![]() Old School RuneScape’s Steam debut will deliver a custom-built Steam experience with a dedicated Old School Steam Community Hub, featuring weekly announcements, guides, articles, artwork, and videos, in addition to membership packages and achievements. The Coming Soon store page is now live on Steam, where players can Wishlist the game and be notified as soon as it’s released. The beloved MMORPG launch on Steam comes as part of Jagex’s mission to continue to bring the RuneScape universe to more players around the world and is currently available for both PC and mobile players. ![]() Thursday 28th January 2021, Cambridge, UK – Old School RuneScape is coming to the Steam platform on 24th February 2021. The press release can be found below, along with screenshots in the gallery - if you forgot what Old School Runescape looks like. Over time, the game eventually split into two effective versions: the more modern RuneScape (sometimes referred to as RuneScape 3, being the third major build) and Old School Runescape. Both versions will soon be available on Steam.įor Old School RuneScape, you can either log-in with your Steam account, or you can link your existing Old School account to Steam. The good news - because there's always a bright side to everything - is that RuneScape Classic servers are still online right now, and Gielindor's doors will remain open for the next three months.RuneScape is a free-to-play MMORPG that originally released in January 2001. The game naturally evolved since its initial release - with major upgrades in 20 - yet players were still enthralled by retro sensibilities: a poll of 160,000 fans resulted in the restoration of old-school servers, and this makes Jagex's announcement all the more bittersweet. In 2013, RuneScape reached a 2 million account milestone. ![]() "It has been amazing to see such dedication amongst those of you who have kept playing RuneScape Classic over the last few years," Jagex's farewell post says, "However, it's not all fun and games." Apparently, botting had become a serious issue and a growing list of game-breaking bugs were proving too difficult to eradicate.įor many gamers whose formative years coincided with the dawn of the new millenium, RuneScape was the hangout of choice. Jagex explained that its tools simply aren't compatible with Classic any longer: But from August 6th at 3AM ET, Runescape Classic will vanish into the digital ether. To be clear, that's Runescape Classic - the 2001 game - so Old School Runescape servers remain unaffected.įor fans of the 17-year old browser-based MMORPG, this is akin to the ending of an era RuneScape was one of the pioneers in the online fantasy niche, sitting amongst EverQuest and Asheron's Call it dunked players into a medieval realm, let them transform into an avatar of their choice, and embark on a non-linear adventure filled with questing, PvP combat, and of course, an enviable chatroom. One year after revealing plans to port both RuneScape and Old School Runescape to mobile and tablet, developer Jagex has announced that the original RuneScape's PC servers will be going offline permanently.
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