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RuneScape fans have spoken: 'Treasure Hunter' microtransactions will be scrapped in January as 'part of a wider transformation across Jagex'

More than 120,000 people voted to ditch RuneScape's widely-disliked MTX system.

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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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"I literally feel like I just got my life back": To escape MMO prison after 1,200 hours, one player resorted to an army of Discord ninjas and divorced dragon fan fiction

Old School RuneScape challenge runs are not for the faint-hearted

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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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Arrowhead boss wants Helldivers 2 to be a "forever game" like RuneScape that can keep improving, with "no plans" for a sequel

Helldivers 3? Not while Helldivers 2 is still chugging

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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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"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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Illegal MMO gold seller earns nearly $500,000, becomes a tax issue, and days later devs announce plans to curb real-world trading

Old School RuneScape Lithuanian gold farmers aren't tax exempt, it appears, while RuneScape law is pretty clear about it

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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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10 years later, Old School RuneScape is still the best MMO I've ever played – and seeing over 200,000 people jumping on reminds me why I fell in love with it in the first place

Opinion | Come on in, the water's low-res

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MMO streamer says he turned down a $5,000 WoW deal to keep grinding Old School RuneScape, player declares "RuneScape won the MMO war" but a dev quickly counters: "You can love both games"

No wars, only games

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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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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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MMO dev admits egregious microtransactions are "harming" its game, the player base "isn't really growing," and it's time to clean up: "The era of a tainted RuneScape 3 is coming to an end"

Anti-MTX "Experiments" will start next month with Treasure Hunter being disabled

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"Immortal king of speedrunning" can only say "that's a great run, gg" after MMO mad lad beats him in 3-year revenge match with a new world record just minutes ahead

Ain't no speedrun like an Old School RuneScape speedrun

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RuneScape player pulls off a personal Shawshank Redemption: Grinds his way out of one-zone house arrest by grinding a raid 2,000 times over 10,000 hours: 'It was all worth it'

Makes the Moon landing look like a walk in the park.

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2 years ago an MMO player locked himself in a virtual cage of his own making – "after 10,000 hours" he is finally free

Old School RuneScape challenge modes strike again

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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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Anonymous employee accuses RuneScape of kowtowing to Trump as it puts the kibosh on new Pride events: 'The content… is now controversial in a way it didn't used to be'

Players and Jagex staff are both upset by an executive decision to scale back Pride celebrations.

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Jagex lays off RuneScape staff and indefinitely pauses Old School RuneScape's Project Zanaris private servers, but says the MMOs won't be hurt in the long run

Jagex has made some significant changes behind the scenes

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