Oldschool RuneScape is, as the name suggests, really old school. The game is generally at the state of RuneScape from 2007 and was released in early 2013 to revive the old times. But now a completely new skill is coming to the MMORPG for the first time in 10 years.
Why is a new skill so special? RuneScape is a true MMORPG classic. The game was originally released in January 2001 and has been very successful to this day. Currently, there are two versions of the MMORPG, the “regular” RuneScape and the Oldschool RuneScape that was released in 2013.
Oldschool RuneScape is at the state of the game from August 2007, which many fans are very satisfied with, as the game has regularly appeared in all relevant MMORPG top lists.
Although there have been continuous improvements implemented over time, none were a new skill in all the time of Oldschool RuneScape. That is supposed to change now because that’s what the community wants.
How did this come about? After the desire for a new skill arose more frequently in the community, the developers initiated a voting process. 191,000 fans participated in this vote. A full 80.9% were in favor of the new skill.
All without knowing what kind of ability it is supposed to be. Because the developers want to decide this together with the community in the next step.
During the year 2023, the skill is supposed to be implemented in Oldschool RuneScape, a full 10 years after the launch of the MMORPG.
Oldschool RuneScape is also one of our 5 old MMORPGs that are still actively played:
The new skill is being developed together with the players
How is the new skill created? What exactly it will be like is currently still unclear. However, the developers are building the skill in a complex development phase together with the community. How this works in detail is explained by Community Manager Ayiza in a video (via YouTube).
According to this, there should be further surveys in the next phase regarding what kind of skill players actually want in the game and in which direction development should go. Then they want to pitch several different skills and let the players vote and discuss again.
In the next step, a skill will then be selected, which will subsequently be refined and the community should vote on it again. Only then do the developers want to finalize their decision on the selected skill and bring it into the game in a beta phase.
What does the community say? In a thread on reddit, the topic is naturally being hotly discussed, so we want to give some fans a chance to speak (via reddit):
- BoogieTheHedgehog writes: ‘The result is incredibly good, even higher than the 78% they were expecting. The big question is whether they will ever find anything that all yes-voters can agree on.’
- Ploki122 says: ‘By the way, this is the voting with the most participants ever. In general, only two votes have received over 100,000 votes, and the new skill is even bigger than the Ironman mode.’
- philly4yaa is excited: ‘Bingo! This is a great result from the community. Finally, we are getting a new skill!’
Are you currently playing RuneScape and have an opinion on the topic? Are you perhaps affected and want to participate in the survey for the new skill? Or did you maybe say no to the skill? Feel free to let us know in the comments here at MeinMMO.
A fan in RuneScape took 8 years and almost 40,000 hours of gameplay for a crazy achievement, which is almost nullified by the new skill.
