In Loving Memory

I was introduced to the site by a former neighbor and still hella chill buddy of mine when I was getting confused over... Haunted Mine, I think? The guides here gave me a good push towards getting some must-have mid-game milestones in the early 2010's.

At the same time though, I saw most of the RS community as trolls, scammers, and bots. And my anti-social tendencies, combined with my mom instilling a lot of internet paranoia unto me, didn't quite help the matter. But then clans became a thing and I was like "Hey, I know that site!" and joined. Met some of the coolest internet buddies I still chat with here and there like Im Your Cat, James Rhodes, High Vortex, Sliver, Rednar, Bertie, and much more. Been there for the good, some of the bad, and the weird like when Double D Edd got mad that I broke the calculator in IRC by dividing by zero.

They say we can't have nice things, but there are at least good things, but unfortunately, they all must come to an end.

I don't know what comes after the end, but I hope Gene and Deb are smiling more with every goofy joke we crack left and right.

Goodnight, RuneHQ'ers.

This was my go site in my early years of gameplay.
Many an hour was spent here digging for info.
All good things must come to an end

This was such a childhood staple to always log in to Runehq and use the Blazekit (I hope I remembered that correctly). Nevertheless, I know Runehq had their own client and I would talk to staff all the time (it was kinda like Swiftkit/Swiftswitch), but dang the memories. So sad to see this website go as it will definitely be missed.

I wish you guys all the best! This loss hurts my inner child :(

What to even say, not really a day anyone would have thought would come around really. Well, the website really introduced me to a lot of things, in 2009 I became a Radio DJ and learnt how to stream my own music to a website (Even hosting a 10 hour loop of Friday - Rebecca Black when it was April 1st), to how to edit new posts and moderate forums. My second run as a forum moderator under James was when I really got to grips with how much the website really meant to Gene and Deb, Gene had just returned and dragged everyone into TeamSpeak for a massive staff meeting, which in the end resulted in myself not sleeping until 8am the next day. His passion for the site, and how much love Gene and Deb both had for each other, was inspiring for us all. As someone who joined RuneHQ over 20 years ago, and became staff around 17 years ago, life has it's way of drawing you back no matter what direction you head in. I have no regrets over my time spent on RuneHQ, and would do it all again in the next lifetime. Save me a beer up there Gene, I'm heading to your table when I get there.

Thanks for all the memories!

Thank you for all the years of help, I remember finishing school coming home to do quests (elemental workshop the worst of them) and relying on runehq along with the 1-99 guides

Thank you RuneHQ. From Singapore. Used your quest guides and knowledge library since 2006. I was 10 back then! Hopefully we can have an archived version of this website and keep it running. Happy to donate and I’m sure many of us want to see it running indefinitely.

I have used runehq as a resource for an eternity. Memories of late night middle school evenings spent up pouring through the database. I'm now 35 and will forever cherish the memories made on runescape with the help of rune hq. Thanks for the great memories il never forget.

Rest in peace thanks for your dedication

I remembered as a kid visiting this website and being fascinated with the tools. Till this day with the amount of tools we have available and Ai, I much rather go the old fashioned way and read a guide and go through everything myself. I loved every bit of it and what it provided for the community. Thank you. May god bless your souls