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I honestly feel that the Q&A answered a lot of player questions (probably weighted a little too much towards the Reddit questions), it just didn’t answer the massive single question that we are still not ready to answer.

Regardless, it’s clear that calling it a Q&A when you don’t answer the central question is just irritating, so we’ll be mindful of that next time.

We aren’t ready for a roadmap livestream yet, otherwise I would be all over that! I would love to give that to you. A data stream is also an incredible amount of work, more than you’d expect (we actually had to cancel Runefest talks on that subject for exactly that reason), but we would love to do more of them.

I take on board your general feedback that non-Q&A streams are valued. I remember when people were crying out for more Q&A streams, so I suspect we have swung the other way

Of course, having sparse information is never going to feel good. All I can offer is reassurance that this won’t be the state forever, or for very long at all. It’s taken me a while to adjust myself, because my instinct is to talk a lot and often. I would also like to say that the time spent on Archaeology absolutely can be seen in game. I don’t want to overhype unnecessarily, but it’s got so much care in it.

Skree!

I will be honest with you, I value a lack of crunch so so highly. Jagex is a real exception in the games industry about minimising crunch, and I love that aspect of working here.

Thank you for the kind words about Arch too!

The same rule that is being applied to Archaeology - that we should only talk about things when we have supreme confidence in them, and have a release date planned - are being applied to all updates. It’s something that Mod Warden has instilled in us, and it will mean a more confident announce and better updates. We need to iron out the kinks about how we reassure you that things are coming, and we will have things to say very, very soon

We can achieve a livestream every week, that’s not the issue for us. The issue is that a livestream without the one glaring piece of information everyone wants can be inflammatory and - to many people - makes the livestream completely worthless.

I agree with you though, I would prefer us to keep talking and doing other things like the Mod Jack bit.

We will take note that acknowledging Archaeology is better than not. We tried acknowledging it in previous live-streams, which didn’t go well, but it feels more positive to do so.

Not sure what I’ve done to deserve that, but I will take it

I don’t think I would have said ‘there were no questions’ personally, and I am sure that Mod Poerkie meant that there was none he felt comfortable asking. I can see how that would have been taken poorly, and sorry for saying it.

I personally don’t think we should stop the live-streams completely, as there is info that some (but not all) would find valuable like M and S changes.

That’s fair enough

I will be honest, I didn’t see any questions on Group Ironman at all.

The work to make OSRS Group Ironman happen will open the door to us having it, so we are waiting for that before we commit time to it

We are getting very close to giving the date for Archaeology, but we couldn’t for this livestream.

We could have said exactly that in the livestream, but that’s not new information and people have been peeved at us giving that kind of non-update in previous live-streams. We have wondered whether to cancel or shorten live-streams while we haven’t got a date or update on other content, but that would mean going even more silent than we are.

Ultimately, the problem here is that we don’t have new info on Arch for you. I definitely feel you, and it feels frustrating here too. We want to get you that info and we will get you the info imminently.

One positive is that we are doing this to have complete confidence in the date, which will mean that you can also have complete confidence in the date when it arrives, and I can reassure that the launch date won’t be disappointingly far in the future.

Awwwwww, thank you!

Reverse!

I wouldn’t feel comfortable saying. Something akin to the Year Ahead is coming, and it’s best to save the plan and updates relating to the plan until then.

+1

Hello! The Live Ops diary was the next due, but two things hit at once: Mod Warden arriving and the furore around Virtus on TH etc. Mod Warden felt that the best way to address MTX was a livestream not a video. That made sense, but unfortunately meant no Live Ops designer diary.

It may be that the designer diaries resurface again for the CXP team, but I’m not really involved in the chat about that, sorry.

Really nice idea. Personally like this a lot

Christmas does seem to be a time that people come back to RuneScape. It’s lovely to pop in game and see more people.

I’m so glad you liked it! Like One Piercing Note, I put so much of the success down to our Audio team. It had a mixed reception at launch, but I’m glad people are finding it and liking it.

I’ve written a couple recently, so it’s not hate, promise.