According to him, OSRS on mobile has been a factor in "multiple seasons of expansion" with both games. The growth rate has only increased since the launch of the Archaeology update in March, which coincides with the first outbreak of coronavirus in the world. Although battling the virus has brought challenges to Jagex's team Jagex and they are now eager to present the next stage with OSRS Accounts of the ongoing story of RuneScape, which has so far introduced new universe-ending stakes as well as dinosaurs within The Land Out of Time. The story's scope is "pretty huge" as per Crowther who believes it will be an important relief for those who remain in their homes.

Desperate Measures is the newest version of the Elder Gods questline, which has been running since 2014. following Jagex revamped the game to its HTML-based version RuneScape 3. In a quest in 2016 called Sliske's Endgame participants met The Lord of the Elders Jas which threatened to wipe out all life on earth in the event that they failed to show their worth. Then came the desperative Times questline in which an assembly of leaders from Gielnor's world Gielnor come up with a strategy in order to have the threats stopped from being betrayed. Rsorder spoke to Jagex Director of Design David Osborne, Senior Games Designer Tim Fletcher, and Lead Content Developer James Crowther about how the RuneScape Desperate Measures update will continue the story using the game's newly developed Archaeology ability.

According to Crowther, who has helped guide the Elder Gods' questline since its inception, the driving character behind the Desperate duology is Kerapac, a member of a scientifically-advanced race called the dragonkin that has existed since the age before the current in-game universe. The story of Desperate Time, Kerapac suggests the council employ a time-controlling, ancient artifact called the Needle to bring to sleep the Elder Gods to sleep, and then take it of their sight in the hopes to kill these gods. To stop him players are now required to discover the history of dragonkin in the "Land out of time" Anachronia, which introduced dinosaurs into RuneScape in the year 2019.

The storyline that will be a part of Desperate Measures is "enormous" Crowther said, however, some of the implications won't be apparent. Utilizing Archaeology is the first RuneScape new feature in four years, was first made public in the context of RuneFest 2019. players will have to discover the lost history of dragonkin to help to inform future content and also provide a reward on behalf of "lorehounds." In order to be able take on the"Desperate Measures," players have to be at least the level 50 mark within Archaeology and Agility as well as 75 levels in Combat as per a developer update stream that was released on July 7.

"All our quests are bespoke gameplay, and usually come with unique design challenges," Crowther said. "At the very least, one portion of the quest is a tactical gameplay that doesn't appear anywhere in the game."

Fletcher confirmed that there would be a lot of new revelations in Desperate Measures and others that start threads that will have long-lasting impacts. The "high stage" overview of the story's description and strategy of The Elder Gods questline has existed for a while, however every step of fleshing out the whole experience is more intricate. The ideas for Desperate Measures were discussed throughout the development process during the development with Cheap OSRS Accounts of Desperate Times, and initial pitches need to be approved by all stakeholders before the development process begins as per Crowther. The timetable for new content is a bit erratic due to the fact that there are multiple ongoing projects. For instance the RuneScape Archaeology update resulted in Desperate Measures getting "shuffled around" in order that Jagex could modify its look.