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!”