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Jagex

Jagex
Type Other
Videos 2 (first 2025-01-16, latest 2026-05-07)
Main source OSRS Threatened By Corporate Greed

Jagex is an other topic that Gnomonkey covers in 2 videos between 2025-01-16 and 2026-05-07. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Stats and numbers

  • Gnomonkey cites the recent Leagues as pushing Old School RuneScape to an all-time concurrent player high of about 260,000 players.1

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey considers Jagex's blog response the worst response he has seen to anything, calling it impressively bad.2
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex had just hit an all-time player cap of the game's 20-year history and is now trying to capitalise on it.3
  • Gnomonkey says he has played since he was nine years old and does not want to be just dollar signs to Jagex.4
  • Gnomonkey says the community quit once, over RuneScape's Evolution of Combat, and asked for 2007scape, which is how Old School RuneScape came to be, and suggests the new owners do not know this history.5
  • Gnomonkey says the Old School community does not put up with microtransactions or selling ads or security, which is why the game succeeded.5
  • Gnomonkey predicts that many players will unsubscribe and not come back if these changes happen, saying this is how you burn a game down as fast as possible.1
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex has a track record of inconsistent punishment, sometimes banning people for getting no benefit from touching a bug, and sometimes letting people abuse bugs to their heart's content.6
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex patches a lot of emergent gameplay that does not need patching, creating back and forth between the community and Jagex.7
  • Gnomonkey says many player-versus-monster players do things that Jagex would consider bug abuse without being banned, so it seems unfair that Rendy is punished while these players run free.8

Events

  • Jagex's blog response said the survey is a research tool, not a list of planned changes, and that no final decisions have been made, with prices shown in the survey generated at random as part of the conjoint analysis.2
  • Jagex's blog response was signed by the Old School team rather than named developers, which Gnomonkey asks viewers to keep in mind.2
  • Rendy also said Jagex recently rolled back a bronze defender and the collection log on something that took 30-plus hours of prep and a thousand poison dynamite, a case Gnomonkey says he has no context on.9

Revision history

Date Video Change
2026-05-07 What is Bug Abuse in OSRS? Added: 4 statements (event, opinion)
2025-01-16 OSRS Threatened By Corporate Greed Page created: 9 statements (event, opinion, stat)
## References

  1. OSRS Threatened By Corporate Greed, 2025-01-16. ▶ 18:01 ↩↩

  2. OSRS Threatened By Corporate Greed, 2025-01-16. ▶ 7:44 ↩↩↩

  3. OSRS Threatened By Corporate Greed, 2025-01-16. ▶ 9:50 ↩

  4. OSRS Threatened By Corporate Greed, 2025-01-16. ▶ 17:13 ↩

  5. OSRS Threatened By Corporate Greed, 2025-01-16. ▶ 17:30 ↩↩

  6. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 20:25 ↩

  7. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 20:45 ↩

  8. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 21:01 ↩

  9. What is Bug Abuse in OSRS?, 2026-05-07. ▶ 0:55 ↩

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