I definitely miss them! We did one a few weeks ago: https://youtu.be/DyliPJTqHqI and it was really fun. Jagex is now majority WFH (which is a brilliant thing) but there are enough of us that go in/would be willing to go in. We've chatted about trying to do even one in-studio stream at least monthly. Here's hoping!
This will be missed by anybody not sorting by New, but I’d like to thank everybody sharing their feedback (whether you’ve upgraded, or you’re choosing not to but are explaining why). It’s a long bank holiday weekend now, so I won’t be replying too much until next week. The same goes for my esteemed goblin pal.
We’ll be presenting your feedback to the teams, and will update you on the outcome.
Time for me to log off and touch grass (stop working and log in to RS).
Why is the C++ client not available on the Jagex Launcher?
It will be soon. As for why, it does require some work to get it on the Launcher, and the team who do that were busy with this Beta.
Can't play HDOS with Jagex account so no thanks for now, maybe it supports HDOS, i might do it
That's fair enough, and we do try to address that in the blog.
This does sound promising, is this system well tested and reliable? I assume this is the login system rs3 uses and should thus be reliable
Also, can we finally have long passwords with a jagex account? I usually like to run 64 or 128 characters alphanumeric+special characters and I believe that in osrs it just truncates your password to like 20 characters and doesent even tell us
atleast thats how it was last time I registered some years back (why even limit it so low, are passwords not hashed but stored as fixed length strings in the database? Lol, I assume that's not the reason, though worries me regardless)
We J-Mods were the very first guinea pigs. I moved my accounts to a Jagex one back in December. We tried it before any players did.
And yes, password improvements are just one part of the security changes that come with Jagex Accounts.
Am I the only person that's very suspicious that all this talk of security is really a smokescreen for jagex to gain massively more control over our accounts? Now we won't be able to play on alternate clients -- what if runelite gets substantially worse and now an alternate client can't exist? What if jagex acquires runelite? Is jagex going to use the launcher in the way other games companies do: to promote other games and special offers?
Also, I'm not sure if I value the additional 'security' more than I value the possibility of getting support if I lose access to my account. I'm not sure if this move really benefits players, or rather serves as an excuse for jagex to save money providing what little support it currently does. Backup codes don't really give me much comfort -- so if a bad actor got access to my backup codes, they'd be able to totally steal my account with no recourse?
I'm skeptical.
We already 'own' your accounts, I'm not sure more control we would want, really.
You ask questions about the Launcher. One thing it does fantastically well is ensure verification of people connecting to the game client (and RuneLite - whom we have a great relationship with, and are on the Launcher!), meaning we can ensure much smoother world-hopping etc. I do not envision a world in which we drown you with ads and offers. We want you to play Old School.
Having only your back-up code wouldn't give somebody access to your account, no. But do not give the back-up codes to anybody...
At the end of the day, you're going to remain sceptical. All I can do is say... this isn't a powerplay. It's an expensive initiative that costs money (via resource/time/tooling investment) rather than saving money.
I saw a twitter post about someone's account being hijacked, and then the hackers went through the sign up process and permanently irreversibly attached the stolen account to the hackers email through the jagex accounts system.
Is this true? If your account is compromised and the hacker creates a jagex account using it - are you permanently screwed over?
Sounds like a big oversight if it's irreversible and irrecoverable, but I know that the tweet may not have accurately represented the system.
If a RuneScape account (and the email it's registered to) was already compromised, it could be added to a Jagex Account, yes.
They are not permanently screwed over though.
We haven't overlooked this, there's a bespoke Support contact route and queue to get those sorted. And once those people who have been hijacked are on a Jagex Account then this won't happen again.
I just did it but my account has no back up codes available. Just blank.
Enable the 'Security codes via authenticator app' option and you'll be shown them :)
Is the launcher available on Mac yet?
https://www.jagex.com/en-GB/launcher
Yep! Check out the Download for Mac option
Resource pack looks like
That's the words I was looking for!
Was there any update on what you alluded to in this interview? https://youtu.be/5W3zipDHC6I?t=2095
Nothing to delve into publicly at the moment, but it is progressing well.
Nice crowd control
When I replied I was the second comment on a very new thread, crowd control wasn't my intention.
It looks like it might be the 'skin' (correct word is lost on me) you've chosen to use.
Sure wish the rs3 team had a shred of passion/motivation to do anything remotely like this for us 😐
The RS3 team are extremely passionate. The work that Mod Blkwitch and co. have been doing on areas is amazing.
Is this going to mirror more of a 117HD or HDOS art style?
It's probably best to wait for a proper announcement, I fear I'll raise more questions than I answer!
It's still being worked on, I've seen great progress and I'm super stoked. As for the delay... we changed Art Director/Manager etc. and the project changed too. IMO, changed for the better. We're talking about how/when to show off, but we'll wait until it's the right time rather than do what we did last time and just show screenshots.
I'm not sure where the small two day window is coming from, it was redeemable between December (when the codes were delivered), and March 31st.
You're able to contact Support using the Contact Us button on this link here, and they'll help you out even though they've now expired.
https://support.runescape.com/hc/en-gb/articles/207480615-Pre-Paid-cards-and-Membership-passcodes
Check out the Contact Us button. They'll be able to help you.
I'd be seriously unhappy if I got that!
I've spoken to our person who handles the merch store, they're going to flag to our merch store account manager.
Send an email to [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]) and include the picture, info etc.
Feel free to DM me your order number, and we'll use that when flagging.
Sorry about this!
What's exactly new in the blog? I read the opening section but then the rest looks to be the same?
E: oh it's the survey
The opening section is what's new. TLDR of it:
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