Jagex pledged to get players involved in the development of new features earlier, citing Community Hitlist and Comp Cape polls as current examples. "If we do explore a new reward system, the message is clear - we need to involve players from the outset.

They make this promise every year. They always do it a couple of times, then cancel a project that people wanted, then people start berating the developers, so then they stop sharing what they are working on. Then they make an update like this and say, “oops, we didn’t know you didn’t want pay to win!”

The worst thing about jagex is their management. They are so out of touch and only see runescape as something to squeeze money from. They should be happy they have generated as much revenue as they have from such an old game. Last I checked it was pulling in hundreds of millions in profit.