Ive been away from the game for sometime and i tried to make a new account i see this thing called jagex accounts and I can only play the game on jagex launcher now. Are you required to make a new account a jagex one or can you still make regular accounts?

All new accounts made have to be a Jagex account
In the future (they have not given us a specific date) all old accounts will be forced to migrate to a Jagex account as well

Resource found here: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/account-creation-changes?oldschool=1

Bummer :/ thanks