SLAMMED

Whaaaaa? Shame on them especially since they had events going. Would have been easier to just not have any events if you were going to cancel in like ten days

In their email, Jagex management also told staff: “[…] Our job is not to use the game as an outlet for our own views, but to craft worlds that serve our players, offering immersion, escape and meaning.

Well, isn’t that some of the best BS contortionist corpospeak I’ve seen in some time…

This is disappointing, but I can't say I'm surprised.

For those not familiar, Jagex has been going downhill since about 2010 (basically when the founders sold the game to venture capital). The company changes owners every couple of years as the next round of venture capital takes control promises big changes (for the better) only to squeeze more money out of an increasingly small player base. They then sell the company for a price hike.

Jagex is in the for sale stage right now, so they're presumably tying to avoid scrutiny for what they hope will be probably a billion dollar sale.

There's a new game by the founders, Brighter Shores. It improves a lot of things over RuneScape in principle, but it still needs a ton of work to make it more broadly appealing (effectively it's still just a bit beyond an -- extremely stable --tech demo; no bosses or minigames yet).

So Jagex wants to avoid controversy…by creating a bigger controversy? Genius move from the new “CEO”. As always, the executive class is insane.

Oh so we’re going back to our roots with this one, a riot in Falador it is then.