Changes: 2003

Revision as of 15:17, 15 September 2018

In 2003 RuneScape Classic started to become a major competitor to other online role-playing games.

11 January - New Runescape Website launched.
21 January - New news section on website.
- - Credit card fraud warning.
23 January - Jmod gets married.
24 January - Notice about an upcoming quest release.
- - Newsletters will no longer be emailed out. Only available on the site now.
27 January - The Shilo Village quest was added.
28 January - The Wilderness Agility Course and the Gnome Ball minigame were added.
- - Warning not to abuse the report abuse feature.
29 January - Two players get married.
- - Another set of players get married.
30 January - Newsletters 9 released.
- Servers made faster.
31 January - Jagex Hq moves to a larger building.

3 February - Be careful do not give out personal information.
- - Power outage made UK servers drop.
4 February - Request for players to write stories for the Library of Varrock.
6 February - RuneScape can be used to learn useful things.
7 February - RuneScape can help you learn English.
10 February - Be vary of password scammers.
12 February - Two new Jmods added to Customer Support team.
13 February - Talk of what would eventually become RuneScape 2.
17 February - Seriously stop giving out your passwords.
- - Also, do not accept 'free' RuneScape membership. You will probably be banned.
21 February - Library of Varrock is released on the website.
24 February - Underground Pass quest hinted at.
26 February - Manual:Scam released as well as an overhaul of the Manuals layout.
27 February- RuneScape membership 1 year anniversary.

2003 Easter event – Bunny ears spawned on the ground all over Gielinor.
14 April - Spears and Throwing knives were added.
- - God letters:Issue 10 - Zamorak does one released.

7 May - The Watchtower quest was added, and the bank space for members was increased.
27 May - The Dwarf Cannon quest was added. Also, Sleeping bags were added, and Mining was changed.
29 May - Some bugs involving the newer quests were fixed.

9 July – The Digsite quest was added.
28 July - The quest Gertrude's Cat was added, and cats were made available as pets. Also, the Fishing Trawler mini game was added.

31 October - For 2003 Hallowe'en event the Scythes were dropped all over the ground. It was the last new item to be added to RuneScape Classic.

1 December – The RuneScape 2 beta was released. Three new RuneScape 2 servers were added with the release later that day.

This is the final year that the remaining first 99s were achieved in Classic, all the remaining skills were mastered in Runescape 2.

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 ==March==
 *[[3 March]] - The [[Underground Pass]] quest was added.
+*[[4 March]] - RuneScape Map updated.
+*[[6 March]] - New secure message centre.
 *[[17 March]] - The [[Observatory Quest]] was added.
+*[[18 March]] - New payment options.
+**- Do not buy/sell accounts.
+*[[21 March]] - New membership info pages.
+*[[24 March]] - Servers are now faster.
 ==April==
 *[[2003 Easter event]] – [[Bunny ears]] spawned on the ground all over [[Gielinor]].
 *[[14 April]] - Spears and Throwing knives were added.
+**- [[God letters:Issue 10 - Zamorak does one]] released.
 ==May==