Old School Runescape Dev Tracker

Originally posted by Jaycon356

A'ight, so this is my perspective on things. I played the game 10 or 11 years ago for about ~3 months, only ever in F2P.

I tried getting back into RS3 in 2016 because I have a friend that really enjoys the game, and dropped off pretty quickly because it had the 'Dead MMO' feeling. I've played quiet a few in my day, but the overcrowded areas, constant badgering from the MTX shop, and general lack of interesting content made me fall off when the free membership expired. So then I tried OSRS, and my main mistake was making an Ironman, I played for a few weeks, but stopped when I learned that I couldn't buy bonds with GP on an Ironman.

I got back into things recently after coming across some youtube series on the game. New character, Not an Ironman. This time, I had a concrete goal: Earn a bond. And while I have the bond, I haven't redeemed it yet due to real world obligations. This took an absurd amount of time, and I probably would have saved myself a lot of heada...

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Originally posted by ihavea3ds

I think the changes are indicative of Jagex’s lack of understanding as to what drives player retention and how to integrate the new gaming market with the older systems

You hit the nail on the head with this point. 2008 onwards Jagex kept trying to rework the new player experience to keep retention to such an extent that they changed the game dramatically by adding new tutorials, cluttering Lumbridge up and transforming Burthope into a noob area.

And all those changes pretty much flopped and didn't do what Jagex set out to do: retaining new players.

People REEEing about change to early game is unwarranted but I think REEEing at Jagex to listen and implement these changes not hamfistedly is necessary so OSRS doesn't make the same mistakes as it's predecessor.

Originally posted by Righton12

Just dont end up like RS3 that has so much crap and junk the game is over saturated. Simplicity is key imo ease ppl in instead of drowning them

Originally posted by Aaaromp

In RSC there was a tutorial island NPC that briefly mentioned and explained what and where the wilderness is. Always thought it was weird how he was left out of RS2's tutorial island. Probably would be beneficial to explain to players that there is a dangerous part of the map they can just walk into where they can lose their stuff.

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Other games have a similar system but they typically provide some kind of consumable teleports, like tele tabs. I think a better way to tackle this instead of a one time system that you are seemingly arbitrarily locked out of at some point is to also introduce new players to some kind of teleports that they would eventually unlock or have access to later on, so that they are more familiarized with the game and how it works.

Originally posted by ItzMaarkus

We have canoes that can be unlocked through woodcutting. Make them f2p. Dont see the point in adding a new service.

You could just make draynor and varrock agility rooftop courses f2p also. There is content in the game that can be utilised.

Originally posted by Sir_Suh_Dude

Getting a bit confused why a manual check every so often on the BH worlds isn't being done, Jagex has shown they can have real time heatmaps during DMM, it wouldnt be hard to have a few people on staff check on them every so often for anomalous gatherings away from the standard Edgeville BH pking.

Originally posted by ExactKaleidoscope2

In a comical sense? Because he said "don't blame QA," followed by a description of how they checked (tested) it poorly?

Originally posted by cryseis

4 QA's on the team and no one thought to run a BVA (Boundary value analysis) test... tut tut

Originally posted by Tabatron

As someone who has been pking since 08, it's pretty easy to tell when someone is AHK/scripting or actually good at the game. It's literally impossible to be able to click that precisely/switch prayers that clean in the following clips:

Examples:

https://clips.twitch.tv/PrettyAuspiciousSnakeLitty

https://clips.twitch.tv/AverageKathishEagleFUNgineer

Originally posted by ExactKaleidoscope2

The RC rates were not disproportionate to normal RS skills given how much money had to be spent. What goes into making a command decision that something is "broken?"

Originally posted by geheurjk

What is the purpose of an in-game clock? I have never played RS on a device that didn't already have its own clock, and RS isn't one of those full-screen games that makes it take 10 seconds to alt-tab.

Originally posted by Odd_Zilla

Don't forget, prayer manipulation still exists and should be removed.