RuneScape Announces Adjustments To Premier Membership Model To Account For Recent Changes To The MMORPG

With all the changes that Jagex is implementing in RuneScape, they’re taking a look at the game’s various membership models – particularly the Premier model. While the game is free-to-play, it offers players the opportunity to subscribe at different levels and receive various benefits based on those subscriptions. With all the changes they’ve been making to the game lately, they’ve determined that some of the existing subscription benefits no longer make sense. So, they’ve laid out their plans to adjust things in a post on the MMORPG’s site.

According to the post, one of those changes will be the closing of the Loyalty Store, which, as they put it, “has been in an odd position for many years”. The team has determined that continuing to keep it takes resources away from the game. In addition, the Loyalty System time-gates content, and they want to move away from that. Auras are being removed as well, so there’s no reason to keep the store around, and it will be closed in April. Cosmetics from the store will be moved to the Free Monthly Marketplace Drop cycles.

Another change will be that players will no longer have to buy into boss instances. This won’t be an immediate change. The post states it will be “later this year”. In addition, VIP Worlds will become accessible to all members. The hope is to reduce the splitting of the playerbase and give everyone the opportunity to meet more players. Monthly Drops and Premier Tokens will be removed as well.

This doesn’t mean that Premier is going away completely, although it’s being rebranded to the “12 Month Membership. The post goes on to discuss what players will be receiving for their continued subscription. In November, they’ll add more new cosmetic items to the yearly cosmetic refresh. The 12 Month Memberships will still include multiple months of free Membership Value and 100 Bank Spaces.