RuneScape Classic:Private servers

Throughout much the 17-year run of, the operation of private servers (PS) has been unauthorized by Jagex, to say the least. They were considered an issue over intellectual property matters, while also having the potential of hacking a player's real accounts and installing all sorts of malware on the player's computer. For these reasons, the Wiki has long disallowed their discussion, promotion, and information that can be gathered from them about the official.

With the official close of on 6 August 2018, the game became abandonware. This doesn't technically negate the legal matters of private servers, but it recognizes that Jagex has closed their chapter on this edition of the game. Their interest sharply declined with the release of in 2002, and continued to the game's end, wherein they were doing the bare minimum to keep the game online. For many years before the end, Jagex showed little to no interest in fixing game bugs, enforcing game rules, and defending their intellectual property pertaining specifically to.

It is debated that some private servers can be considered museums for the game because of their efforts to preserve the game for free, thereby provided legal access. Even the Wiki itself became a preservation project for the game on the day Jagex closed it down.

It is because is closed that the  Wiki is now permitting  to a degree  information from private servers on the wiki. With the use of ps and private server templates, a sub-page to a subject can be created at  with information on how that subject differs in a popular private server. Information in mainspace and important sub-pages like  are for the official  as it was before it was closed. Judgement on what is considered a "popular" server is made on a case-by-case basis, but generally speaking should not be considered malicious to the user, their computer, files, and accounts, and their real accounts, while also be completely free to play.

Private server pages should be organized by server name and include version numbers if possible, or approximate dates if not. A notice on whether the note applies to a single-player version should also be included.

While details about how game content differs in private servers compared to the official is permissible on the wiki, advertising private server websites or similar is not allowed. It is up to the reader to research server names on their own, if they are so inclined.