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I won't say permanent, it's not a life-long contract! But it's on a full-time, permanent basis, and I'm very happy with the new role.

I think that's likely!

I was cap in hand, like Oliver Twist!

It's a funny industry though, once you're in, you're in. Quite a lot of roles out there! Consultancy was going very well, but coming back made sense.

That's not good. But it makes sense that you're shown something that you don't play, but have related interests in. Rather than shown something that you already play.

If it helps, there was a panel interview so it was kinda voted on.

I'm not very technical, but in layman's speak... the worlds are hosted on different servers in different locations. Rather than just take them all offline at once, we can turn off one location, work on those worlds, and players can play on other worlds at the same time. Maintenance was already done on UK and German worlds.

Game world maintenance bud

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/game-status-information-centre?oldschool=1

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/game-status-information-centre?oldschool=1All US West & Australian worlds will be unavailable. Players may still play the game on different worlds

https://twitter.com/OldSchoolRS/status/1599737301541666817...

This is very self-indulgent, and I'm sure nobody cares, but I'm coming back to Jagex.

I've been lucky enough to have been doing some marketing consulting for the Old School team over the past few months, and I'm super stoked to say that I'll be rejoining the team permanently next month.

What I've seen has got me excited for the future of Old School, and I think you're going to love what we've got to show in the Summit.

I won't be returning to the community team, instead I'll be spending my time doing more marketing bits. I know you all think we're really pants at Marketing, so it'll be me that you get to complain to! That said, I hope you've enjoyed the stuff you've seen recently that I've had a hand in, culminating in the Summit this weekend.

Great feedback, have passed it to the team working on the game client. Thanks!

thank you
it was great to be had by you all

I was being super serial

but then it wouldn't be thicc sween

Lmao. If there's another GameBlast event at Jagex I'll happily do this again for charity. I'll talk about this on a stream next week, there's a funny little story associated with the aftermath of the event.

I've been putting this off for a little while, because it makes me sadder than Nieve, Bob, and the caged Unicorn combined.

22nd October will mark 2272 days at Jagex, but it will also be my last day. Five days short of Max, I should have planned that better!

Jagex has been nothing short of fantastic for me, offering me incredible opportunities and giving me the freedom to level up and grow into an industry professional - a far cry from the baby-faced grad who stumbled into a role back in 2015!

I don't have any profound parting words but I'd just like to say this. Thank you so much, everybody, it's been wonderful, even when it hasn't been. Passions can run high when you're so emotionally invested in something, and that's so true for our community and Old School. I challenge you to channel that passion in a positive way! Celebrate your fellow community members - you might disagree but it's a shared love for the game that unites you. Support your J-Mods - ...

Apologies for the delay all. We can only share an update once we are aware of the current situation ourselves.

I've updated OP with the following:

October 12th 17:30

We've made good progress on resolving the shared storage issues, and we are aiming to restore full system functionality with tomorrow's game update (11:30am BST). We would like to thank you for your patience, and we'll share more information tomorrow morning.

Update October 11th 16:10

Work continues to reopen the Group Ironman shared storage system as soon as possible.

We're confident that we've solved the root cause of potential issues, but we'd like some more time in testing.

Thank you for your patience so far. We'll have more news to share tomorrow!

Update 11th October 16:10

Work continues to reopen the Group Ironman shared storage system as soon as possible.

We're confident that we've solved the root cause of potential issues, but we'd like some more time in testing.

Thank you for your patience so far. We'll have more news to share tomorrow!

No risk at all. Your Leader can use it as much as you like.

I hope to play GIM now!