[2020] Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas from all of us on the Old School RuneScape team!

It's been a very tough year for all. In the December Gazette Mod MikeD described it as an "incontrovertible dumpster fire". And that's pretty spot on.

Now though, we hope you have a safe and relaxing holiday season!

I'll be online in-game spawning some festive fings and crashing the price of holiday items. I'll edit this comment to say when and where.

Merry Christmas! <3

EDIT1 World 303, 4:45pm GMT, Grand Exchange

EDIT2 Offline again now. I'll be back on later!

EDIT3 I'll be on 305 at 9PM GMT/4pm EST

EDIT4 Offline again, I might be on later, but if not - thanks so much for coming to say hi!

In January's Gazette I think we're announcing four more new J-Mods! Onwards!

You and me both, myasslap. I can't tell you how grateful I am to be working on this game at such a troubling time.

We'll keep trying to win that 0.1%. We know we aren't perfect, but we'll keep trying to improve! Merry Christmas!

OSRS wouldn't be possible without all of you!

I'm glad you enjoyed what 2020 had. I know quite a lot of players felt it was lacking, and I think that's understandable. But the team is bigger now, noobs are trained, we've adapted to remote working, and 2021 is going to be awesome.

If I can make some players happy by turning myself into different NPCs, saying dumb stuff, and spam-click spawning junk then I'll happily do that. It's been a tough year for so many, we'll do what we can to help.

Could you remind me next Tuesday? I'll be able to do that then

Top tip for avoiding XP waste during Christmas. Blend your turkey into smoothie form. Drink turkey through big straw whilst gaming.

Everybody else: "Give the stray dog a quest, let us get him as a pet!"

You: "Can I kill him?"

Congratulations!

Did you make it? I was there!

We saw the WIP shown off in our internal sprint review. It's coming along!

It's seriously exciting. I only joined the OS team on 2017 about two days before the Inferno (but have been at Jagex since 2015) and even just three years ago our entire team could fit on three rows of desks. Now there's so much talent here!

I'd be happy to get more J-Mod input into the Gazette, I'll see what we can pull together.