It has been an absolute pleasure to work in partnership with Steam and to create fun, unique content for Steam’s worldwide community. Together, we will welcome them to millions in our RuneScape community and show them what we have to offer as a living game. It connects us to a huge community of PC gamers. “I’m so excited that RuneScape is now available on Steam, bringing one of the world’s largest MMORPGs, to one of the world’s ultimate gaming destinations. Ryan Ward, RuneScape Executive Producer, said: RuneScape will continue to offer both its free-to-play and Members versions on Steam, the latter of which delivers an expanded world complete with more characters, skills, storylines, and quests for players to immerse themselves in.Ĭurrent players are celebrating the game’s arrival on Steam and ready to welcome new players via Steam with an in-game launch party, now being held at Taverley Docks, one of the first locations new players encounter. In its celebrated lifetime, the RuneScape games have welcomed more than 285 million player accounts and reported its highest-ever player membership numbers this year.Ĭross-platform play also enables current players to link their existing RuneScape account to Steam and carry on playing with an existing character, with progress saved across Steam, the desktop client and mobile editions, currently in Early Access for Android users and Closed Beta for iOS players. RuneScape’s launch on Steam comes as part of Jagex’s mission to bring the RuneScape universe to more players around the world as the game approaches its 20 th anniversary. Three tiers of membership* offer an amazing deal of discounted membership, unique cosmetics – including a ‘Steam’ Punk Forge Goblin outfit, Forge Goblin Warhammer, and Mechanical Frog pet – and even the RuneScape Orchestral soundtrack is up for grabs. In addition, the game offers launch-exclusive content for those who become members via Steam.įor gamers taking up RuneScape membership via Steam, launch-exclusive in-game content is now available. With its official Steam page now live, RuneScape comes to Steam complete with a full suite of Steam achievements, badges, emoticons, and trading cards featuring the game’s most beloved characters and items. Its arrival follows demand from the Steam community, which saw the game race into the Top 40 of Steam’s Global Wishlists rankings last month. Wednesday 14 th October 2020, Cambridge, UK – The PC edition of RuneScape, the iconic living MMORPG, today made its highly anticipated debut on the Steam Store, Jagex has announced. RuneScape is available now on PC and Mobile.The legendary MMORPG makes its highly anticipated debut on the world’s biggest PC gaming destination It is unknown if this will make its way to the Steam store as well or if it will remain exclusive to the official site and mobile devices. While this announcement is exciting, a Steam version of Old School RuneScape hasn't been announced yet. The Steam version will likely operate the same as the version of RuneScape that players can download from the official website. There was additional talk about how these changes will help the eventual full launch of RuneScape's mobile version with it being pushed back to 2021 due to global events.Īs the post finished up, Mod Warden put out a thank you message to the community and asks players to give a warm welcome to all of the newcomers to the game when it is available on Steam after October 14th. With the Steam release, this community will hopefully grow even more with even more stories playing out in the world of Gielinor.Īfter the Steam announcement, Mod Warden continued to talk about making the game more accessible to more people as well as modernizing certain aspects of RuneScape to keep up with changing times. Their words describe how people were brought together to participate in the game's events, hang out, explore new updates, and create experiences that will stay with people for the rest of their lives. Alongside the announcement, Mod Warden wrote about the Runescape community and how many people have made deep friendships and relationships through the game that helped create the current RuneScape community. The announcement of the Steam release was made by Mod Warden on the official news page of the Runescape website.
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