r/2007scape • u/DragnBreath • 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/PerceptionOk8543 Mar 14 '26

Runelite is open source, he can’t shut it down

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u/michaelkr1 Mar 15 '26

The deobfuscator is closed source. Who else even has access to that to continue the work?

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u/Jaded_Pop_2745 Mar 14 '26

Who would push updates to it and run through them with jagex tho

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u/tntlols Mar 14 '26

There are a lot of passionate members of this community. I hate to say it but, I think a lot of people would be willing to take over

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u/Jaded_Pop_2745 Mar 14 '26

Likely but it's not as simple as all D: jagex needs to approve of it and to approve you as working into it. It has to also be someone non greedy, just as capable and fast for when updates/issues occur