I want to know the vision for runescape 3.

This is a completely fair question to ask of us, especially given the lack of a roadmap or vision isn't in line with how we've been trying to do things in more recent times.

While I can't provide a comprehensive answer today, I do want to share what we can right now out of respect for these sorts of posts!

So the most important bit - we want to provide you a picture of what’s ahead as soon as we possibly can, and we’re working towards it as quickly as possible. We know it’s important and we’re all really wanting to make it happen asap!

The reason we didn't cap the year off with a roadmap (and have yet to have one) is really simple - we modified our plans in the later stages of 2023.

Hero Pass made it clear that we need to get more player voice into development, which has led to us re-assessing how we approach things. Mod Keeper mentioned it in his message following Hero Pass, but we have a desire to be a lot closer to all of you as players in our development work – and to get there faster than we were planning after the Hero Pass response.

The change to bring that approach forward has meant a bit of disruption to our normal flow of planning and development, but hopefully one that we’re almost through. As SOON as we have that locked, we want to share what we mean when it comes to "being closer" and how we plan to approach development with that in mind.

We do have a couple of nearer term updates and content in development at the moment I can talk to today – with a content drop in February and a new Combat Beta update this week that puts us close to a potential point of full implementation.

I know this isn’t the full update you’re looking for, but I hope this gives you something of an update until we hit the right point to share more detail on the direction for RuneScape. Either way, we’ll get you more updates as soon as we can.

Nothing to do with a Battle Pass - it's referring to the game itself and how we approach development overall.

We do have an outline for sure, but because of the other changes happening around them, we're not in a position to make committed public plans just yet.

I know that's probably a frustrating answer, but we just need to hold laying out a vision until we can say with full confidence that we're set up to achieve it properly.

I getcha on it being a bit of a non response. I was hoping to just provide some context on why there's a delay in a roadmap and make sure people know it's not something we're ignoring, but that is the downside of doing that I admit!

In terms of Hero Pass being a delivery vessel for future updates, that I can confirm wasn't the plan for Hero Pass or the cause of the disruption. Hero Pass was designed as a layer on to other plans rather than an anchoring crutch that compromised content.

The disruption due to Hero Pass is a planning shift - we spent 2023 trying to involve players more than we had done for a couple of years, and keep building on that gradually over 2024.

Off the back of Hero Pass, the shift in planning isn't to do with Hero Pass being cancelled - more of a development mindset shift in how we think about a more player involved RuneScape. That will still take some time to progress this year, but our plans are being re-thought with that even more in mind than we had in our previous plans.

Honestly a great point.

We default to not wanting to put anything up that's a non-announcement as it rightly tends to upset people - but we could have done something like 'Where's the next RuneScape roadmap?' potentially. We might be defaulting to that based on previous reactions a bit too much.

We'll consider it alongside some other changes we're cooking on for the Newspost front. Thanks for sharing this, good food for thought.