Runescape Chads showing how its done
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I'm happy for them, but they still have an enormous pile of shitty p2w microtransactions and obnoxious cosmetics. Hero pass was dumb and shitty, but a part of me couldn't help but think "you tolerate all this other bullshit but this is what you consider a step too far?"
Really makes me think the only reason it sparked so much outrage is because they kept teasing some major update and got people excited only for it to be more microtransactions. If they would have just quietly introduced it without the fanfare they probably could have snuck it in.
That's how it always is. Battlefront 2 was only barely worse than any other AAA shooter in terms of its money grubbing, but its the only one that people lost their minds over enough to get it removed. Shadow of War had literally tacked on MTX, and people tanked the game out of hatred of them while loving the shit out of other games with more aggressive and necessary lootboxes.
It always comes back to people getting their opinions from their favorite youtubers and ecelebs. So if one of them raises a big enough stink, then everyone joins in and makes it into a thing. Otherwise it ain't going anywhere and everyone will buy it regardless while hating it.
In this case, one of the many big named Runescape creators probably made a video about it and it spiraled from there.
You can't really. Anyone who convinces them out of their mindset will simply become the replacement.
People don't fall into these mindsets because the industry being predatory creates them, they are born in specific ways that the industry predation appeals to them and they throw themselves into it.
Runescape for example, requires a specific blend of autism, nostalgia, and an extreme sunken cost fallacy to want to finally hit 99 in a skill after 15 years of working on it. If they had slightly more money as a kid growing up, they'd have afforded a real MMO instead of Runescape and be addicted to that. If they didn't play video games, they'd have fallen into some other autism hole to fill their need to mindlessly grind at like coding.
Yeah in this case I think it was a combo of big creators and a reddit mob.
I dropped the SHIT our of RuneScape last year when they introduced an update that changed the skin color of a bunch of the White NPCs, plus other DIE-labeled things. Sometime this year, probably June, they added literal tranny flag patterns as shirts you can purchase in-game. Jagex is completely subverted and is yet another game from my childhood I will never be able to play again without having to support this awful ideology. I find them the opposite of Chads in every sense of the word.
Too bad OSRS is still pozzed.
You mean with the pride event shit or did they do yet ANOTHER shitty thing?
The pride event is the peak of their power, but the kind of devs that force and gleefully participate in a rejection of the OldSchool half of OSRS is clear and present tumor.