It could be HUGE for advertising and new player retention as well, who wants to play a game where your character looks like they just jumped out of a ps2. In which the sister match with images that is worse is immensely more popular, you mean the game? Who would've thought that pictures are not the end-all be-all when 90% of the time in RS3 you're not even looking at the display and instead are watching Netflix/etc while AFKing. I believe part of that is that OSRS is constant with Old School RuneScape Gold, RS3 is all over the area. Maybe not at all consistent, as even the OSRS artwork group has admitted the disparate elements of OSRS's graphics and they are going to modernize their art style.
Old School has a distinctive style that's suffered its share of twists and turns within the previous seven decades. As the art director, I want to concentrate on bringing these disparate components together in a more cohesive manner. There a couple of things we want to tackle before diving deeper We are looking at ways to modernise the graphical features of Runescape."
I really don't believe new players hop off island and instantly start afk skilling while watching Netflix or whatever. They're likely to be more engaged with. You mean the identical thing that happens in OSRS, which still has worse graphics but generates multiple times more players? A new coat of paint does nothing for RS3, hell it's even a negative at this stage as it might take 1 of our updates up on a upgrade that adds actually nothing to Runescape. If you want to see an uptick in playercount, you have to repair the issues.
A personality model rework is a project then the upgrade, probably with a long shot. They can not currently make any material. This type of project, while attainable, is just beyond any ability to keep any game upgrades that winrsgold are additional alongside a huge project. It's not inability or laziness, it's financial ruin for the sake of making models kept in the greatest distance slightly better. Plus it'd be ruin, they went too not updating Runescape or communication about not updating Runescape. We know that RS gets pennies to the dollar reinvested back in the money they make into RS. Until their overlords allow them enough money and time these kind of jobs are never going to take place.