A quality-of-life update turned into a full server rollback after a rune bug spiraled out of control faster than Jagex could contain it.
As part of the Game Jam update, a number of quality-of-life changes made their way into RuneScape. These updates come off the back of internal hackathons where Jagex developers are free to work on whatever they like.
One of the most notable changes this time around was the removal of the 16,000 rune cap on the rune pouch, replacing it with an unlimited capacity. A welcome change on paper, and exactly the kind of thing players had wanted for a while.
It didn't quite go to plan.
A Bug With Very Big Numbers
Shortly after the update went live, reports started coming in of players logging in to find their rune pouches absolutely stuffed. Not just a few extra runes, but figures in the trillions. Some players reportedly had 1.5 trillion runes sitting in their inventory, a number that almost sounds made up until you're staring at it on your screen.
The problem wasn't just the scale of it. These runes could be sold. Within a short window of the bug becoming widely...
