RuneScape, collectively, is officially 25 years old. In many ways, nothing has changed for the evergreen sandbox MMO. The most popular branch, Old School RuneScape, is very deliberately sticking to the principles of the 2007 version of the game while adding in an impressive amount of new content, including the first new skill in over a decade.
Yet linear time marches on. Much like the average gamer, RuneScape's audience has gotten older. So much older, in fact, that CEO Jon Bellamy of developer Jagex reckons (in an interview with Knowledge), "If you think about who the customers were and who RuneScape had to serve 20 years ago, it used to be angsty 16-year-olds listening to Breaking Benjamin. Now it's 33-year-old accountants and CEOs who've got 41 minutes in an evening."
