Summary
- Old School RuneScape’s Sailing Alpha starts on March 20, offering players a new skill to test.
- Previous fan resistance to new skills in the game makes the launch of Sailing a significant event.
- The Alpha won’t be available on mobile, but players on desktop can try it for a week.
Jagex has confirmed that Old School RuneScape‘s Sailing Alpha begins on March 20, giving players their first-ever taste of a new skill in the game. Hardcore Old School RuneScape fans were able to test Sailing at the recent RuneFest convention, but it will soon be widely available for players to test.
Old School RuneScape players voted to add the first-ever new skill to the game in late 2022, and ever since, Jagex has been hard at work refining Sailing to make it fit into the game in the most natural way possible. For years, Old School RuneScape fans had resisted the idea of a new skill, so it’s a massive moment for the game that it’s finally happening. That only makes it even more essential that Jagex gets it right, hence the long development cycle.
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In a post on X, Jagex revealed that the Old School RuneScape Sailing Alpha is set to launch on March 20, with players able to sign up to try out the new skill for the first time. While the developer still hasn’t set a concrete launch window for the skill, the fact that it’s entering opening testing for feedback is a great sign that players won’t be made to wait for too long. In a follow-up to a fan question, Old School RuneScape‘s Senior Community Manager Mod Light confirmed that the Alpha won’t be available on mobile, but says it will “be open for a week,” giving desktop players plenty of time to give it a try.
Old School RuneScape’s Sailing Alpha Launches March 20
Jagex released a deep-dive into Old School RuneScape‘s Sailing skill earlier this month, giving players a closer look at what they can expect when it launches. There, the developer confirmed the Alpha would be launching at some point in March, but it has now given players the concrete date of March 20 to look forward to. Feedback will then be taken from players throughout the Sailing Alpha period, and implemented accordingly.
Old School RuneScape and RuneScape 3 are among the oldest MMORPGs still active today. It’s a massively impressive feat that Jagex has been able to maintain two healthy MMOs for such a long period of time and still keep players excited about the future. Both games released their 2025 roadmaps earlier this month, and it seems as though the studio isn’t slowing down with its flagship titles any time soon.
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Adventure
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January 4, 2001
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