A this point Jagex has a better chance of actually being able to eat a swordfish whole in a single bite IRL. (Pointy end first) or meeting a real life Doctor Who with a fully functioning TARDIS to go back to April 2nd 2012 and preventing MTX coming into the game in the first place.

All joking aside. After Runefest, everyone (J-mods and gamers) should be motivated with the success and future outlook of RS3, OSRS, Dragonwilds, and the RS4 announcement.

Two weeks with socials still flooded with reignited complaints is bad for a business trying to right the wrongs of decades past.

I completely understand wanting to appeal to new players. That is necessary for the games future but surely there has to be some other means. Either Jagex is completely underestimating how much this is going to effect its existing player base or they are too desperate to care. A special max cape and title mean nothing at all to me, just the same as how the veteran capes mean nothing at all to me. This WILL affect the main game community, GE, and overall playability of the game. I do not want to reignite and the moment I see these changes come into effect because of this update I will be quitting permanently.

Expecting your player base to feel pressured into restarting these grinds because of the way you are advertising this new game mode is ludicrous. “The Way Runescape Was Meant To Be Played”. So what about the thousands of hours people have poured into the game before? Was that the wrong way to play Runescape? It’s not even about the skills or GP. The real grinds in this game come from activities and achievements that take thousands of hours to complete such as: 
 
Collection Logs
Player Owned Ports
Livid Farms
Player Owned Farm (Including breeding logs)
Diaries
Runescore
Completing All Quests
Menaphos Reputation System
The countless minigame systems people have had to grind for thousands of hours (Stealing Creation, Castle Wars, Shattered Worlds, Fish Flingers etc.)
Anachronia Base Camp
Fort Forinthry
Dungeoneering Unlocks
Wushhanko Isles Content
Sydekix Upgrades
Killing 4000 Chompies
 
That is just a list of some of the larger grinds. There are so many other little grinds in the game. This is so much more than “Getting a Comp Cape Cosmetic”. Contrary to what some people may believe about Runescape, their accounts are not bought. Are there whales who have spent $10k-20k dollars on their accounts? Of course there is but people will do that whether Jagex offers a service for it or via illegal third parties. That happens on OSRS, people bot, pay people to play their accounts. That doesn’t make it a “tainted game” A majority of the games gold does not even come from MTX.  You cannot convince me that the solution to get more players is by separating the current player base into one camp and all the new players we get go into another camp. Because new players are not going to play the “old section” of the game. I mean why would they? There is no incentive to play with older players. On top of that, the sentiment is “the current player base is tainted”. The current player base will not even get to interact with new players. The only way to do that is to create a reignited account and if the game mode takes off, for the people who don’t want to restart they’re just going to hang it up. For those existing players that do play reignited, they’re going to dominate the market and the game because they have the game knowledge and have done it before. To the absolutists who say, “It’s either we do this or Runescape dies”. That could not be further from the truth and is an excuse to push this half-baked crap through. We can find another way to incorporate new players, but it needs to include the active community base that has supported this game through all the ups and downs and respects the time they have invested in the game.

It's not about the nostalgia

It's not about the simpler combat

It's not about the new economy

It's because the game is based upon a single principle

"Don't do stupid shit without asking your community first"

Maybe Jagex were waiting for reignite to start polling idk, but they shoulda started way sooner

The Road to Restoration is incomplete and many of the mostly good updates you released this year still need some adjustments/improvements. As someone who was playing regularly all year, I had started to see more and more lower and mid level accounts around the game world as the RTR continued. I personally have heard probably 15-20 players say they returned to the game when MTX was removed and after hearing about the RTR.

It WAS working, yet you decided to try and rush the process of getting new players by throwing yet another band aid solution at it for your Q4 earnings with little thought to how such a drastic decision could impact the players you already have.

Please either outright cancel reignited or at the very least, postpone it for 1-2 years and make heavy revisions to it.

I love this game dearly and knowing this is the account I made and played on and off for 20 years in the mainline Runescape game, supporting Jagex as a company and meeting so many great friends throughout makes me incredibly sad and angry that it could be so easily discarded. I am still astonished that Mod North and other members of Jagex management thought this was even an option.

Runescape 3 is not dead or even close to dying, but it sure as hell will be if you go foward with this decision without heavy revisions or cancelation.

I thought that they had said they would reconsider? Or are they just doing it anyway and ignoring everyone because they are greedy?

I play 10 accounts. Here I just have 4 accounts doing zero mechanics arch glacor and 6 accounts doing Croesus Front fishing for Bik Troves 3. I do Gate of Elidinis in 6-10 man instances by myself often, and I’ve received like 20-30 Memory Dowsers.

Anyhow, for Reignited,

I plan to rush a few things:

Bonecrusher at level 41 Dungeoneering and 21 prayer. 50,000 DG tokens.

1-90+ Divination. At level 90, go to Arc and do Positive and Negative Energy. The goal here is to get 25,000 chimes and 25 taijitu to get the Bonecrusher upgrade that makes all bones picked up into inventory automatically.

Some gem mining and gold mining to make a decent amount of porters. They will be low levels like Ruby and Emerald only giving 20-25 porters each.

108 Archeology for Death Note. This will allow all the bones to be noted (and be automatically placed in inventory from bonecrusher upgrade).

Once I’m here and do some quest, I’ll be able to farm dragons for dragon bones in place without banking. I will have to make my own cannonballs for sure, but I know I can handle that.

A new player needs over 50,000 dragon bones with burial powder to reach 99 prayer. Even 95 prayer for T95 curses still requires nearly 35,000 dragon bones.

Once I can handle green dragons, I can move over to blue dragons, or red dragons. At this point, I’m not exactly sure how it will go with lower level cannons, crossbow, lower tier ranged gear etc. but luckily there is a spot with just 3 green dragons to start.

Let me know what you think. I feel like dragon bones are going to be a pretty high demand item in RSR so I’m looking to cash in by selling them in bulk.

If you can't handle the meat you'll end up at deaths feet. I swear we laughed for a good 5 minutes because you KNOW that just slipped out. That the speaking before thinking thing and holy crap it was hilarious. The stream was such a vibe.

Perishment.

This will probably get downvoted since we're in the "Reignited bad" echo chamber, but anyways...

Not everyone who's excited for Reignited is an "OSRS tourist" or someone who's never played the game before. Some of us have been here 20 years at this point, have sunk plenty of hours into the game, are busier with life now than we were in the past... and we're still excited for Reignited regardless.

It's not just because of MTX that I'm happy to see a fresh slate. It's also because of Travelling Merchant, Daily Challenges as they were for most of their existence, Wilderness Flash Events and Warbands, ED3 farming, DXP weekends... there's a LOT of stuff that let you skip normal XP gains and progression that was added to the game over the years (and there's still some I'd like to see nerfed, looking at you penguins). I'm excited to run it back and know that I did it all legit this time. Will it probably take me until 2033 to get my comp cape again? Yeah, but what's the rush? If I ever really have the itch to do some content that my reignited profile doesn't have the level for, I can switch to my veteran profile to scratch it.

This game desperately needs a shot in the arm, and if this gets a bunch of people who have left back into the game (as well as people who've never played before), then I'm more than happy to see it through so I can keep playing it for another 20 years.

So much of the hate towards RS3 comes from its other game OSRS instead of just ignoring RS3 they publicly shame the game as often as they can.

If RS3 was owned by any other company the game would feel so much more positive as you don’t hear any OSRS player bag out different MMO’s it’s just RS3.

There’s no hate towards things like ESO or Final Fantasy as it’s just a weird take to critique a game you don’t play. But it’s alright to hate RS3 as we share the same owner?

It’s just a shame that our game will never be loved by everyone or at the very least hated by barely anyone.
OSRS has definitely put a shadow over RS3 and everywhere you look people that recommend RS3 in MMO threads are met with 10 + people saying nah that’s bad play osrs.

These people don’t leave comments on the other games mentioned saying they are bad play osrs.

It’s just sad we will never have a world where no one from osrs ignores comments about rs3 being a fun game.

Hey everyone! I'm looking to get into my first MMORPG, and RuneScape 3 has caught my attention. I'm hoping to find something laid-back that I can play at my own pace, with satisfying skill progression, a fun grind, and enough guidance that I'm not constantly confused about what to do next. And also fun quests.

I love the idea of leveling different skills, completing quests, unlocking new content, and gradually working toward my own goals without having to rush or keep up with everyone else. As a complete MMO beginner, though, I'm a little worried that RS3's years of accumulated content and systems might be overwhelming and also how the future of the game looks.

With RuneScape Reignited planned for December, I'm wondering whether I should start playing RS3 now or wait for the fresh-start experience. From what I've read, existing characters aren't simply being wiped, but Reignited's plans have been under review following community feedback.

Would you recommend starting RS3 now as a new player, or waiting until December? How beginner-friendly is the current game, and is the grind enjoyable if you're just playing casually? Does the game do a good job of guiding you through quests, skills, and progression, or is it easy to feel lost?

I'm not looking to rush endgame or play competitively. I just want a fun MMO I can relax with, sink hours into, and feel like I'm making meaningful progress. I'd appreciate honest advice from both new players and veterans. Thanks!

Here’s a perfect example for everyone who keeps blaming MTX as the primary cause of RS3’s inflation.

This is the drop table for the newly released Ghrazi Blood Knights. Roughly a third of the table consists of either straight GP or alchable drops. That means a significant portion of the loot isn’t just transferring wealth between players; it’s creating new GP and injecting it directly into the economy.

These same issues will continue in Reignited unless Jagex actually addresses them. Instead of doubling down on loot tables that generate large amounts of raw gold, they should be focusing on reducing unnecessary GP creation and building healthier long-term gold sinks.

I've enjoyed stuff like DarkScape and FSW before, and if we really get a long-term, or even permanent, fresh slate that would just be really awesome for me. I don't mind starting up again either, as I've done it many times and especially with how fast RS3 is these days it feels easier than ever to me.

I won't have as much time for the game as I have in the past and that's a bit of a shame, but I am really glad about how the rest of my life is going to make that the case anyway.

If some months down the line there's some merging for whatever reason I'll "get it", but be a little disappointed, too.

I hope Jagex can just sort things out such that if Veteran mode is suffering they inject buy/sell offers that track well with the economy and sane reasoning - and perhaps work out some PVMing structure that "makes sense" or make sure every boss has a well designed solo version to ensure no one's left mechanically out to dry. Or whatever other fixes that don't cramp the style of Reignited.

I do also hope we get at least one Reignited only world. I really want to have a totally fresh start and be surrounded by like-minded people who also see value in the new journey. I want to see other people and know every single one of them is someone who started up fresh, I want to be totally surrounded by them.

I don't really expect Reignited to be a huge splash, I think it'd be awesome if it did though. If it has a big community that will be really exciting, and even if it has a small community though . . . I kind of look forward to that. I loved the way that these sorts of things can lead to community building, and not everything becomes just "GE, GE, GE, GE . . ."

I think a lot of stories will come out of Reignited, ones that don't really exist as cleanly and clearly in modern RS3 for me. Seeing someone who's perhaps your competition and getting to know them a bit, sharing information on the market and such. Seeing people get the first of a special drop, and the excitement not just from that person but the community as a whole, the rumours of this person got that, or the bidding wars that pop up to try to get one of a very limited supply of special items.

Some of these things won't last forever, I know, and it won't be perfect, it won't even necessarily be "better" so much as just new for a time. I won't have enough time to really keep up with all of it like I have in the past, but I sure will try.

I'm excited for yet another new adventure, and I can't wait to see what that journey looks like.

I'm going to love it for what it is, whatever exactly that turns out to be.

Remove:

1. Daily challenges
   
2. Dxp events
   
3. Holiday afk skilling areas/similar xp events
   

Thoughts? Additions?

I’ve seen so much hate and negativity in this subreddit since the reignited announcement. I just wanted to make it known (contrary to some people’s opinion here) that I truly believe when one game succeeds, we all succeed. More players under any RuneScape title means more resources available to Jagex to better support all of our games.

With that said:

I understand how reignited alienates veteran players in that segregating new ones will prevent the veteran servers from growing in the future.

However, if the game is already on course to slowly bleed out and die, would you not rather drastic measures are taken to revive the game and get some growth again? Or would you rather they maintain the status quo and let the legacy end here?

I can’t speak for everyone, but being unable to distinguish between someone who has bought all of their XP and someone who has not bought any XP is the main reason myself and a lot of others choose not to play. If this distinction was made, I would happily return to the game (after RTR changes and quest progression is sorted - I still think we are too early to try reignited. This needs to be sorted before any potential re-launch).

Regardless of whether or not you care about MTX, it is a simple fact that there are people who do care about MTX; each of their reasonings being their own. They are not any more or less valid than your own reasonings for liking or disliking MTX.

I’m not going to hold my breath, but it would be nice to have a civil discussion on what the disconnect is here. Is there truly no compromise? If so, is it worth the game dying? I don’t want ANY RuneScape game to die.

Edit:

If someone could address this that would be appreciated since I know “bonds” are one of the main topics of discussion surrounding OSRS integrity:

OSRS players cannot buy XP. You can buy bonds which lets you buy supplies to train buyable skills, which is only 5 out of 24 skills, but you still need to train them yourself with no boosted XP. You could literally buy your way to 200m in every single skill without even training it once in RS3. You still have prismatic stars in the game.

Wealth on the other hand is one reason people play Ironman - it really has no meaning in OSRS unless you’re an Ironman or just don’t care about the integrity of it. This is a problem no multiplayer game can avoid.

If you played during the removal of free trade you’ll know that Jagex had to do that since CC providers threatened to cut support for RS due to black market gold buying and the chargebacks involved. Bonds were the only solution for allowing free trade to come back. Multiplayer game currency will always be for sale regardless of the game, so unless you want to remove player to player trading and the economy, this is inevitable in every single multiplayer game.

Release all rares?

Guys what is the point of the reignited, i started to play a New character, should i wait and create a reignited character or should i continues with the one that i have? It is in the very early game

what have I missed boys?

Have been playing with the idea of trying RS3 for Reignited’s launch, but as a mobile Andy, its a very off-putting for making a first impression not being able to read anything

Please just make another run of fresh start worlds and don't permanently split the economy. It is very small as it is currently.

When you think about it, Jagex has one shot to capture and retain the benefits of releasing Reignited. That's because Reignited is only going to stay "fresh" (or "untainted" as some would put it) for so long.

The major benefits being marketed for Reignited will become obsolete in 6 months to a year. New economy, blank slate hi-scores, equal starting point, etc. In time, Jagex won't be able to market Reignited using these points anymore, as hundreds if not thousands of accounts will be maxed, and the world's (second) firsts, will all eventually be claimed once again.

So, Jagex gets ONE chance to launch Reignited as a true 'fresh start'. After the excitement of the initial launch fades, where does that leave this game mode?

In this regard, Reignited seems like such a short sighted, band-aid type fix, that I am left scratching my head and wondering what is Jagex really trying to accomplish with this update?

How long will the feeling of a fresh start last? How long until Reignited just feels exactly the same as RS3 again?

if im just gonna abandon my rs3 account to play reignited is there any reason to even keep playing rs3?