Unpaid nerd works on plugin for an IE6 compatible medieval clicking simulator for free, game developers tell him to can his 2000 man-hour project

Old School Runescape is an official fork of a 2007 build of one of the most ancient MMOs ever made. There is the official desktop client as well as an official mobile phone client. The majority of desktop players use an unofficial third party client, Runelite, which has many features absent from the official client.

One of the appeals of Runelite is the flexibility of adding plugins. This is not the first time the official game developer, Jagex, has asked plugins be removed from RuneLite. Being g*mers, this type of drama around OSRS is not rare and most people keep paying their sub anyway. Until now?!?

Official developer statement

https://old.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/pjnnyl/thirdparty_hd_clients_statement/?sort=controversial

Nerd malds that he did it for free (OP link)

https://old.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/pjo5mt/runelite_hd_has_been_shut_down/?sort=controversial

A lot of seething from the fact that the plugin was supposed to be released yesterday, but Jagex at the last minute said "no", citing that they are working on a similar project internally. G*mers are hesitant to trust this though.

I want you all to know that this must have been on purpose.

RuneLite HD had been announced and teased for half a year now, and it was gonna be finally released in the coming weeks, if Jagex was truly doing this in good faith, they could have simply asked not to release it way earlier.

I refuse to believe this is just some unfortunate timing, the fact they're only starting to CONSIDER it, and already shut down RLHD is pure and utter bullcrap.

If you wanna make an impact, like when they threatened to shut down runelite, cancel your subs, and go riot like the community knows so well to do.

G*mers unite!

Yeah honestly after seeing this BS I’m done with this game and Jagex. That’s gotta be one of the biggest snake moves. Telling someone to drop their project when you know they’ve been working so hard on it (as an improvement to YOUR game that you’re unwilling to make yourself until you see the hype) is disgusting. Sorry that it had to happen to you man. Hopefully they get their shit together but after all the shady shit I’m good off them.

Cincerely[sic] from the bottom of my heart Jagex, frick off. This is just one more sign of not knowing your playerbase and even hinting that the devs communicate with players or blablabla means absolutely nothing when the clueless corporate overlords of the company dictate wether or not the devs get to put sugar in their milk. You might think the game is brought back by players for players but this idea has been lost a long time ago.

Those darn dirty corpos!

Jagex has been a literally shit stain of a company since the Chinese buyout, frick them

The mandatory "frick China" comment