Runescape CEO Discontinued Pride Month Events to Avoid "Backlash"

"Cowardly and disgusting": RuneScape veteran joins players laying into Jagex CEO for cancelling Pride events over reported fear of backlash, which has created backlash

The plan has not worked out perfectly

Runescape CEO discontinued Pride Month events to avoid "backlash"

In recent years, we've seen the gaming community start to heavily critique things which it sees as involving diversity, inclusion, and representation. There are audible groans whenever a female character doesn't have a bust size that would give a woman back pain by the age of 22, and campaigns launched to shoot down anything that falls under the ever-growing banner of woke. It seems some developers are wanting to avoid this new age of backlash,…

It's Disappointing, And Telling, That Jagex Cancelled RuneScape Pride Month Year

This is apparently “what players really want.”

Anonymous employee accuses RuneScape of kowtowing to Trump as it puts the kibosh on new Pride events: 'The content… is now controversial in a way it didn't used to be'

Players and Jagex staff are both upset by an executive decision to scale back Pride celebrations.

RuneScape and Old School RuneScape reel back on official in-game Pride events to protect from ‘controversy’

If you’re a player of RuneScape and Old School RuneScape, you may have noticed that the Pride Month events in-game were reeled back pretty significantly. That, unfortunately, was by design, as insider reporting has uncovered that Jagex CEO Jon Bellamy made the decision to scale back official Pride events in the MMORPGs over concerns about […]