“It’s always interesting personally, to be a designer,” Ogilvie says. “I might take a look at something and think I can improve it—improving its functionality, getting a designer to focus on it, adopt tons of OSRS Gold modern UI design principles—but that’s not what the gamers want.”

When it’s not players ensuring that most of Old School RuneScape remains the identical, it’s the tech. RuneScape was the sort of game you could use a rubbish school computer between classes, using a browser. There was no worrying about when you could run it or otherwise not, or should you’d go back the next day to locate it uninstalled.

“One on the tech problems we’ve got operating this old game is it was written in this particular form in 2003 to run from the browser on low-spec computers,” explains Ash Bridges, Old School RuneScape’s principle content developer. “It means it cuts plenty of corners. One of those is render orders, another is who's can’t use multiple cores because in 2004 you most likely didn’t have one. It can’t make use of the RuneScape Gold GPU either. This means you can’t make use of the full capacity within your computer. It’s fairly processor-intensive, for that one processor it uses, thus it’s rather hard for people to upgrade the intensity, like helping the draw distance.”