If the client can retain its Open-Source features, it will again let a community of passionate gamers and developers create a game client that is customizable and superior to any closed-source paid version available. Whatever their motives - there are a variety of theories, their official position was the client exposes game code and their intellectual property - this significantly upset many people who were excited to be able to collaborate and contribute to the Runelite project. Runelite was an open-source project, until Jagex got involved and threatened legal action against it. OSBuddy has a free version which lacks most of the features of Runelite. Runelite is absolutely free to use and the developer has stated in the past he intends to keep it this way. With that said, I was already using Runelite at the time the drama began because I already believed it the superior option. However, due to the way the mod team at Jagex handled communications with the dev of Runelite and relations with players who enjoyed it, myself and many other players champion Runelite above any other clients. What their reasons for these threats were remaining undetermined, the community reacted strongly, and Jagex backed off these claims. Well, none of these questions were really of much concern to anyone until March of when mods threatened bans of players using anything but OSBuddy or the official game client. This decision also opened up the API to new, privately-built clients for playing the game, checking prices, and a host of other new experiences to enhance your Old School efficiency.īut why would Jagex allow one client and not another?Īfter all, RSBuddy is technically a third-party game client and gives many of the same strategic advantages as Runelite compared to the official game client Jagex provides. Runescape vets will recall, with either nostalgia or vitriol, when the game could only be played in-browser via a java client.īefore the relaunch of the old school, java-based browser games have lost a lot of support due to various security issues, and Jagex wisely moved the Old School client to a downloadable client. One of the starkest differences between the classic Runescape and the current version of scape is the use of clients for gameplay versus the in-browser version of the game.
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