With the government - not only of the UK, but of several nations - taking a closer look at loot boxes, and RuneScape's in particular, Jagex will likely have to make some adjustments to how it does business if it wants to stay relevant throughout its third decade. Monetization is still going to be the major question regarding RuneScape in 2020. The Ranch Out of Time added to that, and Jagex is looking to add more quests in 2020, adding more resources so it can "align each of the efforts from Episodic Content, Core Experience and Live Ops, so they actually feed into each other and they make sense to each other." It's part of what Jagex calls its efforts in "evolving our model, moving away from a standard loot crate system."ĭespite all that money coming in, there was a relative dearth of content throughout 2019, with the Land out of Time update providing the only major addition of content for the year's first 11 months. You can also partially preview your next Treasure Hunter loot box, a procedure we've had mixed feelings about here at MMOBomb. Likewise, she-hulk has been a stand in for the Thing for the Fantastic Four as well. A mysterious woman has appeared at the Manor, and she seems a little too fascinated by vampyres. Okay, if we're going full nerd now then I need to point out that the Thing WAS an Avenger as well as being part of the FF. Some changes have already occurred, like the Yak Track, a kind of season pass that offers players choices in how to progress. We take spooky season seriously here at RuneScape, and this year's Halloween celebrations will run for two terrifying weeks from October 24th to November 6th. Even so, the company is listening to the government committee that produced the original figure and is "in a strong position already to answer many of the suggestions they may make." Jagex said it was "unable to entirely corroborate the details" of that account and that the figure was actually closer to 17,000 GBP/$22,000. The article then delves into the controversy involving a player who reportedly spent 50,000 GBP (roughly $62,000) on microtransactions in RuneScape. There’s a long list of words that they consider too ghoulish, too macabre to use in this year’s event: ‘boo’, ‘skeleton. Ī poll on the Hallowe'en drop.Eurogamer has a long article titled "After RuneScape's controversial 2019, Jagex plots 'direct and deliberate' changes for 2020." The first half of the piece mostly rehashes what Jagex has been up to for most of the decade, focusing on the microtransactions that have been added to RuneScape over that time and their less-than-warm welcome from players. We’ve got some bad news - our lawyer gnomes have received a complaint from Mums Against Monsters, who say our Halloween 2019 update was much too scary and needs to be toned down this time. ĭue to a server error at the time of the original drops, Jagex organised a second drop day where every hour for four hours the scythes were randomly dropped. However, RuneScape 2 was still released on schedule, because the developers came in early and on weekends to do extra work. 78% of voters wanted a 2003 Hallowe'en event. In one of their polls, they asked players if they would want a new Hallowe'en event but also delay the release of RuneScape 2, or keep it on schedule and have a "pancake day" in February instead. Jagex originally did not want to create a Hallowe'en event for 2003, because they feared it would delay the planned release date ( 1 December) of RuneScape 2. If dropped or lost, players can talk to Thessalia in the Thessalia's Fine Clothes shop in Varrock to get the scythe back. If they tried to pick up another one, a message said, "You already have a scythe you don't need another one". Players could only own one scythe at a time. The drop happened on two days on 31 October and 2 November 2003. During the 2003 Hallowe'en event, untradeable scythes were dropped.
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