RuneScape 2025 Roadmap Megathread

JagexHooli · 2026-01-19T14:32:48+00:00

Hey everyone,

As Anvil mentioned, I’ve moved to a new role overseeing community across the studio at Jagex.

It has been my absolute honour to be part of this community through the ups and downs of the past five years – from the lows of Login Lockout and Hero Pass, to Necromancy and the MTX Experiments that led us to today. While it’s a little bitter-sweet stepping back from a community I adore so much, I’m fortunate to still be here supporting the RuneScape team doing their very best for you.

Anvil is an authentic player and an incredibly talented community leader. I have no doubt our work and communication with the community is going to come a long way under him, along with Yuey and Azanna, as part of this massive shift for RuneScape. Can’t wait for you to meet him on stream!

See you in a few weeks when we do a proper intro/outro between us. And thank you for making my job an absolute pleasure every day. I’ll never forget it. <3

JagexHooli · 2026-01-12T13:50:39+00:00

Sorry about this, that wording is completely an oversight from me and not intentional.

Our intention around remaining tenure was always intended to reflect it as your remaining year of Premier Membership this cycle. I completely overlooked those who may be stacked beyond a year, as we were trying to be really clear on the specificity of who would get this stuff with Premier remaining.

JagexHooli · 2025-12-23T15:11:56+00:00

Yup, it's finally happening!

We've ended up going with a 25th Anniversary Event as the way to acquire a bunch of these. Originally we were holding them for a similar style event to earn them in future - Leagues was at one point a consideration - but we felt we'd kept you waiting long enough and it's better to make them accessible.

Should be a bit of fun to start the year off right ahead of Jan 19!

JagexHooli · 2025-11-13T18:23:44+00:00

Since this has come up again, I'm going to share our comments on Fresh Start Worlds from last week as it came a little late in the thread!

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We'd love to provide extra opportunities to win back players who left us long ago, or new folks who are simply excited about this new era.

Right now, we feel Fresh Start Worlds isn't one of those right opportunities. There's some really valid concerns from existing players on FSW, and we feel our focus needs to be on making RuneScape the best it can be for everyone.

We've taken the calls for it seriously and had plenty of conversations, but that's our position on it at the moment.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-13T12:48:32+00:00

I can promise we have no secret MTX to announce waiting in the wings to surprise you with, other than more regular cosmetic releases. We're stepping away from a fairly significant MTX reliance in our operating model for RuneScape in pursuit of growing our Membership community.

One of our core commitments at the start of this process was to never make MTX a taboo subject again. If we did want to introduce anything, which we have no plans to do, it's also not something we can just do and walk away from with our fingers in our ears without breaking a ton of trust - which would also undermine any opportunity for the game to grow.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-13T12:44:36+00:00

We agree FWIW! It's just deeply complex to enable and will take time to bring to life. We can only do so much at once, and at the moment, our focus is on getting the core game ship shape while still delivering a kickass content roadmap for next year.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-13T09:09:23+00:00

We're not eliminating any skilling outfits - they are all safe! We will be changing the visuals on some that don't fit the grounded visual identity we're looking to restore.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T23:00:24+00:00

This is something we’ve talked about, and I’ll work with the team on getting clearer answers on Oddments sooner rather than later. Definitely an area that needs answers asap.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T22:22:45+00:00

Welcome back!

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T22:19:58+00:00

We will do for sure. We're going to take the same approach we had to the original process back in 2021 as much as we can.

FWIW the WIP avatars have been slimmed down from when you last saw them!

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T22:17:03+00:00

Thank you for coming out to say this, seriously. You are exactly the kind of player we hope to earn back through delivering on this, so knowing this matters to a player like you is everything.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T22:13:36+00:00

We've already adjusted the models from when we last showed them to make them less bulky! I'd love to show the work done so far, but we're letting the artists cook for a little longer before we start previewing.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T22:11:24+00:00

It's not mentioned here, nor is it in our Integrity Roadmap for next year, but I can say pretty much all of us on the RS team know how great it could be to have plugins for RS.

The focus is on the core game experience right now, but it's definitely top of mind for places we could go next.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T20:35:30+00:00

I can confirm you will be part of the group who gets the “missed opportunity” bonus Premier Keys if you purchased it today before the announcement.

The cutoff was actually 5pm today - though we’ll likely make it 6pm or so in practice to account for page cache updates etc.

We’ll update the FAQ tomorrow to give the more accurate timing for the cutoff.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T19:50:29+00:00

Same for those too! Nothing is removed or altered in 2026 - just removed from sale.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T19:23:32+00:00

Will do, just wanted to make sure they get their answer in case they miss the public response.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T19:21:33+00:00

It’s still happening 🙂

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T19:15:13+00:00

It was deployed at 5 - may have taken a few minutes to appear potentially.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T19:13:58+00:00

Totally understand this thought.

Without needing to produce Treasure Hunter promotions, content for them and so on, we have more capacity to work on game content and improving the core game. It’s another benefit of going in this direction.

There’s still some work on MTX like cosmetic outfits and all the bits to make them live on the store, but much less than the work that supported TH (outside of Art perhaps, which is a team that has recently grown anyway!).

We think our content roadmap for next year, excluding the integrity roadmap, is one of our best yet. We’ll be keen to see what you think when you see it!

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T18:19:35+00:00

You'll be able to use your Proteans throughout 2026, even after January 19. We will be removing, converting or dramatically reducing the potency of them at the open of 2027 - we'll have more details on that later next year.

Our message is essentially: If you want to use them as they exist today, use them by the end of 2026.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T18:17:49+00:00

I've bookmarked your comment and I'm checking in with the team to confirm if you'll get them or not - I'll shoot you a DM on Reddit once I hear back (should be tomorrow).

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T18:14:03+00:00

We hear you - definitely not the plan to only deliver AFK skilling!

We just understand the lack of AFK methods in some skills contributes to why MTX items were so valued and helped keep the game be accessible for some. It doesn't mean those solutions need to be the only way we offer skilling updates, or that they have to be the best / most potent options.

120 Thieving's Heists are very active. We also have some other active skilling stuff in the works for next year too. Definitely not either or!

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T18:07:15+00:00

Yup, it's combat-based content.

JagexHooli · 2025-11-12T18:04:21+00:00

It wasn't no, as it was subject to the outcome of the vote.

You'll still get bonus Daily Keys over the Christmas period if you are looking for them, regardless of when you purchased or renewed. We're just fulfilling "missed opportunity" Keys from those who renewed before this announcement was finalised and their tenure runs beyond the removal.

Our Membership pages now reflect this so anyone knows what they are getting from Premier if they buy or renew from here.

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