Fuck jagex but also nice I’m a sucker for runescape.

I’d probably still play old school if it wasn’t for jagex accounts and them pushing the official launcher. They tried to kill runelite so many times, and would now if it wasn’t for community push back. They are trying so hard with the HD stuff, and making their own client that doesn’t suck ass so that they can sell services like runemetrics that runescape 3 has/had where the plugins are a extra 5-10 a month.

There are private servers that are pretty much their own game in its own right, the community carried that game, to the point of making their own clients HD mods, plugins, wiki etc. Its practically Minecraft if they where smart they would that encourage more. They are actuslly working a project like that where you can host private servers but it got put on hold indefinitely, and from the sounds of it you can only toggle basic things like a clan wars portal, instead of setting put a frame work for people to create real content like the illegal private servers have.

They just have a lot of potential for a permanent name sake like Minecraft, Gary’s mod, roblox or what ever weird community based game. Shit like leagues and dead man are a good example of what some ones private server could be like, but when the community gets ahold of it they will make things you couldn’t even think of like turning the game into a Mario party clone where you still level up your wood cutting skill and what not. It just breeds endless communities and spin offs the the point its just a platform for anyone. Its retro and simple enough to get into in a charming way like minecraft and can be as simple or complex as you need it to be when playing at any time.

They keep trying to branch out and do weird stuff with the runescape name when really they should just keep doing whatever they are with old school, it’s working well and then turn old school base into a platform for private servers and corner the illegal market that makes waaay too much money selling fake pixels to a IP they don’t own and rigging their own servers markets to do weird shady shit with shady black markets forums who trade coins from private servers and trade it for real osrs coin. They think they’re doing cyrpto/wolf of wall street or something weird most the time.

Its not even going to take away from the main game just take back the people who only play leagues/deadman and illegal private servers. People are still going to play the normal server because a whole bunch of people who are addicted to number going up like to ensure that the number that goes up is permanent, and that it ends up on the official high scores so they can point at it to validate the thousands of hours it took to move a number almost into the triple digits. Almost ensuring them selves that their virtual struggles where real.

Cautiously optimistic, but this can really go both ways in terms of quality. No doubt Dragonwilds was mostly a trial run, to see wether or not they could work with unreal engine and 3rd person perspective.

I guess it’ll depend on the direction, will they go the OSRS way of community input, or the RS3 way of microtransactions on everything.