The Future of RuneScape

After playing RuneScape for some time, most of us will be wondering what other new things Jagex as a company will be adding to Runescape in the future.
Jagex can really do alot of things to improve its service and get a better RuneScape for us all.
Some of topics I’m going to touch on while in this article about the future of RuneScape will be many of the more popular suggestions and wants of the RuneScape players.
[Much comparison with World of Warcraft and other games is touched on in this article]

New Content in RuneScape
Have you been bored to death by doing the same things over and over again? This is one bad part of playing an MMOPRG, that you have to just repeat same actions you do everyday to get that one level to become master of RuneScape.
We’re all fighting, chatting, learning skills and getting more gold pieces, but even the fun of the game gets overshadowed by the fact we have to redo the same things without stopping if we don’t want to get overtaken.
If RuneScape adds new content in the future, it might be a little more tolerable even with repetition.
Some of the new content I have in mind are those storyline differences made by your choices while doing quests, and also just more stuff added to the game!

If you have ever played games like WWE Smackdown, or KOTOR(Knights of The Old Republic), then you will have gone through what I’m suggesting to implement for RuneScape quests.
Rather than having one set way to finish any quest, Jagex could add to RuneScape some minor differences, and let users play it their own way with guidance from NPCs(non-player characters).

For quests like Romeo and Juliet, you could even play the role of a family member to bring them back together in a meeting and talk like in the original story, rather than just a messenger boy passing around items and messages.

Lifting the Top Levels
For RuneScape, that could mean raising the maximum level for each skill to maybe more than 100, and the Combat Level to 129, a level for every combat related skill.

Although this might be a good idea in the future, what can the users do when there aren’t that many new items to strive for?
If there isn’t enough engaging content like better weapons, quests that only level 100s can do in reward for their hard work on RuneScape, nobody will want to play anymore.

Game developers do know though, that when you lift a level, there obviously must be some kind of incentive other than the pride of being the top in the game, to motivate players to put in more hours and train. RuneScape won’t be the exception to the rule, which definitely means that there will be newer and improved items for people over level 100 in a skill, so keep on campaigning for your higher levels!

New graphics engine for RuneScape

Have you ever played games like World of Warcraft or Lineage II? If you have, then you’ll have an easier time imagining the fun we get up to with this section of the article.

RuneScape is was created and currently maintained with Java, a programming with similar syntax to C++. The current graphics are already top-notch for Java programming with the new redesigning of graphics by the Jagex staff team for RuneScape and more to come in the future, so imagine if RuneScape switched from Java to the other programming languages which run World of Warcraft.

The graphics of the game would be intense and gameplay simply be unbelievable, if you imagine killing the Kalphite Queen in a environment on par with the battles of the Horde against the Alliance.

A console game in the foreseeable future for RuneScape?

This might not seem so far-fetched if you sit down and think about it. Jagex has been aggressively marketing RuneScape in all forms of media such as websites, magazines and even publishing a book on being on a good RuneScape player. And yes, there is an Official Handbook to RuneScape, by Tracey West. The fact that Tracey West is also a kids’ book writer might cause for some hesitancy in buying the Official Handbook, but the book itself should be a good steal at just $6.99USD.

Going back to the future of RuneScape though, it would probably be very easy to adapt the world of RuneScape for a RPG game in which you could play as a NPC chosen by Jagex to be the star of the game. Maybe players can finally fulfill their dreams of being Vannaka, greatest swordsman alive in the realm of RuneScape!

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