Not every holiday event can be so ambitious and beloved it becomes a permanent quest. The first holiday event in RS2 was just Santa in Varrock handing out yo-yos and it was still memorable for me to see everyone crowding Santa and busting out their new yo-yos in a herd around the fountain. That’s a fond memory. But something felt really different about this one. This felt like one programmer was given a day to code something minimalistic with no new assets and delivered what they could. This is the first time I’ve completed a holiday event and thought “wow, this was low budget .” It feels like absolutely no resources went in to this. I think people are being rightfully critical about Jagex right now and the uncertainty of OSRS development. Content is being shelved constantly. The 2026 roadmap is extremely lean. Game Jam was light. Figures who seem important to development have left the company. The only response J-Mods seem able to give is that something is on their radar or they have nothing more to share at this time. I do not discount the banger year they just had in 2025. I’ve also picked up on the multiple times they’ve mentioned putting development into code cleanup, which is an invisible thing that still helps the game. But the drop off to 2026 is kind of unbelievable. It’s going to be April and I feel like the game has received only the most meager of support. How did we go from Varlamore and Sailing to just keeping the lights on? The minimal Easter event feels like a pink canary in the coal mine that something is wrong here. Resources are not going in to OSRS content development this year. Why not? submitted by /u/StagecoachOSRS
Originally posted by u/StagecoachOSRS on r/2007scape