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What a lovely surprise to be lurking and then spot this. Thank you so much for the lovely comments, and what a cracking way to play the quest.

I wrote it when my daughter was particularly ill in hospital, and in hindsight I think that came out in Primrose.

Mod Raven did such a great job of turning the writing into a working quest. I’m sure he would have loved to put in replayability and a few other gameplay tweaks, but it’s a minor miracle that he got Her Story in to RuneScape at all.

Thank you so much again. Made my day.

Lurking in the Shadow Barrage, Hollywood superstar Shia LaBoeuf

Thank you Gaga_Lady. We share your posts and threads around the office, so please don’t feel like it falls on deaf ears. They are regularly insightful and have definitely changed our decision-making in the past.

I agree with a lot you’ve written here. There’s no hiding from the sheer amount of change that needs to happen in the early game for RS to be welcoming even at an industry standard level, let alone the industry-leading level we want to get to. Your comments on UI, goals and social are very aligned with mine. I personally want to also look at the staggering of our content, and also working through the game with DIY exploration, finding and completing things as I go.

We could go on an endless journey to perfect RS before a launch, but I don’t see RS Mobile launch as a single bet, a single bite of a cherry with failure if we don’t capitalise on it. We will keep working on the opening game, UI etc past launch, and let mobile feedback factor into it too. I imagin...

This is great. Amazing work.

I believe JagexHooli and the team are acting on the Godsword. I messaged them today and they confirmed.

We have shown progress quite frequently on the pets, but this detail may have slipped or not been shown fully. Apologies.

Please don’t think that new players are our priority. Until now, new players weren’t really thought of at all, and that’s why we’ve reached a point of a messy hame for new starters. We need to think of them again.

Active players are still the priority, absolutely.

We actually discussed this! One version had percentages, rather than absolute values, but we opted for this instead. There are positives and negatives between them. In the end, it’s a clearer and more understandable goal to go for RuneScore values

Sorry that I can’t reply to the depth you have here. Very generally, we opted for more tiers on Richie rather than more tiers on Zez, and we needed outsource for other Elder God related updates. We often have to make these kinds of decisions.

I appreciate and completely understand (and understood) the tiers of god armour. But older veterans aren’t the only players we make content for. This is a core pet that a lot of people will strive for, and having a detail that a vast majority (especially with new players coming in) won’t understand the nuances of is a problem. If this was a more niche pet, it wouldn’t have been a problem. Over the years we have increasingly made the game complicated for newer players to understand, so this kind of decision needs to be made more.

Still, cosmetic options and toggles for the pet are options for the future, but just wasn’t possible for release

I can assure you that there aren’t interns making decisions on this, it’s designe...

Hey BabystepsX. Would be happy to chat further as a personal message? Feel free to reach out to us for things like this, we are happy to chat.

We chatted about the god trims, and there’s a few reasons we didn’t go with them: they force a god faction on the player, they put the gods into a hierarchy when we want players to consider them as equally viable to support, and the metal tiers are easier for a newer player to understand (you want them to recognise your achievement). Our original plan was to have more metal tiers, but that didn’t work out: hopefully that can change in the future.

I wasn’t aware of a LARP godsword if I am being honest. Is that something that was in your original design?

Not at all! This post is the opposite of work

It means so much that RuneScape can offer that help - thank you for taking the time to write your post. Looking after RuneScape from home can feel very anonymous, and this message is a reminder of how important that job can be.

I hope the coming years offer more than the last few. I am sorry that life hasn’t treated you well, but your post shows that you are keeping your head up and looking for positives. I think we can take a lot from that.

Happy New Year to you!

Heya! Took this to the concept artist who did the initial treatments on Prif, and he said this (no Reddit account):

It looks cool, just like it. Its a happy coincidence as I didn't have that reference, neither have I been to Russia. I have however been to Istanbul, and Prif was more based on buildings like Hagia Sofia but stretched up to be more gothic, mixed with the ruins of Tintern Abbey - the crystal walls were written about in text before I painted anything. If you look up those two places it makes sense combined.

You are so talented! The Zamorak makes me want to get a tattoo

My word! Time absolutely flies. What was it a player test for?

I’m not sure what is wrong with my phrasing. I have oversight of the game content rather than Runefest and gnomes etc, so just offering my help

Hey Maximus. Let us look into this today and get things moving for you. It’s not good enough that it’s taken this long

I was specifically talking about focus groups on the art style, rather than on penguin hide and seek

Thanks for your post, Wahisietel. Considered as always buddy.

I think there's two threads to this conversation: one is whether the RuneScape penguins are all gentoo, whether they should be, and whether we've lost something by making them not gentoo. The other thread is whether the general art direction of the game, of which these penguins are the latest example, is what you want and, again, beneficial for the game.

For the first thread, you can see from the concept sheet that we absolutely considered making the penguins gentoo. In R&D, having increased the fidelity of the model, our animators found that they couldn't get as broader range of expressions from the gentoo concept. The white area by the eye limits expression and makes them perpetually a bit menacing. We didn't want that for the penguins story, either, as we wanted them to be initially benign but Machiavellian once we learn more about them. That's kind of how their story works.

We also considered...

It’s more like having 50 different piles of 10 years+ homework, and then choosing which of those piles to start on first. Construction goes up against the new player experience, the player avatar and so many more, but it’s definitely near the top of the pile. We’ve chosen something for Construction that wouldn’t get in the way of a future rework and would supplement it

Your concept for how to change Construction is great, but I would stop short of making it a whole new skill. I’m not convinced that’s what would be best for the player base.

I appreciate that, but if we let our past put us off doing it, then we would be in a much worse place. I’m sure we will be showing it on livestream soon, so hopefully you can be more reassured.

From my perspective, it’s less about a fear of The Massacre or spaghetti code, and more that a prospective Construction Rework has put us off from doing other jobs, but we are going ahead with this one