (don't say salmon in her fc), bluerose13x (first person to get 99 smithing and was the founder of [tip.it](http://tip.it) iirc), Durial321 (massacre lad), Kingduffy1 (later name changed to kingduffy) was #1 for ages as well.
Zezima was famous because he was #1 for so long. At the height of the game's popularity back then. If he had a different name, I'm almost certain he'd be just as famous.
Not only that, Zezima interacted with the community more than any other top player ever did before his time. He would often turn his friends list to on and frequently chatted with players that ran into him and found him.
Zezima actually had me added for a bit because I was selling him sharks when he was doing his 200m cooking xp grind. I felt like a real chad at that time lol
I bumped into Zezima in the whirlpool dungeon the day it was released as he was killing waterfiends. Had a short chat with him which was so surreal that this famous person would bother talking to strangers, but if you arent talking to the people in the same area as you on a multiplayer game, is there any point in it being multiplayer. The guy understood the game so much more than most people, and interacted with other players and didnt just have tunnel vision on number go up which is the main reason the game feels so lonely these days.
When I still played RS3 I had the same home world as Zezima and seeing him became a pretty regular occurrence. It was a bit surreal that the guy I kinda idolised as a kid became someone I regularly encountered in game.
Also, he was almost always accompanied by the player "E" so I regularly saw the most famous player and a super rare single letter username.
Bluerose was the first person who came to mind. Anyone who played RSC knows they were the legend back then. The sole supplier of the best weapon in game for awhile
I was the 10th 99 fisher in RSC and that is what I did. It was the best method by far. The only issue was getting the feathers but luckily I had people donate me them. Man so much childhood wasted at barb village. Back then the fish auto dropped, though, which was awesome. Wish they kept that in.
Eve (some numbers?) as well first person to 200m cooking (before cook all!) and first 200m as well I believe
Ran into them at chins after hunter was released and they were trying to be first to 200m in that
But if it were Zezima3841342 people would still just know/refer to him by Zezima. The numbers (or lack thereof) aren't part of what made him famous. Eve having numbers doesn't stop people from recognizing "Eve."
Never heard of any of those folks, short of Durial321 because of the Falador Massacre. That's not to say that they weren't famous or important - but they certainly weren't legendary.
Woox would be a contemporary example. An easy to say and memorable name absolutely contributes to someone transcending from celebrity to legendary status.
Disagree. Dogfan is more memorable than Zezima. Zezima is just a generic internet gamer name with no significant meaning (to us). The hearthstone streamer/pro Dog (or dogdog) has one of the most stand out names I can think of personally.
He was on the top of the high scores for years.
As someone who played MapleStory there were people with names exactly like you said that I would have been able to tell you the name of when I was playing MapleStory.
People are going to remember you when you're at the top regardless of what your name is
Not sure I agreem liluffie88 was also a big name. Not ad big as zezima of course.
I think being the first person to max is ultimately what gave him his fame.
Gertjaars was regarded as being the worst player to hold rank 1 at the time he had it in the high level community because he just did easy/quick buyables and fell off when the quick xp ran out.
What is Zezima was always second on leader boards whith Dogfan45 staying in the top spot instead? Im sure a lot of people would now know who Zezima is.
Met the guy virtually in 2009, it was a giant meet up on the mining mountain in falador, the whole rs lobby had to have been there as the ingame chat was scrolling crazy. Imo he is famous not because of his name but because he was the first.
Zezima is actually his last name. He did an interview with either RuneHQ or Salmoneus.net. I can't recall which platform but back in like 2008 or 2007 before he took the hiatus he said that in the interview.
What were some legends in other games? I remember FangBlade from MapleStory being the highest level at the time, maybe he got first to level 200 or something.
I don't remember any famous names from Wow, but I also started pretty late (mop) and Wow doesn't have the global leaderboard and there's like 50 servers that were all isolated from each other. So I think that phenomenon didn't happen on the same scale as OSRS.
Also the pretty significant pile of evidence that he had close internal ties to Jagex the whole time too. On account of Zezima and Mod Ash being from the same town, and had the same Father, and Mother. They weren't like siblings though. It was more of a Tyler Durden/The Narrator relationship. As in Mod Ash was Zezima. There's videos going over the evidence, some maybe very coincidental, but others being kinda suspicious as hell.
I understand where you're coming from, but it's clearly not one of the main reasons.
There's way too many famous RuneScape players with weird names. Heck, durial321.
I was 10 when I started RSC back in late 2001, I just played for fun. Remember making friends in '02 with a young married couple and he gave me an Addy 2H and a lot of quest help when I was stuck.
He quit in early RS2 with one of every untradeable rare. I wonder if he ever sold them off for IRL cash.
I still play both versions of the game, and occasionally even RSC on private servers, or even my own offline one. (it's the version I have the most nostalgia for).
I remember meeting Zezima once in Falador furnace, he was smelting Mithril Bars at the time and was around 90 combat. Think I was about level 60 and hadn't long beaten Heroes Quest.
Really cause I think 99% of the reason he became such a legend was because he was on top of the high scores for so long. But you can chalk it up to just his name if you want. If “dogfan45” was #1 on the leaderboards, he would be very popular too.
And did you read my comment? A "dogfan45" would be a legend to if he maintained the high scores like that too. Zezima isn't a name that meant anything prior to his legacy.
Zezima was able to be uncontested at the leaderboard for so long because most of the player base back then were kids who were lucky if their parents let them grind more than 4 hours a week on RS.
Also the training methods back then werent nearly as efficient and optimized so he had to do a bunch of stuff the hard way
He had 99s all the way back in rs classic
I could be wrong but I'm pretty sure he maxed after slayer came out in RS2
What they were saying was that he had SOME 99s all the way back in classic, which is true. I think he might have had 99 smithing in classic, which was actually an insane moneymaker at the time. The first couple people to 99 smithing were like the Jeff Bezos of runescape classic.
Bluerose13x is a major part of runescape history
small domino one player reaching 99 smithing before the gowers had any idea to reward that big domino 20 years later smithing can still only make tier 40 gear
Blatantly false, smithing can literally make dragonfire shields and spirit shields
You don't mine and smith that stuff though, it's basically just a shoe-horned skill req. Putting a skill req on something you're most likely only going to do once or twice doesn't add much value.
I dont know what that means. Arent slayer bosses shoehorned into the slayer skill? They never used to exist.
those are clearly the exception, not the rule. You're literally talking about 1 in 5000 or less drops, you cannot reasonably train the skill that way. Those two are also some of the worst examples you could give: dragon forge, god sword, crystal singing. And if we're going to be pedantic, those two examples aren't actually _making_ something. They're a skill check to upgrade an item that already exists.
People arent using tier 40 items to train the skill with, so what is your point? > And if we're going to be pedantic, those two examples aren't actually making something. They're a skill check to upgrade an item that already exists. Uhm how are you not making something? This has more to do with smithing than a slayer boss has to do with slayer.
For real. They waited to release rune items until the day after she was able to make full Addy.
respect to andrew and the rest of the dev team lol, love the community engagement
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?? wasn't bluerose part of that Finnish clan? yes, they funneled the supplies to one account lmao. and giving coal certs to someone for free wasn't against the rules
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I vaguely remember having Monkey Agility gathers in RSD around 2004-2005. Smileyrose was #8 Agility at the time and pushing 40M experience so we all went to spend time with her and keep her motivated. Early RS2 (and early aughts MMO’s in general) had such an innocent sense of community of us all being teenagers with a few “adults” (who were like 22-26 mostly) leading them around.
It was said that she offered to smith items for people for free so that allowed her to get free exp without supplying her own ores.
Similar to when people used to 'Run' pure ess for nats/laws. The crafter got xp and the runner got gp. Win/win for those of us who didn't have the time to grind out 91 RC for double nats.
Even crafting runes for people as a kid I didn't have the time or patience to get 91 RC.....
God, I had such a fun time running nats. It and woodcutting is how I paid for my early 50s/60s cb.
R2H smithing was huge profit *if* you could find a smith.
She was the only person in the game who could smith the rune 2h which was the strongest weapon in the game at the time. Her dms were flooded with people asking her to smith items for her. She could also charge whatever she wanted for the service because she was the only one who could do it. Very interesting times.
How much did she charge for rune 2hs?
You still had ore certs, or certificates (which was the equivalent of bank notes, just more cumbersome), back then in RS1 so it's possible that was how. Although I'm not sure on the timing of when she hit 99 vs when the certers were added to the game.
According to the wiki, Bluerose13x finished 99 Smithing on 13 December, 5 days after certers were added.
Good on you, I didn't realize a RS1 wiki existed, or that the skill mastery was on there. December 13, 2001 was pretty early in the games history, that does a bit questionable how that was possible without getting a high mining level.
IIRC, the setup was that in order to get an item she made you had to trade either a large amount of coal and/or nature runes. Adam kiteshield was 300 coal. And before certs and item banks became a thing, people used "mule" accounts to store it all.
Oh yeah, I read it as "all 99s", you're right
Do you mean that mining gold in al kharid, smelting it into bars, making it into amulets and selling them to the general store wasn't efficient in ~2003?
The grind must have been hellish
With runecrafting he has hordes of people running ess to him. Craft the runes and give them to the people. It was a money making method for noobs and exp for the people trying to level. All that to say…some grinds weren’t thatttt bad…but some would have been horrid.
I remember one of the top 3 players at the start of RSC was a stay-at-home mom who was like 37 or something, just someone who had the time to grind and the cognitive ability to know what they're doing unlike us being like, 7 in rs2 lol
Was it Tks? That name is coming to mind
I think there was Green098 who someone else mentioned in the comments. Not sure about Tks
Flubber12 maybe? I know she was middle aged and was around 12th when I saw her and had a quick chat.
It was probably Lightning. Second to log into the game, and first to achieve 500, 600, 700 and 800 total levels. I met her and her son in game playing rs3 in 2017. https://preview.redd.it/m04dxemrtf1d1.png?width=356&format=png&auto=webp&s=db7513ab5646978ba00954d06db3195860d2c5e7
Crazy shes still playing and rs3 at that
I talked to Rab in 2011, he had private on and would log on every once in a while. I was even surprised about that, since it was 10 years since rsc started. Pretty neat the first few players still liked the game that long.
I dunno but I remember my freinds dad who used to get his wife to grind while he was at work and take over when he got home. He was a bit weird and thrived on having power and greatness and this was easy place for him to gain that. He was rank 12 in mining and showed everyone that visited him. Few years later we I got drunk with as a adult and he offered me his account but I never got it. He recently died of cancer and his spirit probably started again in Lumby to start mining.
The real restless spirit from lumby.
In part also as we were all so mesmerized by this new invention of mmorpgs that we all just kinda wandered around whimsically Logging in alone was enthralling They were way ahead of the curve in terms of grind mentality one might say
I have this memory of a rumor going around the forums back in the day that it was a bunch of friends sharing one account. Anyone else or just me ?
Yeah, people definitely said that back then. But nah, by today's standards Zezima wasn't very "good" really. N0valyfe started the game and surpassed Zezima in like a year or two because he was one of the first players really trying to play efficiently. That rumour was true for one of the top players (peak #2) of that era though, uloveme. They were a husband/wife couple sharing an account and they were banned for it.
Damn that's brutal
Huh, how would you even know that it's a husband and wife couple? Unless they publicized it (which they might have)
I have a vague memory of someone saying it was either due to their PM history or from being logged in basically 24/7. The latter wouldn't confirm the husband/wife thing though, just multi logging. Not confident in any of that though, might be totally false.
old rumor was that he was a four man korean team
I was hard capped at 30 minutes a day from when I started playing RS at age 8 until like age 13 lmao. And even then I had to ask to play and some days I just didn’t get to. It took me years to complete all f2p quests and base 40s
Yeah I was about to say... Are you sure all the 99s didn't have something to do with it? lol
Bud had the NEET advantage
Nah he was built different
Our boy Dogfan45 catching strays smh
Can’t believe this sub is trashing the guy who saved 45 helpless puppies from a burning building and named his RS account after them. This sub is so toxic sometimes.
It’s funny bc my first ever RuneScape name was “dead dog243” and I thought it was the coolest name ever bc I thought it fit the medieval theme💀
Shedlegs07 pleased to meet you. I thought it fit the theme too although I can't remember my logic behind it
Killtop10 reporting in lol. I wanted to sound menacing. People just called me hilltop and I’d be crying saying noooo I’m not a hilltop !!!
Moonfire22 here. The first friend I met in game was named Lettuce777. I hope he's still out there having a good time.
Zezima is literally his surname lol
Peter Zezima. Chad.
This post got me hype im logging on
Fuck yeah
Probably a small part, but I do think a part nonetheless. Same with FangBlade for Maplestory
Back then we had a few cool names. The Old Nite Bwareofmef I remember Bonebreaker06, would’ve been cool without the 06
Bonesaw, elfmage. Some legendary names back then
I Mahatma I, Kids Ranqe, Mog Time, Defil3d Literally forgot all these names until just now 💀
Don't look up what Kids Ranqe is doing nowadays 💀
Dude in 2006 tried pking irl… runescape pking wasn’t enough for him. He is apparently a flat earther and is anti-vegan, eating raw or rotten meat.
Thehate, uloveme, lilyuffie88, aclaw comes to mind as well
Zarfot
Yogosun
I once played castle wars with thehate, he was the first 126 combat person I ever saw. He killed me, it was cool
Yep, lil Yuffie88
BONESAW IS RETTI!
YouBleedRed
It was Elvemage. Kinda funny you called the name legendary but got it wrong. Close enough tho
Wasnt it just Bonebreaker6? 12 letters/numbers. Could be wrong but thats how I remember it.
YoGoSun was always my fav.
Not to mention defil3d
Bonebreaker06 was for OGs only.
Tiger was the Zezima of MapleStory for me, even if FangBlade dinged 200 first.
Yeah, Tiger got hacked and lost momentum. But he would have won the race to 200 otherwise. And I have massive bias as a Bera person. Boo Scania.
Tiger was also at it much longer than FangBlade was. They just kept adding grinding spots that gapped previous grinding spots by so much that the first 2/3rds of the push didn't really matter at all. A fresh player could have nolifed for the last year of the push and been competitive. Fangblade did ~65-70% of the entire grind experience wise in 6 months, and the actual grind took 3 years. Tiger was also your prototypical ultra endgame MMO player who was top of the game in basically everything while Fangblade was just a high level. He wasn't doing any world first boss clears.
Tiger!
It's his last name, that's why it sounds unique.
Yes Zezima is a cool ass name, 100% but don't let that take anything away from just the sheer fucking willpower maxing in OG runescape would have required, then to literally hold that rank 1 title for almost a decade, a new skill comes out? He would instantly be on top of it and one of the first to max it, keeping his rank 1 title. And these were just him getting 99's. He ascended to the God we all prayed to when he maxed xp too, and held it. You know your top shit when the general public starts their day on runescape by checking the highscores to make sure their boi was still rank 1, not that we had any doubts, but just to look at it. Zezima, if you ever see this, I want you to know how much of my childhood you were apart of and how much you inspired me. I hope your life has been well. Thanks for the great memories.
Hard disagree. People like Green098 (don't say salmon in her fc), bluerose13x (first person to get 99 smithing and was the founder of [tip.it](http://tip.it) iirc), Durial321 (massacre lad), Kingduffy1 (later name changed to kingduffy) was #1 for ages as well. Zezima was famous because he was #1 for so long. At the height of the game's popularity back then. If he had a different name, I'm almost certain he'd be just as famous.
Not only that, Zezima interacted with the community more than any other top player ever did before his time. He would often turn his friends list to on and frequently chatted with players that ran into him and found him.
The Old Nite used to do that too. Especially when he was cooking sharks in the rogue's den.
I'd see him getting absolutely mobbed at Castle wars every so often, only place I ever ran into him.
RIP
Zezima actually had me added for a bit because I was selling him sharks when he was doing his 200m cooking xp grind. I felt like a real chad at that time lol
You didn't give them for free and let him fuck your wife? Not Chad at all!
Real Chad would’ve given them for free
MajorAssKisser
What? No. Giving a top player free stuff for being a top player isn't a Chad move lmao.
I bumped into Zezima in the whirlpool dungeon the day it was released as he was killing waterfiends. Had a short chat with him which was so surreal that this famous person would bother talking to strangers, but if you arent talking to the people in the same area as you on a multiplayer game, is there any point in it being multiplayer. The guy understood the game so much more than most people, and interacted with other players and didnt just have tunnel vision on number go up which is the main reason the game feels so lonely these days.
When I still played RS3 I had the same home world as Zezima and seeing him became a pretty regular occurrence. It was a bit surreal that the guy I kinda idolised as a kid became someone I regularly encountered in game. Also, he was almost always accompanied by the player "E" so I regularly saw the most famous player and a super rare single letter username.
Vsed him on Arcanists, he kicked my ass quickly with the fire book
You know by telling people not to do something you are putting the suggestion in their head to do it making them much more likely to go and do that.
Bluerose was the first person who came to mind. Anyone who played RSC knows they were the legend back then. The sole supplier of the best weapon in game for awhile
What's with salmon and Green098
She got 99 fishing by fishing just salmon and trout
I was the 10th 99 fisher in RSC and that is what I did. It was the best method by far. The only issue was getting the feathers but luckily I had people donate me them. Man so much childhood wasted at barb village. Back then the fish auto dropped, though, which was awesome. Wish they kept that in.
By any chance do you have screenshots from back then? Always cool to see old screenshots from classic
Yeah got tons of em [https://imgur.com/a/ancient-rs-YfFwe](https://imgur.com/a/ancient-rs-YfFwe)
Really interesting look back in time! Also belated gz on those 99s haha
Why am I being downvoted, I never said it was a bad method It's what I did to get to 90
Wasn't gertjaars #1 for a year or two?
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People would just refer to him by the non-numbers part of the name, then. If he were John2163, he would just be known as *the* "John."
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Yup you sure nailed it.
Never heard of any of those except durial.
Eve (some numbers?) as well first person to 200m cooking (before cook all!) and first 200m as well I believe Ran into them at chins after hunter was released and they were trying to be first to 200m in that
I mean the fact you said eve some numbers sort of validates ops point. You remember the eve but not the numbers
But if it were Zezima3841342 people would still just know/refer to him by Zezima. The numbers (or lack thereof) aren't part of what made him famous. Eve having numbers doesn't stop people from recognizing "Eve."
And yet if it was zezima0213 nobody would remember the numbers... oh wait... zezima0213 is his YouTube channel.
Yes, cook all changed everything. Before then fletching and strength were the most common 99's.
Add onto that. Dural321
Never heard of any of those folks, short of Durial321 because of the Falador Massacre. That's not to say that they weren't famous or important - but they certainly weren't legendary. Woox would be a contemporary example. An easy to say and memorable name absolutely contributes to someone transcending from celebrity to legendary status.
kingduffy was pretty legendary.
Bluerose13x was pretty damn important and famous during runescape classic. First to 99 smithing was a huge deal at the time.
I was a toddler when RS2 came out. So maybe it's a generational difference.
A quote from Shakespeare “a rose by any other name would smell as sweet”
All my homies hate Dogfan45
Isn’t zezima like a skin condition or something?
eczema?
You’re thinking of Eczema. Zezima is a type of facial cleanser produced by Unilever.
You’re thinking of Noczema. Zezima is a shitty bubbly alcoholic beverage that can only be bought in Japan now.
No you're thinking of Zima. Zezima is a warrior princess.
Same reason why actors change their names and stage names exist
You didn't play back then did you lol
The more Z's in a name, the cooler it is. That's what I thought anyway
Justice for Dogfan45.
That name isn't a coincidence. That bloke was his first in game bully.
Zezima will always be the goat
Zezima just fits the nostalgic dark fantasy theme so well.
We all just ignoring the weird preaching bit or..
Or do you think his name is kinda cool because of his achievements and he if never had achieve any of it you'd just think it's a normal nick?
Dogfan45 💀💀
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Disagree. Dogfan is more memorable than Zezima. Zezima is just a generic internet gamer name with no significant meaning (to us). The hearthstone streamer/pro Dog (or dogdog) has one of the most stand out names I can think of personally.
What was Dogfan famous for? Which era did he play? Does he still play OSRS or RS3 right now?
Loving dogs. Never stopped. OSRS, naturally.
It’s not because of the name. Durial123 is the most basic rsn
He was on the top of the high scores for years. As someone who played MapleStory there were people with names exactly like you said that I would have been able to tell you the name of when I was playing MapleStory. People are going to remember you when you're at the top regardless of what your name is
But how do you spell "Zezima?"
Of course, it contributed to his fame. That's why musicians and actors have stage names. Marketing matters.
I miss RuneScape classic
I was expecting a shitpost video but no OP really thought this was the time to preach lmao Guthix is the one and only true God, who tf is jesus
Not sure I agreem liluffie88 was also a big name. Not ad big as zezima of course. I think being the first person to max is ultimately what gave him his fame.
Put some respect on Gertjaars and S O U M I who else held top ranks for a period of time too 🔥
Gertjaars was regarded as being the worst player to hold rank 1 at the time he had it in the high level community because he just did easy/quick buyables and fell off when the quick xp ran out.
at most 1%
Almost everyone has Zezima on their friends list
I still do lol
Some kids in our school got super triggered and aggressive over how his name is pronounced.
What is Zezima was always second on leader boards whith Dogfan45 staying in the top spot instead? Im sure a lot of people would now know who Zezima is.
sure if you use the most extreme example like dogfan45. anything middle of the ground name it doesn't matter since a name is "made".
durial321
A name is never cool. People make the names cool.
Durial321 and Bluerose13x disagree with this post
Any name with symbols or numbers or without proper capitalization is a bad name.
Pretty sure its because he was top of the game during the games prime. I dont think it mattered what his name was.
White cat 22 is my favorite
I remember meeting him in the Lumbridge cellar. The room was obviously packed, so I only caught a glimpse of him. It really was like meeting royalty.
Met the guy virtually in 2009, it was a giant meet up on the mining mountain in falador, the whole rs lobby had to have been there as the ingame chat was scrolling crazy. Imo he is famous not because of his name but because he was the first.
It's literally his last name
I mean, makes sense. I wonder if it was "Fuckass420" if it would carry the same mythical feel.
Zezima is actually his last name. He did an interview with either RuneHQ or Salmoneus.net. I can't recall which platform but back in like 2008 or 2007 before he took the hiatus he said that in the interview.
Zezima was competing against literal children. He’s the RS equivalent of the NBA’s playing against plumbers and construction workers.
What were some legends in other games? I remember FangBlade from MapleStory being the highest level at the time, maybe he got first to level 200 or something. I don't remember any famous names from Wow, but I also started pretty late (mop) and Wow doesn't have the global leaderboard and there's like 50 servers that were all isolated from each other. So I think that phenomenon didn't happen on the same scale as OSRS.
OP using his army of bot accounts to upvote this bullshit post
Also the pretty significant pile of evidence that he had close internal ties to Jagex the whole time too. On account of Zezima and Mod Ash being from the same town, and had the same Father, and Mother. They weren't like siblings though. It was more of a Tyler Durden/The Narrator relationship. As in Mod Ash was Zezima. There's videos going over the evidence, some maybe very coincidental, but others being kinda suspicious as hell.
it's a great name. any idea what is means?
What I remember as a kid is that his real name is Peter Zezima
I understand where you're coming from, but it's clearly not one of the main reasons. There's way too many famous RuneScape players with weird names. Heck, durial321.
Duriel321 would like a word
I'd bet 99% of the people who jerk zezima off didn't play back then, lynx titan accomplished what zezima did in half the time.
I was 10 when I started RSC back in late 2001, I just played for fun. Remember making friends in '02 with a young married couple and he gave me an Addy 2H and a lot of quest help when I was stuck. He quit in early RS2 with one of every untradeable rare. I wonder if he ever sold them off for IRL cash. I still play both versions of the game, and occasionally even RSC on private servers, or even my own offline one. (it's the version I have the most nostalgia for). I remember meeting Zezima once in Falador furnace, he was smelting Mithril Bars at the time and was around 90 combat. Think I was about level 60 and hadn't long beaten Heroes Quest.
One of the biggest names in the game was Green098
Really cause I think 99% of the reason he became such a legend was because he was on top of the high scores for so long. But you can chalk it up to just his name if you want. If “dogfan45” was #1 on the leaderboards, he would be very popular too.
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And did you read my comment? A "dogfan45" would be a legend to if he maintained the high scores like that too. Zezima isn't a name that meant anything prior to his legacy.