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...they gave him a moment on the Q&A to apologize for disappointing anybody and to say his goodbyes. I love Ayiza, but he wasn't around for very long. Meanwhile, Mat K, one of the most important J-Mods at the company who was around for 14 years and one of the three original founders of OSRS who also happened to fight to keep MTX out of the game is swept under a QOL newspost about nerfing runecrafting XP in a weird obituary-like post.

This whole thing doesn't sit well with me.

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almost 5 years ago - /u/JagexSween - Direct link

Availability is also a factor to consider - we even toyed with producing a Mat K montage video. There's no sweeping under the rug. The first thing a player sees when they log in on a Thursday is a link to the newspost, we chose to include Mat's message in the game update newspost to ensure it'll get more eyes. A game update newspost (linked to in-game) typically sees 4/5x the amount of views as another newspost.