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I noticed a lot of hate and yes I'm sort of the newer guy around the town. One thing I noticed is how awesome the communication is from the developers. I'm a bit sad though that instead of saying cheers to the developer when someone responds it's normally more criticism.

As someone played so many MMO's in my lifetime I have to say Runescape is easily one the top games that has more mechanical features then most if all MMO's on the market. On top of that it's 20+ year old code that has crazy enough been updated quite well in my books.

So I just wanted to thank you guys for not only keeping the game going but also being so open with the community and being quite transparent with the development. I know from experience it's not always easy to read the comments and sometimes you just want to throw a cake in someones face:

https://www.reddit.com/r/PublicFreakout/comments/b51wi6

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over 5 years ago - /u/JagexJack - Direct link

Originally posted by [deleted]

Jagex is a really weird company. They rush weekly updates with new content for the game, but are insanely slow on things like combat fixes, web updates, QoL changes, reworks, art updates, etc..

There's always more items, more quests, more skill levels to gain, more slayer mobs, more pets, more titles, more capes, more minigames, more more more

I understand that their metrics (both for financial gain and player retention) probably indicate that new content is their best tool, but IMO they really need to take a step back and just work on having a stable, unified, modern and workable platform in general. Quality > quantity.

Speaking as someone who just finished an eighteen month long project to change something, I can tell you that adding a new thing is vastly easier than changing an old thing. Actually changing something is very easy, but as your parent comment suggests, often has unintended side effects. That means 5x as much time spent in meetings, planning, playtesting and bugfixing as actually making the thing.

over 5 years ago - /u/JagexJack - Direct link

Hey, thanks. Glad you're enjoying it.