Overview
- The studio announced the cancellation Thursday after less than two weeks of player backlash following the RuneFest reveal.
- Reignited would have let players create fresh characters on forked servers with a separate player economy and restricted interaction with regular accounts.
- Veteran players complained the mode would force long‑time users to abandon their existing accounts and could require a separate membership, concerns that drove the swift reversal.
- Jagex apologized, solicited feedback, and said it will still run a 10‑day free trial from December 2–12 and keep other 2027 roadmap plans, including the announced RuneScape 4 work.
- The cancellation leaves the core problems Reignited aimed to fix—extreme in‑game inflation and a hard onboarding path for new players—unresolved and follows a recent pattern of the studio reversing contested monetisation moves.