RuneScape is free to play. However, subscribers can enjoy more challenges, skills and bonuses OSRS Gold. It is possible to test the subscription for free during a seven days of trial. The mobile apps support cross-play as well as cross-progression with PC, so you can switch between the two platforms and then continue the same way you started.

Make note that this will not be Old School RuneScape, a version built on a build that was made in 2007. This version has been available to download for iOS and Android since the year 2018. It's the complete RuneScape that Jagex has been continually updating for the last 20 years.

There's an obvious demand for RuneScape across iOS as well as Android. There are more than 1.8 million players have registered for those versions, which provide a mobile-friendly user-interface that has been revamped with new menus with icons, text and textures. Combat mechanics were also modified to work on iOS along with Android.

The company has registered two trademarks in the UK and in the US, one that reads "OSRS Gold" as well as another for "RS Gold" and indicating that the company registered the use of the phrases as words. This could prevent third-party sites from being allowed to advertise that they sell RS Gold.

A quick Google search of either term brings up hundreds of websites, majority of them using one of the terms listed in their URLs, and that provide money in RuneScape that can be exchanged for real money. It was announced on the 13th of October, that Jagex was putting an end to "real-world trading". In a blog post on Cheap RuneScape Gold its blog "The RuneScape Team" stated that "gold that is bought via RWT real-world trading is an issue in every online game with trading currency."