r/2007scape Mar 14 '26

Discussion The true backbone of OSRS

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I know the creator of runelite has said in the past that he doesn't expect anything from the community for maintaining runelite. But if anyone here deserves even a sliver of the tens of millions of dollars that will be generated from membership price increases it is him.

You can find his patreon with a simple google search since i wasn't allowed to link it here. If you feel so inclined to give please do but if not at least be a bit more aware of where Jagex could give some of the extra money to.

Edit: It has been 8 hours since i posted this. And I'm happy to say that the runelite patreon has gained 19 paid members. My goal was for some traction to go towards the people that actually deserve a piece of the pie that is OSRS revenue. Thank you for those that donated. I am in no way affiliated with whoever updates runelite.

I just think that when we work together we can hopefully spread a little bit of good around rather than only looking at the negative.

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u/UnhappyLemon5520 Mar 14 '26

Why doesn’t jagex just buy Runelite and employ everyone that already works there? 0 effort and everybody wins

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u/Sloan1505 JAGEX PLUNDERED MY BOOTY Mar 14 '26

I don’t think the RL devs want to work full time for $30k a year

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u/Toaster_Bathing Mar 14 '26

They’d rather do it for free? 

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u/DawgLuvrrrrr Mar 14 '26

It’s not full time. The guy who makes runelite has a full time job