RuneScape was first mentioned by Mark Gerhard in a live "Botting in RuneScape" Q&A stream on the RuneScape's YouTube Channel on 9 September 2012. He suggested that micropayments, such as Squeal of Fortune, are helping to make a "war chest" (or "fighting fund"), to be able to fund large future projects. Future live streams will include discussions about RuneScape's general future, including possibilities of RuneScape .
As the game gained more users, Jagex began planning major changes. The developers rewrote the game engine, producing a new version of the game with entirely three-dimensional graphics called RuneScape 2. A beta version of RuneScape 2 was released to paying members for a testing period beginning on 1 December 2003, and ending in March 2004. When players subscribe, they receive members credit which allows them to access the pay-to-play version of RuneScape.
When you start a subscription by credit card, it will be paid monthly. Subscriptions through different payment methods may have varying lengths, although there is a minimum length of one month. Jagex is affiliated with several payment providers, each providing different subscription payment methods and prices. A game type in itself, the world becomes completely Pvp. There are no safe spots aside from very few locations such as tutorial island. There are excessively powerful guards protecting players within towns.
During Pvp as the person being killed you will lose 25% of the exp you gained in any unprotected skills, you will also lose 28 of your most valuable stacks from your bank. You can use a small safety deposit box to help protect your items. During Pvp as the PKer, if you kill you target without a skull, you acquire a key. The skull prevents you from using it in a bank. When you use a key, you have access to the 28 stacks that your victim had in his bank. A PKer can only hold 5 keys at a time.
Different payment methods require different information to be given during a secure payment process. The studio has also posted the full 2.4.1 update patch notes for the Public Test Realms, making it clear that it might make changes before the new modifications reach all the community, with those who play on those servers able to offer feedback about the improved version of the game. There are a lot of modifications linked to the classes of Runescape, the items, the Adventure Mode, crafting, and monsters.
Upon its official release, RuneScape 2 was renamed simply RuneScape, while the older version of the game was kept online under the name RuneScape Classic. On 12 January 2006, Jagex banned more than 5000 Classic accounts for cheating. To prevent further cheating, Classic was closed to new accounts and access was restricted to accounts who had played it at least once between 3 August 2005 and 12 January 2006. Additional reopenings have taken place in November 2009, June 2010 and September 2011. It is currently only possible to play Classic on an account that has logged in during at least one of these four periods.