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I like the RS Guy and I hope that he can speak and address real topics and issues with people in the community and not be censored or pushed in a direction heavily by jagex.
I like the RS Guy and I hope that he can speak and address real topics and issues with people in the community and not be censored or pushed in a direction heavily by jagex.
It's going to be a recorded show and a partnership - so I'm not going to pretend we'll have zero influence on this as we will get to see topics and questions before filming and such.
However - we have specifically commissioned this with RSGuy to have someone interview developers for our channel and ask the questions the community want to see raised. The show fails if it's all fluffy softball questions as players won't want to watch that and we'll have failed in why we're making it.
My point being is, even though we have a hand in it, our goal is to not get in the way of TheRSGuy's work to represent players on this show.
This is part of an overall move we're working on right now to be more open and accessible in different ways - we have more stuff coming like this too with other creators.
Hopefully his involvement will mean that this lasts more than one or two videos. It's proper Jagex fashion to start something like this with no intention of creating more.
So the way we're doing these partnerships is by working with creators on a 'Series' for our channels.
We're doing these over extended period of time to give them a really good trial run, see what people think and have time to adapt to get it right. If players love it and it makes sense for everyone involved, we'll likely renew the Series (potentially for even longer).
Some of the things we try might not continue - but if they do, we'll be looking to replace that series with a new concept or take rather than dropping whatever we were doing.
What / who exactly will be the people being interviewed? Jagex staff? Other streamers / content creators?
Or will there be actual player interviews with historic or infamous people like Zezima or that one fella who killed people in falador?
Right now, this series specifically is all about interviewing developers to talk about topics the community want us to dive into.
LOVE the idea of historic player interviews though, we could definitely look at that.
We have a history series commissioned with someone that we'll likely detail soon, which will include giving them access to developers for their content to make it even better - so you will see some of that in the not too distant future too.