I will say this with the outmost respect for Andrew Gower, his brothers too together with Jagex/JMods, Andrew Gower isn’t The RuneScape Community and The RuneScape Community isn’t Andrew Gower.
With that having said, it is impossible to say how one will respond to the other in terms of the creation of RuneScape.
If I had said to you in 2000, with the launch of RuneScape, that you soon will be playing on a flat 6 inch display screen in highest detail on a device that weights 7 ounces that will fit into your pocket than you would have declared me for being an idiot.
Yet it is available/achievable.
What Andrew Gower might have said could be true … the fact is … Andrew Gower at that time wasn’t able to predict how some individuals would take his creation and start to abuse it into the highest detail on a scale that made it impossible to stop, such abuse, the way Jagex/Jmods were handling everything back in the day.
You do not understand how easily young people would pick up game abuse and focus on that subject feeding that illegal industry with tons of money on the black market destroying the integrity of these same young people all together.
Point was/is Jagex/JMods had to fight for RuneScape’s survival and that of The RuneScape Community.
The story is too long to write down on a short notice but what Jagex/JMods did was to oppose game abuse with a market that was fair, contributed to the integrity of the game, and kept The RuneScape Community as safe as possible, together with information in Rules of RuneScape and/or Terms & Conditions that Jagex/JMods are showing around for 20+ years.
01-Oct-2023 20:18:31