

Prior to the closure, there was no permanent direct link to RuneScape Classic from the RuneScape website. RuneScape now features more ways to play, brand new skills and over 200 gripping story-driven quests.

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Both RuneScape, the modern version of the game, and Old School RuneScape, an evolving snapshot of the 2007 online game, are set to remain up and running for the foreseeable future. Released in 2013, Old School RuneScape was created from a 2007 backup of RuneScape so that traditionalists could return to the classic version of this popular MMORPG. With the games servers having gone offline indefinitely on 6 August 2018, it is now impossible to play the official version of Classic via Jagex. Make sure you’re in a free-to-play world before logging in to Old School RuneScape. Since our start in 2005, weve become the largest and most comprehensive reference for the game, with 63,726 articles and counting. While this spells the end for RuneScape Classic, Jagex still maintains two other versions of the game that each immortalize different eras of the long-running MMORPG. Please note: We our not the developers of OpenRsc, please make sure you read and follow their rules before going over there. We are the official RuneScape encyclopaedia, written and maintained by the players. Since the release of Old School RuneScape, the game is still incredibly popular. The rise of botting has given way to an increase in overall bugs, leading Jagex to its decision to shut down the game rather than wait for an inevitable, game-breaking bug to knock the game offline for good without any warning. There are a total of 119 pay-to-play quests in Old School RuneScape.

As a result, botting has become a significant problem since the team lacks the tools to effectively detect and prevent bot accounts. At level 60, the Mining Guild is accessible Buy OSRS Old School Runescape Fire Cape. The developer says that many of its tools are no longer compatible with the classic variant of RuneScape, which itself was released in 2001. 'I got in to RuneScape when I was younger because there were a bunch of boys playing it in the computer room of this play centre that I used to go to. While it’s common to see developers end support for their older games as costs become an issue, Jagex notes in a blog post that the decision to shut down RuneScape Classic was driven instead by the lack of compatible community safety tools and growing list of catastrophic bugs.
