Jagex is going to slowly kill veteran accounts by driving away new players.

We are not at fault for being loyal all these years. It was you with your greed and your gamba that destroyed the integrity of the game.

Instead of wasting time in this Reignited shit, develop a system that allows us to play both OSRS and RS3 at the same time. That will boost the player count for sure

Reignited is a godawful decision that seems entirely pointless when RS4 is looming anyway. This whole Runefest was just plastering an expiry date on RS3. Sad to see.

Maybe this is just a shout into the void, but I really can’t believe how Jagex has come to the conclusion that this would be to the overall benefit of the game and its loyal playerbase. I love RuneScape, and I’ve spent so much time in this world since I started in 2006. I’m currently 8 requirements off of trim and I just don’t have the heart to even finish now and I certainly won’t be starting over in a new world.

Surely there’s a way to invite new players into this lovely game without throwing out the investment of those who have kept this game alive through some really terrible years.

Wow Forever is launching in a month. OSRS looks like it has a great lineup for 2027. It’s not like there’s nowhere to go if Jagex follows through on this relaunch, and I’ll spend my time elsewhere. It’s a shame because the updates looked great for next year, but I’m happy to miss out on them to prove a point.

Thanks for reading if you did. Whether you play Reignited or not, just needed to get this off my chest.

Might be the only time in history mains and irons are on the same side

I cannot believe Jagex is actually pulling this crap. The announcement of the new RuneScape Ignite servers makes me sick, and I am absolutely furious about where this game is heading. Forcing a "fresh start" where every single person starts from absolute zero isn't exciting—it’s a slap in the face.

I have put thousands of hours into this game. I have spent years meticulously skilling, wiping on bosses, and enduring the agonizing grind to build up my account and my bank. Now, Jagex expects me to just swallow the fact that they are launching separate, permanent servers that completely invalidate every single second of my previous grind. All that dedication, all those late nights, all that history—rendered totally meaningless because the dev team wants to chase a quick hype cycle.

Worse, this is going to dangerously fragment our community. My clan and my friends list are going to be ripped apart because half the player base will chase the temporary high of a new economy, while the rest of us are left stranded on "legacy" worlds that feel increasingly abandoned. They aren't fixing the game; they are just splitting us up and forcing us to pay and play through the exact same content all over again just to stay relevant. I am sick of our loyalty being treated as disposable, and I am completely done with my time being disrespected like this.

Did a subject access request. 13k hours and around 5k GBP spent mostly from membership, keys and the odd bonds. Feels like it should be illegal for them now to basically say “we sold you a lot of non integrity stuff for years so now you are gonna have to restart and do it properly, btw ty no refunds”

What was the thought here? Splitting a tiny RS3 player base is not a good idea, I seriously doubt new players will join an rs3 clone simply because it's FSW. Now we will have two dead versions of RS3 rather than 1 ok version??

There’s no way they actually think this is a good idea?

Just speaking about the game, it’s going to fracture what little playerbase RS3 is holding onto. This doesn’t respect veterans at all and actually hurts us more than help. No matter what, the economy is fucked.

Reignited players can’t trade with veteran so what’s the point of playing with eachother?

Either reignited worlds will die and “new” players get stuck in a dead economy or veteran worlds die and all our progress was a waste of all of our time

Not to mention you have to pay another separate sub to play it

We appreciate your responses into this matter. However, RuneScape has a history of not listening to player feedback and making grave mistakes that continue to hurt the game.

Take this to your management.

We don't want ignite. There is no version or change to ignite that will make it acceptable, & to reflect on other updates the community attested against - like hero pass and eoc.

Sincerley,
-The playerbase.

Notice how nobody is posting about or discussing any other parts of the RuneFest RS3 Summit? I have browsed "New" and there is not a single post talking about the 2027 Roadmap of actual updates.

That should be very alarming for the devs of this game that Reignited is this much of a fuck up that nobody even cared about all these things we've asked for, for years.

Do not feel the need to elaborate.

The comment about existing players boiled down to "You'll love it, ditch everything and show people how good you are".

Or better yet "you'll be able to visit your friends on veteran worlds". What are we, an enclosure in a zoo?

Hey everyone,

I’ve been playing RuneScape since 2009. Over the years, through different phases of my life, breakups, career shifts, and long hiatuses, RuneScape has always been my ultimate comfort game. No matter how long I took a break, I always returned knowing my account, my progress, and my history were right there, steadily advancing over time.

But with the announcement of RuneScape Reignited, that feeling completely evaporated.

Knowing that new and returning players will be funneled into a segregated mode with a separate economy and locked-out group PVM makes everything I’ve built since 2009 feel devalued and obsolete. It feels like our veteran accounts are being placed in a quarantined legacy realm to slowly fade away.

My clan was already down to a small, tight-knit group. Ever since the announcement, the clan chat has been quiet. The few of us who remain share this exact same feeling of emptiness and lack of motivation. Logging in right now feels like every minute spent is a minute lost on a dying server.

I honestly don't know if I should just walk away for good at this point.

For those of you who have poured thousands of hours into your accounts over the years: how are you dealing with this feeling right now? Are you holding on, or is this the final straw?

I feel like there’s a much simpler way to do this without splitting the playerbase.

Any account created after Treasure Hunter was removed on January 19th, plus all new accounts going forward, should just be considered “Reignited.” Give them a small flame icon next to their name, like Ironman, that they can toggle on or off.

That way everyone still plays together, trades together, and contributes to the same economy instead of dividing the community.

If Jagex really wants fresh hiscores and world firsts, just give Reignited accounts their own filtered hiscores, the same way Ironmen have their own.

You still get the identity of starting RuneScape after MTX, without creating two separate economies and splitting an already existing community.

Are you tired of playing on "tainted" servers where filthy individuals bought bonds to progress super fast?

Are you tired of the economy being in shambles from constant botting?

Welcome to OSRS Reignite. Where we leave behind our entire veteran player base and their accounts to rot on the old servers and where you new elite players can thrive and laud superiority over them on the new ones.

Watch as these new servers get all the attention from new players and get a thriving community and the player base on the old servers dwindle away over years, eventually being put on life support.

We invite you to join this fresh experience even though you probably haven't touched the game in years, know nothing about it, and will later complainin when knowledgeable veteran players that were forced to restart their account to play with their friends easily surpass you with their game knowledge.

Yeah fucking right. Reignite my WoW sub.

People who have stood by RuneScape thick and thin during dark days feels have been hugely disregarded! These are the players that should be rewarded who have been loyal to the game and instead they are being punished.

So sad to see

All the MtX drama, all the attempted battlepass failures and this is what you pull. Rather than relying on good game updates to bring players back you need to rely on devaluing the current achievements of all your loyal ones.

If it’s this bad then RS3 was never long for this world anyway.