Several species of fly have lived longer than RuneScape Reignited, a relaunch of one of the oldest MMOs around. It would've seen fresh servers filled with new accounts soft-reset the game while veterans continue playing as they were.
Developer Jagex apologized for and quickly canceled this plan within weeks of its grand RuneFest-side reveal after those veteran players complained that they felt left behind or sidelined in favor of efforts to entice new players.
Many RuneScape fans are relieved to see Jagex act on feedback and preserve the current game, some people are disappointed to miss out on a new account race or just a fresh start, and others seem unclear what the heck Jagex was even trying to do. I spoke to RuneScape creative director Ryan Philpott, known to players as Mod Ryan, to unpack things.
Reignited was set up as a capstone for the Road to Restoration update plan that has seen Jagex, in the past year especially, cut out much of the systemic and monetization rot that reduced RuneScape to a much less popular MMO than its sibling Old School RuneScape. Indeed, part of this plan is to put RuneScape "in a place where it can stand alongside Old School Runescape, as an example," Philpott says.
"We felt that there was a great opportunity," he says of the Reignited planning. "So much is going on inside the game, the game is in the best place it's ever been – or has been for at least 5-10 years – and as part of that, we thought about what a great opportunity there is to open those doors again and allow players to come in."
I used the term relaunch in the interview, and Philpott says he's done the same internally. But "it wasn't just, 'Let's find new players,'" he says. "That wasn't the only goal. The goal was: this is such a great game, how can we break through the wider bubble and put this game on the map?"
The makers of RuneScape want a second chance, in many ways – an opportunity to show players what they believe to be a much healthier and more fun game than RuneScape's reputation would imply. Philpott says what they didn't want is a split in the game, or two parallel versions of RuneScape.
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