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A subscription offering for complimentary players

Membership subscription is the procedure of a RuneScape histrion paying the fee to go a member and admission the pay-to-play version of the game. When players subscribe, they receive members credit that allows them to access the pay-to-play version of RuneScape. Subscriptions through different payment methods may have varying lengths, although there is a minimum length of fourteen days.

Jagex is affiliated with several payment providers which each provide different subscription payment methods and prices. Different payment methods require unlike information to be given during a secure payment process. Some subscriptions continue automatically unless the thespian cancels it, so that they tin can savor uninterrupted membership. Other payment methods crave the histrion to renew manually when it expires if they wish to bask members' benefits.

1 Promotions
- ane.1 Lifetime subscription
- one.2 Free week of membership
- 1.three Penny membership
- ane.4 Open up weekend
- i.5 Twitch Prime bundle
2 Prices
three Member credit
4 Starting a subscription
5 Cancelling a subscription
six Extending a subscription
vii Payment methods and subscription prices
- vii.1 Credit card payment
- seven.2 PaybyPhone
- 7.three PayBySMS
- 7.4 PayPal
- seven.v GiroPay
- 7.half-dozen PayByCash
- 7.7 Pre-pay cards
- vii.eight Paysafe-card
- 7.9 RewardsPay
- 7.10 Paying for membership through Bonds
viii Price increases
9 Premium membership packages
10 References

Promotions

Lifetime subscription

Lifetime subscription was once awarded to a player for revealing the mechanism backside the Partyhat duplication glitch, while almost who abused it were so permanently banned subsequently.^[1] Since then, lifetime subscriptions tin can often be won as part of a competition.

Costless week of membership

Starting five July 2010, free players that had never been members earlier could take reward of a special promotion whereby they could go upward to 7 days of membership at no cost. Players were required to utilize a credit card to sign up. Any players who did not cancel their membership inside the 7 days was considered to have automatically subscribed for one month of membership and the deposited coin was used towards the membership fee. The promotion was removed equally it was exploited by players engaging in real-world trading.

Penny membership

Penny membership was a partnership promotion that ran in late 2013 and early 2014 wherein players were offered 1 month of membership for 1 penny ($0.01, £0.01, etc) if the membership was purchased with a PayPal account. The offering had a limited number of users and was on a beginning come up, first served basis. It was limited to one calendar month of penny membership per account.

Open weekend

From 9 June 2017 until 12 June 2017, free-to-play players were temporarily allowed to access members' worlds and content.^[2] Information technology was appear on the same mean solar day Menaphos was released, and was a promotion that was designed to encourage players to explore the city.

If the offer was turned downwardly, then later accustomed, it did not work.

Twitch Prime number bundle

From 26th July 2018 to 19 September 2018, Jagex partnered with Twitch allowing RuneScape players to link their Twitch Prime account to their RuneScape account. Once players linked their accounts, they were given a month of membership for complimentary, in improver to:

Umbral Armour
Flame Bract Weapon
Umbral Crassian pet
Two Umbral chests
15 Treasure Hunter Keys
200 RuneCoins

Players could only do this once for each RuneScape account, although if they had multiple Twitch Prime number subscriptions, they were able to link a subscription to an account.

Prices

AP refers to average price per calendar month. These are the prices as they are currently, not the prices for players who accept grandfathered rates.

Membership benefits^[3]
Package	USD		GBP		EUR		MYR
Package	Price	AP	Toll	AP	Cost	AP	Cost	AP
1 month	$10.99		£vi.99		€9.49		MYR33.99
3 months	$29.99	$8.67	£16.49	£5.50	€25.99	€7.83	MYR91.99	MYR30.67
12 months	$99.99	$seven.50	£53.99	£four.fifty	€78.99	€6.59	MYR314.99	MYR26.25

Member credit

Member credit is obtained by paying for a subscription. Member credit is essentially the number of days remaining in a subscription. When fellow member credit expires, the account will revert to free-to-play, and all extra features available but in the pay-to-play version of RuneScape are inaccessible once again. Remaining member credit is displayed when members log in. Membership cannot exist frozen unless banking concern deportment are taken, and a day of member credit is used each day until it runs out.

Starting a subscription

Players can subscribe for membership past clicking the 'First a new subscription' option in the 'Membership' section of the sidebar on the RuneScape website. The site will and then effort to automatically detect the actor's home country. If information technology can't detect the land of a thespian, it volition bring them to a folio where they volition be prompted to select their home country. After a state has been determined, a page list a diverseness of payment methods available in that country will exist displayed. Players tin can then select a payment method of their pick from those displayed, and will be prompted for information (different depending on selected payment method) in the following pages during the secure payment process.

Cancelling a subscription

Subscriptions can be cancelled by selecting the 'Cancel an existing subscription' option in the 'Membership' section of the sidebar on the RuneScape website. Players will exist offered various counterfoil options:

Players may log into the site by entering their RuneScape username and password. Later logging in, players will be taken to a counterfoil page where they may choose from a list of reasons for cancellation and get to the counterfoil confirmation folio or they may choose not to unsubscribe. The counterfoil confirmation page requires a final confirmation of the cancellation of the account's subscription and also provides a final choice to choose non to unsubscribe.
Players who have forgotten their username and/or password may cancel their subscription by providing their credit card number and expiry date equally well as the username and email accost provided when the subscription was taken out. Players are given the option to "Get out unchanged" or "Cancel subscription" for each account currently linked to the card. Furthermore, any previous accounts tied to the menu which were cancelled can nevertheless be viewed. After submitting the information, players are taken to a final cancellation confirmation page where the credit carte du jour number and expiry appointment entered are displayed and there is an pick to confirm counterfoil.
Players who take subscriptions using alternate payment methods through the payment provider PayByCash tin cancel their subscriptions on the PayByCash website.

When a subscription is cancelled, players will continue to have access to members only worlds and features until their member credit expires. When a player's membership expires, they will exist teleported to Lumbridge if in a members expanse upon logout, to prevent them being stuck in a members-only area. In other words, players volition not be kicked out immediately. Players that take cancelled their account volition be subject to the limits of Free-to-Play players, including a restricted depository financial institution allotment of 103 items for F2P attainable items. If yous have more than 103 items, non including Members Objects in your bank, you cannot put whatsoever more than items into the banking company until you have reduced your banking company size. If you lot accept 1 kind of item already in bank, y'all will also be able to deposit more than of information technology (example: more than maple longbows can be deposited into banking concern as long every bit 1 bow is already in bank, regardless of banking company space) It is advisable to use withdraw all-simply-one lodge to admission bank safely. You can now sell members items and objects on a Free-to-play world. This does not include Barrows equipment (You can only sell Barrows equipment if information technology has degraded completely)

Note: It was once possible to cast the loftier alchemy spell on members' items such as yew longbows however Jagex changed this after players would 'stock up' on nature runes and yew longbows and spend weeks/months training their magic meaning Jagex lost membership revenue.

None of the membership functions on the RuneScape website such as the charlatan's log worked afterwards the credit expired, still.

Extending a subscription

Several payment methods are non ongoing, and need to be extended in order for payment to exist continued. In order to foreclose fellow member credit from expiring, players must extend subscription. RuneScape subscriptions may be extended by clicking on the 'Extend an existing subscription' option in the 'Membership' section of the sidebar on the RuneScape website. This volition bring players to either the normal page displaying payment methods for their detected country or the state select page if the country is undetectable. From this page, players may extend their subscriptions by choosing a payment method and entering their payment data every bit normal in the secure payment process.

Payment methods and subscription prices

There are various payment methods for RuneScape. Several payment providers who have agreements with Jagex process the transactions, and compete to offering better prices and availability. Sections below contain information from Jagex on all available payment methods.

Credit card payment

The cheapest subscription payment method is via credit card. Credit card payment is available to customers worldwide (with the exception of a few countries, like Lebanon, for case). When a subscription is paid via credit menu, each month the payment is taken from the credit card account and a month of subscription is credited to the player's account. This is ongoing, and payments will continue to be taken from the credit card account a few days before the thespian's membership credit runs out until the subscription is canceled or if your credit card expires. Yous must resubscribe if you renew your credit card. Credit carte du jour payments are processed immediately. Payments from the credit cards Visa, Visa Delta, and Mastercard are accepted from all customers regardless of location. The debit cards JCB, Visa Electron, Visa Debit Switch/Maestro, and Solo are likewise accepted from customers in the United Kingdom.

PaybyPhone

This method is currently unavailable.

The PaybyPhone payment method is available from payment provider Surfpin to players in the Us, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Republic of ireland, and more. Players wishing to subscribe via PayByPhone phone call Surfpin's PayByPhone service and receive a Pivot redeemable (after a processing period of 15 minutes) for one month of member credit on the RuneScape website. Subscription is paid for by the cost of the call, which is added to the caller'southward phone bill and is dependent on the country the caller is calling from. Players who subscribe via PayByPhone can unsubscribe simply by not calling again to resubscribe. No longer subscription lengths are currently available through PayByPhone. Costs for PayByPhone payment method are £5.00 GBP, $vii.99 USD, half-dozen.95EUR. Further data is bachelor during the secure subscription payment process (instructions for start in a higher place). This method of payment is non currently available as Surfpin is no longer providing this service.

PayBySMS

The PayBySMS payment method is available to players in the United States,^[4] Canada,^[4] ^[5] France,^[four] Frg,^[4] holland,^[4] Switzerland,^[four] the United Kingdom,^[four] Australia,^[four] Belgium,^[4] Singapore,^[6] Republic of estonia,^[seven]and Lithuania.^[7]

Players subscribing via PayBySMS send a text message from their cellphone to Surfpin and receive a bulletin in reply with a PIN redeemable (after a processing period of 15 minutes) for 1 month of member credit on the RuneScape website, very similar to the PayByPhone payment method. PayBySMS is generally the most expensive payment method, costing £half-dozen.00 GBP, $11.96 USD, six.90 EUR, $xvi.60 AUD or $xi.l CAD plus any charge made by the subscriber's mobile phone operator. The subscriber'southward network provider may likewise charge for the text message sent. The cost of the message is added to the subscriber'southward phone bill if the subscriber has a contract or removed from the credit on the subscriber's telephone.

PayBySMS currently supports the following telephone networks:

Networks in the United Kingdom:
- iii (Hutchison 3G UK Limited)
- O2 (O2 (Britain) Limited)
- Orange
- T Mobile
- Virgin Mobile (discontinued - 2016)
- Vodafone
Networks in the United States:
- Verizon Wireless
- T-Mobile
- U.Southward. Cellular
- Sprint
Networks in Canada:
- Bell
- MTS
- Sasktel
- Telus
- Virgin Mobile

Players who subscribe via PayBySMS can unsubscribe simply past not sending another text message to resubscribe. No longer subscription lengths are currently bachelor through PayBySMS. Further information is bachelor during the secure subscription payment process (instructions for starting time above).

PayPal

The provider PayPal offers players a variety of credit carte du jour payment options, being yous have an existing account with PayPal. PayPal subscriptions are available globally. Price via PayPal payment method are one month from GBP£4.50 / USD$seven.l / EUR6.50 two months from GBP£vii.99 / USD$12.99 / EUR10.99 3 months from GBP£10.99/ USD$17.99 / EUR15.99 6 months from GBP£20.99 / USD$34.99 / EUR29.99 12 months from GBP£39.99 / USD$66.99 / EUR55.99. At that place is a processing time of less than 1 minute.

By taking advantage of the "Secure Cards" feature provided by the Paypal Plug-in, one tin generate a multiple-employ virtual Mastercard linked to their Paypal account and utilize it with the credit carte du jour payment option, thus paying the cheaper credit card membership fees at $6/calendar month rather than $7.50/calendar month. This however is only available to those who have the card before the plug-in was removed.

GiroPay

Offered to High german players merely, GiroPay is a existent-fourth dimension bank transfer subscription process. When you complete your payment, the cash volition be removed from your bank account and paid directly to Jagex. All payments are "One-off" significant monthly renewal of membership is required, unless you purchase a bundle which gives you one,2,iii,6, or 12 months at a lump charge. The toll for the GiroPay payment method is ane month from 6.45€ 2 month from 12.25€ 3 month from 17.40€ vi calendar month from 32.25€ 12 calendar month from 58.05€

PayByCash

The provider PayByCash also provides a wide diverseness of payment methods. PayByCash offers unlike costs for dissimilar lengths of payment, with discounts available for longer payments. Considerably due to the vast amount of options available, please view the link beneath for a detailed explanation of possible payments options.

One payment option is the Ultimate Game Bill of fare. Information technology is a prepaid card sold in the U.S. in $10 or $20 amounts, which can be redeemed on the paybycash site.

Ultimate Game Cards are sold at the post-obit stores in the U.S.:

They have been discounted as of 31 August 2015.

Walgreens
7-Eleven
Walmart
CVS
Target
Blockbuster

Pre-pay cards

Pre-pay cards are sold at Target, vii-Eleven^[eight], Wal Mart, GameStop, and Rite-Assist stores in the United states, and are available in Uk at Game, Gamestation, Sainsbury's and Boots. There are iii types of cards:

30-day subscription (GBP £4.99) (USD $7.95)
90-twenty-four hour period subscription (GBP £12.99) (USD $22.50)
100-twenty-four hours subscription (GBP £??.??) (USD $25.00)

Paysafe-carte

In United Kingdom, United mexican states, Europe, and more, players can pay with a PaySafe-card.

PaySafe-carte
Prices correct sixteen October 2008
MONTHS	GBP	EUR	Mex $
i	£3.99	€7.l	$91.3555
ii	£half dozen.99	€xv.00	$159.941
3	£nine.99	€21.95	$228.586
vi	£xix.99	€28.fifty	$458.389
12	£36.99	€87.328	$848.565

RewardsPay

RewardsPay allows i to apply a credit bill of fare and airline rewards to purchase membership. The service is partnered with Notice Cashback Bonus and United MileagePlus.

Paying for membership through Bonds

With the introduction of Bonds, free players can now obtain membership via purchasing and redeeming bonds, thereby effectively allowing players to pay for membership through their in-game money. Bonds tin exist purchased from players or via the g commutation. Note that only one bond per offer can exist bought at the grand exchange. However, once a bond is obtained, some other can be bought while making a unlike offer. Bonds practise not stack in the depository financial institution, and require individual bank spaces. Redeeming a bond gives a histrion 14 days of membership. This method is highly recommended for long time or loftier-level costless players to explore the full game and obtain membership without having to pay real life money.

Price increases

The toll of membership for new subscribers has increased multiple times since RuneScape launched. Members that accept not let their membership lapse by 2 weeks since a toll increase volition exist grandfathered in and volition only pay the rates that they were paying previously.

Rates are for i calendar month membership
Time menses	Rate	Newspost
Prior to 18 Baronial 2008	£iii.20 GBP, $5.00 USD, 4.60EUR	N/A
18 August 2008 - 26 January 2012	£three.l GBP, $v.95 USD, v.95EUR	Price Change - Starting Today
27 Jan 2012 - 28 February 2015	£4.95 GBP, $7.95 USD, half dozen.95EUR	New Members' Pricing
1 March 2015 - 3 June 2018	£five.99 GBP, $9.49 USD, eight.49EUR	Membership Price Changes - 1st March 2015
4 June 2018 —	£6.99 GBP, $x.99 USD, 9.49EUR	Toll Change & Summertime Content

Price increases are oftentimes met by controversy from players of the game who may non feel that the money they are paying is worth the content that the game provides.

Premium membership packages

Premier Club is an almanac promotion held from December until January since December 2012. It comes in three types: Bronze, Silver and Gold, offering 3, six and twelve months of membership respectively, along with various extras such as promotional items, cosmetic overrides and/or loyalty points/RuneCoins.

References

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Source: https://runescape.fandom.com/wiki/Membership_subscription