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Exclusive: RuneScape developer Jagex slammed by staff for Pride Month U-turn

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Five@beehaw.org⁩ to ⁨gaming@beehaw.org⁩

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/06/10/runescape-pride-2025/

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  • jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In their email, Jagex management also told staff: “[…] Our job is not to use the game as an outlet for our own views, but to craft worlds that serve our players, offering immersion, escape and meaning.

    Well, isn’t that some of the best BS contortionist corpospeak I’ve seen in some time…

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  • dark_arc@pie.packetloss.gg ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    This is disappointing, but I can't say I'm surprised.

    For those not familiar, Jagex has been going downhill since about 2010 (basically when the founders sold the game to venture capital).

    There's a new game by the founders, Brighter Shores. It improves a lot of things over RuneScape in principle, but it still needs a ton of work to make it more broadly appealing (effectively it's still just a bit beyond an -- extremely stable --tech demo; no bosses or minigames yet).

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    • Ledericas@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      yea the neglect of the rs games, content drought was a telltale sign something was up. the mtx increase was just to stave things off.

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  • sculd@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    So Jagex wants to avoid controversy…by creating a bigger controversy? Genius move from the new “CEO”. As always, the executive class is insane.

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  • DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    SLAMMED

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    • drspod@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO3cFz53vs8

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  • Mothra@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Whaaaaa? Shame on them especially since they had events going. Would have been easier to just not have any events if you were going to cancel in like ten days

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  • EonNShadow@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh so we’re going back to our roots with this one, a riot in Falador it is then.

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