Developer Jagex for close to two decades of operating with RuneScape and the different iterations of the series that are available has only offered the named franchise through the means of a download client on the official website. While digital storefronts began to take form as the norm for PC users, the firm continued to remain the only port of entry for the titles – well until today.
Announced last month, RuneScape will be hitting Steam starting on October 14th, today. In the initial break of news, Jagex discloses that the commencement for the Steam version will initiate a new initiative for RuneScape to be more accessible to its users as the developer encaptures a more inclusive ecosystem outside of the website for the series.
You can watch the announcement trailer in the video below:
“We’re setting out on a new mission; bring RuneScape to new places, find new adventurers from new locations, and make RuneScape a more accessible, more cross-platform MMORPG that you can enjoy anywhere,” Jagex’s Mod Warden pens in the blog post on the matters. “That journey begins with our arrival on Steam. It brings RuneScape, one of the world’s largest MMORPGs, to one of the world’s ultimate gaming destinations.
“It connects us to a huge new community of PC gamers that we can appeal to for the very first time. Together, we can welcome them and show them just what RuneScape and its community have to offer. We won’t stop here either – we will continue to work with our partners to bring RuneScape everywhere we can, and to make it more accessible than ever. You will see us integrate with alternative account services, on new platforms and become available in different stores. This is all about offering new ways to access RuneScape and appeal to new communities of players.”
Elaborating more on what is on the menu next for Jagex, the aged Old School RuneScape is also projected to receive an announcement later on in early 2021 for Steam. Even more, the mobile version of RuneScape is tol follow in the footsteps of its predecessor next year as well. Worded from the statement, users can expect more storefronts to adopt listings for the series in the coming future.
In other related news for RuneScape, the game when exiting 2019 was revealed to be still very popular despite how old the series is. In a report from gamesindustry.biz, RuneScape breaks well over 1.1 active subscribers on its platforms as of January 2020. You can read the full report by heading here.
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Source: Jagex
