RuneScape's Treasure Hunter to be removed on January 19 after player vote

Gamesradar reports Jagex will delete RuneScape's Treasure Hunter microtransaction shop on January 19 after more than 120,000 players voted to remove it.

The studio opened the decision to the public late last year and pledged to remove the controversial cash shop if 100,000 players voted in favor; more than 120,000 did. Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy said, "[We] put our communities right at the heart of everything we do... It's not just a cliché or a tagline – that's literally how we run the business and how we build stuff. Our bet is that if we continue to do that, and we do it with high transparency and authenticity, that will pay dividends."

Bellamy added that the company is "openly against generative AI. We're openly against microtransactions. We've just ripped them out… We're really trying to be a safe haven, a storm-weathering bet against the falling trust in the world, and that has been driving huge amounts of growth." The studio is following through with the removal on January 19.

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Tech, Jagex, Runescape, Treasure Hunter, Jon Bellamy, Microtransactions