Great news: We have been working with some of the largest retailers in Canada to make our Incomm pre-paid subscription cards available across the country.
The cards are available for 1- or 3-month subscriptions to RuneScape and can be purchased from Best Buy, Future Shop, and the Universities of Toronto, Capbreton and Calgary. Very soon, the cards will also be available to purchase from other major retailers.
Once you have purchased your card, you can use the PIN number on the back to subscribe to RuneScape. Click here to find out how.
These cards are also available in the United States, and they can be found in branches of Target, 7-Eleven, Wal-Mart and Rite-Aid. We are hoping to launch these convenient cards in more countries in the future, so keep an eye out for further announcements.
The previous Q&A sessions we've held have proven to be popular, so we thought we would have another to kick off the start of a new decade.
We have opened up a Q&A Sessions thread in the News & Announcements forum for anyone who wants to post questions to us. This thread shall remain open until the morning of January 7th, after which we will compile questions and pass them on to the people at Jagex best suited to answer them.
As before, we shall first publish a round of answers on the forums, then hold a live Q&A session later that day. The planned schedule is as follows:
Thursday 14th January - Player Support
Thursday 28th January - Mark Gerhard (Jagex CEO)
Thursday 4th February - Andrew Gower
(RuneScape's creator and Lead Developer)
Thursday 11th February - RuneScape Content
Thursday 18th February - Community Management
Thursday 25th February - Audio
For more information about these Q&A sessions or to submit a question, please visit this forum thread.
For those that are interested, FunOrb will also be having its own Q&A session on 21st January. To put questions to the FunOrb team, please visit this forum thread on the FunOrb website.
A very happy New Year to you all! We hope that you are filling your boots with good cheer and Party Pete-like celebrations.
During the first half of 2009 we learnt a whole lot from our community and focused mostly on improving our underlying technology and switching back to weekly updates. While this was possibly less exciting to some, it was very necessary to set the stage to make possible the updates we had planned for the second half of the year. Looking back at 2009, there have been some pretty big updates. A few highlights include:
Finishing the goblin storyline with The Chosen Commander.
High-level training updates for several skills with the Living Rock Caverns, the Agility extensions and the Woodcutting sawmill.
New rewards for skills, like the ancient curses, the extreme potions and the dragon pickaxe.
The Evil Tree.
Cool quests like Curse of Arrav, Blood Runs Deep, Hunt for Red Raktuber and The Temple at Senntisten.
The Objective and Advisor systems.
And let's not forget about new support for resizing the game window (even in Standard Detail mode) - no more playing in a tiny window!
So, what is the new year going to bring? For one, we want to continue producing quests at the rate and quality that we have been, which means expanding the most popular storylines and bringing a couple to dramatic conclusions. We'll also be casting a critical eye over our existing skills, searching for holes, and filling them with new training activities and rewards. That's before we even mention the new skill that is coming in 2010! And yes, there will be new combat equipment as well, and also a new Grandmaster quest - but more on that closer to release.
Of course, we haven't planned every single update yet because we want to take on board your ideas for RuneScape content as well, and naturally give ourselves the spare resources to make it happen. RuneScape's success over the last decade wouldn't have been possible without your passionate input, and we promise to continue to solicit and take on board your feedback. So, go to the forums and get your ideas seen, heard, then - in some cases - even played in 2010!
We wanted to take this opportunity to wish everyone out there a very merry Christmas & fantastic New Year.
Thank you all for another wonderful year and maintaining RuneScape.com as the world's most popular free game. We have always believed it's our great community that makes us so special and sets us aside from the rest, so we really wanted to wish everyone out there all the joy, peace, great memories and love of the season!
We have our biggest year to date planned for 2010 and we are excited about being able to share it with you over the coming year.
