In Loving Memory

If love, care, and compassion could help RuneHQ / Deb & Gene, they would have live forever.

Thank you for everything.

Long live RuneHQ.

I haven't played RS in years and don't think I'll ever return but this site was so helpful when I was playing regularly that it's always stayed present in my memories of those golden days of 'Scape.

Thank you for all who contributed to this site and helped guide me along my adventures in this game as a kid, I wouldn't have had nearly as much fun without you.

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Thank you Runehq team for being there for me when I was a child.

I had a turbulent childhood, the best way I can describe it is lonely and troubled. My parents were neglectful and they didn't care what happened to me or what I did just as long as I caused no trouble or made their life harder.

When I think back, I remember times when I'd try to distract myself on the way home in the bus, trying my best to ignore the throbbing from the bullying I had endured that day. I'd think about what I'd need to do on RuneScape, and which quests I should get done.

I'd get home, quickly go through RuneHq and pick a quest guide to open; sometimes even multiple windows. I'd scroll immediately down to rewards and then I'd nod in acknowledgement. I'd do my chores quickly and run back to the computer and start up RuneScape in a small window. Arranging the windows to fit my small bulky computer screen.

In those small moments of effortless focus, methodically following the steps, carefully reading the guide, I'd be somewhere else.

I wouldn't be that sad kid who could couldn't fit in. I wouldn't be that kid who couldn't talk to his parents about his issues.
I wouldn't be that kid with a different skin colour than everyone else.
I wouldn't be that kid who had so much emotion that he didn't understand whirling inside him.

I was just that kid who lived in this new world and I could be someone else for a moment in time.

Thank you RuneHq team for allowing me to disappear for a while. Thank you for helping me hold on.

Thankyou for all the help you gave me over the years! Im really sad to see this go now as a 32 year old man it feels like abit of my childhood going.

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I remember visiting RuneHQ a lot when I was a kid learning Runescape and I always thought it was so cool how there was a site dedicated to helping out players. 23 years is such a long time to spend sharing knowledge and helping people and I will always be thankful I found RuneHQ at that young age.

Thank you so much for everything.

Thanks y’all!

sadness

Discovering RuneScape in 2005 at the age of 9, this site was a trove of information and a cornerstone of my childhood. Thanks for the memories.

RuneHQ was a key contributor to my early playing days. Starting back in 2004, I don't know if I would've stuck with the game without the guidance of this website. Printing out quest guides and studying them before doing a quest is a core memory I will forever cherish.

Thanks for the memories!