A new and visually improved version of RuneScape has been scrapped shortly after its reveal, following fears it would split the playerbase.

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    27 days ago

    People play RuneScape because it’s old school. Don’t try to fix what’s not broken.

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      27 days ago

      However it’s also worth noting Jagex did do this for a reason. The in-game economy of RuneScape has been hyper-inflated for a while now, making the process of creating a new character and progressing through to the endgame a daunting progress due to gargantuan prices. For example, a Bond (exchangeable for a month of premium membership) sells for 11.2m coins on Old School RuneScape. On regular RuneScape, a bond sells for 141.3m coins.

      Idk, sounds at least a little broken to me.

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        26 days ago

        If everything is priced in millions of coins, redenominate and adjust the currency lifecycle. For example, if every time you kill a goblin you get one coin, that’s free money created out of nothing. You need to have somewhere the player is spending and destroying that money.