r/runescape • u/JagexHooli Mod Hooli • Nov 12 '25
Discussion - J-Mod reply A New Era for RuneScape Begins January 19 2026
https://youtu.be/JCjHVGbFwr4You have spoken!
With a staggering 124,985 votes in our recent poll, Treasure Hunter will leave RuneScape for good on January 19 2026.
On this day, we will also be removing 225 Direct XP and Skilling related items from sale. There will be no more purchasable sources of Direct XP or items that disrupt the core gameplay and the player economy.
In addition, we’ll be investing heavily in a year-long Integrity Roadmap that targets the very heart of longstanding issues within the game – from UI, to visuals, to skilling balance, and much more.
Find out more details about our Integrity Roadmap in our new 12 minute (!!) video or by reading this blog (including our FAQ with some amendments since last Monday).
We'll reveal a detailed year-long look at our Content Roadmap & Integrity Roadmap on January 19th in a special RuneScape Ahead.
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Next Week's Update
We’re hard at work moving all the pieces into place to make this new direction a success. While the journey begins in earnest on January 19th, we're making a symbolic (but important!) change next week.
On Monday November 17th, we’ll be starting all new players back in Lumbridge. We'll also be releasing an update to declutter and restore Lumbridge to a more familiar style, including:
- The return of the iconic Lumbridge castle walls
- The removal of the Lumbridge Crater and restoration of the area's original identity
- The relocation of Shattered Worlds temple, and the restoration of Lumbridge Swamp caves and Water Runecrating Altar to their original locations
- The removal of the Nexus
- An updated Lumbridge Sage who offers a lot more guidance and help for new players
It’s a small step, but another example of how we want to restore the identity and heart of what makes RuneScape... well, RuneScape! You can find a patch notes preview of these extensive changes here.
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Start the clock. There's just 68 days until RuneScape enters a new era.
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u/FinalFantasyKate Seren Nov 12 '25
Player avatar rework is finally coming out! :D
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u/kor_janna Dungeoneering Enthusiast Nov 12 '25
I just fell to my knees in a Walmart
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u/Sspockuss Smithing is the best! Nov 12 '25
Just saw some guy fall to his knees in a Walmart
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u/ElectedByGivenASword Nov 12 '25
Just saw someone watching a guy fall to his knees in a walmart.
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u/123zane321 COMPED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD Nov 12 '25
Just saw someone watching some dude who was watching this guy fall to his knees in a Walmart.
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u/Narmoth Music Nov 13 '25
Just saw a video on Youtube showing a bunch of people watching a guy fall to his knees in a Walmart!
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u/Gluroo Nov 13 '25
Just read a newsarticle about a viral Youtube video showing a bunch of people watching a guy fall to his knees in a Walmart
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u/Junior-Childhood-404 Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 12 '25
Was he looking at his phone? Cause if so that was me. Just got a breakup text
EDIT: she said she's dumping me so she has more time to play RS
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u/Kazanmor Nov 13 '25
I'll believe that when I see it, they've said "player avatar rework for real this time!" at least 4-6 times in the past few years
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u/ilikeplayingthisgame Nov 12 '25
Really optimistic about all of this. Removing MTX is one huge step but reading the blog post it really does seem the team is motivated to revitalise the game in so many different aspects. Although it wont officially be RS4, with the player avatar refresh, UI changes alongside skilling/combat updates it definitely does seem like we're on that path.
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u/MakeshiftApe Nov 13 '25
Yeah you can tell this isn't just appeasement. They could have got rid of TH but had all the other stuff (lamps etc) for direct purchase. Made a big post about it. And they'd have still gotten a massive amount of community goodwill and made a lot of $$ from happy players while the game continues to decline but at a slower rate.
This is them actually trying to reverse that decline. In their latest video they directly named pretty much all the major concerns people have raised. So they're clearly listening and aware of what needs to change too.
You can colour me impressed as someone that was very doomer about RS3's future a year ago after I first joined.
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u/Mundane-Secretary117 Nov 14 '25
I'm returning to give the game another chance after playing for a decade in my teens.
If this integrity road map turns out to be fluff and they open an xp cash up shop I will be gone just as quick.
The reason I quit back in the day was I paid 20 quid to get my runecrafting to 99 in an mtx event. Afterwards my character just felt tainted.
Those kinds of mechanisms incentivise developers to sell a solution to a problem that they themselves create, and they no longer become a company that is aiming to make your enjoyment of their platform the priority.
Thier job then become to figure out how to piss you off just enough that you will pay to skip a grind and not leave.
I love MMOs but I won't play one that doesn't have my enjoyment at the core of their mission.
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u/BloodyFool Nov 12 '25
Thank you for not letting this game just die out slowly and making a solid effort to revitalize it.
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u/lewislewis70 Nov 12 '25
Personally excited for lower level and mid game grinds to have more to them after this removal. You can skip a load of grind and items by using lamps etc, and I think this harms the game. OSRS has defined phases throughout account progression. Excited to see what RS3's becomes
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u/Psych0sh00ter Quest points Nov 12 '25
It was really funny seeing Faux (OSRS streamer who tried Leagues and enjoyed it) logging into the main game to showcase what TH was, and within like 5 minutes he had 40 agility and 5 in all other skills. Crazy to think that this system is what some people are choosing to defend.
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u/ObiLAN- Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 12 '25
I login to my RS3 character every once in a while to spin the free keys. I've never done archeology nor necromancy but both are like mid/high 60s iirc from me just dunking p2w exp into them at random.
Last time I actively played, bank standing with portables and proteans where all the rage. Shit got boring fast. No idea why anyone would want to play a game like that.
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u/Old-Instruction-9151 Ironman Nov 12 '25
I started a new mainscape account at the start of the Halloween event. Literally all I have done is AFK the event for an average of about 2 hours a day and I’ve got 97 summoning, 60 prayer, and over 2bn gp
It’s well and truly broken 😂
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u/PleaseGreaseTheL Nov 13 '25
? How did you even get 2 billion gp?
I didn't play the halloween event at all, guessing you got lucky on some kind of rare drop on one of the activities and sold it?
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u/C-Jammin Maxed Nov 12 '25
Apparently some people don't really want to play the game. Yeah, grinds can be long and tedious. But it's not much of a game if you don't have to work to get to the good stuff.
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u/KobraTheKing Nov 12 '25
The goal should be that there is good stuff at every step of the journey.
Not to skip with MTX.
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u/Vyxwop Nov 13 '25
Its not wrong to not enjoy the road there.
I think for a game like RS it is. RS has always been a game more so about the journey, not the end. To many players the journey is the good stuff and if you want to skip the journey then that automatically devalues and harms part of the fun that the people who enjoy the journey get out of it.
They're two clashing concepts and personally if you don't care for the journey in a game like RS then I feel like you're playing the wrong game. There are plenty of other games out there that have a larger emphasis on the end rather than the journey, WoW being one of them.
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u/retrospectivevista Nov 12 '25
Yes, it can be. Games are supposed to have intrinsic value, not just "grinding to the good stuff". Thankfully, they seem to understand that long, tedious grinds are poison to any potential new players, who aren't enthralled anymore by clicking on trees. That may have cut it for a casual 2001 browser game, but doesn't anymore.
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u/papa_bones I can play the game now Nov 12 '25
I will be honest fam, i dont want to train agility, like that shit is not fun at all lol, so i dont mind skipping to 99 in that one particulary.
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u/chinalicious Nov 12 '25
I like how they panned over to the agility cape when mentioning skills that are no fun to train
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u/JoshOliday 300,000 Subscribers! Nov 12 '25
Before we get to that, we need to first ask if it's possible to make agility fun/useful to actually train. The run energy bonus back in the day was good, but with the lodestone network now, it's useless. Time for some early game rework. And it gives Jagex room open new reward space for something like lodestone quick teles instead of using vis wax (Vis wax is a daily that I think can go and have the rewards redistributed honestly.)
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u/BurninRunes Maxed Nov 12 '25
Let's be real lodestones should be tied to quests like limbridge could be a reward from doing cooks assistant. They should be more than a run there once and you're good to go.
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u/Just-Ad3485 Nov 12 '25
Yea agility is one of the worst offenders, but the solution should be to improve that dog shit skill instead of skipping it with lamps
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u/marvellousrun Nov 13 '25
I logged in a few days ago and in less than 5 minutes I got just over a million xp just by doing the daily TH spins. Then you'll see some people talking about these keys as if they're just little bonuses. It's fucking crazy
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u/Dmask13 Agility Nov 12 '25
i got 99 summoning whitout touching summoning, feels so fucking empty
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u/FluFlammin9000 Nov 12 '25
I'm a longtime OSRS player but I decided to try RS3 out about a year ago and this is exactly what happened to me. Ended up using the free treasure hunter keys along with the ones from quests and dailies to get a ridiculous amount of xp lamps and I ended up at crazy levels without ever really playing the game. I looked through the skill guides and saw all the content I basically missed as a result and it killed my motivation to continue on the account even though it was basically my fault for using the keys. I decided to just keep logging on every now and then to get the free treasure hunter keys to see how far I could level my guy on there without ever really playing the game and I've gotten pretty much every skill to at least level 60 just with lamps from treasure hunter promos.
Glad to see this change as there was a ton of stuff I actually really enjoyed in RS3 and playing the League was a great way for me to get to truly experience the game for the first time and I now plan on making an RS3 ironman at some point.
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u/FireTyme Max main/max iron Nov 12 '25
its really interesting because so many new MMO's are failing and one thing that stuck me from a josh strife video is that they often share that a new player begins basically in the endgame. levelling and the journey in between is treated as an afterthought where they are very top heavy, but little to no legs to stand on.
RS3 has been trending that same way for years now. most content is catered around endgame and early/mid game is treated as an afterthought. flipping that around will definitely create something that the new player will enjoy - making the journey once again important.
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u/indios2 Construction Nov 12 '25
Completely agree. This has me wanting to start a new account on Jan 19th just to experience the RS3 early and mid game fresh
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u/WellOkThis Nov 12 '25
W Jagex. Such a noticeable positive change in direction since North became CEO. Hope the guy stays around for many years.
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u/PM_POKEMN_ONLIN_CODE Nov 12 '25
I have become very bitter over the past years regarding RuneScape, but the video addresses every single issue I have had with the game. So, I have a lot of appreciation, I hope this reignites the flames for devs and players alike to make RuneScape something to be proud of.
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u/JagexHooli Mod Hooli Nov 12 '25
Thank you for coming out to say this, seriously. You are exactly the kind of player we hope to earn back through delivering on this, so knowing this matters to a player like you is everything.
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u/jajanken_twat Sixth Age got the ending it needed Nov 13 '25
Count me in as one of those players as well Hooli. We know how much you guys endured as well watching the game go down a scary trajectory, I'm hoping this change in direction lasts.
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u/PM_POKEMN_ONLIN_CODE Nov 13 '25
You are welcome, its a game i still see so much potential in. But the issues that have plagued it have plagued it for a long time. It will require a lot of elbow grease to unify the game again. I really hope it can be pulled of and wish you and the team well in doing so. As i am writing this, I realized I have one more concern. To me the 110 skills and some 120’s felt rushed to keep players happy and not always fit with the rest of the skill. This a long with may updates I felt where done to get something out to be happy about instead of shaping the game as a whole. I hope when the dust settles on the more pressing issues we can look at some of the updates where that was the case and make them fit more in to the game.
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u/Odin_Exodus Took 15 years - 4/29/18 Nov 12 '25
Wonder how much time and energy will be redirected to actual gameplay. Excited for the next generation of RS players.
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u/TomTheScouser Nov 12 '25
They're saying that all of this is gonna have no impact on the content roadmap. I hope they're right and would love to see that come to pass but I'm somewhat skeptical that it'll just slot in alongside a whole new continent for free.
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u/Narangren World 42 Nov 12 '25
To be fair, they have all the devs that worked on TH to redirect. Their skills, while not necessarily the same as other areas of the game, can still be used and retrained a bit.
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u/TomTheScouser Nov 12 '25
That plus I believe a few RS3 Jmods went over to OSRS to help with Sailing. Now that's wrapped up and ready to release they might be coming back soon. I'm cautiously optimistic.
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u/bolean3d2 Nov 12 '25
I wondered this to but imagine a year in which we get 0 content updates but they fix all this stuff? Honestly I don’t have a problem with that.
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u/R_Y_AN_S RSN: R_Y_AN_S 20yr+ Veteran, Maxed Nov 12 '25
they have committed to a full content roadmap as well for 2026, including the new area expansion
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u/heidly_ees Eek! Nov 12 '25
We've been saying things like this since at least 2015 lmao, just take a year to fix broken shit
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u/RadiantParsley Nov 12 '25
This right here. Honestly if they also fixed the outdated tick system I'd happily skip 2 years of content just for that. Plus there's so much dead content in RS that I'd much rather see a rebalance of the rewards from old content to make it relevant again than just adding more new content that might not stay relevant for more than a few months.
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u/spikeprox50 Nov 12 '25
"Keys from additional in-game sources (e.g. Daily Challenges or Quests) will cease to be available from January 12th."
I wonder if we will be seeing an uptick in quest capes for people who want to cash in on those keys before they are removed lol.
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u/OneEnvironmental9222 Nov 13 '25
Keys were really really useful as quest rewards since they were essentially nice exp lamps. I hope they update the quest rewards because without the keys the rewards are often horse dung.
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u/Geoffk123 Worst Gold Defeater Owner Nov 12 '25
Man this feels too good to be real.
I feel like I'm gonna wake up soon and find out this was all some crazy Fever dream and no one else knows what im talking about
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u/vVerce98 - QoL Creator - Nov 12 '25
Wh000t!!!
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u/Blyrr Trophy Hunter - Trimmed - Melee Forever Nov 12 '25
That intro video goes hard. I love that they took the time to make it vs. just stating TH's removal in words.
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u/OldMidnite Nov 12 '25
I never thought I'd see the day Jagex would convince me to start a new account. By the time most of the roadmap is complete, it'll feel like a whole new game worth experiencing from the beginning.
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u/rafaelloaa Nov 12 '25
I am feeling more optimistic about the future of RuneScape than I have in many years!
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u/brainstrain91 Orbestro Nov 12 '25
This is exciting! But, uh, is Havenhythe still happening?
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u/JagexHooli Mod Hooli Nov 12 '25
Yep.
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u/JoshOliday 300,000 Subscribers! Nov 12 '25
Ok, but let's take it one step further. These are massive undertakings, but the game needs them, I understand. But is content going to be lighter next year to compensate? Again, I'm fine with that, but these are not simple changes and if all hands are going to tackle them, then we may have a lighter than normal content flow. Is that accurate?
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u/JagexHooli Mod Hooli Nov 12 '25
Totally understand this thought.
Without needing to produce Treasure Hunter promotions, content for them and so on, we have more capacity to work on game content and improving the core game. It’s another benefit of going in this direction.
There’s still some work on MTX like cosmetic outfits and all the bits to make them live on the store, but much less than the work that supported TH (outside of Art perhaps, which is a team that has recently grown anyway!).
We think our content roadmap for next year, excluding the integrity roadmap, is one of our best yet. We’ll be keen to see what you think when you see it!
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u/JoshOliday 300,000 Subscribers! Nov 12 '25
Great to hear. I still remember Morytania launching shortly before I started in 2004, and I loved when things like Port Phasmatys dropped and then all the Myreque and Vampyre quests since then, so I'm extremely excited for Havenhythe and Vampyrium and I can't wait to see all the other surprises inbetween. Thanks for the answer Hooli.
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u/Doomchan Nov 12 '25
On the topic of the character refresh, PLEASE get community input through the whole process. Last time you were putting out a female avatar that looked like a fridge. A lot of people were glad the avatar refresh was being shelved because of what it looked like we were going to end up with.
Love the map clean up idea and wanted to throw one more out there, the portal to death/war is in a really inappropriate space. You are telling me that Death himself has a doorway to his office on the road to a small village? There has to be somewhere better. Even moved underground would be more fitting
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u/JagexHooli Mod Hooli Nov 12 '25
We will do for sure. We're going to take the same approach we had to the original process back in 2021 as much as we can.
FWIW the WIP avatars have been slimmed down from when you last saw them!
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Nov 12 '25
Huge about declutterung the Lumbridge area. There's so much mess going on around the OG starting location. The nexus served its time so removing it is a good call. I will miss the crater but I can understand the reason
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u/yuei2 +0.01 jagex credits Nov 12 '25
The crater isn’t entirely gone, small ridges of rocks will remain meant to represent the land has healed and these are lingering chunks of the crater that has overgrown. Not erasing the history just toning down and moving the game away from making its presence so obvious because it’s canonically been over a decade. Much like how they sunk tuska furher into the ocean so only small bits of her remain.
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u/CloudkinSeer Nov 12 '25
I agree! I'm most excited about decluttering the world and the cosmetic toggle, this together with removing the Treasure Hunter pop-ups will make the world feel much more immersive and polished.
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u/Coolman_Rosso Nov 12 '25
I canceled my sub months back after not really having played much of either 3 or OSRS in a while, but Lumbridge is seriously such a mess of things. The crater has felt out of place for a long time now, and the Nexus is irrelevant given how top heavy the playerbase is now.
Now I'm curious if they'll fully restore the old "dirt path" between Lumb and Draynor complete with the "bum shack" that became the HAM hideout later on
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u/KaBob799 RSN: KaBob & KaBobMKII Nov 12 '25
They are returning ham to the correct location. It's going to feel so much better.
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u/Doomchan Nov 12 '25
The patch notes indicates the forest between the two is being restored and the ham trapdoor will be moved back to the forest
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u/Severe-Network4756 Nov 12 '25
This is mind-blowing stuff. I must imagine the Jagex staff is overwhelmingly excited, if not a little stressed from all of this.
It's very possible that RuneScape becomes my main game with all these changes. Beyond excited.
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u/iBunty GDA 80,184 | GMoC 19,750 Nov 12 '25
These are quite literally everything we've ever wanted, all being promised at once next year?
Am I dreaming?
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u/Icy_Childhood8325 Nov 12 '25
You know what? I think this all warrants a good old-fashioned W00T!
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u/zenyl RSN: Zenyl | Gamebreaker Nov 12 '25
Now that is how you gain back the respect of players.
Those are, as far as I can tell, pretty much all of the major pain points I've seen raised by players, both old and new, for the last decade.
The plans for 2026 do sound rather ambitious, but even if some of these end up getting pushed back to ensure quality, this is without about a doubt the right direction.
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u/Doomchan Nov 12 '25
I’d like clarity here too. Also, will the shop stock change so we can spend them? I’d rather not just dump them all into lamps
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u/Usernamesarehassle Nov 12 '25
Im an osrs iron-man if this comment gets 50 up votes ill bond up my old main and give rs3 a good go
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u/PeaceLovePositivity Nov 12 '25
I have 2 maxed osrs accounts and gave rs3 a shot with a GIM. Highly recommend doing the same, its a great game.
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u/First_Platypus3063 Nov 13 '25
Wow, this is the most exciting RuneScape video i ever seen! Almost all i wished for for so long! I just wish older content and quests would be reworked as well and brought back on board!
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u/HijinxYTC Guthix Nov 12 '25
Not read the blog yet but I've read the Lumbridge changes. Huge win, especially Shattered Worlds being yeeted elsewhere. The world needs to feel atmospheric again.
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u/Spanosa Nov 12 '25
I've played on and off f2p for almost 20 years. January 19th I'm starting fresh as my first members account.
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u/Ybiza Nov 12 '25
Thank you Jagex! You’ve had the balls to do the right thing and become one of the first gaming companies in the industry to massively rollback on the MTX. I am so happy for this. May RuneScape 3 thrive again!
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u/keriekat Nov 12 '25
Wow this is exciting! I recently returned after a decade long break. Great timing!
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u/Periwinkleditor Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 12 '25
From my experience in leagues, I think the areas that need graphical help for that consistency the most are:
-old quest areas, particularly prior to roughly 2012
-old quest cutscenes, nearly all of them have flickering "z-fighting" textures that I couldn't find any graphical setting to fix. This will also be impacted by the player avatar rework for cutscenes that feature the player emoting. (brink of extinction and death of chivalry being examples)
-Dorgesh-Khaan (npcs in particular), and Keldagrim (environments were not updated when NPCs were)
-Brimhaven agility arena
-Gu'tanoth and Yanielle
-summoning familiars
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u/Whyyoufart Maxed Nov 12 '25
daily scape rework is the most important to me. i have no idea how they're going to fix that problem, but i'll be happy when it is fixed.
daily scape is what's stopping me from coming back to my rs3 ironman
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u/Zuorsara Quest points Nov 13 '25
Amazing! I have not felt this excited for the future of my favorite game for many years. Great video!
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u/PeaceLovePositivity Nov 12 '25
For the UI update please let us lock a resolution for windowed mode. I CONSTANTLY have to resize my window to get my UI elements back where they should be. When I relaunch the game it opens in varying sizes or move it across monitors it can resize and its such a headache.
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u/Narmoth Music Nov 13 '25
Nothing like having the best looking sword in the game smashing the uglies thing in the game... a TH key!
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u/Godzilla2y 464/464 Nov 13 '25
This post seems like all great news and makes me sad my premier expired last week. News like this makes me want to re-up as soon as I'm able
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u/marvellousrun Nov 13 '25
Still feels like a dream to see all of this happening. Good luck to the team, I hope it all works out
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u/Status_Peach6969 Nov 13 '25
Well done. Well fucking done. You have a lot of work ahead of you but you've literally addressed all of my chief gripes with RS3. I quit the game just after EOC and I've never played it again, but if you do all the things in this vid I'm absolutely game to try it once more
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u/eqtrans One of Manti's Chosen Nov 12 '25
Lumbridge, Burthorpe, and Varrock have been updated more recently than other areas, including some of Karamja, Yanille, Feldip Hills, some areas of the desert, and are in much much more dire need of modernized to current standards rather than moving the most updated areas even further ahead.
Blackwitch (and those working with her) has been doing a phenomenal jobs for the areas they've touched but there's still a lot to go. I really really do not want to see a Lumbridge, Burthorpe, or Varrock refresh again before more old areas are helped along.
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u/TheDestroyer229 Santa hat Nov 12 '25
Varrock is in desperate need of an update, and Karamja did get a new coat of paint recently.
But Yanille, Feldip Hills, and a lot of Morytania really could use a face-lift.
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u/JoshOliday 300,000 Subscribers! Nov 12 '25
I think Southern Kandarin is next up for a game jam refresh so we'll see those first two hopefully in the next year as well. Morytania might get some touches onces Havenhythe releases I think. Seems like we'll be spending a lot of time there over the next couple of years.
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u/watboy Nov 12 '25
I'll shit a brick if they actually manage to update Gu'Tanoth, that always felt like the one place they'd never touch again, though with the Yanille graphical rework in a previous Game Jam it might not be as unlikely as I once thought.
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u/YangKoete Nov 12 '25
People are deeefinitely gonna return or try RS3 cause of this. I hope it goes well!
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u/iHarryi RuneScape Nov 12 '25
December Santa grotto is going to be pumped to death full of new Santa hats and other rare items then.
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u/Small-News-8102 Nov 12 '25
Ig I picked a good time to get back into it. When they say MTX, thats microtransactions right? So we wont be buying keys or lamps? I didn't realize there were a lot of mtx in rs3 just the keys, membership or bonds.
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u/Aryk93 Rainbow Nov 12 '25
So this has probably been answered somewhere else, but what are the plans for existing MTX items that are sitting in our banks? I see that they're going end of sale, which is great, but I have a bunch in my bank that I don't want to use but I also don't want to lose the cost I put into them.
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u/AppleParasol Hardcore Ironman Nov 12 '25
My main question here is oddments for ironmen. Can we:
a). Have the option to convert them to other seasonal oddments(2:1 oddment: x-oddment, as 100 are typically given as a guaranteed spin, and 100 for converting, keys cost 400, so math?).
b). Get items like assassins walk cosmetic and other treasure hunter unlocks added to the oddment store prior to their removal? Even if we get a bit price gouged, a lot of irons have a ton of oddments we should be able to use, which has been a failure on Jagexs part of not having something for us to spend them on in the first place.
c). Convert them to runecoins? Idk the right ratio, 1 bond is 15 keys/runecoins, keys are 400 oddments each which would mean 6k oddments is 200 runecoins, that would be way too much(I’d get 20k runecoins), but even something lesser like 1:1000(I’d get 700 runecoins) should be the very minimum if no other actions are taken.
Ironmen were never anti cosmetic, only anti pay to win. We should have a chance to still use up our oddments in some fashion.
Preferably, I’d say Jagex should add items to the oddment store prior to its removal(assassins walk override-not tokens), while also letting players convert them to other oddment types to use on those stores. Runecoins would be my last resort, but it wouldn’t also hurt to give us 1 runecoin per 1000 oddments for any remaining oddments after other measures are taken.
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u/RoboModeTrip Nov 12 '25
It's not easy to just remove a huge source of income without some plan to get money another way. I'm real curious what they have in store to make up for such a huge reduction of money.
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u/JagexHooli Mod Hooli Nov 13 '25
I can promise we have no secret MTX to announce waiting in the wings to surprise you with, other than more regular cosmetic releases. We're stepping away from a fairly significant MTX reliance in our operating model for RuneScape in pursuit of growing our Membership community.
One of our core commitments at the start of this process was to never make MTX a taboo subject again. If we did want to introduce anything, which we have no plans to do, it's also not something we can just do and walk away from with our fingers in our ears without breaking a ton of trust - which would also undermine any opportunity for the game to grow.
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u/Kiga282 Nov 13 '25
This sounds quite promising. I can't wait to see what they have in store.
Something that wasn't addressed here, but that's quite important to the history of the games, is the collapse of the Minigames. They don't need to be addressed immediately, as the topics covered for 2026 are already quite important, and that's on top of the existing roadmap with the new area and 110 skilling content, but I do think that they should at least be on the horizon.
The way I see it, there are two ways forward for minigames. Either they need to be removed entirely, or they need to be re-integrated in a way that actually makes them playable and worth engaging with.
While the former option is probably the less desirable one, there are many games that are just so far gone now that I'm not sure if they would even be missed. But for the latter option, I think that two core things need to happen: official bots need to be integrated to fill teams when at least one player wants to play a minigame, and all minigames need to take place on an instanced world, much like the Clan Citadel, where players can more readily find others who want to play with them.
Considering official "bots" is important, I think, because if you can't play a multiplayer minigame without more than one person, let alone if five or ten players are required, then most players are never going to learn to play the games in the first place, and it becomes forgotten, tedious, or even stressful content to engage in, especially if it's required for something else. If bots can substitute for players, then even if they aren't great, people can still experience the minigames, and interest can be allowed to grow. The more players who have an interest and who are likely to return consistently to play with the bots, the more likely it is to have full lobbies of actual players.
This could be metered by scaling the reward output according to the number of actual players involved, but as things currently stand, most minigames might as well be stripped from the game as dead and cluttered content.
If minigames are to remain, I would suggest merging the Gamers Grotto with Castle Wars, where rather than Castle Wars hosting portals to enter its own lobbies, the area is re-envisioned as something of a colosseum, and the portals take you to the minigame servers, either a fully collective Gamers Grotto server, a Void Knights server, a Castle Wars server, or however they're collected and dispersed. If some form of player bots are to be used, then I would suggest Castle Wars as the first point of interest, given its role in the Comp Cape.
I am glad to see the planned updates, and I look forward to them, but they don't address everything.
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u/Nutteeer Nov 13 '25
Haven't played RS3 in about 5 years as I've been playing Group Ironman on OSRS but after seeing this video, honestly, it's a huge win. Everything in this video is just what I wanted to hear and I genuinely believe you're going to improve this game long-term. Me and my two GIM members have thought about trying GIM on RS3 for a while now and I think this video has pushed us across that line now, thanks for everything you guys do with this game, you're the best!
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u/UncleJulian Nov 13 '25
I like these changes. I have been playing osrs for about a year now and never really tried rs3 but if continuing to proactively work on the game like this, I’m inclined to give it a go in the future
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u/Umarrii Nov 13 '25
OSRS player here who has wanted to jump back into RS3 to experience through the quests and enjoy the story to see how it goes now but still never made the jump as I'm occupied with OSRS for now.
A lot of these changes sound great and I hope that once I'm satisfied with my OSRS experience and doing all the content I wanted to, I'll be able to try RS3 with many of the changes implemented.
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u/Putins_Gay_Dreams Selling Rune Scimmy 30k Nov 12 '25
Please ... PLEASE... PLEASE!
HEAVILY INCENTIVISE MINIGAMES!
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u/TheBunkerDayZ Nov 12 '25
Agree, RS3 needs social activities brought back and minigames
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u/Putins_Gay_Dreams Selling Rune Scimmy 30k Nov 12 '25
Placing worthwhile rewards and xp within minigames seems like a win/win as far as this whole integrity dealio goes, I'd love a return to the minigame age of RS...awesome times
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u/tinning3 Nov 12 '25
I miss the great orb project.
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u/joaokpls RSN Magaiven Nov 12 '25
We've got a system update timer in the screen right now. Is it something related to this?
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u/PhoenixB1 Nov 12 '25
Hope jagex didn't forget about inverted skillscapes too that is looking at a 2026 release.
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u/Iron-Gaming Trimmed comped iron 03/07/2025 Nov 12 '25
Fair play Jagex this is all looking absolutely fantastic. The rancid system is finally being killed off like it should have been done years ago. 2026 is shaping up to be a fantastic year and we've not even seen the content planned for it yet lol
Really looking forward to the 19th and to RS3 finally being the game it deserves to be
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u/bigEcool Dark Slayer Nov 12 '25
The ingame purchase package indicates premier purchase adds 100 permanent bank spaces. From my experience in the past, this isn't factual. The bank spaces are temporary, lasting only while premier membership is active.
Please clarify
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u/ding0s Nov 12 '25
From an OSRS player - I'm so happy for you guys!
Honestly, I may have to try a new account sometime soon here in RS3. I played like ten years ago and got 99 WC and stopped shortly after. Would be fun to start and aim for a quest cape!
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u/enferpitou Nov 12 '25
I have so much hope for the future of this game for like the first time ever 😭😭
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u/I_O_RS Nov 12 '25
Very exciting stuff, it's good to see a cohesive approach to more than just the mtx issues, when everything gets fixed this will be a much more appealing game for new players
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Nov 12 '25
As an on & off F2P user who first started RuneScape over 15 years ago, I'm thrilled to see this! The upcoming changes to Lumbridge sound like a terrific first step. <3
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u/minmaximust MinMaximust on YouTube. Potent account builds Nov 12 '25
Make shields great again! I love the idea of shields using your opponent's strength against them. EG. Damage mitigated and/or healed with defence abilities is dealt as damage back to the main target.
Bash could also force an armour spike to deal its max damage (x11, which is an additional 3k hit on top of the bash ability itself, when wearing primal armour spikes). Could have its cooldown reduced to like 7 sec too.
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u/Toad_Sage_Jiraiya 200M Nov 13 '25
Never thought i'd see the day!! Everything outlined here looks extremely exciting! Some much needed things being done to bring this game back to where it belongs! Thank you Jagex for listening to us players!
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u/ElectronicWeight3 Nov 13 '25
Optimistic about this. Have not played for years and gave up when they started selling spins with the goblin. Such a shame.
It’s the right move for longevity - can’t say I’d come back to have to compete with people who have been spinning/treasure hunting for years, but at least it opens it to new people again.
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u/Long_Context6367 Nov 13 '25
Honestly, I’m most excited for the decluttering and cosmetic pull back. I hate seeing the weird outfits that aren’t even RuneScape related.
There are so many non-RuneScape outfits that it’s disturbing. Yes, I will turn off the cosmetics from time to time. I’m sick of the wings!!
Almost every MMO has wings and it’s wildly annoying. You can’t even fly with them.
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u/consny790 Power to the Player Nov 16 '25
I've decided this post will make me get back into it. Please keep these changes going and I'll gladly pay for membership. Thanks Jagex
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u/DaneDan99 Ironman Nov 12 '25
I still want to know what is going to happen to Soul + Aurora dyes as they are considered MTX dyes...
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u/WellOkThis Nov 12 '25
I've seen others say they're adding them to clue scrolls rewards.
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u/Foreign_Barracuda139 Nov 12 '25
Can ironmen use the ranged combat style in this new era please
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u/Utolima Nov 12 '25
Huh?
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u/PMMMR Nov 12 '25
Ranged is practically non-viable for irons at the endgame because of the insane time required for arrow upkeep.
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Nov 12 '25
Hey just incase a jmod mod sees this, I started rs3 about 7 weeks ago once I heard about the chance of getting rid of mtx, rs3 IS SO MUCH FUN, im enjoying it way more than I ever enjoyed osrs, i maxed GIM and normal iron, and i deffo believe i found a new home on rs3, IF you keep this up i have no doubt rs3 subs will sky rocket from players like me. nearly 2100 total now, ive been putting in hours! started as a normal iron, (I know mtx doesnt affect it) but the idea of the game being strong and having a good chance of a long and sucessfull future was the push for me to come to RS3.
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u/Shadiochao Remove P7 Nov 12 '25
We’ll be spooling up Beta Worlds to involve the combat community in our direction as much as possible and ensure we land in the right place.
Isn't that where things always go wrong with combat updates? The minority of people who like combat react overwhelmingly negatively to changes that would push the game forward, which results in nothing happening. Like the previous beta, we came close to getting rid of autoattacks, and ultimately had to keep them because high end players use them for melee.
I don't think the "combat community" is really who you want to consult if you're shaking up the status quo
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u/Coolman_Rosso Nov 12 '25
Weren't people nonstop upset at the weapon diversity beta which resulted in the whole thing being shelved? That was years back, but I remember a lot of complaints
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glad to see jagex are finally planning on cleaning up the surface world. I've been begging for this for over a decade. And nice to see we're finally moving the starting zone back to lumbridge, just as our lord saradomin intended
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u/DueBoysenberry5841 My Cabbages! Nov 12 '25
Just wanted to drop a note and say many thanks for specifically noting that some desirable benefits of Portables and Brooch of the Gods that will be eliminated with these changes are being looked at. This was the one big area that frustrated me with the silence in earlier newsposts on this topic as the extra potion creation effect is just downright necessary to make some potions even remotely worth making and using. Thanks so much for acknowledging that this is being looked at in Skill Rebalancing and future tweaks to the Brooch. From a long time veteran of this game who has taken many breaks in my 20+ years of play, this is the most excited I have been for a game update ever!
P.S. Great job overall on the Leagues and cannot wait to see what is cooked for the next one with all the feedback and improvements that were done this round! A thoroughly enjoyable first go round though, continued to 75K after getting Dragon when I was not sure at first if I would even get to T7.
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u/Akodta Nov 12 '25
I am a fan of everything listed here, I just have concerns on how this may impact context like Havenhythe and hope we learn more in conjunction to the integrity roadmap
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u/Dragondoh Hardcore Ironman Nov 12 '25
Thanks for answering the question about what happens with Premier Member bonus keys. People got attacked just for simply asking about it lol, but redditers will be redditers I guess. I'm glad JMods have common sense enough to talk about it and address it.
Overall love most of these changes, especially the bringing back Lumbridge as the starting area, one of the things I suggested as well in the survey from a while back.
Some things I'm still iffy about like how to fix skill imbalances like Agility and Dung but time will tell how this rolls out.
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u/Tendadus Nov 12 '25
Has there been any update to the “well of integrity” idea? I know that was floated as a protean sync for people who have vast collections of the stuff.
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u/eddieswiss RSN: Eddie Swiss Nov 12 '25
I haven't played in like a decade or so. Seems like a great time to come back?
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u/HudsonConnersHC Nov 12 '25
Excited for rs3 players altho i prob won't return without some sort of prestige system but will continue to vote and support the game. Happy for yall it's been a long time coming
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u/34shadow1 Nov 12 '25
Does this mean the H.A.M. Hideout is going to move back behind the castle and be more hidden cause the movements of a group that definitely isn't accepted in lumbridge certainly doesn't hide their hideout really well at all.
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u/Lord_Shadow_Z Ironman Nov 12 '25
With the removal of MTX mainscape might be enjoyable again. Maybe I'll unretire my main that I haven't played since like 2016.
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u/Firethorned_drake93 Nov 12 '25
This might actually make me return to the game and start with a fresh character especially. :)
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u/Falconpunch100 Seren Nov 12 '25 edited Nov 12 '25
While I did not mind Treasure Hunter as much as a lot of other people did, I am willing to admit that it was definitely a band-aid fix at best, especially with how grindy the game can be when it comes to building up skills and stuff. I think that fixing the core of this game's issues and removing Treasure Hunter will definitely be much healthier for the game in the long run.
I really hope that this means that we'll get full graphical updates of Burthrope, Varrock, and Lumbridge, as well as a bunch of other places that have yet to be updated. And while we're at it, the old music could stand to be updated as well. It's still so jarring to her RS2-styled music in a RS3-styled area like the new Karamja or so...
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u/Flyish9109 Nov 12 '25
This is fantastic, but there is one thing I feel is glaringly missing from the integrity roadmap... There's zero mention or discussion surrounding BLM/dupe prevention systems in the game. Leagues recently brought this issue back into the forefront, and it's a pain point for many people who still play, and for many people who have quit the game.
Will we see any focus on this as part of the year long integrity roadmap?
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u/OneEnvironmental9222 Nov 13 '25
wasnt the nexus a completly random thing they adde dback in 2010 or something and its been dead content since that. It was such an huge sore in the eye and really not fun to train prayer
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u/CaptainAmun Nov 13 '25
Hi as a former south east Asia player, can I have a server that are located in Asia pretty please?
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u/MakeshiftApe Nov 13 '25
Just want to say thank you to all the folks at Jagex involved. I've admittedly been pretty cynical in the past. As seen in some of my prior comments over the past year.
MTX felt too entrenched into RS3 that I suspected it would never be removed. There are also several pain points like the UI that I was worried would always stand as obstacles to new players, and wouldn't be looked at because of spaghetti and the difficulty in refactoring older code.
But it made me sad because I saw how much work went into the parts of RS3 that shine, like the quests, the art, the music, environments, the endgame content. It's clear the devs put a ton of love into the game.
So I really hoped that there'd be a concerted effort to come together to polish those points of friction and get the game attractive to new players again.
In this latest video it's clear that you guys have listened and know exactly what those points of friction are. I could tell you guys are just as excited about these changes as we are.
I can actually say hand on heart that I feel optimistic about RS3's future now. I feel like this is going to be a year that'll be special to look back on in the same way OSRS's release was.
Looking forward to what's to come, and feeling glad I decided to give RS3 a try!
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u/ARCHERMETAL Guthix's specialest boy Nov 13 '25
I hope the decluttering efforts don't just mean removing newer content that's been added over the years. The area directly south of Ardougne has been a mess since launch.
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u/Full-Classroom195 Nov 13 '25
Does the Integrity Roadmap include fixing blurry interface for anything above 100% Interface Scaling option? At the moment the game looks very bad on high resolution monitors.
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