Thursday, January 2, 2014

I am not saying that which runescape God dies should be put up to a vote

The God death in World Event 2 is a large change to game lore for such a temporary update that due to the large amount of players taking part allows little to no player agency. I think it is unfair to those players that care about the lore to have such a major impact done in temporary content that no one player can really have any effect over.

Poll the God Death for World Event 2 and for such a large change to lore I think it should require at least 75% player agreement for the Death of a God to go through. If you can't get 75% for such a major change then Jagex really shouldn't be doing it anyway.

I am not saying that which God dies should be put up to a vote, but whether any die in such limited time and player agency restricted content at all. World Events could still take place and could have major effects on the game world without permanently killing off characters. Have World Events decide territory such as Armadyl or Bandos taking over Yanille, or the White Knights versus Black Knights for control of Falador. World Events don't have to be worthless but a change like the death of major characters should not be done with such limited agency or time limited content that future characters cannot take part in.

There are a lot of players that do not want a God to die in this World Event for various reasons as shown by this petition.

Tuska is literally a mindless beast. One of the few Gods controlled by her followers. She has an interesting story and place in RS but is no replacement for Bandos

I don't mind Gods dying, however I have several problems with Gods dying now. First of all Armadyl and Bandos just appeared in game. They should do more before being killed off. Second, I don't really see how killing one off now really adds to the game. Killing Guthix off allowed the Gods to come back and was thus beneficial to the game, killing Bandos off now really isn't. Third, if they want Players to be able to kill off Gods, then do so in quests where players have some agency. With so many players this is basically a vote where no players vote really matters, there is no agency because any player could choose either side and nothing would change. Fourth, This is temporary content and thus no future player will ever be able to take part. They don't get to ever decide.

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