• xistera@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 hours ago

      You used to have to switch to a female character to do the quest Recruitment Drive, but they changed the mechanics of how that works so it isn’t necessary anymore.

      They also let you choose which character you want to romance during the Throne of Miscellania quest now.

    • c0wboy dani@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      5 hours ago

      they sure did.

      they’ve made a number of changes of the sort, hairdressers are free, don’t need to change gender for a quest that you used to have to, have the choice of who to romance in another quest (including gay option), you don’t have to kiss the frog prince/ss random event if you don’t want to and still get the reward…

      the quest you had to be a girl for changing kinda annoys me bc it was kinda clever before but if it reduces dysphoria I guess it’s good (but I wonder how many people have legitimately felt dysphoria from having to be a girl for a single quest in a video game that looks like runescape… (I guess if a single person is helped it’s good tho))

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        I remember spending a lot of gold trying out different hair styles, nice that that’s free now too, as well as the romance options! :)

        • c0wboy dani@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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          yeah it’s good stuff! jagex has definitely stumbled a few times and there is a very vocal gross minority of younameit-phobes in the playerbase but all in all they’ve done a great job telling those ppl to shove it.

          a whole bunch of free cosmetics with different pride flag colors too :)

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            Except when they removed the pride event last year in a move that was, ostensibly, to cater to the sensibilities of bigots, at least.

            • c0wboy dani@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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              agreed that’s one of the stumbles I mentioned. i think it had more to do with the venture capital company that acquired them right around that time though.

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                Feels more than a stumble to me. It’s not so much that they faltered while still moving forward, it’s that they actively took a step backward. Pride was already an established precedent, devs had worked on pride 2025 already. Hell, some devs even offered to do the dev work for free if it meant they could still do pride, and the answer was still no.

                Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely adore OSRS. I have well over 3k hours in the game, but watching this and seeing the price change over the last couple years (two price hikes and removal of the 3-month membership option) feels like watching venture capital hollow out something I love. I do not think things will get better.

                • c0wboy dani@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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                  yeah I understand where you’re coming from.

                  i have two and a half months left on my yearly membership and I haven’t decided if I’m gonna renew it yet. >30% price hike and no grandfathering (as was the precedent) is a fucking haaaarsh sell especially considering this is the longest gap we’ve had between raids being added. i do appreciate all the midgame content they’ve been adding regardless of the fact it’s irrelevant to me on my main, the game desperately needed it… but as an endgame player it’s kinda garbage such a bad price hike without any of my favorite content (not discounting doom or yama or colo, it just doesn’t scratch the itch that raids do for me)

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      Yeah itnuswd to be something fairly cheap but not free. Back when I played there was a quest that gender swapped you, and gave you a potion afterwards to swap back. Something had glitched and I lost my potion, SK I just shrugged and spent the next two years playing as a woman because I was too cheap and didn’t care enough to cough up for the swap.

      • c0wboy dani@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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        iirc you had to go to this guy/gal to swap genders for the quest

        spoiler

        the reason you had to be a girl is because you got the hint from the guy “no man can defeat me!” which means a gorl could

        also sorry if ur not (idk you and am not insinuating) but that last bit reads suuuper eggy lol

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      My abilities? Well, in all honesty they all come through the amulet I wear. I found it one day after killing a whole nest of gazulibirds (now long extinct). I put the thing on and suddenly my hair grew down to my waist!

      Looks like your best bet is to raid every bird nest you can find until you find a Ying and Yang amulet.

      Edit: ironic since they’re called Peta.

      • c0wboy dani@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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        I bought one of the amulets while I was there :3

        in fact I sent out a request to the deliveritems clan to bring me 100 gold to buy it bc I didn’t bring any

        it’s a yin yang

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            it’s kinda like the Fuel Rats in Elite: Dangerous if you’ve heard of them

            if you havent

            they deliver fuel to people when their ships run out so they’re not stranded

            basically they’ll deliver anything (within reason) anywhere for free. now normally people use it for quests if they forget an item they need and then pay the person for the item and their time when they’re back at a bank.

            TL;DR: mutual aid! super cool stuff :)