Mod_Stevew

Mod_Stevew



22 May

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Originally posted by spockatron

I agree, but there are many on this sub who think that wilderness griefing should be bannable or following someone to crash them should be bannable. Now personally I think none of that should be bannable- if it's in the game and not clearly a glitch then it should be allowed- but in 2019 people think lots of shit should be bannable that isn't even chat related at all.

In the upcoming survey we will specifically ask for player views on toxicity, it is a complex issue that isn't just text based and does bleed into things like ragging and griefing, and everyone will have a different tolerance level and view on severity - we need to get those survey results to really understand any concerns the community have (if any) and then use those results to make informed decisions moving forwards

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Originally posted by Trance_Music

But I still cannot access any type of account support since the email I used was a school based one that I no longer have access to, but Jagex says to check my email.

How can you help me? Recovery doesn’t work even though it’s my account. I know when I made it and what city I was in and previous passwords.

Any help would be great.

I tried over a year ago but did not get thru Reddit Customer Support: https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/comments/8gvrep/changing_an_old_account_email_no_longer_accessible/

If your email is old/inaccessible, you need to update it by providing some supporting info and the new email address you would like to set - we'll review that and provided everything adds up we'll set your new email to the account and you will be good to go. It sounds like you have already tried that route and your requests are being denied, in that case I'm afraid you do need to strengthen the request - see our denied password reset tips to help improve your chances of a successful recovery.

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Originally posted by JordhanMK

If I would suggest something, is to do like Blizzard and ask for real IDs and documents when someone is trying to recover the account or password, at least one of your document will match with account details, chat log or something. My friend got his smartphone stolen and lost the authenticator, Blizzard asked for real ID to recovery the account, together with a lot of question about the account data, just by seeing he trying to recovery his own account, I was relieved because I was sure if any person besides the true owner won't have the answer for a lot of questions Blizzard questioned.

Thanks for your comment, the topic of recovery will be part of a future blog - but in relation to your suggestion I'm afraid it isn't quite that simple. There is a huge volume of accounts that wouldn't have any sort of account management data that could be verified against ID, and that also assumes that all players have sufficient ID they could actually supply!

It's a sensible suggestion though, and this sort of dialogue is really useful to us, so keep it coming!

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Originally posted by lilbuffkitty

I am very concerned about this "lost item return service" I've said it before and i'll say it again. It won't work for a game like this, it'll crush the economy once people figure out how to exploit the system. Ofcourse if its a system that grabs the item from the hacker/scammer's account and transfers it back to the original owner, perhaps it could be a good service.

We will expand on that topic in a future blog, we've mentioned it in this blog because we want to be transparent and open about some of the things we'd like to explore further. Lost items return (or lack of it) is a common criticism aimed at us, so it's only right that we listen to that feedback and see what we might be able to do to help. It really is early stages though, but for now you can be assured that we will give it careful consideration.

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Originally posted by Pepo8

One of my accounts has been locked for almost 2 years now. Don't have the email (account is 10+ years old). Whatdo

I'm sure we can help - head to our can't log in article to get back in game

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Originally posted by Ender_The_Great

We could always try to get the reportable offences menu updated. It's kind of outdated and there's a lot that could be added like phishing and so forth.

Currently I'm not even sure what the most effective option would be to remove those phishing bots in the GE that use hijacked accounts and youtube links. Adverting websites? Scamming? neither of those seem to describe it well enough.

Fair point ... in truth it won't make a huge difference if you get the categorisation wrong, the important thing is that the incident gets reported - for the example of phishing you provided, the website advertising option would be the best fit report category


08 Apr

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It's not blatantly offensive, especially if you are referring to the American rapper - but it was removed because the number could have inappropriate meanings and you've bolted a subjective drug reference to the end - given you have only had the name a short while we thought it best all round to give you a shot at a less edgy name - you are not muted, only the name reset. If you are really desperate to keep the name I'll put it back as this is a fringe/outlier case.


05 Apr

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Originally posted by Debzin

This is absolutely fantastic, I can't thank you enough. I will PM you right now.

The package has been sent to you today, estimated delivery Thursday 11 April.

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Hey,

I've got you a goodie bag together, I focused on things that you can't actually buy to make them a bit unique and special for you! Just let me know where to send it!

  • Inferno art signed by the dev team
  • Inferno jigsaw
  • Jagex branded drinking cup
  • Jagex branded spinner
  • OS/Jagex pens
  • OS bag
  • OS celebration glass
  • OS Hoodie

swag

Since taking the photo I've also been given a branded lanyard, gym drinking cup and a lovely chrome OS branded bottle opener, I've popped them in the bag as well.

:)

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Originally posted by Debzin

I'd already like to thank you in advance. I'll look into this after I get to sleep a bit. I'm overwhelmed by this all right now, also very overwhelmed about the support I have got from the community. If anyone ever complains about the community, as long as its not a meme, I'll tell them the support I got.

NP - just drop me a message when you have a min and let me know where you want something sent :)

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Amazing story, go community! If you'd like to give your friend something memorable that you can't buy (like signed concept art or similar) I'll absolutely see if I can get something for you to pass on - drop me a message :)


02 Apr

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Hey,

Sorry to hear about what you've been through - lets see if we can help in some small way.

If you drop us a ticket we'll get the PC with associated benefits added to your account as a one off gesture of goodwill. Because the player facing package options have now been updated the actual PC package can't be added by yourself, so you will need to pay for the regular 12 month package and then let us know so we can add the additional benefits manually to your account.

So ...

  1. Add a regular 12 month subscription to your account

  2. Send Ticket

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19 Mar

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Originally posted by BasicFail

I thought Jagex would ban the account if there is an account dispute like in your explanation. Given that Jagex is unable to tell who the actual account creator is and the fact that account sharing is still officially against the rules.

I understand that Jagex doesn't actively enforce the account sharing rule and uses a "common sense approach", but the situation you're describing doesn't seem to fit that criteria.

Maybe I misunderstood what you're saying. It just seemed that Jagex only looks at one specific thing instead of the entire situation.

I'm also hoping that Jagex doesn't just deny the 'fraudulent' appeal from this 'friend' but also cleans up the account if possible. It think it's important to clean up accounts where possible. We shouldn't remain vulnerable and be unlucky if another JMod decides otherwise and accepts a future recovery appeal.

Thanks for your considered post. We do undertake an element of account cleaning in clear cut hijacking situations, but it's also a fine balance between trying to make the account less open to malicious recovery, and making it so that it can never be recovered because of the depth of cleaning. Clear hijackers are always cleaned off, but if an account has (say) 3 passwords and all 3 are known by somebody else (so we clean them), that could make future recovery a real challenge for the genuine owner.

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As most people have identified, this looks like the owner was back in control of the account, but the hijacker had set Authenticator which was still active. It's possible that the person Tweeting was the Auth setter but didn't have the current pass, but less likely because the owner can just set a new pass if they wanted to.

Often a 'hijacking' is actually a share gone wrong, and although I'm not saying that is the case here, it is common for 2 different friends to look quite similar in an account history, especially if they live close to each other.

It's not always really clear if we should remove the Authentication, as sharers often ask for the other sharer to be removed - and as there is no way for us to verify who someone is on Twitter, the advice to remove the Auth would guarantee that the person doing so has access to the active recovery email.

In fairness, although the advice is sound, we could have been a little clearer in our response, so we'll tak...

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11 Mar

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Hey,

We can see suspicious activity on your account, some of which could be attributed to the owner being abroad, and some which indicates hijacking.

To ensure the account is secure from now, we have secured the account and have enabled the option for the owner to do a full recovery, and as part of that process you will have the opportunity to set a new password and security / recovery email.

We have also sent you an inbox message response, in case you don't see this comment.


09 Mar

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Originally posted by MSLsForehead

you can expect a competitive salary

Could you give us an actual salary rather than your opinion on the salary?

No, individual salaries are negotiated on a person by person basis and relate to skills and experience offered by the candidate, within a framework we use to offer a competitive benchmark salary against similar roles in the industry.

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Originally posted by FrustratedLogician

/u/Mod_Stevew, how competitive are developer roles at OSRS team? I work in London in financial machine learning but want to know whether games studios are very popular. We hire around 10% of people invited on-site, many come from local Cambridge university. Do you have similar rates of hiring or are you even more selective?

Can't really speak for dev teams as I only hire for Player Support - we hire about 25% of those invited on site, and those invited in are about 5% of all total candidates from the initial applicant pool.

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Originally posted by not-a-painting

28 day wait is pretty different from other game companies tbf

Well that’s the longest wait time and is only for people who have been banned , the vast majority of which are absolutely correct. We do agree that it is too long though and you will notice we have now halved that response time to 14 days at most

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Jagex Player Support Roles If anyone is genuinely interested :)

The roles are based with the rest of the team at the studio in Cambridge, UK. Our positions always attract a large amount of interest, shortlisted candidates generally match all the requirements in the 'what we need' criteria and the majority of the 'even better if' skill indicators.

We welcome applications from people who meet these requirements, but it's also worth setting expectations that we are he...

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07 Mar

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I've had an account security specialist check this over and they have unlocked the account, you can log in over the original pass again, the account may well get secured again - we could mitigate that a bit if you had Auth set but as you don't I'm afraid a further lock is quite likely.

If you have your device with you in Japan, use that rather than a public PC available locally.