Summer Sanctum Patch Week - This Week In RuneScape

Have you heard about the 110 Mining & Smithing update?

As they're F2P skills, the Mining & Smithing skill caps are also increasing to 110 on F2P worlds.

Given the established precedent of Dungeoneering, the only 120 F2P skill, that seemed to make sense. So when Mining & Smithing eventually go to 120, they'd hopefully also go to 120 in F2P.

Though following established precedent, Mining & Smithing F2P content and levelling benefits are 1 to 50 (bronze to rune), so consequently the level 100 primal and so forth are members content, in a similar fashion to members elder rune and masterwork.

To my understanding, capes of accomplishment are considered to be a compelling members' benefit, and I don't imagine that's likely to change.

I've done some F2P updates in the past, but they're really difficult to justify as additions to the schedule, as they've each had next to no impact from a positive player data perspective. The vast majority of players subscribe first chance they get, and the F2P community is tiny.

As much as it feels good and the optics are good for RS to be a try-before-you-buy experience, in practice it's predominantly played as a subscription game, so the RoI for F2P improvements has been hard to prove with the desired metrics.