We hope that the news of Jagex as well as RuneScape Gold the Old School team are tackling this endeavor with a seriousness is something that you are excited about however it could require us to respectfully request that you stop your own personal project."

117 stated that they had offered Jagex an option by removing their project after Jagex had released their own, and also giving Jagex "collaborative oversight" over the visual style of Runelite HD.

"They rejected the project outright," 117 said. "I am extremely disappointed and irritated with Jagex and regret for this lengthy journey I'm not able present this project to you. The mod 117 has been working on doesn't appear to be in line with Jagex's guidelines for third-party clients, however the Runescape developer has said it will be changing the guidelines in the coming week, to include references to projects that affect the look and gameplay.

Original Runelite developer Adam1210 posted his views on Reddit and said that the ability to allow Runelite HD to continue to run would provide a benefit to future updates developed by Jagex.

"I also disagree strongly with including it in the "third third party guidelines,"" Adam1210 said. "Most of these guidelines attempt to define what the line between quality of life] and cheating lies and I believe that the majority of players agree that the current guidelines are a great illustration of that. it can help keep the integrity of Cheap RS Gold the game.