Thought it would be interesting to highlight this to OSRS Goldplayers as well
I believe it is intriguing that people use this same debate like it’s any merit when a game making millions of dollars a year can’t simply do both or something? Like Jagex hasn’t done this? Is it or something? I’m perplexed. It does not need to be just one or another. They can do both. They can’t do both in precisely the exact same time. Time spent ‘HD’ assets is time NOT spent on game updates. They’ve done it before but it was a huge undertaking with a larger team that was very divisive rather than valued by as many players as they had hoped. I truly see no reason why they would be interested in doing this.
Nothing is required to get OSRS something more pleasing to look at, which I think 2008 graphics did only. The best part is you had the choice. I think the most important counter argument is that it means greater dev work, since I imagine all assets or some would have to be produced for both graphic types. Unless it can be done procedurally without any significant development time I think that it may not pass a vote if it were done in an official capacity. That said, I would personally love to be considering 2008 or similar HD images instead of what we have (improved by Runelite GPU ofc) now even if it meant delayed content releases. However, I know not everyone will share that opinion.
It had been done by them before, there are rsps individuals who are utilizing it rn, there are solo developers who’ve done plugins and such. It should not be tough to implement. The complaining mob not wanting a change of the method of looking can be dealt with by A toggle option. I believe having improved graphics would be helpful to attract new players. Think in the long term marketing strategy, don’t be restricted to the old thinking of no manpower, no resources, bunch of updates. Man I remember running home from college because I had been excited by the RuneScape HD upgrade. If it’d rshd 9, I would mainscape OSRS.
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