Runescape (3) New Player Experience in 2025 (no commentary)

The RuneScape 3 release date was officially revealed via a news post on the RuneScape website on 3 July 2013.[9] RuneScape 3 was released on 22 July 2013; the HTML5 client was not included within the update.

At RuneFest 2013, it was revealed that the HTML5 client had not worked out, partly due to poor web-browser performance. During RuneFest 2014, it was announced that a new client, operating via native code, was being developed incorporating much of the HTML5 client's software architecture and features. This new client, written in C++ under the code name NXT, was released on 18 April 2016. NXT superseded the Java and HTML5 game clients which began to be phased out of service.