Sad as fuck.
I understand the rationale and the logic but it's time to poll an HD toggle, if these randos can make a client that good I'm sure a multimillion dollar company with a dedicated development team can get the job done.
If it fails a poll so be it. But it wouldn't. So poll it.
I doubt they want to put in any effort for HD.
They can't even make quests even though the whole community wants to see more.
Fucking Jagfax
They also said it took 2 people working on it full time for 2 years to make it, and they scrapped it in a dayIf you try going to the OSHD website you get a blank page with one message that reads:
"We'll be respecting Jagex's wishes and terminating the OSHD project. Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the project - it's been a pleasure to serve you guys. The OSHD team."
1- So (from what it seems to me) they did not provide Jagex with their code which is shady in itself, why withhold the code unless you are hiding something, literally no reason for it.
2- Jagex, in their statement, said that the OSHD team would have to alter their program in order to cooperate with Jagex's bot detection system, but naturally seeing as the OSHD team is just some random people Jagex has no affiliation with, they were not ready/willing to tell them how to avoid bot detection...which is entirely understandable, but maybe if they provided the code Jagex could have worked with them...
3-They decided to scrap the project entirely which, in my honest opinion, seems like they were doing something they shouldn't have been doing, like when you're a kid and your parents catch on to something you've been doing so you just kind of drop it completely to avoid any further trouble.
All in all I think that the OSHD team just shot themselves in the foot. It's understandable that a portion of the OSRS community likes the idea of an HD client, but Jagex who aren't the ones who even came up with the HD idea has no commitment to this project as it just showed up out of nowhere, so nobody can hold them accountable if they decide not to go through with a project they never proposed in the first place...
If you try going to the OSHD website you get a blank page with one message that reads:
"We'll be respecting Jagex's wishes and terminating the OSHD project. Thanks to everyone who showed interest in the project - it's been a pleasure to serve you guys. The OSHD team."
1- So (from what it seems to me) they did not provide Jagex with their code which is shady in itself, why withhold the code unless you are hiding something, literally no reason for it.
2- Jagex, in their statement, said that the OSHD team would have to alter their program in order to cooperate with Jagex's bot detection system, but naturally seeing as the OSHD team is just some random people Jagex has no affiliation with, they were not ready/willing to tell them how to avoid bot detection...which is entirely understandable, but maybe if they provided the code Jagex could have worked with them...
3-They decided to scrap the project entirely which, in my honest opinion, seems like they were doing something they shouldn't have been doing, like when you're a kid and your parents catch on to something you've been doing so you just kind of drop it completely to avoid any further trouble.
All in all I think that the OSHD team just shot themselves in the foot. It's understandable that a portion of the OSRS community likes the idea of an HD client, but Jagex who aren't the ones who even came up with the HD idea has no commitment to this project as it just showed up out of nowhere, so nobody can hold them accountable if they decide not to go through with a project they never proposed in the first place...

