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Mar. 6th, 2013 05:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
not_my_sandboxIt has become a bit more apparent that it isn't a coincidence that Gielinor, the name of the world Runescape is set in, is an anagram for the word religion.
What brings this up? New canon, in the form of Runescape's new quest, The World Wakes.
The developers are about to do a curious thing which I could of sworn they wouldn't do, given that Runescape is an MMO, and a particularly massive one at that. Starting next week, all content that they add to the game is going to treat The World Wakes as if it happened in the past. Mini-games, mini-quests, full blown quests, holiday events, everything. All the old content will remain, save for the hokey old fetch quests and copy and paste stories that the devs now seem so urgently to want to change and align with the lore. Romeo and Juliet was a victim of this a while back, as it wasn't really a Runescape story, it was a Shakespeare story. The devs have already stated that they aren't going to touch the Arthurian Legend inspired stuff as it is too ingrained in the lore, but I am sure it is a sore spot. We'll see. But anyhow, the old content is staying, but, in regards to the lore, it is all stuff that happened before The World Wakes. Even if it wasn't in the list of requirements for the quest, they are all just memories.
Of course, with The World Wakes being in the past in regards to all new content from this point on, spoilers for The World Wakes are almost unavoidable. Except maybe not. The devs have promised that new content will still be playable to players who haven't played through The World Wakes just like old content will still be playable for players who have, but the new content will have a toggle so that players can avoid the spoilers.
I wonder how long the devs will keep that up.
Not that it matters to me. I don't avoid spoilers; I live on them. I wouldn't be able to playdeath_gone_mad, fowl_beast, or fairy_fixit otherwise. I have only seen Amascut in game once, and all I did was flip though all her dialog options and freak her out with a purple cat. Well, wait, no, I also dealt with her in game in her Lady Keli guise. (That was another quest that got rewritten to align it more with lore. Well, no, it was fine lore wise but kind of boring, almost a fetch quest).
This is interesting... I wouldn't have thought a linear story could fit into an MMO. The calendar year has been stuck at 169 Fifth Age since the game first came online way back in 2000 AD. With this, a new year has arrived. Have other MMO's done this? I wouldn't know, Runescape is the only MMO I have played around in.
What brings this up? New canon, in the form of Runescape's new quest, The World Wakes.
The developers are about to do a curious thing which I could of sworn they wouldn't do, given that Runescape is an MMO, and a particularly massive one at that. Starting next week, all content that they add to the game is going to treat The World Wakes as if it happened in the past. Mini-games, mini-quests, full blown quests, holiday events, everything. All the old content will remain, save for the hokey old fetch quests and copy and paste stories that the devs now seem so urgently to want to change and align with the lore. Romeo and Juliet was a victim of this a while back, as it wasn't really a Runescape story, it was a Shakespeare story. The devs have already stated that they aren't going to touch the Arthurian Legend inspired stuff as it is too ingrained in the lore, but I am sure it is a sore spot. We'll see. But anyhow, the old content is staying, but, in regards to the lore, it is all stuff that happened before The World Wakes. Even if it wasn't in the list of requirements for the quest, they are all just memories.
Of course, with The World Wakes being in the past in regards to all new content from this point on, spoilers for The World Wakes are almost unavoidable. Except maybe not. The devs have promised that new content will still be playable to players who haven't played through The World Wakes just like old content will still be playable for players who have, but the new content will have a toggle so that players can avoid the spoilers.
I wonder how long the devs will keep that up.
Not that it matters to me. I don't avoid spoilers; I live on them. I wouldn't be able to play
death_gone_mad, fowl_beast, or fairy_fixit otherwise. I have only seen Amascut in game once, and all I did was flip though all her dialog options and freak her out with a purple cat. Well, wait, no, I also dealt with her in game in her Lady Keli guise. (That was another quest that got rewritten to align it more with lore. Well, no, it was fine lore wise but kind of boring, almost a fetch quest).This is interesting... I wouldn't have thought a linear story could fit into an MMO. The calendar year has been stuck at 169 Fifth Age since the game first came online way back in 2000 AD. With this, a new year has arrived. Have other MMO's done this? I wouldn't know, Runescape is the only MMO I have played around in.
