Quite a big drama in the Old School RuneScape community over the past couple days
To summarize:
- Dude had been working on a graphical plugin/mod to the RuneLite client (unofficial client for OSRS that's given unofficial approval by Jagex) for the past couple years, putting in 2000 hours of work on it, to make the game like the HD graphics from 2008
- Literally the day before the plugin is to go live, he's told by Jagex that he can't release it because 'they care about maintaining a visual consistency with their game'
- Massive anger of this in the community, with people protesting in-game, cancelling their subs, making memes about it, it even reaches mainstream gaming news sites due to how pissed the community was over this decision. (And keep in mind, it's not like the dude had been developing this in secret, he'd shown off in-progress screenshots, which Jagex employees often complementing his work, since development began. At any point they could have told him to stop development instead of waiting until it was about to release)
- The day after the announcement, Jagex announces that they're in discussions with the developer of the plugin and the founder of RuneLite about the situation
- Earlier today, it's announced that the HD plugin will be released on Monday and the developer of the plugin will be collaborating with Jagex in order to make sure the project stays consistent with Jagex's vision for the game.