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RuneScape was once declared the world’s largest multiplayer online game. Millions of people were entranced by its blocky graphics and repetitive gameplay. Like many young people in the early noughties, I was naively drawn in by RuneScape’s promise that hard work, industrious labour, and a lava battle staff would allow me to earn enjoyment and success. Capitalism, too, has promised the workers of the world that faithfulness to our employers is the path to contentment. Yet the relation of exploitation between the capitalist and working classes has led the proletariat into open revolt against our rulers over and over again. RuneScape, like capitalism, has repeatedly entered into periods of crisis in which the people have demanded change. And as I learned today while procrastinating, in RuneScape just as in capitalism, the people have turned to communism to build a new world. An ancient fan wiki revealed to me the lost history of class struggle in RuneScape, and now I bring it to the world...

RuneScape is reviewing its Security Measures deployed for protecting the majority of legitimate players against hijacking. Reportedly, more than 60% of RuneScape Players haven't been so convinced of the overrated efficacy of the game Security Barrier and at least 30% of players have been hijacked or scammed once in the game before.  Security Measures wasn't the only character in the show. RuneScape was announced to plan on issuing a batch of corrections and improvements on Account Recovery, Account Security, Customer Support, Anti-cheating, Toxicity in the game and many other issues that concern Players' experiences mostly. The official blog post described this project as a "significant work", which requires much more time and technology to tackle because of some legacy issues and its "no-quick-fix" policy. It's been a very long time since the first group of rantings towards gimcrack RuneScape Security was laid out on social media. Many doubte...

RuneScape looks like experiencing an overhaul to the whole system. Ironically, the motivation that drives the overhaul is, surprisingly, the weariness of playing "Bounty Hunter" from game developers.  Based on the latest post from the official RuneScape site, regardless of its horrid genre and two-year running history, Bounty Hunter, as one of the minigames of the game, is officially removed in Mar. 11 update and no longer exist. This kind of astonishing update doesn't actually come out of nowhere: as early as 3 days ago, there was a hotfix deployed to the game which specifically aimed at evacuating and expelling players from the minigame successively. This hotfix enables the functionality of sending everyone in the game a message about taking down Bounty Hunter three days later. And now, this content is buried under the six feet already.  Although some gamers do take the developers' side and accuse the discomfort and disheartenment they have to deal with...

As of 2019, Runescape has been in existence for more than 18 years now. However, as old as it is, it has not lost its shine. It is still one of the most successful and popular gaming franchises across the world. Every day, thousands and even millions of players log into RS to play as individuals while others join forces. That being said, getting started with RS can be confusing and challenging, especially if do not have some guidance. To be successful, you need quality guidance, advice, and tips on how to play and succeed in RS in 2019. Herein is a guide you can trust to help you succeed. It’s Free to Play But it’s Fun with a Membership As you might know, RuneScape is a free-to-play game. As such, anyone can play. However, having a membership yields a far more immersive and enjoyable experience. Your membership will unlock: 10 more skills 80% – 90% more areas to explore 117 quest tasks There are plenty of add-ons and capabilities that you get with a membership, and none of them ...

A few days ago, RuneScape was resuming a new quest which has been laid aside for eighteen years since it had been renowned as the very first quest in the RuneScape history in most players' memory. The quest is called Chef's Assistant. very similar to the original version "Cook's Assitant". The goal of completing this quest is making a top-secret cheesecake dessert with Head Chef so that it can be shown off at the next "Cooks Apprentices and Kitchen Experts Society" meeting.  The quest is rather peaceful and lighthearted, compared with other types of quests involving in tons of mysteries-ready-to-be-solved process and relentless fights with villains. It doesn't need to wrestle with someone or something difficult or hard to be dealt with in the whole process, so, in terms of length and requirement of time, this Chef's Assistant quest is typically short and simple. To make a top-secret cheesecake dessert as requested in the quest, you need t...

Apparently, RuneScape is preparing a majestic gala in the next month as the announcement goes public. Although it's not some kind of trophies or wonderlands within reach that you can actually have a little taste of in the next few days, it's worthy enough for the ones unable to hold themselves back to be informed with some prophecies and commitment from the game devs. You know, better feeding them with fancies than nothing.  Let's see what the announcement provide us with, first, it's some kind of retrospective about casting back to the first ever quest in RuneScape. We intend to get further details about this upcoming retrospective but there is nothing more about it in the announcement. Clearly, it got cut in by the "main course" - The Shadow Reef, the third and final outing in RuneScape epic Elite Dungeons trilogy. The shadow Reef feature tons of minibosses and three bosses, including the infamous "the Ambassador" as the final boss. All t...

RuneScape devs team issued a patch note of tweaks and improvements they prepped up for Loot Sharing and Stone Spirits in the game, as a potent demonstration of perfectly performing its own New Year's resolutions in this phase. The patch note mainly focused on the major improvements to Loot Sharing, Stone Spirits, and several other functionalities within the game. It's also the remodification of some imperfections caused by the overdone tweaks from last Smithing & Mining Rework update.  For starters, let's take a look at what's happened in Loot Sharing, shall we? For Loot Sharing, RuneScape devs added a new feature to the Loot Sharing system that allowing the players to give away their own loots to anyone else in the same friends chat without no longer adding these people to the friend lists first. With this feature added on, there are plenty of conveniences created and a few more time saved for both sides of parties no doubt in the game.  The Second ...

Jagex's current owner, a Chinese firm called FuKong Interactive, has issued a regulatory statement to notify Chinese financial market several days ago that it's planning a major reorganization and considering sales of assets, with partial or full sale of Jagex as a potential option. Fukong Interactive is currently possessing 100% stake of Jagex, and the sole controller of Jagex for the last two years through buying out the former owner of Jagex, another Shanghai firm called Hongtou Holding in 2017. However, in 2018, the company has been haunted by tons of calamities: a batch of executives successively resigned under "personal reasons"; the company and its actual controller was in custody and currently under investigation of violating certain regulations by CSRC; the first half year of 2018 has gained a revenue of 55 million dollars, reduced by 9.7% on a year-to-year basis while causing 68 million dollars deficit, on the other hand, made a profit around 6.4 millio...

Hackers' Capability  It is estimated that there are a dozen number of Old Scholl RuneScape accounts got hacked on a daily basis, and takes its toll on the RuneScape Security in the meantime. According to incomplete counts, hackers gain an average of 2 billion dollars illegitimate earnings per day from breaking into OSRS accounts, and that even excludes the loss from RuneScape.  RuneScape, for sure, has a steady and die-hard player base more than any other games does in the world. As one of the oldest and most-updated games that even have made it into the Guinness Record, the game is now a renowned title in the game industry and its 2013 nostalgic version, Old School RuneScape, serves at least 50,000 concurrent players every day. However, like any other with unfailing fames, this game has been haunted by an online illicit group made up of hackers, scammers and spammers for all these years. Undoubtedly, security measures called for higher-level and more efficient p...

RuneScape just made a decision to cast its Companion App off shortly. The decision is well-explained in a brief announcement that has been put up on the official website billboard, saying the RuneScape Companion App is too old to be maintained by the tech support.  The RuneScape Companion is a free application used for various interactions with the game. It is supported by smartphones, tablets, and certain web browsers. You can: buy and sell items from your bank on the Grand Exchange view the contents of your bank look up the stock market prices of items on the Grand Exchange chat with players via private, friends, and clan chats view your D&D tracker which shows time remaining for D&Ds you still have time to complete view your friend and ignore list view your clan member list Buying and selling items will withdraw and deposit gold into your money pouch, not your bank. In the announcement, Jagex claimed and implied that continuing to maintain ...

Jagex has made an announcement to patch up the completionist cape in Runescape, which was considered to be trapped in a quagmire of disappointments and arguably conflict with the original intent behind the design. To emphasize the size of this upcoming rework, Jagex specifically brought back the dev blog and discussed all the details regarding what kind of problems and remedies the completionist cape have and will receive. You can click here for the view of the whole dev blog. To make a long story short, what phrase the completionist cape are experiencing now is quite alarming and worrisome. According to Jagex statement, the completionist cape would have been more intriguing and funnier than the old ones after each perfection, however, today's completionist cape get lashed out and become rather repulsive instead. All the mess turned into a predicament where any other significant improvements the devs made in an update are completely spoiled in the RuneScape players eyes by ...

As we mentioned several days before the startup when we were still in the countdown of 2018, the Runescape 18th birthday celebration will launch on today as scheduled. The opening ceremony, reportedly, was a firework show in the game hosted by players themselves. The sparklers, which can be freely acquired from Treasure Hunter, are the main prop to maintain this firework show and features different colours and different effects during their sparking.  Based on the announcement from Runescape official site, we are convinced that these sparklers have been categorized into four different types according to numbers of grabbing and colours. In former categorization, there are four different types of sparklers to choose from: Purple, Double, Tripple, Quadruple. The bunches of different numbers of sparklers separate them each other. Other than Bunch amounts categorization, the latter one is Color Taxis. All two different colours, including red and purple, are on t...

As it comes to the countdown to the 2018 and the opening of 2019, many game publishers are busy in announcing the next year's resolution and the year-end summary. As cliche as it sounds, there are some exceptional thunderbolts out there hidden in the lengthy announcements they made. Recently, as the publisher of one of the oldest and most-updated MMORPGs in the world, Runescape's creator Jagex just posted its"Early 2019 scheduled updates of Runescape Part one" on the game's official website hours ago. Unlike the brief and vague updates' notes published by the company previously, this announcement is evidently more abundant and detailed as to the updates amount and updates' content. Carrying on with the consistent easiness-and-humorousness narrative style, the announcement brought the company and Runescape fandoms closer together again as expected. Given the limited space available, we will not broadcast and brief most of the announcements' contents. We...

Unless you are one of the crews that have been crystal clear to the capability of games like Runescape that leaving the real world out as you immerse yourself in the fantasy they demonstrate, you don't get to know the game whatsoever in all probability. Created and released in 2001 initially, Runescape is one of the many MMORPGs that fantasy and magic fandoms can play an encounter with other players. The world in Runescape has been evolved throughout all these years to accommodate the desires of those that are fond of wonderland and quests that are able to give out untold hours of amusement based upon the fans' affection. Runescape is rather all-around that isn't put down to the punctilious storylines and rigid narrative structure that some other games have adhered to. Below are a few fun facts about Runescape that you might not have heard of. 10. Runescape was originally developed as a browser game. A browser game is that the type of game can be played over a web b...

It's been a long time since Runescape players had appealed for a mobile port of Runescape. And yet the wish all comes true after Jagex released that on November 10 and gamers finally gets a taste for the nostalgia of OSRS on their mobile devices. If you intend to immerse yourself deeply or shallowly in this mobile game and get an OSRS account, here are something you should know about it previously. Basic Knowledge 101 Over OSRS Mobile  In case of an absence of familiarity with the Runescape franchise whatsoever, here is a skeleton of this game's facts: 1. For Rookies Part 1: Runescape Is A Long-Standing Game Franchise Runescape was initially created and released by Jagex in 2001; the game was designed to be a paradise where players play the role as an n adventurer in Gielinor and quest a grand magical world. Regardless of its timeworn graphics that can easily be exceeded by other games that are just as old, Runescape overwhelmingly make up for it with fre...