A developer's passion may be quite unimportant to OSRS GP a publisher too. Dragon Age 4 has been pulled twice due to higher-up interference constantly dictating the game's direction. Metal Gear players who obviously prefer single-player games, have received the multiplayer game Metal Gear Survive in 2018. Then we don't even discuss the subsidiary games Activision Blizzard wastes on constant Call of Duty development.

Thank God Jagex was founded at a point that was when it was still an independent company. When the player base started to decline in the late 2000s an editor would probably have shut down the entire thing. In fact, Raven Software started laying people off while Warzone generated billions of dollars, so even a successful game could be a disaster for the humans who play the game.

The successes we get just feel like rare exceptions. The stars had to align to allow Among Us to find its players long after its launch as well as perhaps the most significant example before that - without the support of a huge publisher was Undertale that was released in 2017.

It's for this reason that RuneScape The First 20 Years isn't just essential reading for any fans of that game. But it's also a must for everyone who is interested in the direction the game's world is headed in cheap RuneScape gold. It's a reminder of why we need to support the indie gaming scene that's always fighting to be noticed in a vast marketplace.