Old School RuneScape is a mobile and PC adaptation of the seasoned OSRS gold MMORPG's original format, which launched in January 2001. The "Old School" version launched in February 2013 and is based specifically on the August 2007 version of the game.

Roller Champions did not launch with a Season 1 like many other live service games. Instead, Ubisoft Montreal's roller derby-inspired game was released with a preseason, one that has a smaller battle pass and not many planned limited-time events. It's essentially launched in early access, without actually being early access, giving the team the room to shift gears ahead of Season 1 if need be.

"We're like 50% set in stone of where we want to go--the other 50% allows us to react, to be able to fix bugs on the fly," Roller Champions live ops manager Naomi Barnes told . "Currently anything that we need to fix on the client side we'll throw into Season 1. If there's anything we can fix that's just a quick server update, we'll do that, though."

The Roller Champions team arrived at this plan of action after seeing how Ubisoft's other live service games have faired over the years--both those that have gone on to be successful and ones that have quickly failed.

"So like Rainbow 6 Siege, For Honor--even Hyper Scape," Barnes said. "We've taken learnings from all of them, including how to work as a dev team. We like to see what's out RuneScape gold there, take some learnings, see how we can work it into our team, and truly make it a roller experience."