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'RuneScape' Players Are Finally Getting The Chance To Delete Its Most Controversial Feature

Long-running MMORPG 'RuneScape' is putting the future of its microtransactions up to a vote after they've caused problems for years.

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Strip club DJ returns to a truly inescapable MMO, accidentally becoming a community legend and real-life GTA character: "Stripper saw me playing, I have been deeply judged"

There could be an MMO player anywhere at any time

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RuneScape players are being asked to vote on whether the game's microtransaction layer should be removed, and you can probably guess what the response is

The poll has 14 days to reach 100,000 "yes" votes, and it got more than halfway there in just a few hours.

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The fate of one of the oldest living MMOs, and one of the worst microtransaction shops ever, is up for a vote

Stop Killing This Particular Game, RuneScape players plead

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Meet the hungriest MMO player, an Old School RuneScape legend who's been eating 500,000 trout for the past week, impressing even the devs with their achievement: "What an absolute unit"

Come one, come all, to the most impressive trout-eater in OSRS

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MMO ends 19-year-wait for new skill with sailing finally washing ashore next month, expanding the Old School RuneScape map by 190%

Buying Sea-f

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Jagex CEO says he's happy to take revenue hits to fix RuneScape 3's microtransaction and 'integrity' problem

Pride events? Bit of a gamble. Microtransactions? Defcon 3.

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You can use "a tenth" of the AAA "$400 million budget" and still get "not so different results" if you do it right, RuneScape CEO says: "We've seen that from Clair Obscur and a bunch of others"

"I think that that is a guiding light for many"

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EU tax officials confront the most pressing legal question of our time: If you sell RuneScape gold to someone and they use it to buy a magic sword, do you still have to pay taxes?

"Gold all doth lure, Gold doth secure all things. Alas, we poor!"

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"The French make wine and the Germans make cars and Jagex makes RuneScape": In 5 years, new CEO wants RuneScape to be at least "the second biggest MMO" in the West behind World of Warcraft, and says "we're already very close to that"

Old School RuneScape is currently doing the majority of that heavy lifting

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Old School RuneScape says no more Mr Nice Guy, it's time for permabans and confiscations if you're caught buying black market gold

But some players will believe it when they see it.

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In tribute to a player's departed baby son, Old School RuneScape players turn out in 'hundreds' to pay respects to his namesake: 'It was so overwhelming seeing so many people at Zeke's shop'

Even a Jagex staffer came to pay their respects.

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RuneScape boss says he killed new Pride events to keep things going 'as apolitically as possible,' which doesn't sound very apolitical to me

Apolitical, or just easy?

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After report on MMO's bot problem, players bait piles of "clankers" to their doom like they're poisoning AI: ask "how many" and armies of bots reply in eery unison

Old School RuneScape remains a bot hive, but a few more bots got the axe

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"Of all the problems to have in the world, too many players is one of the best": The 2025 summer MMO migration was huge for WoW players, and for Old School RuneScape devs

Jagex says it saw a noticeable spike in new OSRS players and learned a lot from WoW streamers

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Old School RuneScape has officially taken over my life, and I deeply regret not trying it out sooner

Despite its age, Old School RuneScape is one of the most refreshing gaming experiences I’ve had in years.

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An anti-FOMO approach would be unthinkable for most MMOs and live service games, but it's the secret to Old School RuneScape's new peak of 240,000 players: "Everything you earn matters forever"

12 years after launch, evergreen MMO Old School RuneScape passes 240,000 concurrent players

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When your MMO's community is "practically forming a religion" based on a big crab, you just go with it: "Oh, the Gemstone Crab's taken another life. And it's funny"

Mod Kieren says "it has been awesome to see the love the crab's gotten"

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With a new record 240,000 players online, Old School RuneScape is roughly 8x bigger than its sister MMO and would be the fourth-biggest game on all of Steam if not for a technicality

Old School RuneScape enters its "golden omega platinum age"

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Gold is not enough: MMO community declares "Platinum Age" as Old School RuneScape hits 200k players amid WoW migration, dev says "we've expanded our live infrastructure to match"

"We are immensely grateful for all of the support we're being shown"

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"There isn't FOMO and your progress matters": An MMO migration turns to revelation for some, with a World of Warcraft horde becoming a wave of RuneScape enjoyers

A collision of MMOs has been a nice change for some fans

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MMO community fears PvP bots have formed a "cartel" using false reports to get you banned if you kill them for their illegal loot, bringing Old School RuneScape's bot problem to a boil

There's no clean and actionable answer to the bot problem, it seems

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Jagex CEO breaks glass, hits PR emergency button by promising an end to a 'tainted RuneScape 3' via microtransaction overhaul

DEFCON 3-to-Play.

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'No gay, no pay': The RuneScape community is absolutely mauling Jagex's new CEO over his decision to cancel new Pride Month events

Jon Bellamy claimed the choice to dramatically curtail pride was to prevent backlash. That's caused an even bigger backlash.

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"Games and studios are being cancelled because of content that is perceived to be 'woke' or representative," new RuneScape CEO reportedly said in internal meeting explaining decision to stop or shrink the MMO's Pride events

Old School RuneScape's Pride event was also scaled down to a community event

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