On a more practical note, Fletcher says that Fresh Start Worlds – and the increased experience rates they offer for levelling up faster – are necessary to help new players catch up on two decades of content. “The point of Fresh Start Worlds is to start together – it’s almost a pretext, an event to make it a fun social environment for everybody.” “One of the questions we were asked was ‘What’s the point of this? I could just create a new account’ – and our players do create new accounts,” he says. However, Tim Fletcher – RuneScape‘s lead game designer – acknowledges that there was some initial pushback from the community. “The crux of the idea was to get our new and returning players into a place where they could really feel comfortable playing RuneScape, and kickstart them back into the game,” explains Frances Keatley, a product manager for RuneScape. After several months, players on Fresh Start Worlds will be moved into RuneScape‘s standard servers – and in theory, be ready to mingle with RuneScape‘s wider community. These are servers that are completely separate from the rest of RuneScape, and wipe away all of the progress that players have made in the last two decades: the player-led economy, which has been chugging along since 2001, was restarted and anyone looking to play on one of the servers needs to create a new account and start again from scratch. Now, Jagex – the Cambridge-based developer behind RuneScape – is trying to recapture the magic of the MMO’s earliest days, with Fresh Start Worlds. Launched in 2001, the game has won the hearts of many Millenial and Gen Z players over its two-decade journey.
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READ MORE: The 8 best PC games you need to play in 2022.For many gamers that went to school in the noughties, their first MMO – short for massively-multiplayer online game – was likely to be RuneScape: a vast fantasy world where players can try their hand at everything from dragon-slaying to fly fishing. Running around cluelessly, auspiciously trying to follow players who look like they know what to do, and making punching bags of woefully weak wildlife in the hopes of levelling up. There’s an undeniable magic to taking your first steps into a new MMO.
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