Old School RuneScape Suspends Bounty Hunter Worlds

Old School RuneScape developer Jagex has decided to close world title MMORPG Bounty Hunter "until further notice" because of concerns about gold farmers abusing them. After an initial statement to let the players know that the world will be closed, the developers have gone into more detail about their plans to revamp PvP.

Bounty Hunter is a mini-game that can be found at the Wilderness. By participating in it, you will see the interface will show you which of your fellow participants have to kill your target. When you do, you get bonus points if you hold mysterious symbols. These items, which are sold by Trader Emblem, gain EXP every time you kill a player who also has a mysterious symbols.

However, some people manage to find a way to make a lot of gold OSRS of it. Jagex claims that these players are "abusing mechanics to produce a GP over by available through legitimate methods." For some reason, Jagex thought that it was a problem that could potentially game-breaking, saying that a particular form of content "ruin another game content and the overall integrity of the game", and their solution is to do away with it. Thus, the world 318 and 319 have been closed. And if you want to Buy OSRS Gold, visit z2u.com, a professional online in-game currency store.

It will be quite a long wait before more information about bounty hunting is revealed. While unlikely, it is possible that the minigame never go back to the Old School Runescape. This will only happen if Jagex is "technically and rule-based enforcement solution" finally succeeded. Whatever the case is, the developers feel that it was "time to make a change".

In OSRS, something that seems a little like removing the mini-games can make a big change, especially for people who have made money - both in game and in real life - off the method. But more important than that is the change of the whole body of the content, which is expected to fix it.