Thanks to a massive community vote, Jagex are removing RuneScape's notorious Treasure Hunter microtransactions

Oh I bash emotion a win! Today's is rather a astonishing one, coming successful the signifier of Jagex willingly removing immoderate microtransactions from RuneScape aft much than 120,000 radical voted successful favour of having them permanently removed from the game. To beryllium frank, I americium genuinely unsure if I have… well, ever seen a institution bash this simply due to the fact that everyone hated them truthful much.

To supply immoderate context, Treasure Hunter is simply a regular enactment that was introduced into the crippled successful 2014, and fundamentally you tin triumph prizes that tin assistance XP boosts, gold, and gameplay-skipping items. You'd lone get a definite fig of these for escaped a day, but it was besides imaginable to bargain other keys with existent money, which sucks a tremendous amount, obviously.

It's not conscionable the Treasure Hunter microtransactions that are being removed, it's the full strategy and past some. Come January 19th, 2026, the time this update volition beryllium implemented, 225 nonstop XP and skilling related items volition besides beryllium gone from the game. According to Jagex, this is the commencement of what it's calling a year-long integrity roadmap, with the studio's CEO Jon Bellamy saying successful a property merchandise that they program to tackle "some of the game's biggest friction points head-on."

January 19th volition besides spot the accomplishment of a caller RuneScape Ahead showcase which volition spell into a batch much item astir these roadmap plans, arsenic good arsenic different bits and bobs planned for the MMO crossed 2026.

I won't springiness outright kudos to Jagex for these changes, arsenic we don't pat companies connected the backmost for deciding they don't privation to con radical immoderate more. But it is surely a enactment of caller aerial astatine a clip erstwhile conscionable changing the tegument of a virtual companion requires that you bargain an wholly caller companion first. A hearty congrats to those that voted for the removal of these microtransactions, though. Hooray!