While the move to mobile could open RuneScape into a new generation of players, Jagex
buy RS gold is targeting its existing user base and those gamers that have since churned out the game.Speaking into PocketGamer.biz, Jagex Senior Product Director Neil McClarty says even though its user base is passionate and extremely invested in the game, many players are getting older. And with that, he explains, comes time pressures on sport time because of other commitments such as work and loved ones.
Hence the studio set about looking for ways to allow users play the game on the go, and mobile was the ideal fit. "For us it was really born from this, and therefore the cross-platform element was critical," says McClarty. "We did not want this to be a brand-new game since it's about looking after our existing players, letting them have the ability to play the sport that they're currently playing, with the characters they have spent .
"The secondary component is we hope that there'll potentially be some ex-players that have left because they have not been able to play on PC, and perhaps today if it's available to perform mobile, they will have 10 minutes while they are on the bus to work."
McClarty says Jagex has been laying the foundations for RuneScape on mobile for quite a while, together with work on the tech side throughout the last two decades also underpinning the new mobile versions and making them viable options.
McClarty claims that RuneScape will offer near enough the exact same experience as its PC counterpart. And, luckily due to previous decisions in the very conception of RuneScape, the controller scheme shouldn't feel too alien to PC players.
"I would really like to think that [Jagex founders] Andrew and Paul Gower might see in the future and saw that in 16 years' time mobile are what it is now and that they picked click and point mechanic since it could lend itself so well to telephones," states McClarty. "Thankfully those two items have aligned and really the conventional point and click that we have had on PC does immediately
RuneScape gold lend itself to click and point with your finger, which is great.