August Month Ahead!

Hey 'Scapers!

We're back with our regular Month Ahead Series, where we take a look at what the month ahead has in store for us, while also reviewing how the previous month unfolded.

This time around, Mod Anvil and Mod Ryan jump into some fairly big topics, including insight into Player-Owned Housing and even touching on that one special topic you've all been speculating about...

Most excitingly, we're including a sneak peek of our API & Plugin project's progress... and YES! We're hugely pumped to announce that Quest Helper is officially in development and is coming along VERY nicely!

Take a look!

Once you've watched the above, here's what August looks like at a glance! Read on to see our notes on the above:

API News:

• We're following todays API sneak peak up with a longer dedicated blog for it. Keep your eyes peeled for more API news in the next few days!

Visual Updates to the Launcher:

• In the near future we'll be giving the Jagex launcher and our login systems a little bit of a makeover. This is a visual change to bring their style in line with the style we've been establishing for the RuneScape universe. Since Phishing is always a risk, we wanted to make sure you know everything is legitimate. As always, make sure you're diligent about how you login and where. Our Phishing Guidelines are here to help if you need them.

Leagues II: EQUILIBRIUM:

• Leagues II: EQUILIBRIUM is kicking off this coming Monday, 10th August. As one of our biggest events of the year, we will be spending a lot of our development time this month ensuring that it is supported appropriately in the weeks' ahead and that there are no other game updates happening that would distract you from your Leagues journey.

Marketplace News:

• There's been some back and forth in the community on our first ever drop of POH Marketplace cosmetics. We've been having a chat, and we agree that there's a better way to offer these items up.
• Here's how we're taking your feedback on board!
• The existing Anniversary Architect and Party bundles will be changed to be single purchase and will no longer be available for repeat purchase.
• Three bundles (Anniversary Architect Bundle, Party Decoration Bundle and Party Cannon Bundle) will have recipes for the respective items added to the bundles.
• Recipes for the items contained within these bundles will be provided to all players who purchased them.
• Any players who purchased a pack multiple times will have the extra purchases refunded.

Player-Owned House marketplace items are still very much a new area that we're exploring, but it's important to note that none of these explorations are setting a direction in stone from the get-go. Per-item sales for POH won't be part of that direction, and future POH offerings will be approached with a "buy once, unlock forever" mentality.As we progress through trialling various different configurations, we will gradually settle on the best path forward for both our players and RuneScape. We'll be talking more about the Marketplace in general in our next dedicated Marketplace Monthly blog, so do look out for that in the coming weeks!A final quick note on the above - we're letting you know about these changes ahead of time now, but we don't yet have a firm timeline on when they're being implemented just yet. We'll let you know more once we can confirm when, where and how.Our next drop (PoH Part II) will drop in week three of August. That will be followed by a more traditional Zarosian theme cosmetic outfit drop in week four.