Jagex claims it will send "messages to RuneScape Gold those whom we've found engaging with RWT" within "the next few hours". "For anyone who was involved, we'd like to be clear that this is the single and only warning," it added.
In addition, the announcement was that the game's PvP option, Duel Arena, would see sweeping changes that included more stringent enforcement of game's rules of conduct so as to encourage positive play. Jagex claims that the mode "has become a focal point for this toxic behaviour".
Prior to that what the publisher calls "short-term measures" are in place "until our teams of developers are able to complete a major overhaul that fully replaces Duel Arena in the next year."
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