Old School RuneScape developer Jagex is fast approaching the kind of technical obstacle that, in some ways, many MMO creators would kill for: the game's apparently been around for so long, and has added so much new content, that it's about to run out of an essential technical resource that risks, in one developer's words, "the game exploding."
This revelation began, as many interesting OSRS facts do, with a joke on the 2007scape subreddit. A fake social media post attributed to beloved developer Mod Ash reads, "I'm afraid the engine has finally reached its limit. We've decided the only way to fix the spaghetti code is to delete the game entirely. We're wiping the servers at midnight. It's been a pleasure, but it's time to go outside."
