RuneScape has a theme? Proceed to the crafting and cheap RuneScape gold to Lumbridge, run to Lumbridge Swamp. When you do that look around at the world. There is so much different things there the just doesn't fit. Giant portals at a swamp next to NPCs looking for a hidden city. Giant tower only between two cities. Another giant portal with a great deal of clutter around etc.. The transitions are extremely abrupt as well.
The passing of Guthix was the transition from largely grounded medieval RPG to huge bombastic fantasy components and, even while plot-wise it will work with his death bringing back the gods and all, the worldbuilding has been more and more of an incoherent mess ever since. Dwarf Cannon came outside in'03. Cave Goblin electricity has been canon since'07. To be blunt, this"mostly grounded medieval" RuneScape you speak of hasn't existed for most of RuneScape's life.It was (mostly) thematic, but then at some stage they simply said"fuck world construction" and, like you mentioned, flipped it into a theme park.
It is a shame they place all types of shit out because they know it'll sell for snowflakes to stand out. That's why that success banner is present when not one person in RuneScape past the buyer gives a shit about it. That Drakes exist, something huge to have. And that they're not going to implement anything unless they make it something that hides the gamers too, to hide cosmetics. Which will then force half of us to play without it watch more crap. More than half match the subject, the makeup have nothing to do with RS, or look great.
Santa Hats and Halloween Masks? I really don't believe so. Outfits are meant to make players look different and feel. Wearing my Santa Hat or Halloween Mask thematically has nothing to do with with RuneScape whatsoever either.i imply, santa's got a fairly extended lore ingame, what with his entire family and all being canonical characters and everything.I concur but assert RuneScape's world has arbitrary ridiculous personalities and events that happen in quests ect apart from the"Important lore stuff".
"Desire to satisfy investor needs" is not the driving force behind their choice within their art. MTX as a whole is for investors' sake but the art behind the MTX is geared towards that which sells. Essentially, their desire is to make the things that they believe will the players from the players themselves, ergo selling more of it the most. Investors will not care what they look like. Not saying I am against makeup. I'm fine with money being made by them as long as it's not strong things exclusive to TH. Pointing out the motives might not be exactly what OP thinks.
Actually I think it's the best representation for new players. Looking back RuneScape once I maxed my account a few years back I realised that the quality of updates during my journey was far below what should have been standard, which stood in harsh contrast with the high quality and frequency of MTX releases. I believe it's important that players see what kind of sport RuneScape 3 is now, so they don't do exactly what I did and get fully invested in to what ends up becoming a shallow, random, and altogether disappointing trip that pales in comparison to runescape gold 2007 the pre-MTX version of RuneScape that almost all of us fondly recall.