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Few thoughts...

The sad part of the game industry is how volatile the business and operations are. Companies should be doing more for their employees, treat them well, fairly and just. Invest in them, because they can and have the means too, but don't because they have other motives and agendas often not known.

I was part of 3 studio closures over the years and got out before a 4th. My friends and co-workers all lost their jobs too. i.e Lucasarts shutdown after the Disney acquisition, CCP Atlanta, Blizzard International HQ in the Netherlands. These were all places I loved getting to be part of and cut short. I can only imagine what challenges lay ahead for the creative and technical talent making awesome entertainment that the planet consumes. The reality is that its difficult and not any easy climb for someone starting out. We often see short stints from people, that's ok in my books and so many different unique circumstances.

People also have a lot of grea...

Few thoughts...

The sad part of the game industry is how volatile the business and operations are. Companies should be doing more for their employees, treat them well, fairly and just. Invest in them, because they can and have the means too, but don't because they have other motives and agendas often not known.

I was part of 3 studio closures over the years and got out before a 4th. My friends and co-workers all lost their jobs too. i.e Lucasarts shutdown after the Disney acquisition, CCP Atlanta, Blizzard International HQ in the Netherlands. These were all places I loved getting to be part of and cut short. I can only imagine what challenges lay ahead for the creative and technical talent making awesome entertainment that the planet consumes. The reality is that its difficult and not any easy climb for someone starting out. We often see short stints from people, that's ok in my books and so many different unique circumstances.

People also have a lot of grea...

fix is inbound, going through QA next

checking into it, happy holidays!

happy holidays!

will dig into this one and will chat with the team about it!

Merry Christmas to you as well! More things to come :)

Hi All, hopefully you have heard me say in the past on how important bringing new blood into the game is important to us, I have heard how important it is to you as well.

With Archaeology and explosive activity in recent months, this has been a great reminder. I look at everything from new platforms, new ways to distribute the game and how we can grow into new markets and new audiences. We have a growing cross play strategy, and would like to make the game more accessible to a wider range of players, more on your terms too. The sum of all the parts will be a beehive of activity, and filling Gielinor with more citizens.

I have a number of initiatives well in development that will be addressing this. When these are firmed up in delivery confidence I will be sharing that with you :)

From a game size and activity point of view, RS is in very healthy shape overall. No where near dying off, quite the opposite actually. We hit a number of new subscriber records th...

We are nearing dev complete of our next quest line and will be announcing the release date very soon :)

Revamped website is coming! I have been very vocal about this internally and have some great support for getting this changed up. :) Again, another area we are trying to change how we work. Web is a beast!

What would you like for better API's? Do you have a wish list?

Thank you for the feedback Sheva. It takes a team to get there for sure, they do a great job looking through all the player feedback and choosing some good updates! Definitely takes time to unfold bigger directional changes. Hardest part is to keep it going at a sustainable pace, challenge ourselves, innovate when we can and not become complacent/fall back into older patterns. Still so much more we can do and I personally have a lot learn ahead about our players and RS. I know a lot more than I did 8 months ago :) Best part we can keep talking!

Very happy with how players enjoy Archaeology and seeing the difference a Ninja can make!

Thank you for the feedback! We were able to re-align some resources, purpose, focus and efforts differently to do these kind of releases faster along side the bigger content. The priority, attention and pace has changed and we are discussion the content with our players a bit differently too. Starting to see some off the benefits of the changes. :)

Also, I like the way you think about live streams. I have been chatting with the community team about them. Would like to see some things changed up on our format and programming, open to some ideas from the community tbh. Still WIP, but would like to try some new things out.

RS is nowhere near dying :) Imagine how many Ninja strikes we can accomplish in just a year!

Hi Gecu! Thank you for taking the time to write this wonderful note, and grateful you keep giving us an opportunity to try and put a smile on your face! We shared your message with the RS team and it will make its way into many more of my discussions throughout the week!

This has certainly been a player favorite release, the team produced a well rounded quality piece of content and we had an exciting launch campaign. Hope to do more this way!

Human connection, even digitally is meaningful :)

Oh, we can't wait to bring to iOS !

Lots of DDOS attacks on online games in the past week.

We also have a great new logo from the same creative services team too :)

You can play up to level 20 for Free to Play

hmmm ....

We scored on a couple newish hires in both Creative Services and Product Marketing and starting to see their impact in our work. :)

make sense as well. I have shared this post with the design team. I know they love story and narrative as much as you do, will nudge them to chime in :)

Hi Nosi, I agree with your perspective. One of the missions I gave our team this year is to connect lore and story to everything that we can. Things like Yak Track, cosmetics and even for how game is monetized are no exception. We want it to feel more natural to other aspects of our game and feel less disconnected.

Throughout this year you will see a lot more of of how we build canon into all things and should see these changes on the next Yak Track. This will be in both in game and out of game efforts.

It takes a bit of time to re-work, re-wire, how we do things and change course with our team but we are already well underway with this effort for 2020 :)