Jagex Confirms: No Epic Games Account Needed for RuneScape Dragonwilds

After players got confused about linking their Epic Games account for RuneScape Dragonwilds. Jagex explained how things work to Gamefusionusa - and it is good news.

Two weeks after it is unveiling the MMORPG's spinoff survival game RuneScape Dragonwilds, has arrived in the world. If you have played the fantasy game Gielinor you have probably seen a confusing login screen asking you to link your Steam account to Epic Games. To allay concerns and confusion, creative director Rick Mod Rook Turek confirmed to Gamefusionusa that linking your accounts isn't mandatory, The blank accounts in the terms of service are only for Dragonwilds and can be removed at any time.

When you boot up RuneScape Dragonwilds, you get a request to link your 'Epic Account Services Basic Profile to your existing Steam account in order to play online. Immediately, some players assumed you needed to download the Epic Games Launcher and create an account to experience the survival game in multiplayer while others were confused by the idea of ​​a blank account.

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Speaking to PCGamesN, Turek explained that you won't need the Epic Launcher or an Epic account to play online, and that these blank accounts can be modified at any time and are exclusive to Dragonwilds only.

We use [Epic Games Online Services] because it's a unique feature of Unreal that allows us to do cross-platform, cross-play, and cross-save. he told me. That's something in our long-term roadmap that's definitely for other platforms and it essentially allows us to take someone out of the game if they want to play with their friends later.

We have tried to make this process as seamless and intuitive as possible, so in the game, when you see the Epic Online Services screen. If you press play and want to play online and you can definitely do that. It creates a ghost account which doesn't take your email password or any of that information. It creates an ID, and that ID is tagged with Dragonwilds and Steam so you can play on different platforms later.

We can confirm that if you have accounts tied to Steam they can be overridden and deleted as well. he added. We anticipated this already, and we have a patch coming out on day ten that will have a button that will actually delete it so you can go back to playing offline if you want to. If you don't want to go online and do not want to delete the online services, you can just delete it completely.

As far as we know, they are single use, it is not like every game on Steam will use this dummy ID. We are fully confirming with Epic, but we'll add the deletion feature either way.

When I asked if this was likely to change Turek said that because of things like Helldivers 2, we know people are helpful when it comes to signing in to different accounts. It does not have to be the same: we're not asking you to sign up for an account and provide your personal information to play our game that's not what we're trying to do here. It is really just trying to provide a way for players, which we thought was really fun to play with their friends on Xbox and PlayStation and carry over your saves if you want.

In the future we might talk about other ways to do something similar but this service was special. Unreal Engine made it possible so we started by looking at that first.