To focus this comment purely on the update regarding 3rd party clients.
Jagex staff, let me write out the reasoning behind why it is stiflingly ridiculous to even consider the idea of banning 3rd party clients, and particularly so at this present time.
~~~#1
A current 3PC that I use daily comes with a skill calculator, an experience calculator (of all stats, with hourly xp estimates/actions, a G.E. tracker, a farming timer, a hiscores checker, and a calculator, to name a few.
None of these by themselves are malicious, nor counteractive to the direction you're trying to move the OSRS community, but they ARE useful beyond belief, both by saving time and by providing absolute ease of access.
What am I to do? Open 4-5 tabs on the website, because your clients most useful addition to the QoL experience is like....a settings menu? Shift-Drop?
We move to these 3PC's because we love to play Runescape, but we love to play both efficiently and be able to have ample QoL features at our fingertips. It allows us to hone our abilities in the game, and take a sense of pride in our achievements because even though yes, you can mark a couple of tiles in the Inferno, can you tick eat/pray flick your way through every round by sheer luck? Probably not.
These things take talent and time, and countless hours of perfecting. I can tell you right now that the overheads for demonic gorillas did absolutely nothing for me, I just cannot get the prayer flicks down. How else am I to learn it? The plugins allow a larger amount of people to learn the mechanics of the game, and if we're honest, far better than your website or client has ever provided.
~~~#2
The Runescape experience
The joy of Runescape is that it is a wide open world the moment you step off Tutorial Island.
For those who are newcomers, they will probably, yes, will load up the official client, and not be to bothered by the simplicity of the interface. But for those of us who have been playing since daydot
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