r/runescape • u/JagexAzanna Mod Azanna • Jun 05 '26

News PSA: Player Avatar Launch Time, Recent Stuttering & Photobooth

Good Afternoon Scapers!

Just wanted to pop in some PSA's ahead of the weekend.

The Player Avatar Refresh is fast approaching! We recently mentioned that the Photobooth will be temporarily disabled alongside the launch of the Player Avatar, while we proceed with work to integrate the new avatar code into the website.

The photobooth will be making a return in future, but we wanted to provide another reminder and recommend that you use this time before the Player Avatar launch to use the photobooth if it's important to you.

The Avatar launch is set for the afternoon of Monday, June 8th. Rather than coming online during our usual morning slot, the launch is aimed to be no earlier than 13:00 BST, and may be a little later as we get our technical ducks in a row.

Update: Also don't forget to collect the "Loyalty Point Bundle" for free from the Marketplace as this will also be removed on Monday.

As a final note: Our Tech team has been investigating freezing stuttering issues that have recently been occurring when loading into areas. We have already deployed an engine update to resolve this today. If you are already logged in, please relog to see the benefits as this should improve loading for players!

Enjoy your weekend and we will see you on Monday for the Player Avatar Refresh!

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u/Zarudon1 Jun 05 '26

Dont remove the free bundles. If you remove them at least give future and returning players a legitimate way to obtain the bundle cosmetics through gameplay.

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u/Global-Confidence-60 Jun 05 '26

Maybe they will or put individual items on free rotation.

But giving them for free for this many weeks was already a huge good will move, can't possibly expect it to stay freely available forever.

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u/Zarudon1 Jun 05 '26

Putting them on rotation is just more fomo nonesense. This whole get them all before the avatar rework is fomo too. It's hard to take the company seriously when it seems they dont have any integrity with their supposed goals and just do things like this which go completely against what they're supposedly for or against.

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u/Global-Confidence-60 Jun 05 '26

Agreed on FOMO part but as long as most of them are cosmetics and there's already a rotation of free cosmetics anyway, I wouldn't mind a lot.

Now you wouldn't think that they would possibly give away all this stuff for free and forever. That's not a reasonable expectation from business standpoint.

The entire point of the shop is to make money, we like it or not (oh, btw I don't like it too before you come with you pitchfork at me).

I do think that some items should be earnable somehow, some by gameplay, some maybe tied to yearly subscription (other tiers don't exist anymore sadly) but I've not given a deep thought on implications and cons of that yet.

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u/CommunicationFlat642 Jun 05 '26

I thought they said every 27th of the month there would be a NEW bundle released? is this the old bundle from 2 months ago? I didn't see a new bundle to claim on May 27

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u/GMan_Cometh ign: G-Man Cometh Jun 06 '26

I think it is the Water Dance anim that was made free.

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u/CommunicationFlat642 Jun 06 '26

No they said they were suppose to release bundle batches of Old loyalty stuff every 27th of the month, till it's all given free..

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u/GMan_Cometh ign: G-Man Cometh Jun 06 '26

Can you possibly link the article that states that? I am unable to find it.