Is it RuneScape 3 already?

[mrpez]

No.

[Italian5kamikaze]

There sure are alot of scammers out there trying to rip you off with this RS3 possibility by stealing account information on their fake websites. So, while it is fine to speculate about the future of Runescape, hopefully everyone is also quite aware that this is Only speculation. There is no other site you can play Runescape on except for the one we all play on now. http://www.runescape.com

 

What the hell?

[llamster]

We are playing RuneScape 2.1. RuneScape, Second Edition, Version 2.

 

 

 

RuneScape Classic: RuneScape 1.0

 

RuneScape 2: RuneScape 2.0

 

Current RuneScape: RuneScape 2.1

[icecube]

There sure are alot of scammers out there trying to rip you off with this RS3 possibility by stealing account information on their fake websites. So, while it is fine to speculate about the future of Runescape, hopefully everyone is also quite aware that this is Only speculation. There is no other site you can play Runescape on except for the one we all play on now. http://www.runescape.com

 

What the hell?

 

People try to keylog you by posting links to "RS3" sites.

[blood_goblin]

I'm sure if you ask some people who have played from classic, they would say we aren't even playing "runescape" anymore lol.

 

 

 

I'll stick with rs2 though, since there was no formal release of anything. :-X

[ddaanniiellh]

I think too many ppl have misread the question the poster is asking.

 

 

 

They are saying that, have we gone through enough graphical and game engine updates since the start of RS2 to have made this "RS3" that everyone is speculating about. Has the game evolved so much already that it is sufficiently different from when it was first released, AKA the "RS3."

 

 

 

IMO, i agree that the game has gone through a lot of updates, a lot, but i don't think it is enough to consider a whole revolution in the game, enough to have changed the way the game is being played.

 

~Ddaanniiellh

[Saru Inc]

I just thought a new skill. Not a whole new game. But still, if RS3 comes, I'll welcome it with a hug.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Seriously, I doubt its coming. As Jem said, don't worry, just play the game.

[Flip_pnoy_b_0_y]

Let's just call these "tweaks" as "improvements in the game."

[Italian5kamikaze]

There sure are alot of scammers out there trying to rip you off with this RS3 possibility by stealing account information on their fake websites. So, while it is fine to speculate about the future of Runescape, hopefully everyone is also quite aware that this is Only speculation. There is no other site you can play Runescape on except for the one we all play on now. http://www.runescape.com

 

What the hell?

 

People try to keylog you by posting links to "RS3" sites.

 

 

 

Yeah i know that, but what he posted has nothing to do with what the posters talking about.

[Mat]

There sure are alot of scammers out there trying to rip you off with this RS3 possibility by stealing account information on their fake websites. So, while it is fine to speculate about the future of Runescape, hopefully everyone is also quite aware that this is Only speculation. There is no other site you can play Runescape on except for the one we all play on now. http://www.runescape.com

 

What the hell?

 

People try to keylog you by posting links to "RS3" sites.

 

 

 

Yeah i know that, but what he posted has nothing to do with what the posters talking about.

 

 

 

h wants to warn others here, there is no rs3, because to some what the poster is saying maybe confusing.

[jokemaster]

Just because they update the game all the time , also with graphical updates doesn't make it a new game... I think alot of people here have a funny way of thinking.. :lol:

 

Totally right dude

[JordanGM]

I don't know why everyone wants to speculate about this.

 

 

 

 

 

We play Runescape.

 

 

 

 

 

I think we should stop speculating so much about the future of Runescape and just play the game.

 

 

 

I agree, who cares what the game is reffered as, I still like it.

[Robert_Rdam]

I can understand you can think this could be Rs3, with all the updates it does look better. Way better. With the 3 updates, RSC looks, Old looks and the new looks, 3 so RS3. Obvious to think. But I think, and Jagex said that, they just keep updating RS and they'll never release a new game called Rs3, summing it all up, no. We're just playing Rs2 who had plastic surgery, and there will be more operations (updates) ahead. :D

[Lemeja]

I agree that they're slowly working their way to updating the graphics of everything in Runescape so eventually it will be a completely different game. However I doubt that we are actually in that stage right now. The turning point for me will be when the players and all of the armors/clothes are updated. The added players kits was definitely a big step and I think it proves that this is what they're planning to do.

[Infernalz2]

you cant really call a game a whole new game from updates. changing monsters, new quests and such is nothing more than graphical updates, new parts of the game. RS 3 would most likely be a whole new game, in the way that the game engine, servers, places, characters, items, etc. etc. etc., would ALL be updated at once, making it a new game. RS3 will probably come out in like 10 years if were lucky, at that time, it will be like 3d or something... the way WoW is now, and yet still behind it all...

[Animaslayer]

Jagex announced long time ago that there will be no RS3, but they had the idea of making a totally new online game that is not runescape.

 

 

 

click "a new game" topic =/ thats the discussion there

[BloodArgon]

Runescape 2 was just the upgrading of the game engine to run in a much more massive 3d environment. Runescape '3' will be MechScape.

[Fey_Warrior]

With the speculation currently going around about the "stunning new update" in the new year, some comments have been about RuneScape 3 coming out.

 

 

 

But I ask the question ... Are we already playing RuneScape 3?.

 

 

 

Looking at last weeks hot topic The Way we Were: A History of RuneScape, RuneScape has changed a lot since the original RuneScape 2 release. Sure, the overall concept of the game is the same, and all we've had are quest/skill/graphics updates, but since RS1 to RS2 was primarily an engine and graphics update along with some gameplay changes, we are really at or close to the point where we can class this as RS3. Maybe the new year update will be the turning point.

 

 

 

Of course Jagex don't refer to the current game as RS2 anyway, so in their mind I'd suggest that it will always just be a dynamic RuneScape.

 

 

 

 

 

What do you think?

 

 

 

 

 

Truffoo

 

 

 

From the posts I've seen Andrew has make on his forums, he is planning on sticking with the on-going 'version':

 

"RuneScape Forums > Recent Updates > Update process explained"

 

 

 

 

Yep definetely planning on sticking with RuneScape. I've spent the last 8 years of my life creating the technology which runs the game, so I'm not going to abandon it now! :)

 

 

 

Funny thing is despite having spent 8 years working on it there still loads of things I still want to improve. I'm currently working on systems to make the interfaces less laggy (remember I do engine work not content updates), after that there's about 60 more things on my personal todo list which is well over a years work. (and by the time those are done I'm sure they will be another 60).

 

 

 

So as Bobbington, and the Thread Author, Truffoo, have pointed out the current version of the Game Engine likely makes the version we're playing RuneScape 5 or something.

 

 

 

With continual updates to existing content the existing game is likely to continue to evolve in front of our eyes.

 

 

 

Take a look at Auguste (from 'Enlightened Journey' Quest) and other newer NPCs. It's likely that given the Player Kit upgrade from August, this time next year we may have seen further upgrades to player appearance, and likely over the coming years to every nearly other part of RuneScape we see.

 

 

 

One day a thread like Bobbington's will remind us just how different the game has become from when it was relaunched as RuneScape 2. As there is no version code that we can see we can refer to it as RuneScape (n) since it'll be 'n' versions of engine and content updates since that day.

 

 

 

Maybe if someone had the time and Browsed through the new archives and did the following:

 

 

 

• Added a major version for every Engine Upgrade stated
   
  Added a minor version for every Content Update

 

 

 

We'd likely end up at possibly a very high version number indeed, though it'd still be speculation given we can know this 'number' as we're not Jagex.

 

 

 

I'd say personally though, the whole kind of instant karma/revolutionary change in-one-go has become little more than popular myth; sadly it's mythology that's been of more use to account thieves who build their hacksites on unsubstantiated rumours. If you hear of any such sites (remember there is currently no such thing as RuneScape 3) report them via "Comment on our service" via the "Other Comments" link on the main RuneScape site, but DON'T ever visit them! They will steal your account.

 

 

 

Jagex will only ever announce official changes first on their RuneScape home page.

 

 

 

As these changes to RuneScape are happening in small incremental steps though, and given the increasing size of the RuneScape population, I agree, that makes more sense from a Player's as well as business perspective, since it's never going to be the kind of interruption we saw when current version of RuneScape was forked (a software development term) from RuneScape Classic. I doubt very much we'll ever see that kind of interruption again.

 

 

 

Instead we will continue to see updates, some being in the eyes of players, more revolutionary than others.

 

 

 

Regards,

 

 

 

Fey.

[Tomboy1491]

i dont even think rs has the money for a 3rd game. with having to pay for all the new things coming out and the continous pay for customer serivce. I think we are playing part of "rs3" because of all the new graphics they've been doing. this big update might be better graphics for the whole game instead of bits after bits.

[truffoo]

Nicely said Fey_Warrior ... couldn't have said it better myself :mrgreen:

 

 

 

For the record, I don't think there will ever be an official RuneScape 3. A new game, MechScape or otherwise, will be quite different to RuneScape. I doubt there will ever be a change like was made from RS to RS2 (i.e., new accounts / stats / etc). I believe the current engine structure and updateability makes the current RuneScape quite flexible for the foreseeable future.

 

 

 

Also, for those that seem to want to continue to bring it up, this is in no way speculation about the new year update :!: :!: It is solely a discussion around whether people see the current RuneScape as a form of RuneScape 3.

 

 

 

Nice points by lots of people on both points of view. Thank you all for the comments. My first topic on the General forum has gone pretty well I think \

[truffoo]

Yey a link to my thread

 

 

 

I think as far as game engines go we are currently on version 5 of the game.... you could argue that this is RS5.

 

 

 

As for "OMG RS3 is coming"..... I highly doubt it will ever happen. With the amount of graphics update and money they are investing on improving the current game it is very doubtful there will ever be a time where they start again.

 

 

 

At the end of the day Runescape is a product, if they where to start again that would basically require a whole new product, where they then remove the old one.

 

 

 

So RS3 would mean a totally new game :shock:, why would Jagex..... as a business ever do that? it makes no business sence to replace the current game when in the same time they could have created an entirely new game, and run it as a separate product.

 

 

 

If they did that they would have two games running side by side, each bringing in their own money, rather than just one.

 

 

 

RuneScape 3 would never make any financial sense

 

I only link to the best :-w

 

 

 

Maybe I should have tried to define what a new version really was ... as I'd say the underlying engine really is what the game is.

 

 

 

RuneScape is quite a different beast to most other games and applications. Most games and applications have quite distinct versions, and everything (other than bug fixes and buyable expansion packs) is consistent within the game. However RuneScape is an ever changing environment, never truely at any version level.

 

 

 

But looking at the game as a whole today, compared to the original RS2 release day, is it good enough and has it changed enough to be seen as a form of new version of the same game?

[Dalcyte]

No. Graphically, yes. Actual game play? no. It's still the same set up, placement, game style, quests, etc.

[Hydraides]

Jagex announced long time ago that there will be no RS3, but they had the idea of making a totally new online game that is not runescape.

 

 

 

Just like Dragon Full helm and all the over things they said :-w

[monkeyboo2]

we play the game; what does a number on the end of its name matter?

 

Yes there's been some big changes but if they named it RS3 tommorrow, would it change the game...

 

I don't think so. :

[Nenga]

Not rs3, mechscape. I've noticed Jagex is running out of ideas for rs2, they're taking more sugestions then ever before. Most of the updates this month are sugestions. The quest this month is like the only non sugestion.