Original Runelite developer Adam1210 posted his views on Reddit
Original Runelite developer Adam1210 posted his views on Reddit with RS Gold, saying that allowing Runelite HD to remain would be a great benefit for future updates made by Jagex.
"I strongly oppose adding it to the "third parties' guidelines," Adam1210 said. "Most of those guidelines attempt to define what the line between "quality of life] and cheating lies - and I think most players agree that the guidelines currently in place are a great example of this, and it is a good way to keep sic the integrity of the game.
But there is no advantage at all to better graphics, and it will only impact you when you turn it on. Thus, it's just a misapplication of guidelines. This is, in the end, unjust for everyone involved and I wish Jagex would think about it."
A handful of players from Runelite HD have taken to the streets. Runelite HD project have taken to a town square in Falador which is the capital city of one of Runescape's main kingdoms and held an unofficial sit-in similar to the one World of Warcraft fans staged last July. The players can be seen in the video below, posting messages of criticism against Jagex for their decision, and hashtags like #Free117. Another video shows a group of players "marching" around Falador Square.
A couple of years in the past, something bizarre began to happen in a video game called Old School RuneScape. There were a lot of new players playing the game and they were doing things in the same manner. They were in the game for hours and hours performing the same tasks every time. Killing green dragons, and harvesting gold, killing even more green dragons while harvesting gold.
It was clear that the players who were new were gamers call "gold farmers." They were making gold winning the game, then converting the game's gold into real money through the sale of it to other players on underground websites. This has been happening for years, and most games have banned it, but the practice continues.
The problem was, why were there suddenly so many new players joining Old School RuneScape? The answer lies in a single collapsing economy. Venezuela. Hyperinflation in the country was destroying the currency of the nation. For thousands of Venezuelans playing video games, gold became a form of safety.
Chances are that if you were a kid in the mid 2000s and had access an internet connection, you would likely have played RuneScape. The early MMORPG was the first to introduce an online, online-based role-playing experience users could play on any web browser.
There is no longer a time when players had to download Java just to load their Buy OSRS Account character. In the last couple of years, we've seen the long-running game move mobile and offering a new game to players who aren't as experienced, as well as the traditional Java version that players long to revisit it.
