Man, I kept considering getting back into this, but after seeing how bad shit has gotten since I last played a few years back, what's the point? Is there any super cringe woke dialogue in modern quests and stuff too?
New quests in RS3 are the worst. From pronouns to cringey sarcasm. I ranted about this to my friend who's big into lore. Raven, for all spearheading diversity into the game, did a decent enough job with the game lore for over a decade. Sudden tone shift happened during the Elder God Wars story, which is when we learnt he was benched for a new faggot:
https://runescape.wiki/w/Mod_Zura.
This new guy's lore's been heavily criticised, even by some
People of Letters in the community. The one responsible for this shitshow is
https://runescape.wiki/w/Mod_Jack. It's giving me a headache, else I'd sperg about it for a few pages.
He'll, this was the update that made me quit back in February 2020 (its the one that changed all the npcs from Ali) I remember all the fucking seals clapping for that even though not a single person ever brought this up as a problem.
That was such a PR move by them. No muslim gave two shits about the whole Ali meme. It was even part of documented lore, until they retconned it. Tyson Fury was calling himself Gypsy King around that time too (for those that don't know, every 'Ali' NPC in Pollnivneach relevant to The Feud quest was renamed & Gypsy Aris is now called Aris because calling someone Gypsy is worse than rape). But no, Fagex are right and the playerbase are wrong. There was a storm in the community when it happened. Unpaid reddit and discord janny faggots successfully quashed and banned all dissent...
Mod Jack was a prominent figure pushing for the change. Fucking snake.
I remember Rubic and many others got dogpiled for trying to have a conversation about it:
https://twitter.com/Im_Rubic/status/1232706115651153925
This faggot above is a former Jmod (
https://runescape.wiki/w/Mod_Sayln) who came out as idek. Non-binary gender queer vegetable something. He's deranged and a tumour.
It's almost like the few rational people that stayed now live in the shadows. They aren't allowed to disagree anymore or they risk getting banned.
No idea who this person is. Respect to them for saying the quiet part out aloud.^
There's also that one quest in Miscellania where a step has you marry the prince/princess, was edited so you can choose either option regardless of player gender
Which makes no sense because it's supposed to be a medieavel, historically political marriage. I never liked how it forces it either because you could change sex and it forced the NPC to become bi. Watch them add a third marriage option in the future: the princex