[OSRS Mobile] Improve Plugin API functionality

Sorry for the huge rant in advance. I picked up this game when it first came to Mobile.I've played mostly on my iPad since then. 500 TOA, Inferno, 2200 total etc. I have played a lot of PC as well so I have a pretty good idea of the benefits of Runelite and the additional QOL it provides. I was the one who was tracking all the mobile player max and infernal capes, speed runs, blorva completions etc, So I am pretty intertwined in the mobile community and I wanted to borrow 5 mins of your time to discuss the state of the app. OSRS is in my opinion the best mobile game that exists right now. * No Microtransations * No Time Games * Reasonable Pricing * An unlimited free version * Rewards for skill * Rewards for time * Thousands of hours of content * Cross play to PC * A complete port of the original Pc version How many other games offer this to you? probably not many. Get ready for my tone to change... Why, why why why why, are we so forgiving that this client is so half baked? Yes. it made sense when it was newly released to have some forgiveness for bugs and issues, but it's been over half a decade now. VERY brief history lesson for you. 1. Osrs mobile on relase was surprisingly very bug free and stable, for years on release. 2. The dev who made the mobile client left Jagex. 3. The new dev took over mobile and added a bunch of good but often incomplete changes and features and also bugs. He was excellent at communicating with the community, and the features added were really helpful overall). 4. The new dev worked for maybe 3 years? And was recently "released". I've been reading the updates this whole time and fully believe one of two things is true: **A) Jagex stretched the Mobile dev faaaar to thin across way too many projects (HD, Plugin API, Varlamore, Colloseum, Forestry, UI Updates, Beta system etc).** **OR** **B) The dev told Jagex he could do way more than he actually could do with the time frame he was gived** We'll never know which is true and it probably doesn't even matter, but here's the state of the game. * There is no mobile dev * There's been 0 information about the plugin api since release * HD had far more major bugs that Jagex anticipated, none of these were fixed and the beta was cut short * The current built in plugins are completely half baked **The point I am trying to make is that we have maybe the best mobile game that's every been released, and it's sooooo close to being amazing, but instead of making it amazing it's just been half baked, ignored, and pushed backward on the timelime in favour of every other content update since it was released.** **Can we please just get some polish and care into the updates for 2026?** Yeah, I am being a little dramatic, but I am tired of bugs, delays, and half baked updates. It does work, it is incredible, it just needs some TLC so that I don't have to keep finding workarounds for bugs that shouldn't exist, and plugins that should exist but dont. This is what the client really needs after all this time. 1. **The plugin API needs to be made properly, with proper time care and polish.** Jagex has proven their own updates to this client are sub-par, so we need the API to be good and bug free so the communnity can spend the time making updates that are actually polished. **Jagex attempts at native plugins include:** * A loot tracker that crashed the game for 2 years before recently being fixed * Menu entry swapper that is so broken most people don't even use it * Tile markers that can't hand text... or god forbid... a second colour * Tile markers that can't be imported or shared... You often need to set them up while actively fighting a boss * Loot beams that "we don't have time to code the visuals for, so we put them in the cache so that people with runelite can make their own plugins so you can see them" too bad if you are on mobile or steam sorry * A new render client that was so bugged they just closed it before any major improvements were made * An EXP tracker that can't estimate time-to-level * An exp tracker that blocks half your screen, despite having a mini version in the previews before release * UI customisations that were delayed by.... 27 months due to forrestry and the beta engine being higher priority * Clue scroll helper where only people on the official client have to do the puzzled * An entity highligher that straight up doesn't work on some bosses like Doom, and sometimes just highlights random entities that you never selected Oh and also the new chat menu's button design looks pretty messy still. There were many complaints about on release. They said they would clean it up later and then just didn't. **2. Please go back and clean up updates multiple times instead of doing 1 week of fixes and then saying "Good enough"** It's the same issue we have with every new content realse, but it just makes for a poor experience. I bet Mobile might even needs it's own full time dev, but it's bringing millions in revenue a year so maybe just suck it up? **3. Please make HD actually come out next year and fix it when it inevitably crashes.** Mobile is the only client where we don't have plugins and HD was promised like 5 years ago? I get HD is a huge undertaking but history makes me worried it will crash too much to be useable, and won't be stable for years. \---------- Mobile players pay the same cost for subscription as pc players (It's actually higher than pc if you pay via the app store), so why should our experience always be so half baked? Why make the best mobile game on the planet and then only make it 75% as good as it can be?