In January, developer Jagex introduced the removal of microtransactions from its wildly in style 25-year-old MMO, RuneScape. Gamers rejoiced, however now the opposite shoe has dropped: Evidently the elimination of microtransactions might come at a price–specifically, a rise within the recreation’s month-to-month subscription charge.
In a new blog post, Jagex detailed plans to extend the sport’s month-to-month subscription worth from $14 to $15 per thirty days, with the yearly plan growing from $99.48 to $131.88 per yr. The worth increase–which comes lower than two years after the final time Jagex raised subscription charges for its getting old MMO–goes into impact on April 9.
The excellent news is that this worth hike will not have an effect on any gamers who’ve an lively month-to-month subscription at a grandfathered fee.
“Your worth won’t be altering in case you are actively on a Grandfathered fee month-to-month subscription (any subscription began, sustained and in lively use from earlier than September 27, 2024),” the weblog submit defined.
The draw back is that going ahead, gamers who wish to retain their grandfathered subscription fee must buy a one-year subscription plan to maintain it.
“Eligible Grandfather fee gamers will want an lively recurring month-to-month Membership to retain their fee going ahead,” Jagex’s weblog submit reads. “The flexibility for 12 Month Membership subscribers to change between discounted-value 12 Month Membership and inactive Grandfather Charge memberships has additionally been discontinued. We are going to proceed to supply a 14-day grace interval to guard your Grandfathered fee within the occasion of a billing problem. Nonetheless, your fee won’t be preserved when you select to unsubscribe [starting on] April ninth, 2026.”
Jagex can be eradicating the six-month subscription choice from the sport fully. Present subscribers on a six-month plan won’t see any adjustments, however must select between a month-to-month plan and a yearly plan as soon as their subscription runs out.