RuneScape developer Jagex is reconsidering its plans after one of the biggest announcements at its recent RuneFest event sparked widespread outrage among the game's player base. RuneScape Reignited, a proposed plan to fork the MMO into new worlds with fresh economies and leaderboards, is going back to the drawing board.

"We are re-evaluating RuneScape Reignited," a fresh Jagex blog post begins. "Let’s not mince words here. We have made you, as existing players, feel like you are no longer our focus. That’s entirely on us and of our own making, and it’s only right we open by saying sorry."

RuneScape Reignited would, players rightly feared, split RuneScape (not Old School RuneScape, which is its own game) into two different versions: Reignited and legacy, or Veteran, worlds.

If Veteran players, who've survived years of dire monetization, community exodus, and stringing along from Jagex, wanted to engage with the Reignited worlds being pushed as a relaunch for the game, they'd have to start over completely.

"Treasure Hunter is gone," entreats the Reignited trailer, promising new players a game world never ravaged by horrible pay-to-win slop but leaving current players to twiddle their thumbs.

The idea of saving this long-struggling MMO by soft-resetting everyone, in a game explicitly about long-term account progression, was not received well.

In its post, Jagex reiterates that "an option to play with a fresh economy and progression is a big draw for new and returning players.

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