Jagex says:

A SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT PRETEENS AND USERS UNDER 18
If you are under the age of 13, you must not create an account. We don’t knowingly permit anyone under 13 to use any of our websites. Nor do we knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from preteens. Internet safety experts have advised that preteens do not fully appreciate the risk of providing too much personal information online or communicating with strangers they encounter online. And the game difficulty level is for teenagers and older. While we appreciate that many preteens would want to use our websites, we urge parents to instruct their children not to lie about their age so as to be able to use our websites before they are old enough. Instead, we recommend that parents set up an account and play together with their preteens who are otherwise too young to play the Game or our other games. Many parents have reported that playing our games as a family is fun and rewarding. Then when your children are 13 they will be ready for their own account.

In the meantime, we want to remind parents that they need to spend time with their children and teens and take an active role in their safety online and offline. They should work to help teach them not to give out their real names, addresses or phone numbers, without permission, when using the Internet. We are working closely with Parry Aftab and WiredSafety.org in helping teach all users how to protect themselves and others online and use all interactive technologies responsibly. This will include guidance for parents on safer use of our websites. You can access our internet safety materials here and select materials from WiredSafety.org by clicking here.

If you are under 18, by using our website you are representing that you have permission from your parents or legal guardian to use our sites and to our terms and conditions and privacy policy. We reserve the right to Terminate any account if we are not satisfied that such permission has been given.

If we are notified by a parent that their preteen has lied about their age when registering on our websites, we will Terminate the account provided we have confirmation which satisfies us that the reporting person is indeed the parent.

Parents can reach us by emailing parents@jagex.com.

If you want to read more about it press this link:
http://www.runescape.com/privacy/privacy.ws

“Yeah, I’m at max level for wood cutting.”

I suppose the player had to cut thousands of trees… I don’t think many players above 25-or-so years can have much fun chopping trees, tailoring clothes, mining rocks, etc. I can’t,].

It seems that skills like that on MMOs are around since Ultima Online, and it is always incredibly boring. Why game designers sunstain such a bad idea like that?

Also hard to make a comparison to a free java based game that anyone can play, to a $60 subscription based game, I’m sure free flash jewlquest has more players then all of them.