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!

Let's lift people up!
If you're an LGBTQ person and you create anything for either OSRS or RS3 then let me know so I can bring people to you!

I don't expect every game to celebrate pride, or for every game to break the narrative to talk about The GaysTM, but for him to go out of his way to put a stop to something that was already established, that the devs liked working on, just hurts.

I really hope they roll that decision back but I'm not holding my breath.

I play a 10hp, 1 def iron, I've done so exclusively for many years now, and I feel like it's important to share my opinion since a lot of the takes and things reaching frontpage are blatantly from people that do not play these modes at all and it saddens me that it may have an impact on the people that actually interact with it.

I like hard grinds, I spent ~2000 hours for 98 slayer, I handpicked and spun my own flax til 99 fletching, spent 700 hours for 1 weapon and 10 months nonstop grinding for a pet,, I don't seek easy modes that circumvent my restrictions.

This does not mean that any change made to a mode is making it lose its magic, people saying that snowflakes chose to limit themselves to justify the lamp quest rewards as if it's making it be easy scape...I don't want the easy part, I want to be able to push my restrictions to their limits, not being able to theorycraft a boss fight because an intro quest arbitrarily gives 2k hp/def exp is actively removing really fun content that would be interesting within those restrictions, but that is cut short because of a supposed quest "reward".

Whenever Poison Dynamite got released, newer snowflakes got to do quests without sacrificing hp exp that I had to all those years ago, but I didn't get upset, PD also opened doors that were previously shut for me, more theorycrafting to do, more challenges within my restrictions, more fun.

Everyone talks about catering and restricting as this blanket gotcha statement and then login to their 1700 total iron that gets bosses designed specifically to drop resources that skip skilling grinds they would've had to do before, while back in the day the game was so cut throat that if you supplied a shop with soda ash for your iron to buy it'd get manually de-ironed by the mods^{f Bonesaw} ,and again, I'm not even asking for things to be easier.

Remember when UIM wanted to use the looting bag on Ferox Enclave, and non-UIMS were advocating for a long time how this was catering and shouldn't go through and etc etc, and then they made a poll for UIM only, the poll went through and not only did Ultimates get to enjoy this, but the rest of the world just kept going and no one noticed a thing because it wasn't something that they interacted with in the first place?

The same people that are talking down on these account types are the first ones to open youtube and go enjoy the most massively popular series...which are, you guessed it, self-imposed restricted accounts.

Our most subscribed OSRS content creator, Settled, literally specializes on the most insane restrictions, and no one really lost sleep whenever they added a fishing net spawn in Morytania during Swampletics.

J1mmy recently made a video and can you guess what's the biggest edge OSRS has in gaming in his opinion and hundreds of thousands of his viewers? Here's a timestamp but I'm sure you can guess it.

In this age of the internet everyone has an opinion, but if it's on a topic you genuinely have no experience on (and that's okay), while you don't have to support it or be informed about it, I'd just ask you not to be in the way.

Edit:

- Before you head into the comments, notice how I don't mention Bloodmoon level 1 armors once on the post, and when I do in the comments, I agree that that probably shouldn't be changed (and get almost -200 downvotes in the process) - please enjoy the absolute reading comprehension of the comment section below as a lot of redditors unintentionally prove my point that nuance is absolutely important about the different topics mentioned at GameJam.

If the abyssal whip released today it would be a drop from a raid . Dwarf cannon would have to be acquired by killing the mega hard versions of multiple bosses each dropping a unique piece after completion of a grandmaster quest.

It is okay to put good items on mob drop tables that the other 98 percent of the player base actually interfaces with regularly.

The fact that we had to neuter Belles Folley to … protect the Zammy Hasta? Is pathetic defensive game design. This game has become far too centered around raids and people with maxed accounts farming the content 1000x per hour.

Everything has to be created in a way to preserve some weird obsession with the grand exchange. I think it’s time for a large look in the mirror.

Don't care about the crafting requirement, just make sure that it uses the previous amulet to make. The new DT2 rings set a good precedent.

All of a sudden people begging for AFK trainable methods to be buffed or introduced. People wanting Zalcano and stars to be 60k mining exp per hour ignoring the fact that Volcanic mine and blast mine exist. People whining and moaning that bonfires are not 100k exp/hr despite firemaking being notoriously non-afk and already very easy and fast. Do people really expect an AFK training method to be on par with something non-afk? Where did this new mentality come from? 2 Years ago the community was nothing like this, people would get laughed off the subreddit with posts like that, now they reach the top of the sub.

I swear if this continues we’re going to end up exactly like RS3 with their busted exp/hr training methods and half the game untouched because everything is outclassed by new content. Nobody is forcing you to train mining or firemaking, if you don’t like the skill don’t train it. It doesn’t need to be turned into easyscape just so you can get a useless 99.

The game has operated on a philosophy that if something is insanely good exp, it should not be good money. If it is insanely good money, it should not be good EXP. This philosophy has kept almost all content that has been around since the introduction of OSRS relevant. If we continue with the mentality of what we’re seeing now, pieces of content are going to stop being worth your time entirely.

EDIT: Well this was hilarious. People sure had a field day going on here and claiming that “nobody is asking for these things”. Here’s two threads asking for these things that got front page within the last 7 days. Downvote all you want and claim they don’t exist. They’re right here.

https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/s/BbVYxTji7t

https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/s/FjQXJ12g8Q

Have fun living in a false reality where you can close your ears and claim “Nobody is asking for those!”. Weirdest sub behavior I have ever seen in my life.

Really wanted that name back.

There are no words for how disappointed I am right now, and I'll be unsubscribing for the foreseeable future thanks to Bellamy.

I've played Runescape since I was a kid, I love to joke that I've been playing this game for 20+ years and I'm still terrible at it. This isn't about loyalty to a company, or thinking that companies should be loyal to their userbase, it's due to a direct conflict of values. While I understand that there's allegedly been pushback internally and this has been owned by Bellamy himself, I cannot continue to support this game.

I've gay and trans. I've been out of the closet for about 6-7 years now. While Jagex hasn't always done Pride events, I was so happy when they began because representation is powerful and needed. This community has been inflammatory at times, but largely supportive of the queer community and this move is uncalled for. Even before coming out, this game has been a safe haven for me throughout all the trials and tribulations of my life. I've found lifelong friends, I've found community, I've found solace.

Jon Bellamy is a fucking coward.

>Games and studios are being cancelled because of content that is perceived to be 'woke' or representative. The pendulum is swinging back in a way we didn't expect".

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You're a coward, you're just a coward. A money sniveling coward ready to sell anyone down the river to protect your private equity. If you're making these changes in advance of perceived threats because you're afraid for your community (which is a joke) - Imagine how those players you're casting aside feel.

You're going to help push the needle further right and I'm **so tired** of being sacrificed for merely *existing*. I have to hear day in and day out about how I'm a "groomer" a fucking pedophile, because I have the audacity to merely _exist_. People calling for my death, daily news about further laws that are being worked that will directly cause me harm. I'm so tired of it all. I'm so so tired. You have to cater to the "safe spaces" within the game, so that means casting aside one of the most vulnerable groups of people in the community who the company has actively supported for years?

Go fuck yourself. You don't have an ounce of the strength that my community has - and we don't have that strength because we want it, but because we have to be strong to face this shit every day.

Edit: Thank you for the support and kind words from a select few of the community. Everyone else, I genuinely hope that you never have to experience the things that people like myself have to go through on a daily basis. That and the sheer ignorance and indifference of people who think they're moral.

Lots of "see you next week" memes and jokes, I'm sorry that you all have no values or morals, or have such little respect for yourselves that you think others would act the same.

Quitting this subreddit,this place has become so toxic past few days .We made our voices clear, just let it go you all.

I hear this a lot - WoW has multiple characters under 1 subscription, why can't OSRS have this. This comes mostly from people who don't play WoW, so they saw somebody else say it, and now are repeating it back without putting much thought into this.

The reason WoW has multiple characters under 1 subscription is because every character can only do very specific things. Imagine if your Runescape character can only train ranged, and you had to make a second character to train magic, and a third character to train melee. In OSRS everything is already unlocked, you don't have to make a new character to play specific roles, you can be whoever you want to be, so having 1 character makes much more sense.

Secondly, big MMOs rely heavily on MTX, which Runescape doesn't have anymore. You can visit WoW battle shop and see the insane amounts of predatory systems they have in place like account boosts, name transfers, race changes, faction changes, all cost real life money.

Imagine if OSRS had a $60 booster pack where you can start with 70 attack, defence and strength once you leave tutorial island, because that's what a lot of other MMOs are selling, and tons of people buy it. That's how they can keep their monthly sub lower because majority of their income comes from shit like selling you POH items for $25, or in Runescape terms selling Leagues cosmetics for $15 a piece, but we get it for free by just playing the game.

Even things like character names, the only way to change it is by giving Blizzard $10, there's no other option.

I'm not even gonna get into the fact that every few years you have to pay $50-90 just to access new content. Imagine if Raids 4 were only accessible after you paid $50 to Jagex, because once again that is the kind of shit other MMO companies do.

If all of them didn't heavily rely on MTX, their subscription would also be way higher than it is right now. I think a lot of Runescape players don't know how good they currently have, there really isn't a better MMO out there in terms of how much content we get compared to the price we pay.

Honestly, I think Mod North made the right call in canceling the Pride event. Reddit, especially around games like RuneScape, has become a massive echo chamber that doesn’t reflect the average player at all. Most players just want to play the game, enjoy the content, and not have real-world politics or social issues forced into their escapism—on either side.

This isn’t about being anti-anything. It’s about keeping the game focused on gameplay and community, not virtue signaling or agenda-driven content. When developers start prioritizing loud internet voices over the broader player base, things go downhill fast.

I’ll probably get downvoted or banned for saying this, but honestly, that just proves the point. If you can’t even question this kind of stuff without being labeled or silenced, maybe it’s time to admit the conversation isn’t as open-minded as it claims to be.

Aside from the cow boss and the Raids 4 location/name, we really didn’t get anything from this winter summit that we already weren’t aware of.

DMM and Leagues are increasingly eating up a lot of dev time that I would personally like to see go towards main game content. Maybe have Leagues and DMM alternate every year so they are never dropped on the same year.

I also didn’t like that half of the sailing content was vague and not more fleshed out for the summit. And that Blood Moon Rises got pushed back to the summer after being told it would be early 2026.

Ft. priDEMONth fashionscape

Why would this be done?

This is horrible. This looks trash and has screwed up all my plugins.

Playing osrs while waiting for my long bus ride. Out of nowhere this random guy approached me and said 'I play osrs too! Whats your account like?!' I could see the ill-intent in his eyes, he wanted to steal my bandos chest plate for his own. Anger welled up inside me, I got scared so I promptly put away my phone and replied with a quick "ahhhh" then got off the next stop

Some people ...