Jagex announces RuneScape coming to Mobile Devices in 2018

No, not a RuneScape Mobile spin-off game that companies like to do sometimes. Jagex has announced a full-blown Mobile client for RuneScape.

Now, lets not be under any false pretenses here. Mobile phones have been getting more and more powerful as technology advances, and with that power, they can play more and more complex games.

With that statement out of the way, lets move on! Jagex is promising mobile phone-optimized interfaces, and persistent cross-platform play with the desktop client. With games such as Fire Emblem Heroes, Brave Exvius, Fate/Grand Order, and more on the rise, was this only a matter of time before RuneScape got ported to Mobile devices?

Jagex says Old School RuneScape will arrive on mobile devices "this winter," and that RuneScape itself will arrive in 2018 - presumably early 2018, but Jagex did not state when exactly.

However, more interestingly - Albion Online launched today. Is Jagex trying to take some wind out of Albion Online's launch? Personally, I think not - especially since the mobile clients are only arrive in 2018, and late 2017 for Old School. Either way, I think this is a step in the right direction - MMOs that are not overly graphically intensive can usually only benefit from having such cross-platform play.