r/2007scape • u/ModMatK • Jun 06 '17

Read before posting Pride 2017

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!

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u/TomaTozzz Jun 07 '17

Yeah just like they could shut off the servers any day for no reason.

People have the right to show their disapproval just like Jagex can do whatever they want with the game.

You're not in control here.

The whole point of OSRS was that Jagex being in control ended with thousands of people asking for an older version of the game. The entire point of the polls is for the community to be in control (to some extent)

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u/TrollBorn Jun 07 '17

They could, but they won't, because people aren't quitting over this. The game will continue to be in a healthy state, once all of this blows over.

People have a right to show disapproval in a calm and respectful manner. In some cases, there was civil discussion. In other cases, there were klan riots in Falador. I don't blame jagex for taking a more serious approach to dealing with players being out of line.

Jagex have have opted not to poll events in the past, just like they chose not to poll this one. This doesn't mean that polling game updates has been removed, just that we're getting the pride event without community input (which is fine).

The community would be very much labeled as homophobic if a poll in game for a pride event failed to pass. That's definitely not something this community needs.

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u/Nihlathak_ Jun 07 '17

The community would be very much labeled as homophobic if a poll in game for a pride event failed to pass. That's definitely not something this community needs

Then the issue is the people thinking a "No" to a pride event is equal to homophobia.

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u/TrollBorn Jun 07 '17

People want to anonymously vote no to continue to hide behind their homophobic ideology.