You mention bugs specifically but what about quality of life changes that used to frequent the patch notes? Personally that is what I most look forward to week to week
Those are part of the Mod Yuey's work on the Player Panel stuff as well! Any suggestions for QoL internally or from the community are captured, and those also get assessed in the same way.
it's weird to see so little on the patch notes when there's so much patch work to be done in the game.
big old nothing burger this week on the patches again.
We're working on this at the studio at the moment and it's an area we want to improve this year. Completely valid criticism.
Felt like I should drop in with a bit of context on what's up with this, and what we're doing about it given there's actual work happening on this at the studio!
So, a lot of last year was shaping our development effort to be more consistent on delivery of core content and involve players more where possible. We're in much better shape on that front, but we are still learning and improving how we go about it.
The casualty of that focus was a drop in our Patch Note output. Mod Yuey has been great at representing feedback on this within the community to the team and the team are responding. There's a bunch of stuff going on, but a couple of the key changes already have been:
- Fix It Fridays now happen once a month, which focus the entire development team on bug squashing for an entire day (on top of time for bug fixing as part o...
Read moreRead moreCaught up with the team on this today.
Their reasoning is basically that the method was getting a lot more use as a result of the 110 RC update, and since none of the other altars allow it, they felt it shouldn't either for consistency.
The feedback on the sudden change is completely fair, especially after all this time of it going untouched. Your feedback is with them, and they do recognise we should have thought more holistically than just 'fixing it' in a hotfix after all this time.
Based on the feedback, they're going to take review current magical thread supply/demand and make a change if it looks like one is necessary.
They're also open to potentially adding an abyss portal for the Astral Altar as a way to 'officially' support Abyss Buffs at the Astral Altar, but that's a bit of a separate issue to the Magical Thread stuff - keen to hear your thoughts either way though.
Either way, if anyone else has concerns, please let us know what/wh...
Thank you to everyone dropping comments here, really appreciate your time on these. Making sure they make it to the team.
u/JagexYuey will be talking to the team about this on today's Livestream too.
No one was complaining about being able to get magical threads from the astral altar. It's been 6 years. The rate for threads is already low. Just leave it in the game, it wasn't a problem.
Caught up with the team on this today.
Their reasoning is basically that the method was getting a lot more use as a result of the 110 RC update, and since none of the other altars allow it, they felt it shouldn't either for consistency.
The feedback on the sudden change is completely fair, especially after all this time of it going untouched. Your feedback is with them, and they do recognise we should have thought more holistically than just 'fixing it' in a hotfix after all this time.
Based on the feedback, they're going to take review current magical thread supply/demand and make a change if it looks like one is necessary.
They're also open to potentially adding an abyss portal for the Astral Altar as a way to 'officially' support Abyss Buffs at the Astral Altar, but that's a bit of a separate issue to the Magical Thread stuff - keen to hear your thoughts either way though.
Either way, if anyone else has concerns, please let us know what/wh...
Read moreFollowing the announcement of our new CEO earlier this week, Mods Ayiza and Yuey sat down with Mod North in a special Q&A to answer some of your biggest questions!
From monetisation concerns to the future of OSRS & RS3, watch the full discussion here: https://youtu.be/TFgrExS0zVU
External link →Welcome. Seems like Mod North is a scaper like all of us, should fit in perfect!
He very much is - we must have talked for a good hour about RS at RuneFest until I realised I had to urgently run backstage to go present RS Ahead 😂
I always thought it was pretty special to have a CEO like Pips who plays and knows our game, and I absolutely see that in Mod North.
u/JagexHooli Are the rotational cosmetics in the oddments store going to be updated? It has been a year since the rotation system was released and the stock is long overdue for an update.
Sorry about the delayed reply, post-RF travel home!
I haven't heard anyone chat about this - I'll bring it up to some teams and see if we can take a look. Thanks for raising it.
so you just going to casually stroll back into the rs3 scene without letting us know? if you are back, welcome back missed having you around!
Well you made my morning, kind of you to say!
I've been around and lurking big time. I'm just working a lot more behind the scenes now that CM is a much bigger part of how we approach RuneScape - with Yuey and Azanna as the lovely folks who get to live in the community day to day with you.
They'll still be the main folks you hear from, but I do want to find more time to be part of the community directly than I have been able to find recently.
Always spyin' on ya though 🕵️
No offense Hooli, but this message is a load of crap. Ya’ll said this exact thing 3 months ago, including that a new letter would be out in under a month. No new letter, and 0 communication since. Until any real change in comms happen, this playerbase should not beleive yours, or any mods words towards MTX
Yeah I get it. I do apologise for that - we were about to post something at that point in early October and a lot changed very quickly. I should have at least popped in that thread to at least say 'it's going to take much longer'.
I still don't have a firm date for when you'll next hear something, but that's because the previous ambition of a Consultancy ramping up in September onwards was over-zealous. Next time we talk about it, it has to be something you can see or feel. I also very much hope we can talk about 'why the delay' as well.
Surely, you have to realize that we've heard this time and time again.
You guys have been discussing MTX/monetization for years at this point. Is there an actual plan to address it, or are we just going to have the carrot dangled in front of us while the game continues to slowly bleed out?
Yeah I definitely do understand that and the skepticism / disbelief is our own doing.
Just wanted to let folks know the intent behind exploring change and the Consultancy commitment still exist. To your point, we need to communicate something firm with action next - words are empty if we keep saying 'it's coming'.
We will continue maintaining fairness in the in-game economy, ensuring that updates respect the balance of the game world, with transparency in our decisions, and a willingness to explore meaningful changes to MTX offerings in RuneScape.
Mod North's first major task in building trust with the RS3 community is quite simple - do what Pips failed to do and prove that bolded bit. Give us the MTX follow-up and a tangible discussion on meaningful change to the game's monetisation strategy
This is something that was still happening under Pips. It's something we're looking at seriously, and that will continue under Mod North.
The biggest thing is we need to be communicating on it. You will hear more from us on this in the future, it's not dead. Hopefully we can do that sooner rather than later.
We want to let you know about an important leadership transition that will shape the future of Jagex.
Mod Pips (Jagex CEO) will be stepping back from his role to take a well-deserved break after 14 incredible years together.
Mod North will be rejoining Jagex as our new CEO, with a firm commitment to maintaining our existing approach to both games and what makes them special.
Hear from both Mod Pips and Mod North in our new blog & video.
Video: https://youtu.be/vX7qNzmqJAo?si=O6GGOc3dBgX1ZbFA
Blog: ...
Hey everyone,
Hope you had an awesome RuneFest weekend at the show or from home. Now it's time to hit up the new Time Altar with 110 Runecrafting!
TWIR: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/110-runecrafting--rsa...
Read more External link →u/JagexHooli what happened to posting the MTX concepts three weeks ago?
Honestly, that response was an outright mistake and goes on my 'Do Better' sheet. The intention and confidence matched where we were at the time, but a follow up that looked assured suddenly became complicated.
My goal was then to get a firmer date agreed the week after, then this week for the survey blog post... but we're still not there yet. One of the things we've learned in the working group is this is a more extensive, complex process in general - let alone where/when a consultancy fits in (and how, based on what direction things start to fall in).
I am hoping we can release a 'semi-update' on what's been going on behind the scenes as soon as we can. The MTX exploratory work has been progressing with the working group - and that last survey in particular has opened a ton of questions, insights and potential designs that are being explored.
I've seen some concerns about wanting to hear certain answers and stuff. A lot of the complexity is coming from som...
Read moreThe new "__ Provisions Officer" achievements do not progress if the resource in question is teleported by porters/GOTE.
Thanks for reporting this. We've passed it to the team and it's being looked into.
Quite a few journey achieves relating to quests aren't finishing for my group. So we're unable to access group storage. All 3 of us have done Cooks Assistant, but the achievement isn't recognizing that.
We're looking into this now - thanks for reporting.
Will there be a Mods / Jagex GIM group? I’d love to see you guys doing a casual GIM with RSGuy hopefully making a nice lil series to go along with it? 🤞😁
There's an awesome video being edited right now where Mod RSGuy and 3 other J-Mods race to Dragon Slayer - including a wild Mod Raven no less!
This is so awesome. You nailed this cosplay Pickles.
What's the latest on the Pip's letter? Coming up to two weeks overdue soon.
Thank you for mentioning this! The overdueness is on me, sorry about the hold up - got knocked out sick for over a week recently and the rest of the CM team were stacked with other work.
We should be good to post it this week. I hope you'll find it a valuable update, though it is a little less concrete in terms of sharing our Player Consultancy timelines than we intended if I'm honest about it.
The team have been making a lot of progress, but we've found the timelines will be super bespoke to whatever initial direction(s) we open the public Consultancy around. Different concepts may even require different Consultancy approaches too.
So, it'll be a bit lighter in places than we'd hoped I'd say. But, we'll also be opening some early doors on how to get involved and sharing more about what's going on / where we are.
(As a note, it won't be a letter from Pips. It'll be from the team working on the MTX review / consultancy)...
Read moreI may or may not have made sure we sneakily fixed this.. (Thank you!)
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