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Due to the rate Jagex seems to be losing its employees does anyone else want a J mod bingo? My money is on Ramen or Raven next.
External link →Due to the rate Jagex seems to be losing its employees does anyone else want a J mod bingo? My money is on Ramen or Raven next.
External link →I'm not planning on going anywhere anyime soon. I mean sure, if I win the lottery I'm going to buy a castle and write terrible books for the rest of my life, but otherwise I'm not likely to leave anytime soon.
But, real talk, we are actual people with actual lives that extend beyond this game. Sometimes really good opportunities come our way that align with the lives we have now. If someone offered the right job, I'd consider leaving for it. I love RuneScape and the players, but sometimes we need to make the move that's right for us.
I know there's a lot of conspiracy talk and "rats on a sinking ship" analogies, but that doesn't actually line up with reality. We're actually doing pretty good and there's a lot of positive feeling about our future.
As for internally, there's some really good stuff happening. Mod Warden is a great new addition and has been pushing for some great changes that should be awesome for everyone. Changes in development and the content we produce, a greater focus on rebuilding trust with the community, all the things that will help make working here great. He's also a nice guy and he knows his stuff.
As for content, there's some really good stuff coming (see our RuneFest lineup) but that stuff takes time to make. We made a decision earlier this year to look at what we were producing and to realign and work on bigger more impactful stuff instead. The stuff that players told us they wanted. It takes time to make that and that meant that we knew were were going to have a content drought for a bit. It was a painful decision and we're definitely feeling that now... but.... it's nearly over. Later this month you'll get two new skills to 120, with a whole new farm on dinosaur island, a bunch of new potions and craftables will which change the meta, a ton of new things to play around with, trade, grow, mess around with. It's some really interesting stuff and then once you've done that early next year there's an entire new skill and let me tell you Archaeology is cool! There's so much lore, so much to do, so much to learn, discover, create, it's really cool.
The truth regarding the J mods leaving is that people leave. Anyone who's been in job a while (nearly 13 years for me here, that's more than half a QAer) sees the patterns that people don't leave on their own as well. One person going makes other people think it's there time to move on as well. It becomes a wave of change, rather than a constant slow turn. That's generally a good sign, it means that it's pretty good here if we've held on to people for that long. It also happens that a number of the people leaving have reached similar stages in their life where priorities realign (normally family stuff) and they need to step out of their previous mindset. Generally people leave jobs every two years, most people leaving here have been here a lot longer than that. It's just their time for a new change in their lives.
Anyway, I got rambling.
I'm not going anywhere.
I'm not planning on going anywhere anyime soon. I mean sure, if I win the lottery I'm going to buy a castle and write terrible books for the rest of my life, but otherwise I'm not likely to leave anytime soon.
But, real talk, we are actual people with actual lives that extend beyond this game. Sometimes really good opportunities come our way that align with the lives we have now. If someone offered the right job, I'd consider leaving for it. I love RuneScape and the players, but sometimes we need to make the move that's right for us.
I know there's a lot of conspiracy talk and "rats on a sinking ship" analogies, but that doesn't actually line up with reality. We're actually doing pretty good and there's a lot of positive feeling about our future.
As for internally, there's some really good stuff happening. Mod Warden is a great new addition and has been pushing for some great changes that should be awesome for everyone. Changes in development and the content we produce, a greater focus on rebuilding trust with the community, all the things that will help make working here great. He's also a nice guy and he knows his stuff.
As for content, there's some really good stuff coming (see our RuneFest lineup) but that stuff takes time to make. We made a decision earlier this year to look at what we were producing and to realign and work on bigger more impactful stuff instead. The stuff that players told us they wanted. It takes time to make that and that meant that we knew were were going to have a content drought for a bit. It was a painful decision and we're definitely feeling that now... but.... it's nearly over. Later this month you'll get two new skills to 120, with a whole new farm on dinosaur island, a bunch of new potions and craftables will which change the meta, a ton of new things to play around with, trade, grow, mess around with. It's some really interesting stuff and then once you've done that early next year there's an entire new skill and let me tell you Archaeology is cool! There's so much lore, so much to do, so much to learn, discover, create, it's really cool.
The truth regarding the J mods leaving is that people leave. Anyone who's been in job a while (nearly 13 years for me here, that's more than half a QAer) sees the patterns that people don't leave on their own as well. One person going makes other people think it's there time to move on as well. It becomes a wave of change, rather than a constant slow turn. That's generally a good sign, it means that it's pretty good here if we've held on to people for that long. It also happens that a number of the people leaving have reached similar stages in their life where priorities realign (normally family stuff) and they need to step out of their previous mindset. Generally people leave jobs every two years, most people leaving here have been here a lot longer than that. It's just their time for a new change in their lives.
Anyway, I got rambling.
I'm not going anywhere.
[...] I'm going to buy a castle and write terrible books [...]
If your contributions to RS lore is anything to judge by, "terrible" wouldn't refer the writing, but rather the fate of, more or less, every single character the reader is introduced to. Kind of like something George R. R. Martin would write, but with less nudity and fewer long-winded descriptions of food.
As for the castle, set up a Kickstarter and advertise it to the lorehounds. I'd pitch in to a fundraiser for Castle Ravensworn in a heartbeat. :P
Hahaha very tempting. :D