RuneScape developer Jagex has canceled RuneScape Reignited, a recently announced and hugely controversial plan to soft-reset the MMO by spinning up forked servers with fresh economies and characters, after widespread player criticism.

Jagex only just apologized for neglecting players and announced plans to pause and revisit this whole idea. Now, RuneScape Reignited is well and truly dead.

"It is clear that we missed the mark on this, and so we are not moving forward with it," a blog post from associate creative director Mod Ryan reads. "Our goal is to see Runescape grow again, with returning players coming back and new players joining, but never at the expense of our existing community."

The main complaint with Reignited, as acknowledged and summarized by Jagex, was that the players who've kept RuneScape alive all these years would be forced to leave their accounts behind if they wanted to enjoy the fresh Reignited servers which have not been tainted by all the microtransaction sludge that Jagex has been trying to scrub out.

It was positioned as a glorious refresh, but veterans felt left behind and worried that this version of the game would only split an already fairly small audience. People also complained about needing yet another membership subscription for a new account, as RuneScape subs don't cover multiple characters in the way that World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy 14 subs do.

"We received a ton of different perspectives from all of you, and we truly appreciate everyone sharing their views," says Mod Ryan.

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