Seasoned fantasy MMO RuneScape is at a crossroads. Developer Jagex has vowed to remove Treasure Hunter, the game's long-festering and widely unpopular microtransaction hub, if at least 100,000 players vote for it in a new custom poll. At the time of writing, three hours after the poll went live, over 42,000 people have voted yes.
The aptly named "Remove Treasure Hunter?" poll is live here. As Jagex points out, the nature of the poll echoes the player vote that first pushed the company to revive and release Old School RuneScape many years ago – a version of the game which was effectively deleted when the Evolution of Combat update overhauled many mechanics and turned RuneScape into what's now known as RuneScape 3. (OSRS, as it happens, uses player polls for almost all major updates to this day.)
