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"Mod Markos


So, tying into what Kieren talked about earlier, the fundamental audience we expect to be playing Fresh Start worlds are long-lapsed players and new players. The key is creating a shared starting point, which means, realistically, you need to be on a new account, starting the experience from scratch.


We don't expect it to be a thing that the currently highly active players will be playing. There is a free-to-play part of it, so you can go and experience it if you want, just generally to see what it's like. But it was never in our mind to try and encourage people to get extra subscriptions, and we thought the target audience was people who don't currently play the game.


Mod Kieren


One of the key things we wanted for this was that it's a good chance to start an account. It's a good point in time to join the game for the first time and then stick around and play it for the long run.


Now, that meant we wanted to bring your account into the main Old School after six months, and if we didn't do it on a separate account, we opened ourselves to a problem. After all, if you already have a main account saved, we would need to introduce a much more complex - long development cost - to create a proper character selection system because you'd have two main accounts. That is not something we can reasonably do.


We're not trying to get people to double dip here. The point I'm trying to make is that this is about people coming back and joining the game for the first time. Inevitably, some of you are probably going to be interested in wanting to play this and enjoy the experience, but genuinely this is about new people coming to the game and people returning after a long time."

"We don't have a strong technical solution to allow you to choose between multiple accounts on main. The way it works for Leagues is quite different; that's not trying to play in the same game mode.


Mod Ayiza


We haven't mentioned the full announcement as of yet. We've only really come alongside RuneScape’s announcement and gave an FAQ to give some insights into what we felt would be the big, hot topic questions being asked.


We are still yet to put out the full details, and I think it's probably very worthwhile that we actually go into a bit more detail around the technicalities of why it's a new account versus migrating and what that would have meant in terms of change. I think there is a significant difference in having two accounts running simultaneously in what is the main game because I assume that's how we're able to do this with low development costs. It's just another version of Old School that runs simultaneously and gets updated in the same way versus two accounts running or even having to merge experience and items over to an existing character, especially when we have limited tools for items and player profiles!


We'll take that one on and hopefully be able to explain a little bit more if that's something that you're interested in."