JagexHooli

JagexHooli



26 Mar

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Originally posted by rileydelete

Well written, but I don't think this goes far enough.

Think of the opportunity cost. Consider how much time has gone into these accounts. Think of dailies missed & raw frustration. Let's not mince words, this was an unexpected catastrophe and too many players lost their accounts for no fault of their own.

The solution needs to be twofold: Prevention so that this *cannot* happen again. And justifiable compensation for those effected. Refunding components & gizmos is an interesting idea: these players will still need to roll for their most expensive perks. Adding a month of membership/discount to future premier is great; but what about the things these players can't get back. (Note: I understand how art teams often have time or breathing room at different stages in a game's development process.) Cosmetics are interesting, but the priority should be on restoration or even compensation rather than some sort of "exclusivity".

Think about the trust lost. ...

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Thanks for the extensive, clear thoughts here. We'll pass the feedback to the team.

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Originally posted by joe32176

Couple questions/comments.

1) the stream said membership is coming. Not premier, but regular membership. The message here says we’ll get a discount next year if we purchase premier. Which one is true (unless I missed them say it on the stream)?

2) Can you clarify what is/isn’t applicable to Ironman?

3) is there a way where we can see where we fall in the restore process? We didn’t all get beta access so don’t know if we’re in the first rollout, second, fifth? Or when these will be happening.

Both. So everyone gets the extra Membership time (which is added on to the end of any active Membership if you aren't month to month).

Premier Club players will have that added to the end of their current subscription also, as Membership, but be given a discount for next year's Premier Club membership that takes the Login Lockout time away into account.

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Originally posted by cbfmakinganaccount

You are talking a lot about "game integrity" and that's the reason You are not giving anything to ironmen.
Let's see 2 ironmen: A, account that wasn't locked and B, account who hasn't been able to log in for 3 weeks (currently).

Before the lockout they both had 76 divination. They only use guthix caches to level it up. By now if account A has done it every day, they have 84 divination. Account B who is locked and has not been able to do ANY D&Ds is 8 now levels behind? This is for only 1 daily D&D. We have missed all the daily ones for 3 WEEKS, 2 weeks of weekly D&Ds missed and since it seems like we can't log in until April, if you didn't do the monthly D&D's instantly (like I didnt) then you are also missing the monthly ones.

Why and how are you talking about integrity when the people who weren't locked out are miles ahead in progress?

I mentioned this in another comment, but we'd love any feedback on suggestions you'd like to see as alternatives on an Ironman account. We're not closed to seeing if there's more we can do here.

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Originally posted by snowbunnyxo_

i waited a month to get back a few hours worth of progress and in return i get some ugly cosmetics and items that i cant even use because im an iron. not happy with this. just give us some runecoins or loyalty points.

We'll go away and think more about this when it comes to Ironman. It's not a response we'll have immediately, but we'll consider what alternatives we could for people in this spot.

If you have any feedback for what you'd like to see as an Ironman, we'd love to hear it.

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Originally posted by zoroarrkk

Ooo - progress seems to have been made!

Will there still be new people invited to the beta today, or was yesterdays wave the final wave?

It's unlikely we'll do another wave today as we just want as many people back as possible testing these new improvements.

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Update - 10:10 Game Time, March 26

Hello everyone,

With the Beta in full swing, we wanted to check in with a couple of updates on the latest happenings from today.

Calling All Beta Testers: Please Come Test Again!

If you're a current Beta participant, we'd love for you to return today to check some new improvements we've just made to our restoration work!

This work introduces a variety of refinements to our telemetry translations based on your feedback so far and we're looking to check that work with all of you once more, even if your account was exactly as you expected. Please head to the private Beta Discord server for all the info on recommended areas to test.

Servers at the Ready

Yesterday's maintenance of our RuneScape servers also allowed us to introduce new functionality that will allow us to restore and return your accounts into the live game once restoration work has...

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25 Mar

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Originally posted by Skilleto

/u/JagexHooli, with the close of Beta tomorrow and based on the information collected throughout the week, should we expect a pretty significant update tomorrow?

Why are daily updates hitting Reddit first before the RS website?

They're hitting simultaneously. Are you checking the Login Lockout Daily Updates thread?

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Originally posted by thegrinchstolechrist

u/JagexHooli, for those who dont get a chance to do the beta, will there still be 1 on 1 support for them?

Everyone impacted will have access to the aftercare process we're planning for sure.

The Beta is informing improvements for everybody via the way we're translating telemetry data into account data - we're not individually tweaking accounts of people in the Beta or anything as part of this stage.

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Originally posted by Im_Chick

Say it ends tomorrow and you all come to the conclusion it doesn't need to go for a v2 beta, is that something that you'd be able to say before the weekend is up? Is there talks behind the scenes of how/when the data from the beta will be made public? If the beta did indeed achieve the goal you all had for it, would it then be possible to create a more solid timeline?

I only ask because I think it's safe to say we're all pretty optimistic about the accounts and the job you all have done based off of what others have said, but still having a bunch of question marks beyond tomorrow could cause that optimism to turn into pessimism quickly, I'd assume.

Thanks again for the communcation! I can't believe I'm saying it but I'm looking forward to doing JoT runs and what not again.

Potentially. The Beta is still very much moving thick and fast which has been a lot of our focus, but we'd like to end the week by talking about the Beta - potentially in a Livestream - and what the next steps will likely be. We'll be able to confirm if we're ready for that tomorrow AM UK time I expect!

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Originally posted by wronghaveorof

/u/JagexHooli, with the close of Beta tomorrow and based on the information collected throughout the week, should we expect a pretty significant update tomorrow?

We are hoping to, yes. We're still focusing on Beta support right now but we'd like to close out the week with a significant update and talk about how it's gone!

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Originally posted by ruckus_rekt

How will those who do not get beta invites (or choose not to participate) contact Jagex for any discrepancies?

We'll be sure to detail that at some point, likely shortly after we have a confirmed return date for players. It's still being worked on between all the teams.

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Originally posted by Clayton_69

So is the beta really ending on the 26th? There's plenty of people in my clan who have not received an invite and they have less than a day to report if anything is missing?

It's still our intention to end it tomorrow yes. That's the current plan. Not everyone who is a candidate will be invited - it's about making enough of a sample pool to understand the general feedback and identify any problems.

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Originally posted by Voltorn_Elda

Why though? Even if you'd decrease the rates for possible skill pet unlocks.. it would at least give an extra incentive to partake. Training 'normally' would still be the better choice because of the larger exp drops, soo... what harm is there?

We've passed the feedback on for the team to consider in the future. It's unlikely to change for this event though.

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Originally posted by Tkf530

Anything new on the ED exploit?

The development team are still working on the fix - it's coming in April unless anything massively surprising happens!


24 Mar

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Originally posted by cutiethebearr

such a mess, missing perks, banks a mess, missing herbs, potions... MISSING NOX STAFF.... honestly dont see it can be 'made right'.... also quest points and stats reduced.

Did you submit a bug report / fill this out in the survey? These are the kind of outlier cases we're looking into and it would be massively helpful if you could.

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Originally posted by Brad_40K

Couldn't even get the announcement expected downtime right 🤣.

That's my fault honestly. We've got a lot going on here and I advised our social team the wrong hours in the midst of everything.

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Originally posted by rsplayer123

Weird, it's almost like some kind of important announcement like this should be posted on the RS main page, and not only on twitter. Would that make too much sense?

It's on RuneScape.com. Might have gone up slightly after.

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Originally posted by zoroarrkk

If you're on about Rex Matriarchs - they're postponing it until the locked out accounts are sorted.

They have literally gone to release it twice, before postponing due to the locked-out players.

The content is 100% done and ready to ship bud.

Correct. It's ready to ship, it's just a case of when.

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The tweet has been deleted as it mistakenly said 1 hour expected rather than 2!

For those of you asking, there's nothing to be concerned about with this downtime. We've already taken steps to prevent the series of events that made the Login Lockout happen from being a repeat performance, as well as more precautions beyond that.

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Update @ March 24th, 15:30

We've just sent out our 4th wave of invitations to take part in the Account Integrity Beta. To check if you've been invited, please look out for an email from us asking you to take part.

Not had anything? The Beta will continue until Friday with further invitations expected to be sent out between now and then, so keep your eyes peeled for more news!

As usual thank you for your patience and support. We'll be back with more news as soon as we have it!

- The RuneScape Team