Mod_Miva

Originally posted by Capcha616

Thank you for the reply, although I am very curious how Mod Hooli can stop all Jmods including content developers, executive producer like Mod Keeper, and such from communicating with the media and playerbase, especially when he seemed to be one of the most enthusiastic Jmods to stream JvM weekly content and disappeared without notice.

Originally posted by WateronRocks

Are you upset because we genuinely made an effort to understand what the community wanted?

Miva, I'm not upset at all. Im trying to understand why yall did what you did because you didnt communicate anything.

This response of yours:

Would you prefer to have just one item without the opportunity to choose, if I may ask? Personally, I believe that by making both versions available rather than just one, we fulfilled a demand from many players.

Is exactly what I was looking for, and is a perfectly reasonable explanation for why individual retros are released. You just need to communicate that from the get go, along with the bundle discount for people who bought the individuals, so it doesnt look like just another bait and switch.

You said you studied teaching in uni, so I'm sure you remember how important the who, what, when, where and WHY are to effective communication.

Originally posted by Duncling

Are there any plans to make more use for dyes? Melee is really lacking and only can dye malevolent (t90). I get the reason behind not dyeing MW/TMW/CFTMW, but vestments of havoc have less IDs because it doesn't degrade. Can we expect to be able to dye this set?

Originally posted by NexexUmbraRs

Thank you, does this mean Community and Social is it's own independent department?

Originally posted by EndlessWandererCh

I'm not trying to be mean, but you sound like every manager I've ever had that talks to customers like they're children, lol.

"Wow! What an interesting way of thinking! Did you come up with that yourself?"

Originally posted by Capcha616

The department head

When you wrote "the department head", do you mean Mod Keeper, or somebody higher up and in that case who is that person, or his job title please?

Originally posted by Californ1a

It'd be cool to see something like "a day in the life" or "meet the jmods" type of video series, show what a typical day involves for various departments/positions, so we would have a better idea of that kind of stuff.

Originally posted by toddhoppus

No we would prefer to have the bundle that we were told about, or some form of communication to tell us otherwise.

Seriously, and looking at your other responses, how are you this damn tone deaf??

Originally posted by WateronRocks

So we decided to run this "test" to see which version you prefer.

You didnt answer about this "test", though, if you would clarify.

What test are you currently performing by releasing this pack separately, and how do you hope to interpret the results?

Again, and as you acknowledged, you already performed a test using the poll, and, as you say, the results were that people wanted both.

So what data are you tracking by releasing dscim variants separately, and how do you hope to use the information?

Originally posted by ThaFrenchFry

I think people in this chain believe this info should be added to the newspost, and that that part is "obvious". I think expecting that is... fine?

Whether it would reduce negativity or not, that is debatable.

Separating/merging these 2 statements is what caused the confusion here, I'd say

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Originally posted by Lather

I'm not trying to tell you how to do your job, but isn't that kind of obvious?

Originally posted by DA_Knuppel

A test, for 5€? What is the full bundle going to cost us then? It is ridiculous that we have to spend this amount of cash (or ingame money, but bonds are 70m already) for just 1 override that you just said is a “test”. If you really want to know how well this will be received, make it free or available for oddments.

Originally posted by TheAmazingTelle

if this was intended as a test why did you charge us runecoin for it?

Originally posted by taintedcake

Wouldn't the better way to test the designs be to give the players all of the designs?

Also, the profits are higher by them being standalones, so it seems rather obvious why the bundle would be delayed. There being absolutely no mention of the situation just makes it seem even more like the team was told to maximize profits from this.

The bundle could've easily been made available still, with a note saying not all items are available right away and will be added.

Originally posted by ZamorakSoul

I think a Reddit Q&A would work well, though my biggest suggestion would be to post a summary of questions asked & answers given on the main RS page news post once it's completed. That's been one of my biggest shortcomings with the current communications - players have to chase around a bunch of different social media sites to get answers/news from Jagex, rather than seeing everything neatly conveyed on the RS site. For folks like myself who generally have very few opportunities to go sifting through a bunch of different threads to find stuff, a clean summary in one expected place each time info is released would be stellar.

Thank you for taking the time to reply to so many folks' threads today, Miva! It's greatly appreciated.

Originally posted by WateronRocks

So we decided to run this "test" to see which version you prefer.

How does this test work when the pack gives both variants...?

And didnt you guys already test which people prefer with your "which variation of dragon scim would you prefer" poll a month ago?

There's a mountain of precedence to assume this is just a way to squeeze more money, especially when you dont make this clear in the new post:

We still intend to release all overrides as a complete bundle. However, we may release single items along the way.

I'm sure some people wouldnt be wasting money on the standalone if they knew!