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

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

  • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
    7·
    10 hours ago

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

    • redhorsejacket@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      9 hours 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.

      • dgdft@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        9 hours ago

        Yeah but they did nothing to change the standard rates of gold flowing into and out of the game. A “fresh start” might help as a brief one-off, but it’s not fixing the root of the problem in the slightest.

      • frongt@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        9 hours 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.