So what they did is promise to not fuck it up again? They put everybody's minds at ease that they wouldn't surprise players with bad updates again. Every update would be passed by democracy. Polls and poll items for every single change, and those changes MUST have a super majority (either 66% or 75%, it's really high).
It used to be 75%. It's now 70%
Guess what change wasn't polled? All the fag shit. Because the OSRS players don't want fag shit. They don't want fag capes, they don't want fag pronouns, they don't want Body Type A/B, they don't want 15 year old quests changed so you don't have to marry a prince or princess opposite your gender.
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no sadly, since jagex wasn't liking the poll system they invented "integrity changes" as a concept to push unpolled updates to the game since like, 2 years ago, and it's been getting increasingly more preposterous as time has gone on. From nerfs to old items like black d hide to make them more balanced for future content, to readding chat censorship, to putting the GAY MIDGET between varrock and falador, and other stupid bullshit they've unilaterally decided to change, this has only gotten worse.
Besides, even if shit doesnt pass the polls, they'll just rephrase it or change it up a bit, wait a couple months, re-poll it as something else, or say it was an integrity change and the game was supposed to work like this from the beginning, fuck you, have a nice day, keep playing loser.
Their method of trying to push things into the game is extremely scummy. If it fails a poll, wait a bit and poll it again. Repeat until you get the results you want. They occasionally get comments of people noticing this happening but ignore them. It's more effective than you might think.
Also active on this Discord server:
discord.gg/rot
That's extremely interesting. ROT (Reign of Terror) is probably the most notorious clan in the entire game and has a huge spotlight on them right now for botting and cheating during the most recent Deadman Mode.
Ghommal, the big guy in the warriors' guild, got killed off unceremoniously together with duradel, turael, the guy from dream mentor, and hazelmere. Now in the warrior guild the usher is a deformed bald female dwarf. The others are just female counterparts. No joke.
All of those characters die and all of their replacements were the same in the original version of While Guthix Sleeps. The Warrior's Guild bouncer (Laidee Gnonock) is a male gnome and was graphically updated shortly after release to be less hideous. Duradel is replaced by his daughter, Kuradal. Turael is replaced by Aya, his sister. Cyrisus is not replaced since he's really only relevant during Dream Mentor. Hazelmere is not replaced either.
OSRS had like the least faggoty playerbase for a long time. Shit, they allied with The Donald on reddit for the r/Place thing the first time it happened. There have been riots more than once to protest the fag shit. The devs don't care. Makes me sad, OSRS was so good for a long time.
The only potentially funny part of this is 07scape is full of shitlords.
There's going to be a lot of comically ugly lumberjack bearded players using the new female pronouns and clothes options.
My God do the British suck, they deserve all of the Islams. I loved Runescape as a kid.
Facebook and Xitter too. Despite /r/2007scape having the highest concentration of the OSRS playerbase's faggots and trannies, even there shit like this is unpopular. The reason you don't see as many comments shitting on it is because of literal Reddit tranny jannies. Overall the OSRS playerbase is unusually anti-political (and when political it's, dare I say, right-leaning). Though this is likely explained by it being primarily comprised of white men in their mid to late 20's.
The only reason that they can get away with this at large is that osrs players are by and large far more autistic than they are racist, and this videogame is pure fucking crack.
There's a saying that goes something like "You never quit RuneScape. You just take breaks." The saying is stunningly on-point for most people, myself included. I've never played a game that's hooked me quite like this one.
I just hope we get to see this protest again.
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EVERYONE GET THEIR CANNONS AND DESERT ROBES ITS ANOTHER FALLY PROTEST BABY
Unfortunately for us, I predict this turning being another
Nothing Ever Happens
since it's a relatively minor change when it comes to
actually playing the game. I couldn't tell you the last time I modified my character's appearance in a way that wasn't changing what gear I had equipped.
The silver lining is that since the majority of the playerbase doesn't like this shit, the majority doesn't interact with it.