Old School Runescape, the antiquated model of Runescape that still looks
and plays like the game I sank countless hours in to when I actually
RuneScape gold
should have been studying, is obtaining a raid. Its next raid, as it
happens: The Theatre of Blood. A good raid requires good rewards,
therefore when the Theatre of Blood was declared late last year, players
were anxious to see what clearing the multi-man challenge could make
them. Jagex reacted with Justicar armor, a brand new best-in-slot armor
place (above). There was one small problem: gamers absolutely hated it.
They
memed on it so hard that Jagex is now completely changing the armor's
design. And not only that, the artist behind the Justicar armor,"Mod
West," is using layouts submitted and voted on by players. Almost all of
Old School Runescape's upgrades undergo participant polls, but that is
the first time a suit of armor has been forged in a fire of memes.
The
irony is that while players loathed the'closing' armor shown earlier
this year, they adored the prototypes revealed while the raid was
declared. Originally, the Justicar armor was bulkier and part of a trio
of armor sets, West informs me, but as the Theatre of Blood moved from
obscure concept to actual content, the armor changed with it.
Participants said there was enough DPS gear but insufficient tank
equipment, so it had been narrowed down to only 1 armor set. And when
they were just going to use one set, Jagex guessed they might as well
create a new one based on the armor worn by the raid's huge bad.
"We
believed changing it up a bit made sense," West says,"but players
weren't quite on board with the first proposal we shared on stream.
The
memes came hard and fast. Some players said it was too much like
existing armor, such as armor out of Runescape 3, the newer, mainline
version of Runescape. Others believed the new armor didn't look tanky
enough and generously provided a few alternatives, with some calling for
a more drastic redesign.
It got so bad that a few players
started to seriously feel a meme the upgraded armor was by another
artist, and that the artist who left the prototypes had left Jagex. But
then something amazing occurred. Even as memes blotted out the sun,
gradually but surely severe suggestions began to glow through. It began
with crude Photoshop tasks, but shortly appropriate examples and fan art
began to crop up. Players rallied around the notion of a milder,
blessed armor set inspired by the Runescape god Saradomin, so they moved
back into West's prototype layouts and made a few adjustments.
Driven from the
buy runescape mobile gold
memes and motivated by elements of West's designs and other players'
suggestions, legend_arts made a hybrid armor design so great it not
merely silenced the memes, it got the attention of West himself.
