RuneScape is Reverting Much of Its New Hero Pass System After Feedback, With Improved Relaunch in Mind
RuneScape launched its new battle pass system, Hero Pass, this week, and the team has a new update responding to player feedback and will remove many features, restore Daily Challenges, and overhaul the whole Hero Pass system before a relaunch.
Even when they launched the Hero Pass seasonafter announcing it, the team said that they knew that there would be work left to be done, especially with their goal to make it an engaging and consistent reward system. Yet, the feedback was immediate that, while some were enjoying the system and had begun to earn some new rewards and engage with the new mechanics, many felt it was too pay to win, missed Daily Challenges, and some aspects were too difficult.
Today, the team announced that they will be reflecting on all the feedback, they’ve begun to patch the game back to remove a number of features that were the main pain points and then redesign and redevelop and eventual do-over of the Hero Pass.
“As such, we will be making the following changes as soon as we can:
Pay-to-win aspects Hero Pass introduced will be removed. Specifically, this includes:
Disabling the purchase of Hero Pass levels or Underworld Emblems. This has been hot-fixed today.
Hero Pass Content Buffs will be removed entirely. This will happen as a cold-fix next week.
Hero Pass XP Buffs will be moved out of the Premier rewards track, to be available to all members and to be earnable only through gameplay. This will happen as a cold-fix next week.
The Premier Pass rewards will therefore only be cosmetics and consumables.”
The Daily Challenge system is going to be reinstated in full, giving players another option once it eventually goes live again. This will be as a standalone system with all the previous
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