a few years ago i would have said runescape, but i have quit it now since it added a load of features making it absolutely NO FUN!! you can't trade things for a value outside of a certain rangem, you cant kill people in the wilderness, what's the point!!! haha having said that, WoW was better but not so free :P
From my friend's experience, WoW would be the logical choise at first sight. WoW has better graphics, community, gameplay, it has races, teams and follows a lot of the WarCraft original storyline. But it seems that WoW is not worth spending time after you reach the max-level. Unless you stay for the community and your friends, there is not much to do after you finish all the quests on the max level. But that is my friends experience.
Worldofwarcraft is you pay money to but then again with that money you like never ending fun from a computer game with graphics that you see what the object really is, epic gameplay and vast world with endless options. Runescape is a free flash game what do you expect. anther thing is WoW has 11 million people playing i don't think runescape can come close.
From what friends say about WoW i would choose that rather than runescape...mainly because everything in runescape is no longer fun... trading sucks..no more wildy..and etc..i still play it tho
I don't play either(anymore) but i only stopped playing RS cause they messed up the trade... But if they fixed that to how it was i might play again... I haven't played WoW but i hear its da bomb! Lol.