This content drought was brought to an end with the launch RuneScape gold of the Ranch Out of Time feature, and both the Farming and Herblore skills being increased by the end of November, to level 120. RuneScape also promises to start 2020 off strong in January, which appears lore nerds like myself, with its skill, Archaeology's release. However, to ensure that this content black hole does not happen Jagex plans to increase the size of the RuneScape development team.

"We're likely to find a number of individuals that may help us develop several jobs," Osborne explained,"which means we've got a contingency, so, if something such as weapon diversity happens, as a subscriber you don't feel as though you have an empty gap." A subteam to work on creating new quests and remastering elements of this game will be also created by jagex. The remastering subteam will begin with a rework of Managing Miscellenia, while the quest subteam will work on an Azzanadra quest.

The pursuit subteam's news is welcome. For many players, the wide range of quests offered in RuneScape is among the main reasons. There are multiple murder puzzle quests, such as Murder Mystery, released in 2003, as well as The Needle Skips.

Quest growth has slowed with four being released in 2017 in six and 2018, making the questers of RuneScape wanting. Hopefully the new pursuit subteam will create a new range of quests yet engaging, tone the game is known for. Two quests for 2020 have already been confirmed in RuneFest 2019: a City of Sennitsten quest, the sequel to Desperate Times, and Desperate Measures.

Jagex hasn't, however produced a selection of fresh subteams. It's also improved the resources of all its major groups. Ryan Ward, executive producer for RuneScape, explained to Eurogamer:"We included resources to each of those groups and we actually had our teams focused on three different core areas: Live Ops, the Episodic Content and the Core Experiences." Ward added he is currently"trying to look forward and examine the 2020 vision to buy OSRS gold and 2020 road map, align all the efforts from Episodic Content, Core Experience and Live Ops, so they actually feed into each other and they make sense to each other".