Do you have an update for mobile open beta for Android devices? Can you comment on a timeliness for full release for Android and iPhone? Even just quickly addressing this is good enough I'm looking forward to the release :)
28th February should be Android Open Beta now, and we will give a bit more detail in our game update newspost for next week
there's not much we could have updated you on, really, other than "it's delayed"
That would have been good.
which is already fairly obvious.
Yeah, once we were well past "late January" with no info from you guys it became pretty obvious.
You guys knew it wasn't coming out when you originally estimated, maybe weeks before the date. You'd think it would be "fairly obvious" to let people know the estimate was wrong before you were like a week past the latest possible interpretation of the estimate.
Sorry for being abrasive, but it sounds like the mindset was "they'll figure it out themselves" and now you're wondering why people are upset.
I get you. The mindset imo was more like "Well, we have a team member on this project leaving, so we're not actually sure when this beta could be, we need extra resources for testing and we also need to figure some stuff out before we give any new date that we can't keep a promise on. Plus, the initial date we gave was an estimation we made to the best of our ability at the time, and not a promise, so we'd hope people would understand any potential delay".
I think people still would've been upset.
Probably, it is the OSRS playerbase after all. I highly doubt you'd see this many people upset/left wondering what's going on though.
Speaking personally I was just excited for the new client wheb it was first announced. I figured it would take a while considering you were just letting us know you were starting to work on it, and seemed to let us know about it earlier than usual (could be wrong there).
Missing out on the closed beta was really disappointing after that wait, but then we got an estimate for the open beta and full release - giving us mobile players a rough date to look forward to. Then we went past that date, you guys said nothing, and now people are a lot more anxious about the new client that's right around the corner.
I guess so yeah. I think rounding off the post instead with; "And the Android Beta has no set date yet! We'll only be talking about it when we have one!" would also be just as disappointing. It is still on our roadmap and mentioned in the January 2022 Gazette so didn't think people were too anxious. It might have been worth emphasizing in the January Gazette that it was expected in February though
I believe that the blogpost gave the end of January as an estimate and did state that it was an estimate
Yeah it did, but you can't exactly blame players for being anxious when we're this far past your original estimate with the offical response "more info soon" given like a week after said estimate.
The original dates given were always an estimation. Realistically, we would not have been able to give you the information you were after until we had the go-live date set. Therefore, there's not much we could have updated you on, really, other than "it's delayed" which is already fairly obvious.
Right? Don't give us dates if you can't honor your word, and certainly don't give us radio silence followed by "more info soon™️" when you blow past the timeline you gave us.
Add to that the fact that they pretty clearly abandoned the current app when they started work on the new one, leaving glitches to pile up, and it's no wonder people are starting to get anxious for what we were told would come this month.
Hey :) So, Android Open Beta is scheduled February 28th now. The exact line of the newspost was:
As mentioned above, our Android Open Beta is is currently scheduled for the end of January 2022. Please note that this is an estimate, and could be subject to change if further issues arise. Provided all goes well with the Open Beta, we'd like to roll out the app officially around late February 2022.
A month's delay isn't ideal for sure, but this date was given as our very best estimation at the time. If we had failed to provide an estimation in the newspost, and gave no date at all, I think people still would've been upset.
Since then, we've had some unexpected things crop up, so I apologise for the delay! :)
Mobile beta when
The Android Open Beta is now looking to go live to players for the 28th February. :) You should be receiving information in next weeks' game update post too. I believe that the blogpost gave the end of January as an estimate and did state that it was an estimate rather than an exact prediction. In all honesty, unexpected things have happened which delayed it a bit longer than we hoped.
We'll be live on Thursday 17th February on Twitch with another General Q&A! It's time to get your questions in so reply with them in this post!
I've been noticing a couple of posts recently about the questions for General Q&As feeling a bit lacklustre (the quality of the questions and the topics you want us to discuss). I wanted to give some context on it if you were interested. If you're not interested, please just skip this next bit and just ask us your questions!
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Read more External link →So Raid 3 rewards blog got postponed again because of pvp arena blog according to the other post. Is there a specific reason why it cant be released this week as well? It just seems long overdue and gets pushed back everytime its mentioned. I know Jagex has bren trying to deliver stuff on timr but seems very spontaneous with lot of things still
We also ask for team feedback on major blogs, so having 3 big blogs go out (Poll 76, PvP Arena & Raids 3 in a short timeframe) demands a lot of extra time on the devs to give their feedback, and if this is rushed it can be detrimental to the process. Also, all our blogs go through another team before posting (Editorial) so it makes sense to space them out and not increase their workload too much in one go. Thirdly we'd be looking to poll each of these things separately so it makes sense to have one poll running while we're taking feedback for another projectrather than have one poll for all of these things. Hope this helps!
Haha, alonescape pointed out the red cross on a video yesterday and it was fixed within 24 hours? Damn you guys can move fast
It's a weird coincidence I believe, we knew about this for a while but we've had the Operators on Wilderness changes so it was pushed down on the priorities.
KQ update when?
We mentioned on the game update changelog that we'd look into ironman-only instances if the team has time. I'll make sure that this is brought up again as I've seen lots of feedback on it. I don't have an answer for when this change would occur but I'll certainly be bringing it up to the team and voicing your frustrations and desire for this change!
Here's my weekly reminder that Arcane grimoire should work in banks without having to equip the fragments (provided you have enough Endless knowledge fragments).
We actually discussed this one! I believe the team felt that equipping fragments are necessary to have their benefits. Otherwise, you're getting the benefits of an item that you haven't really equipped which isn't consistent with the rest of the game as it's not a passive type of mechanic that works while in your inventory or bank.
So, tomorrow will be the last day of league tweaks (in theory?)
hopefully the BA queen x3 will be on the list.
I haven’t checked exactly what’s coming tomorrow other than the Bday event. But essentially the team is moving onto their other scheduled work now so we will monitor and resolve bugs or big issues, as far as tweaks go however we need to manage the time spent on those as we are 4 weeks into the League and need to be moving onto other projects as well. I hope that’s okay, just trying to bring a bit more transparency to the way we are working!
Hey I know it's not related to todays post but is there going to be any more updates on Leagues, like changes or fixes? Some tasks are borderline impossible to complete unless you spent 4-5 days doing a single task and since league is extended, it would be nice to see some new tasks added in, there are few minigames/places that don't have tasks atm like Mahogany homes, gnome restauraunt, blast furnace, organised crime and deranged archaeologist... Since in the upcoming weeks there are going to be less and less tasks to complete, it would be nice to get few more tasks added in for diversity.
Hey there! Right so in terms of Leagues there will naturally be less updates to it as time goes on.
The team who were making the fixes for the first 4 weeks made some hotfixes and took a lot of feedback to make some changes but the team have now been moved onto their work outside of Leagues.
This isn’t to say we aren’t monitoring Leagues at all but bugs and issues are going to the bugs/issues/QoL team now which also deal with bugs and issues across the main game.
We will fix any issues impacting gameplay for Leagues, but these need to be weighed up against how much resources it will require vs how long Leagues will last for. In short we are likely not going to add more content in at this stage and only focus on immediate pressing issues that impact user experience. I hope this helps but sorry if it’s not the answer you hoped for!
I have passed this onto the web team to investigate, apologies for any inconvenience casued!
It should be good to go now. Our web team would be interested in RSN's of anyone affected by this as it was to do with a measure they put in place this morning, so feel free to let me know this if you were blocked and couldn't get access, and I'll pass it on!
Anyone else getting access denied?
I have passed this onto the web team to investigate, apologies for any inconvenience casued!
Great write up! One small thing, you appear to be missing whatever Question 23 is.
Thank you Namzeh, this has been fixed. Hoping we can do some more lore streams in future! For this week I'll try and get a General Q&A going. :)
Love to see it🔥. I’ve been up studying for a midterm and I just wasn’t comprehending things that weren’t evolution. Cheers Mod Light
gl with ur exam!!
Just to clarify, if Question 6 passes will we be able to reclaim a pet that was in the collection log but not taking up a bank placeholder?
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Just to clarify, if I have a pet that I had obtained, lost while uninsured, but do not have a bank placeholder for, would I still get that pet back if this poll passes?
If you have it unlocked on your collection log, we can track it back and restore it via Probita. But not otherwise. Basically we need a variable on your character to be able to restore it.
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