![]() ![]() but, ultimately they've decided to do this." I've spent the last few weeks going back and forth with them privately in calls arguing the case for releasing it. "We've had the 117-HD plugin ready to be released on the plugin hub for a few weeks now," RuneLite developer /u/adam1210 explained in a Reddit comment. "Upon receiving this information, Jagex was very opposed to it, which I found rather confusing considering there are existing HD clients that are actually released and working, and noone seems to care. A RuneLite developer further explained the frustration of trying to find a solution so as not to waste all of 117's efforts. Seven of the top ten submissions on the subreddit are discussing this event and most of the comments are upset with Jagex's decision on this topic. ![]() "I am beyond disappointed and frustrated with Jagex, and I am so very sorry that, after this long journey, I'm not able to share this project with you." – 117, developer of RuneLite HDĪs one might expect, the conversation on the old-school RuneScape focused subreddit /r/2007scape is siding with the developer of this RuneScape third-party HD client. He even offered to give them "collaborative control over the visual direction of project." He says that Jagex declined these offers outright, effectively putting an end to an effort that took an estimated 2,000 hours of development over two years. Yet, at the eleventh hour, Jagex contacted me asking me to take it down in light of the reveal that they have a similarly-themed graphical improvement project that is 'relatively early in the exploration stages'."Īccording to 117's statement, he offered compromises to Jagex - he would remove his project from RuneLite once Jagex was ready to release its own version of an HD client. You would have been playing with it right now. "Yesterday, September 6, 2021, RuneLite HD would have been released," read a statement from the project's developer "117" on Twitter and Reddit. "The code had been reviewed and bugs had been fixed - it was ready to go. The project's developer claims on Twitter that Jagex had not contacted him prior to this recent announcement despite RuneLite HD having been announced a year and a half ago. We'll update this post with answers to any questions that might arise.RuneLite HD was presumably working within the guidelines for unofficial game clients that were outlined by Jagex. Next week we'll be updating the Third-Party Guidelines, published in 2019, to include reference to projects and features which seek to change the appearance of the game. Whilst we know that the news might be disappointing to those of you who were following the third-party projects closely, we hope that you understand our position and we look forward to working with you as the project evolves! We'd like this reply by 20th September (two weeks from today). We'd appreciate if you could reply to this message to acknowledge that you've received it, and that you intend to comply by shutting down your project. We'd like to thank you for your cooperation, and we'd like to offer to involve you in feedback sessions once our own project reaches such a stage. Hopefully the news that Jagex and the Old School team are tackling this project in earnest is something that excites you, even though it does mean that we need to politely ask you shut down your personal project. We think it's absolutely vital that there is consistency in the way that Old School looks, and so we want to make certain that our official changes will be the only ones available. Naturally, this means that any fan-led project which seeks to change the way Old School RuneScape looks is at odds with our own plans. This is an in-house project and, though early, is very much in progress. Whilst it's still relatively early in the exploration stages, and while we will always maintain an authentic style for Old School we can confirm that we are actively investigating and experimenting with enhanced graphics and what that means to Old School RuneScape's visuals. Before we dive further into your project, we want to take a moment to talk about our own plans in the interests of transparency. ![]()
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