[2023] Desert Treasure II Improvements - Weekly Game Update 16th August 2023

As soon as there's a lot in the schedule for us to launch it, we will get it out to you! We're currently waiting for a gap in the launch schedule. We have a finite amount of testing time and generally projects take priority over QoL poll content. For example, DMM is coming up quite soon so that will take priority for our testers. It's possible to launcch the week after DMM, but we can't promise it. Hope that helps!

It's on the radar, we are aware and have been discussing it! Typically Combat Achievements are added a while after the launch of a piece of content though so I don't have a date that I can share with you yet.

Keep an eye out for our socials this afternoon, and during the Summit! We'll be running some cool giveaways so you might just grab one :D

Very soon, hopefully today

It is a lighter update week, for sure. The team is really excited about the Summer Summit because we'll be able to talk about some things that we haven't been able to yet on that livestream. This includes our designs for future content and also communicating plans for our content roadmap. I will make the team aware that COX changes and the TOA changes are high priority for you. :)

Thanks guys, as mentioned we're just waiting for a spot in our release schedule for this change. I'll buy our release manager a drink this weekend and see what we can do. Only half kidding.

I'll wake u up for the summer summit

Thank you so much for playing, we really appreciate it! Go you!

We'll let the team know this is a big priority for players at the moment, at the moment we're just waiting for space in our release schedule. Please be sure to tune into the Summer Summit this weekend as you'll get a chance to see what else the team is working on and will also be given the opportunity to fill in a survey at some point to help us prioritise. Thanks for raising it!

Regular players can put in and take out individual items. UIMs can put in individual items but will need to withdraw the full set. Works the same as Ancestral.

I'm down to suggest that, but then we'll probably have two job role openings for community manager rather than one haha

I get you. It's intetesting because our game is so community focused and we work differently to a lot of game studios. I want to be clear that as it currently stands, any project, of any type, would typically take priority over a QoL change from a Poll so this isn't specific to DMM.

QoL Poll content gets fit into wherever we can drop it in the release schedule. Not saying that's the best way of doing it but that's how it works. Anyway, QoL content is the stuff that gets done "when it can".

Projects are very interesting because they can vary so much in complexity. Unlike other studios, we typically poll a lot of things with the community. Even stuff like seasonal modes require some of the rewards to be polled, and so these can vary in complexity. Projects typically have launch dates that we need to work towards, because that's how game dev works. But bcause our polling system is so flexible, we need the ability to move our launch dates if needed to accomodate how the community is feeling. So, we can greenlight a piece of content, which lets us know what we're working on for the year - but we will not have the exact amount of content that is coming in each project confirmed until months later into the process, after community consultation etc... As you can imagine that provides some interesting challenges to do with scope, project management, production, etc. and sometimes we need to prioritise different things, which essentially means it's easier to handle QoL "when it can". It's not that DMM is more important than QoL, but also sort of that it is, but also bit more complex when you consider how all this affects testing time. Hope this helps!

Thanks for your understanding, and sorry about that.

BeerExchange, you know what, I'll change it now just for you. Thank you for constantly raising the bar.

Typically in polls we have a survey included to help us prioritise each update and how much players want us to prioritise them for release. Unfortunately that wasn't possible to include for Poll 80, so it is on me as a CM, to let the team know about high priority updates and which need to go out first. We have review meetings every day after game updates where we discuss topics related to the game update and so, I will be sure to raise it then. It's also worth noting though that even if I do raise it, it may not come any quicker due to the reasons outlined in this comment (https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/15sl921/comment/jwew41p/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)