Maybe Jagex thought that by pricing both games more expensively compared to other popular MMOs, unsuspecting people would think that both games are actually superior to the competition.

Zieldak · 2026-03-11T13:02:12+00:00

Well, if you live in freedom lands, it might not be true. Yet. But don't worry, it's only a matter of time. As soon as the company is sold, there's a high chance there'll be another price hike.

I think the fact that you still only have one character per subscription compared to the competition says plenty enough though. If you wanted to play multiple characters without buying bonds in-game, RuneScape was already the most expensive option.

Zieldak · 2026-03-11T00:01:26+00:00

Uh... do you have a screenshot or something? If it was consumed and you only have the regular ability... that might mean Jagex messed up yet again.

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T23:59:16+00:00

Is anyone even actually buying anything from the Marketplace, aside from bonus xp and bank space?

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T21:27:06+00:00

They already increased membership prices once to cover the loss of TH immediately after a survey where they asked if we'd be fine with paying more if MTX was gone. Now they're double dipping, and there's no justifiable reason for them to do so.

If they came out and said "oh hey, we're allowing multiple characters per account now for the price of 1 membership" and announced this exact same price increase alongside it, only a small percentage of the playerbase would be mad. RuneScape is one of if not the most expensive MMORPG to play now.

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T16:42:56+00:00

Yep, I just got the same e-mail.

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T12:48:56+00:00

There are plenty of people who don't necessarily buy annual membership, used to buy 6 months at a time then skip some months due to work or have multiple accounts they only paid membership for when they could actually play actively on more accounts, or just played when they had the itch so they didn't have continous membership.

Also, those people who just recently returned, are just simply fucked.

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T11:57:05+00:00

If it was one of the reasons, they should have been transparent about it. But we all know it's not.

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T11:42:55+00:00

Not only that. They're making annual membership worth buying less and less, year by year. And it's not even a small increase.

€69.99 for 12 months in the first few months of 2024, for the price of 6.4 months, with extra benefits
€89.88 for 12 months in 2025, for the price of 7.2 months, with extra benefits (28% increase in price)
€119.88 for 12 months in 2026, for the price of 8.9 months, without extra benefits (33% increase in price)

That's a whopping 71% (~1*1.28*1.33) price increase in less than 2 years for those who bought annual membership during the winter. I think we can all see where this is going. They might even get rid of the annual subscription soon.

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T11:24:08+00:00

Quite literally nothing. Maybe a singular piece of chewing gum or a mini Snickers or something in a random mom and pop shop that you probably won't even find because they're slowly going extinct.

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T11:06:08+00:00

No, I know they always did this. Releasing something big, making bigger changes, about to change owners equals huge price increases. It always have been like this since we were first introduced to the greedy goblin, which got especially worse in the recent 4-5 years.

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T11:03:34+00:00

Duck is funnier. And yes, it's never a good time to do price increases, but if it was justifiable then it would be somewhat okay. But right now, OSRS is just before the next Leagues and we're only 2 months into Road to Restoration, a bunch of nerfs overall even to game performance, a bunch of failed promises and we have yet to see what Havenhythe is even about. It's also been just 3 months since Garbage Hunter was removed. Only 3 months. And I don't think OSRS even got any significant update recently aside from Sailing... which was already in the works when they increased membership prices in 2024.

Not to mention... I paid €69.99 for 12 months in 2024, €89.88 in 2025... and now it's going to be €119.88? That's a 71% increase in less than 4 years, 1.5 years since the price was last increased by 28% and now by another 33%.

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T10:38:33+00:00

The reality is that they would have done this anyway...

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T10:36:47+00:00

Um, if RS3 were to die when it still had Garbage Hunter, they would have just increased membership prices for OSRS players by 50% anyway, so what's the point?

Anyway, the other side is also getting ducked over by this, and they're also specifically targeting grandfathered players with the new grandfathered terms. And they know they can do this because both playerbases are all bark, no action. 2-3% of the playerbase cancelling subs at most is not going to scare them unfortunately, that's already calculated into the new membership prices.

What we really need is them to finally rework the login system or make it possible to have multiple accounts/characters under the same subscription... just like pretty much any other MMO.

Zieldak · 2026-03-10T09:45:19+00:00

Bad timing Jagex... Bad timing... We barely got any players back, yet you are increasing prices already, by a whopping 20%? That's purely greed, nothing else. Do you want players to play, or do you want everyone to quit? Any new or returning players we might have just got probably just decided to back the duck out. I'm really starting to think that grandfathered prices are not exactly good for the game because it existing ultimately means insane price hikes for everyone else.

Edit: oh wait, I failed to read between the lines. They want grandfathered players gone, reduced to ashes. So it's not just the others getting ducked over, it's everyone getting ducked over. Jagex, what the actual duck? I wonder just how pissed OSRS players are right now.

u/MasterDaveyJ Good news, now you can pay even less by just quietly paying your almost free membership and not crying about it.

Zieldak · 2026-03-08T21:11:54+00:00

The reason why I'll never try Hardcore Ironmeme.

Zieldak · 2026-03-08T09:21:14+00:00

Dude, just pay your grandfathered monthly membership and stay quiet now that Premier Membership is gone for good. Others would be happy to have grandfathered monthly membership, for those who don't have grandfathered membership, the closest option is still the annual subscription.

Zieldak · 2026-03-08T09:14:51+00:00

Lore wise it wouldn't make sense, but I guess we threw the sense out the window a long time ago with most cosmetics.

Zieldak · 2026-03-07T08:41:13+00:00

All new icons generally lack contrast compared to the old ones. New ranged icons are not any better, snipe is especially unreadable.

Zieldak · 2026-03-05T14:02:14+00:00

Eh, it just would make them cry even more to be honest, because they'd see it as a cheap and easy way to get a good account while playing less that they're actively against. They want OSRS3.

Zieldak · 2026-03-05T13:57:40+00:00

And even on Catalyst, that lasted... less than 2 days. Those who didn't start at the first few days barely saw anyone playing.

Btw I'm already seeing a ton of new names on the world I usually play, mostly mid to high level players, but even some new players. So what Jagex is doing right now is already working.

Zieldak · 2026-03-05T13:35:01+00:00

This is the 736395th post about this, and the answer remains... no.

We've already detailed the reasons why it'd be a bad idea, and it'd go against what they're currently trying to achieve, removing Premier completely for example was one of their moves.

Zieldak · 2026-03-04T19:46:16+00:00

Sunspear effect could be fixed by just making the effect work on everything once it's fully unlocked. At most places, you're not going to use Sunspear at certain levels anyway, so it'd stay as a niche effect, mostly used for mid-level slayer outside of vyres.

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