There are two things guaranteed in January; Everyone will renege on their New Year’s pledges roughly half an hour after the ball drops and after 2011 Jagex will release the End of Things event in RuneScape. Except now they won’t.
Every January since 2011 Jagex has released the End of Things event in the Freminik region. The event has changed over the last nine years, but the crux of the event has stayed the same. Players battle it out with three big wolves; Hati, Sköll, and Fenrir. To the victor goes the spoils, specifically some cosmetic items and a burst of bonus experience in several skills. The event didn’t launch this week, nor are there plans to launch it at all, possibly forever.
In a Q&A stream, Jagex confirmed that the event just isn’t as popular as it was and they wanted to pursue other ideas than simply lazily rolling out unpopular content because it’s been on the same release list year over year. After the shallow release schedule that has been January, maybe players would have enjoyed something familiar with whet their whistle outside of weeks upon weeks of patch notes. The end of The End of Things event comes alongside Jagex ending the Winter Weekend events for similar reasons. Jagex’s big update for January, the Archaeology skill, has been delayed to an unknown date.
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