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Originally posted by 5-x

content issues are just left to fester, but this simply isn't true

Yes, it is true. Critical content issues are left to fester.

• Elite Dungeon trash mob farming continues, injecting gold and experience, causing significant inflation.

• Arch-glacor is being farmed to infinity on 0 mechanics for unreasonable amounts of effigies and other drops.

• Trimmed completionist cape is in shambles, despite repeated player pleas to add missing requirements.

• Scripture of Bik trivialised all other methods of gathering clue scrolls in the game, which even Mod Sponge admitted.

• Safecracking has not been balanced and is spewing out insane amounts of thieving experience, leaving everything else in the dust. Mod Shogun promised rebalance but nothing happened.

I could go on with examples. These are all content-side balancing emergencies that are ...

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Originally posted by ImRubic

PvP can take many forms, and only 1 small form of that is Pking. Most people agree, Pking isn't actually PvP (Player vs Player). As for whether PvP has a niche audience or not, it isn't. PvP is by far, uncontested, the most popular activity in gaming which is exactly why the most popular actively played games are all PvP focused.

Originally posted by Kye7

It was a total cop out. These guys run the game yet don't have any solid opinions of their own. Political answers.

Originally posted by TheHotstreak

Hello! My question is regarding the Gielinor Games, even if they can't be brought back, can we at least see the return of the Bronze, Silver, and Gold Athlete outfits by some other means? I believe that's what people wanted from the event anyways.

Originally posted by Proper_Shiny

Though, I did mean that return on investment was measured in dollars, I feel the teams related to MTX are starting to become assigned much, much more time than any other. It seems to become the case hasince the introduction of the Carlyle group.

This is understandable as their whole purpose is to create value for their investors, which MTX would create. For the ninja and episodic teams, I get that your objective is not to produce money but I don't think it's correct to say that 'at Jagex we're always trying to assign time in the best way we can'

So I still think it's valid that ROI is measured in dollars at the moment, and true in the way I meant it. I feel sorry for the Devs, it's not their fault, I just assume that's how the company is run now.

Originally posted by 101perry

I mainly wanted to know 2 things that are on my mind.

1) If you hide cogs on augmented items, you get a weird bug where if you had weapons sheath automatically, they don't actually sheath, so you have to click to pull them out (which changes nothing), then sheath again. That resets every time you teleport too, it's only a minor thing and not game breaking but it's something I'd have loved to have known if they could fix it or not.

2) Second one is something that has been happening a lot to me lately, and that's when ranging if I click on enemies that are a distance away, or in certain specific places, I will run up to melee distance of them before attacking. Biggest offender is Zuk, where I click to attack him when he's sitting down and I'll run up to him before attacking, yet I can move away to attack. I even had it with one of the Jad, where I clicked on them and ran right up to them despite having line of sight as they were attacking me. Led to signing instantl...

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Originally posted by Thaldrath

Why is every question regarding content, game balancing or bug fixes is always answered with a version of "We're looking at it / it's hard to do"

But everytime it touches MTX, it's swiftly fixed or given an appropriate answer or is being adressed carefully.

We're asking for qol, graphical touch up to bring the game more in line with itself, it's a monumental task. Even Elite Dungeon boss farming took months to fix.

But when there's a Treasure Hunter bug, it was found, reported and FIXED within 48 hours, having people work on it and make a god damn update to the game on a January 1st holiday.

I don't want to sound like another "hurr mtx bad" crybaby, but this is what we're being shown, unfortunately.

I know that there are passionate people at Jagex who want to bring the best to the game, but stuff like this makes it really hard to have hope with the management having more commitment towards shareholders than the actual customer base, aka the p...

Originally posted by Proper_Shiny

I guess it's all about ROI now

Originally posted by 101perry

This honestly was a shitty stream. There were some really good questions that weren't answered, or even put up on the list. Then the answers we got were "uhhh we're looking at it".