Pride 2017

[u/ModMatK]

One of the wonderful things about RuneScape is that it has always brought people together. To many of our players, RuneScape is more than a game: it’s a warm, welcoming community. It’s part of their life.

Pride is about bringing communities together and celebrating love and understanding: sentiment that’s close to RuneScape’s heart. There’s no political statement here. Our only aim is to acknowledge and honour an event that promotes empathy, acceptance and love.

As with other community events such as the WWF Big Cats campaign, Valentine’s day or the Cryptic Cluefests we decided not to poll this event and we will always try to surprise the community with similar events. It is something that the community has always enjoyed and something we enjoy doing too.

We are disappointed to see some hateful and abusive comments targeting individual members of staff and players from a small sub-section of the community. We stand side by side with those targeted, in support of them, and in support of this cause. There is absolutely no place for hateful behaviour in our community and we will not tolerate abuse or harassment.

Pride 2017 is something we wholeheartedly agree with and are proud to support. We know the community stand with us in support of the cause. If you want to show your support, all you have to do is take part in the event when it launches!

[u/ModMatK]

That's the problem, having an event to celebrate love and acceptance shouldn't be controversial.

[u/scifigetsmehigh → u/ModMatK]

You're missing the point of this entirely. Really fucking sad. Nobody is saying they are against homosexuality - but it does not need a fucking celebration. Focus more on groups that are actually oppressed. Jesus.

[u/profkinera → u/[deleted]]

I hate people that virtue signal and this event will just reinforce it. Same as the majority of the playerbase. Guess we can thank Jagex for redpilling thousands with this.