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RuneScape Details New Membership Prices

Last November, Jagex announced that the subscription prices for RuneScape would be increasing at some point in 2015, and that more information would be coming in the new year. Today, the developer posted the above chart on the RuneScape official website, noting that subscription prices will increase on March 1st.

As with any price increase, players are grandfathered in with their own rates as long as their subscription does not lapse longer than 14 days. While the price of bonds will also be increasing, they will also pay out more runecoins (195 from 160) or treasure hunter keys (15 from 12) once the update goes into effect.

(Source: RuneScape)

Runelabs Officially Opens

Jagex has officially opened Runelabs for suggestions. Runelabs was announced last year at Runefest and will act as an evolution of the game’s suggestion forums, allowing players to submit ideas which will be voted on by the community, with the best ideas used for updates in RuneScape.

Ideas have to follow a specific set of guidelines and not all popular ideas will be considered for implementation.

(Source: RuneScape)

Old School Community Approves Grand Exchange

The Old School community has officially approved the implementation of a grand exchange auction house. The poll, which received over seventy two thousand votes, was approved with 76% and will be tweaked in another upcoming poll to decide just how the feature will function.

Players also approved dragon daggers, an increase in bank slots, and other small tweaks. The only two options to not get approved were a fee for items dropped at Zulrah and the option for filtered chat to remove text above players heads.

As always, Old School RuneScape polls require 75% approval to be added into the game.

(Source: Old School)

Old School RuneScape Polling Grand Exchange

Does the Old School RuneScape community want a Grand Exchange? We’re about to find out, as Jagex is gearing up to poll the feature in the next week. If it is voted in, the grand exchange will replace the current trading post where players can place offers on items but need to meet up in person in order to complete the trade. Should the grand exchange be implemented, it will also make way for the introduction of coinshare (expensive loot is turned into coins and split between party members) and lootshare (shared loot between party members).

Should the update not be passed, Jagex will poll updates to the trading post, including the ability to initiate a trade through the post, provided players are on the same world. Also set to be polled is the dragon defender, increase in bank slots, as well as numerous other updates.

Updates require 75% approval in order to be implemented.

(Source: RuneScape)

Jagex Silences Solomon Over Player Outrage

Jagex has reigned in an update relating to a cash shop sale after customers complained that the promotion was obnoxious. In order to promote a month-long Solomon Store (cash shop) sale, Jagex placed a Solomon NPC within several cities to banter on about his deals. Players criticized the NPC text as spam, noting that in many locations he was appearing next to town heralds who were also promoting the same sale.

In response, Jagex quickly removed the Solomon NPCs from all locations except his permanent home in Varrok, while town heralds are still promoting the sale at a less intrusive rate. Jagex has since apologized over Twitter, declaring the NPC placement to be a mistake.

RuneScape’s cash shops continue to be a hot button issue over the perception that content is being withheld from the game in order to be monetized over limited time Treasure Hunter promotions.

(Source: Reddit)

RuneScape Details 2015 Manifesto

Jagex has released the 2015 manifesto for RuneScape, detailing some of the big updates coming this year.

The list of updates includes a new cooperative world event, skill updates, world bosses, quests, and more.

We’re planning for one update per month to be grabbed from RuneLabs, although you won’t start seeing the fruits of that labour until the Summer. That isn’t even counting the many polls we’ll be releasing on non-RuneLabs updates.

For Old School, 2015 is set to bring in plenty of content, pending approval via player polling. Content currently planned includes trading post updates, achievement diaries, resizable mode, the new continent Zeah, and other updates.

January will see the launch of boss pets, drop table reworks, the return of Hati and Skoll, ports, and RuneLabs, as well as new cash shop items.

(Source: RuneScape)
(Source: Old School)

Old School RuneScape Available To All

As an early Christmas present to their players, Jagex has reopened the Old School RuneScape servers to all, regardless of their membership status. Free players can access the nonmember worlds until the event ends on December 31st.

Obviously, this will raise the question of the long term plans for F2P – the next few weeks of open access will help us see what happens when everyone can access the game in a free mode, and allow us to decide whether a permanent and full F2P option is viable for the future. We are still very much dedicated to ensuring that any F2P options can work for both Jagex, the game and the community. We’ll let you know how it went in the new year.

To fight against bots, free players will be unable to fish lobsters.

(Source: Old School)

Old School RuneScape Details December Updates

Jagex has announced the December updates for Old School RuneScape, as voted on by a majority of the players. First up is the introduction of the trading post, coming December 11th, which will allow players an easier method of listing their items for sale. The trading post is not Old School’s answer to the Grand Exchange as items are not actually bought or sold on it. Rather it acts like a Craigslist, affording players an in-game method of listing their sales and making the process more convenient. Buyers will see who is selling the item, what their asking price is, and a way to contact said player to meet up and make the exchange.

Later on this month sees the return of 2005’s Christmas event, where players head on to Diango’s toy shop to help make marionettes. There are also various livestreaming events and the chance to aid in the fight between Santa and Anti-Santa, with the loser exploding in a shower of party hats and other rares.

(Source: RuneScape)

RuneScape Well of Goodwill Closes

RuneScape’s Well of Goodwill has become a regular force in the fantasy MMO, opening every so often and allowing players to donate their coins, items, and bonds to notable charities. For every ten million gold donated to the well, Jagex donates $2 to the charity flavor of the month with $4.70 for each bond donated. Previous fundraising drives have offered aid to Hart, SpecialEffect, GamesAid, The Internet Watch Foundation, among other charities.

The latest charity run, which saw the Well of Goodwill open for the month of November, has ended and the results are in. More than 70,000 players donated in excess of 512 billion gold worth of coins, items, and bonds to raise a total of $160,158 for charity. The donations will be split to AbleGamers, Donategames, and Youngminds.

Over the course of December, players can donate bonds to Oxfam in return for presents.

(Source: RuneScape)

RuneScape Premiere Club Available Again

RuneScape’s Premiere Club has returned once again for the 2014 holiday season. Premiere Club membership is a subscription package that can be purchased in three, six, or twelve month increments with bonuses increasing based on the length of the subscription. This year, Jagex has partnered with Paypal and is offering an exclusive samurai outfit and a pet to players who either buy their membership through Paypal or buy a lower tier membership and then upgrade to gold through Paypal.

The bonus list for this year is pretty extensive. All tiers receive bonus loyalty points (scaling), a lava hood, and a tier-5 aura Dwarven Instinct that can be used to find hidden treasures. Silver and up receives an additional daily treasure hunter key as well as a grey skin cosmetic. Gold tier members will receive an onyx skin override, lava wings, a lava bird pet, access to VIP servers, a premiere-club forum, an in-game badge, a forum badge, and exclusive Q&A with developers. All tiers have access to the Paypal exclusive if purchased through Paypal.

Premiere Club will only be available through the end of January.

(Source: RuneScape)

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