JagexDoom

JagexDoom



28 Mar

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Originally posted by errantgamer

Given your glibness, I've put in an application to take your very job.

I've submitted my CV to Jagex asking for a position as a CM. Have a great day.

Best of luck!


27 Mar

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Originally posted by Tabbenator

i think the whole problem is that runescape isnt going anywhere

Poor choice of words on my part, sorry - not had my coffee yet, can you tell?

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Originally posted by NationalTrain9353

Is RuneScape 3 doomed?

Well, any project I'm attached to is doomed, if you think about it. But in the other sense, no - RuneScape isn't going anywhere.

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Needed to read this thread this morning - very kind words in here, was not expecting this. Too kind!


26 Mar

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Gotta be the Firemaking Pendant, surely? 3!

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Originally posted by SpecialistYou9781

This isn't all on your shoulders. Anyone with half of a brain can realize you are going to say what you can within the restraints of your "superiors". You are in a winless position unfortunately. No matter what you say you will be criticized. Hell I have personally criticized you for "just making joking comments". Until I realized your hands are tied and I apologize for that. We need a clear direction. I know dates are hard to keep but any time they are it seems rushed then pushed back with no other mention of it. People also ask about the most miniscule changes but to them it is important. But a large majority of us just want some type of roadmap. We all know Hero Pass was the 2024 content. It got scrapped so someone should have the backbone to just come out and tell us that. Fine, they screwed up, let's move on with new content. These patch weeks are not content. Fixing mistakes that were made by devs or whoever is exactly that. Not content. The answer from Jagex can not keep bei...

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Very kind of you to say. I disagree about Hero Pass there - but I will happily pass your feedback on. Have a great one!

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Originally posted by errantgamer

You should put up a lightning post comment when you post weblinks

Contain the negativity to 1 comment chain

Something like "post negativity here"

Isn't that what happens under all of my posts anyway? 😂

I do like having centralised feedback, but not sure I like the idea of "angry player feedback lightning rod/rage room" threads. We should try and make sure we're centralising feedback in one place and making it constructive.

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Originally posted by unicorn7

This is wild. It should 100% be on Jagex to vet out the partnered companies for scams instead of asking your playerbase for evidence of being scammed after they've already been scammed

The reason I ask is exactly that - we partnered with RevU for the exact purpose that we vetted them, as is my understanding. Then, to see a wave of people citing that they've been "scammed" or not paid out is really concerning to me, and I want to flag this up to the relevant people to make sure that we're scrutinising this further.

I'm happy to spend time (one comment gave a ballpark figure saying it would take an hour) to do a few surveys and see how many pay out, but I might just hit the right filters for the survey so I don't want my personal viewpoint to supercede the complaints I'm hearing that sound pretty impassioned and certain.

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Originally posted by errantgamer

honestly doom, if I have to tell you more how to do your job, I could be earning 30k a year rather than you.

get on it.

You're gonna do great, I can sense you'd be a natural at this!

Have the day you deserve.


25 Mar

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Originally posted by IAmLordOwen

One issue I personally have is certain surveys will make you fill out the actual survey, then only at the very end they'll tell you "Sorry, you're not the right candidate". So you just filled out an entire survey for nothing, and it happens way too often unfortunately

Good to know, happy to pass that feedback forward to see if there's a way to more quickly "screen" suitable survey respondents to mitigate the time spent on a survey before you get that kind of decision. Thanks for this!

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Originally posted by TheOnlyTB

u/JagexDoom any way you can address this? nearly all of your partnered companies are without a doubt scamming your customers

Would be interested to hear more about this - do you have particular evidence of any companies in particular? Happy to pass feedback to the team about this one but I'd have to ask for specifics. From a quick read through the comments here, the general response appears to be folks not being the right fit for a survey, or experiences with a previous partner company.

Again, happy to investigate particular instances or pass the feedback on - we just wanted to highlight the promotion going on allowing players to pick up extra keys in this instance to see if it reflected in a change in the number of users using the "Earn Keys" feature. It's useful data for us, but so is feedback/evidence to the contrary.

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Originally posted by RS659

Thank you! DM sent.

Feel free to drop me an inbox message too - Reddit Chat does not want to open today which is very annoying!

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Please drop me a message/inbox/PM with screenshots, happy to investigate this for you.

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Originally posted by errantgamer

Doom, I hesitate to tell you how to do your job. These are my takes from someone who never worked in CM

  1. be more proactive rather than reactive
  2. re-establish weekly streams with community engagement
  3. stop apologising for jagex's crap and don't promise shit you can't do. start winning small battles and present them as a win
  4. more youtube shorts snipping out the update notes. 1 a day will help accumulation and retention of players. Currently rs official youtube is full of ancillary crap shorts. make it more relevant

Happy to speak to these, if I can:

  1. When you say proactive, can you give examples? What kind of proactive communication are you looking for?
  2. When we do weekly streams, are you actually looking for community engagement? Or are you looking for communication, behind-the-scenes content, etc. There's a difference between, say, going on stream this Wednesday and handing out love letters and stroopwafels while skilling in the Easter Hub, than a stream where we talk with devs about an upcoming update. I think we both know that players may come into a stream with the wrong expectations and be disappointed - do you think there's an easy way to mitigate that? I'm always happy to stream just about any part of RuneScape, as I enjoy just casually skilling and chatting with players, but also appreciate that if I'm not at liberty to talk about a particular topic, then it's going to frustrate more players than it will entertain. Eager to hear your take on this.
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Originally posted by ewgrooss

I’ll believe it when I see it. We have had years of empty words. It is easy to communicate when times are good, but being able to communicate during bad times is what we need. Im glad you recognize what kind of speculation is created by poor communication. Personally it is going to take a lot of consistent communication to rebuild my trust before I’m willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

I appreciate this point and I know you're not the only one with this perspective. I'd like to think that on a personal level I've been communicative consistently, even during "bad times" as you say, but I also agree that it's more about how we, as a whole team, communicate.

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Originally posted by Lordroxas77

Where ectoplasm ritual?

We're shaping up to have the Ectoplasm into the game in the near future, subject to QA testing and the like. I don't want to give a concrete date because I seem to be cursed with uttering a date and it immediately hitting a snag and getting delayed - but yes! Soon.

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Originally posted by yuei2

Honestly I don’t think you should stress as much over it being concrete, people will be forgiving if dates shift around or content is shelved as long as you communicate it ahead of time.

Right now people are more concerned with knowing the general direction, not even specific dates or each content piece just what you guys want the big focus update to be. Like “big finale quest”, “new skill”, “area expansion”, etc….

If there is one thing you could deliver it would be letting us know what is the major thing to look forward for. OSRS was having a so-so year until varlamore but people were pacified simply by knowing that varlamore was coming so it gave them something to speculate on.

And if there is no big focus update this year, if you guys are trying out that feedback of “slow down and focus on fixing the game for a year” then that’s fine to but just communicate that to us. Because right now being in the dark feels worse than anything.

Totally valid point, and one I appreciate seems easy to resolve! I'm hoping we can speak to where we're heading soon, and how much more player voice will play a role in shaping that direction.

I can totally appreciate the frustration that players have about it feeling like we're not communicating as much as we should/need to/could do, and as a player myself I know that when a game feels as though it's going quiet, the space left behind is just room for speculation and catastrophising, but that's not the case here.

We've been taking on board so much player feedback and realigning to be more player-driven so we've been quieter on the "what" and the "when" while we work on this, but it's still front of mind. It's especially crucial for Mod Azanna and I who are obviously out here communicating with the players every day, hearing your feedback and stressing that same desire for visibility up the chain!

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Originally posted by Jchaplin2

Woah woah woah, does that mean there isn't currently a plan for a message this week? even thoough Keeper's last message explicitly mentioned a message in March?

There is a plan, but I want things concrete and confirmed so I can start communicating about them!

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Originally posted by Dry-Fault-5557

The fact that you don't have any mention of Keeper's upcoming message in this week's post isn't exactly inspiring confidence. Are we seriously going to repeat what happened on Groundhog Day again? Friday newsdump and then you're going to hide with a 3 day weekend. Say it ain't so. Please tell me I'm wrong.

https://preview.redd.it/sxc99r3mqgqc1.png?width=1372&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7c19fba43dd49d1f690355798caf711e05bb8d91

Been stressing this point to the team for the past week so I'd love to be able to provide the visibility to players - I'm personally very keen for us to be laying out the plans for what's ahead so I'm being a nuisance to the team about us making the commitment for this. I'll keep trying my best!

Edited: wording for clarity.