He also commented on opinions that RuneScape had been "dumbed down", promising players that it was not aimed extensively at a child-based consumer audience. He promised to make the members version of RuneScape seem like an expansion, instead of simply becoming a "full version" of the free-to-play version/game. Jagex appointed current CEO, Mark Gerhard as of 1 February 2009 (a Sunday), though it was not announced on the RuneScape homepage until 9 February.
On 14 July 2008, this update became available to non-members and the entire RuneScape community. On 1 July 2008, RuneScape High Detail, also known as RuneScape HD or RSHD by some, which was a major overhaul of RuneScape's graphics and the single largest update of RuneScape 2 to date, was released to members as a beta. However, many of these memberships cancelled were macros themselves rather than legitimate players. Many serious players believed that the game needed to keep several of these areas at least in part the update prompted a record number of users in the rants forum, and it is estimated that over 60,000 membership subscriptions were cancelled. On 10 December 2007, Jagex, faced with widespread real world trading rule violations, decided to remove several key areas of the game, especially player killing in an area called, "the wild".
(such as the Wii, the Xbox 360 and the Playstation 3 ) as "tempting" however, he states that there are currently no such plans to do so.