RuneScape:Behind the Scenes

From runescape.com

October is traditionally a month of scary surprises and toothache. This month will be no different when it comes to our Hallowe'en content, with a quest AND holiday event both to be available on the free servers. For scary surprises: how about entire worlds where you can PK and hunt other players to your heart's content? That's right, PvP worlds are coming! But first, a few words about how we're going to update RuneScape in the future.

During the last six months we've been reading through the forums, talking to you in-game and running polls on the sorts of updates you really want. It doesn't take a genius to realise that it's the bigger, chunkier updates that really get you excited, those like the God Wars Dungeon or a new skill. These are the sorts of updates we found that you wanted to play. Updates that you want to go back to time and time again.

So, starting from this month, we're changing the way we release content. From now on you'll see one massive "headline update" (such as a Recipe for Disaster or a Castle Wars) every month. On top of that, there will still be a secondary release, much more like the size of update you're used to right now. We're also still committed to making sure that no two weeks pass without something new.

Basically, from now on our releases will be like this:

Four week months will have two updates: one big headline release and a secondary one.
Five week months will have three updates: one big headline release and two secondary ones.