the_web_dev

Why on earth is it a full time contract position? At least in the US that means you're cutting ~40% of your paycheck to taxes and receive vastly fewer protections than being an actual employee. You're often treated differently by staff as well... with even less job security.

It's pretty standard to bill double as a contractor to deal with the extra overhead, something tells me Jagex is not paying double.

Fixed term employees get full pay and benefits just like 'Full Time' members of staff. It is simply a temporary position.

the_web_dev

Why on earth is it a full time contract position? At least in the US that means you're cutting ~40% of your paycheck to taxes and receive vastly fewer protections than being an actual employee. You're often treated differently by staff as well... with even less job security.

It's pretty standard to bill double as a contractor to deal with the extra overhead, something tells me Jagex is not paying double.

Fixed term employees get full pay and benefits just like 'Full Time' members of staff. It is simply a temporary position.

seanm826

Why is it temporary? Runescape has had botting problems since 2001. You need more than one full time staff member to handle the tens of thousands of suicide bots and various other bots that this game sees daily.

If you cut anti-cheating staff the bots will just flare up until this subreddit complains again. Jagex made over 50 million pounds of profit last year and over 100 in revenue, it baffles me how stingy they are with employees.

There's 7 members of the team who work across both RS and OSRS.

seanm826

Why is it temporary? Runescape has had botting problems since 2001. You need more than one full time staff member to handle the tens of thousands of suicide bots and various other bots that this game sees daily.

If you cut anti-cheating staff the bots will just flare up until this subreddit complains again. Jagex made over 50 million pounds of profit last year and over 100 in revenue, it baffles me how stingy they are with employees.

There's 7 members of the team who work across both RS and OSRS.

Synli

You're preaching to the wrong crowd. The people that make these levels of decisions don't roam Reddit, or even help create the game. I imagine every dev/artist/QA/etc (on both OSRS and RS3) would want to get rid of bots, but knows that their higher ups only want X anti-cheating specialists per game.

Throwing more people at the problem won't solve it, there's lots of other limitations which are also being worked on.

Synli

You're preaching to the wrong crowd. The people that make these levels of decisions don't roam Reddit, or even help create the game. I imagine every dev/artist/QA/etc (on both OSRS and RS3) would want to get rid of bots, but knows that their higher ups only want X anti-cheating specialists per game.

Throwing more people at the problem won't solve it, there's lots of other limitations which are also being worked on.