they’ve made a number of changes of the sort, hairdressers are free, don’t need to change gender for a quest that you used to have to, have the choice of who to romance in another quest (including gay option), you don’t have to kiss the frog prince/ss random event if you don’t want to and still get the reward…
the quest you had to be a girl for changing kinda annoys me bc it was kinda clever before but if it reduces dysphoria I guess it’s good (but I wonder how many people have legitimately felt dysphoria from having to be a girl for a single quest in a video game that looks like runescape… (I guess if a single person is helped it’s good tho))
yeah it’s good stuff! jagex has definitely stumbled a few times and there is a very vocal gross minority of younameit-phobes in the playerbase but all in all they’ve done a great job telling those ppl to shove it.
a whole bunch of free cosmetics with different pride flag colors too :)
agreed that’s one of the stumbles I mentioned. i think it had more to do with the venture capital company that acquired them right around that time though.
Feels more than a stumble to me. It’s not so much that they faltered while still moving forward, it’s that they actively took a step backward. Pride was already an established precedent, devs had worked on pride 2025 already. Hell, some devs even offered to do the dev work for free if it meant they could still do pride, and the answer was still no.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore OSRS. I have well over 3k hours in the game, but watching this and seeing the price change over the last couple years (two price hikes and removal of the 3-month membership option) feels like watching venture capital hollow out something I love. I do not think things will get better.
i have two and a half months left on my yearly membership and I haven’t decided if I’m gonna renew it yet. >30% price hike and no grandfathering (as was the precedent) is a fucking haaaarsh sell especially considering this is the longest gap we’ve had between raids being added. i do appreciate all the midgame content they’ve been adding regardless of the fact it’s irrelevant to me on my main, the game desperately needed it… but as an endgame player it’s kinda garbage such a bad price hike without any of my favorite content (not discounting doom or yama or colo, it just doesn’t scratch the itch that raids do for me)
they sure did.
they’ve made a number of changes of the sort, hairdressers are free, don’t need to change gender for a quest that you used to have to, have the choice of who to romance in another quest (including gay option), you don’t have to kiss the frog prince/ss random event if you don’t want to and still get the reward…
the quest you had to be a girl for changing kinda annoys me bc it was kinda clever before but if it reduces dysphoria I guess it’s good (but I wonder how many people have legitimately felt dysphoria from having to be a girl for a single quest in a video game that looks like runescape… (I guess if a single person is helped it’s good tho))
I remember spending a lot of gold trying out different hair styles, nice that that’s free now too, as well as the romance options! :)
yeah it’s good stuff! jagex has definitely stumbled a few times and there is a very vocal gross minority of younameit-phobes in the playerbase but all in all they’ve done a great job telling those ppl to shove it.
a whole bunch of free cosmetics with different pride flag colors too :)
Except when they removed the pride event last year in a move that was, ostensibly, to cater to the sensibilities of bigots, at least.
agreed that’s one of the stumbles I mentioned. i think it had more to do with the venture capital company that acquired them right around that time though.
Feels more than a stumble to me. It’s not so much that they faltered while still moving forward, it’s that they actively took a step backward. Pride was already an established precedent, devs had worked on pride 2025 already. Hell, some devs even offered to do the dev work for free if it meant they could still do pride, and the answer was still no.
Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore OSRS. I have well over 3k hours in the game, but watching this and seeing the price change over the last couple years (two price hikes and removal of the 3-month membership option) feels like watching venture capital hollow out something I love. I do not think things will get better.
yeah I understand where you’re coming from.
i have two and a half months left on my yearly membership and I haven’t decided if I’m gonna renew it yet. >30% price hike and no grandfathering (as was the precedent) is a fucking haaaarsh sell especially considering this is the longest gap we’ve had between raids being added. i do appreciate all the midgame content they’ve been adding regardless of the fact it’s irrelevant to me on my main, the game desperately needed it… but as an endgame player it’s kinda garbage such a bad price hike without any of my favorite content (not discounting doom or yama or colo, it just doesn’t scratch the itch that raids do for me)