Are we? Didn't they not too long ago mention having extra storages is too heavy on the backend? It was one of the reasons they weren't going to add a seed storage. I might be misremembering stuff though.
You sure are
Still gutted we’re not going back to Crandor with Archaeology.
What a quality idea! Love this
I mean, I disagree.
- Trolls have their own naming scheme.
- TzHaar have their own naming scheme.
- Petes have their own naming scheme.
- Numerous NPCs like Guards, Man, Women, etc are generic.
- Knights have their own naming scheme.
I don't get why Ali was specifically targeted and why it was done in a forced manner.
None of the above are real-world corollaries. Pollnivneach absolutely is, and that’s where the issue lies for me. Mod Rowley has done a fantastic job of pulling the deep desert into more uniquely fantastical and mythological areas, but the early design of the desert is very real world
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I’m sure there is a way of making the quest correct without wholesale remaking it from the ground up! I do absolutely agree that the plot should make sense
Just want to chirp in and say that I believe this change was for the better. As you say, the Ali joke was lazy (or as I would rather put it: very cheap). It groups everyone together and isn't especially fun either in my opinion.
If it only took a small amount of resources to change then I can't see the problem with this.
I would however suggest updating the Feud quest to reflect and go with this change, if so hasn't been done already. The lore is, as we both definitely agree on, a very important part of RuneScape.
Agree with you completely.
It doesn't work at all, that should have been addressed before this change was pushed out. The entire point of the quest is that you were given no direction on who you had to talk to. Now that the confusion aspect isn't there, the entire joke is lost.
I’m at a disadvantage as I haven’t played the changes, but I know there were conversations about making the changes fit. I’m eager to play myself, as I’m not sure many people have managed to play the revised Feud here either. If the plot doesn’t work, it needs to change, and if the plot wasn’t considered then that is poor forethought
Do you plan to reconcile the change with the plot of the quest?
If the plot doesn’t work, then that’s a separate issue and should be addressed
Personally, I feel strongly that this was a needed change, and one we should have made some time ago. I’m thankful to the team who devved this.
I’m by no means perfectly placed to comment on this, but I still hold a belief that we, and so many other games, can do a much better job of representing different cultures in our games. We want to be better and are making steps to be better. Too often, cultures are demonised, stereotyped or made faceless, and it’s the latter category which Pollnivneach skirts too close to. The Ali joke denies the town members the rights to individual character, effectively making them walking jokes. There is little inclusivity in a joke that lumps together a culture and slaps on a single label, particularly when there is weak representation outside of that label. To me, it feels like a joke that a team of people would make about others who aren’t them, and they have little information about, and that is what it was.
On a creative level, I also find it a pre...
Read moreHey JD,
Cheers for the response, and good to hear it’s coming very soon.
Is there going to be a read only version posted on the website alongside this?
Some general feedback to Jagex from a 15 year vet: FUCK MTX for ruining an otherwise fantastic game, but big thanks to all the effort you guys put in on stuff that isn’t MTX related.
There will be a read-only version, but a little time after the livestream
will this be a definitive arch release date or just more guessing games for the playerbase about when arch will be released?
Definitive!
I know you may not be able to answer this, but could you at least reassure us that Archaeology is still slated for the first quarter of 2020? If you can't say, understandable.
I can’t, sorry.
Thank you for taking the time to answer all these questions on Reddit. I greatly appreciate it.
Thanks Rubic.
If a stream is called q and a, I would appreciate it if questions were being answered in the chat. Otherwise please market the stream as something else. Calling this stream the mining rereblance discussion would’ve helped set better expectations. Or another stream where you prove to us content is actually tested before release would be good, because the answer, “the rerebalance to mining cannot come until tested” is disheartening since the first rebalance felt as if no one checked how awful the mining would be.
Another stream idea: show us or tell us about other content coming. Right now confidence is low because nothing is coming and archaeology is delayed without anything else said other then “wait”.
A stream dedicated to the roadmap would be good too. Roadmaps don’t have to have exact dates for everything, this would allow a soft time to look forward to for Archeology and restore some confidence that other updates are actually coming.
A data stream would be fun again, as well, especially one for the new dinos hunted.
Another stream discussing the additions or changes to herblore 120 and farming 120 to get player feedback would be good too.
P.S. Sorry if anything I said sounds aggressive or agitated. My goal here is constructive criticism, and if anything else came out, I’m sorry.
I honestly feel that the Q&A answered a lot of player questions (probably weighted a little too much towards the Reddit questions), it just didn’t answer the massive single question that we are still not ready to answer.
Regardless, it’s clear that calling it a Q&A when you don’t answer the central question is just irritating, so we’ll be mindful of that next time.
We aren’t ready for a roadmap livestream yet, otherwise I would be all over that! I would love to give that to you. A data stream is also an incredible amount of work, more than you’d expect (we actually had to cancel Runefest talks on that subject for exactly that reason), but we would love to do more of them.
I take on board your general feedback that non-Q&A streams are valued. I remember when people were crying out for more Q&A streams, so I suspect we have swung the other way
Read moreOkay but what about limiting chat to 3 month accounts?
I have no idea about that. We had a different team behind the cameras today, thanks to Mod Jon’s holiday, so this might have been an oversight
I love you both
Not sure what I’ve done to deserve that, but I will take it
Thank you for responding.
I personally understand not being able to give an exact date, but players want communication regardless. If you can't give us an ETA, an ETA for the ETA is better than nothing at all.
As for canceling livestreams due to a lack of information. I don't get this. OSRS literally has streams every week despite not producing the same degree of content as you guys do. Why is something that's so simple for them seemingly really difficult for the RS team? Not even stream needs to be a showcase of super mega awesome content.
I think something like Mod Jack where he explained the decision making behind their changes is a great example. It create discussions and sparks ideas.
We can achieve a livestream every week, that’s not the issue for us. The issue is that a livestream without the one glaring piece of information everyone wants can be inflammatory and - to many people - makes the livestream completely worthless.
I agree with you though, I would prefer us to keep talking and doing other things like the Mod Jack bit.
We will take note that acknowledging Archaeology is better than not. We tried acknowledging it in previous live-streams, which didn’t go well, but it feels more positive to do so.
What about all the other updates that are being planned. It looks like everyone is working on Arch and the rest of the updates are still in design phase. Are we getting no other updates?
The same rule that is being applied to Archaeology - that we should only talk about things when we have supreme confidence in them, and have a release date planned - are being applied to all updates. It’s something that Mod Warden has instilled in us, and it will mean a more confident announce and better updates. We need to iron out the kinks about how we reassure you that things are coming, and we will have things to say very, very soon
Might be in the minority but I'm ok with Archeology taking as long as it needs to and being delayed.
I don't want game developers to crunch for content. Hearing horror stories at other studios like Epic Games, Rockstar, Treyarch, I can't wish that on someone for video game content.
I will be honest with you, I value a lack of crunch so so highly. Jagex is a real exception in the games industry about minimising crunch, and I love that aspect of working here.
Thank you for the kind words about Arch too!
Thank you, LoreMaster.
EDIT: I love you too. <3 Even though we still don't have RoP ;)
Skree!
I can't speak for everyone but previous streams didn't go well because we had no ETA for Archaeology AND no ETA for anything else. Players had nothing to look forward to or when to expect something.
Off the back of a year where we had months with no updates I'm sure you can see how demotivating it is to some players when it's happening yet again. This could be an issue the stems from the Road Map. If it is, I highly recommend more frequent small/medium updates over infrequent large updates.
Of course, having sparse information is never going to feel good. All I can offer is reassurance that this won’t be the state forever, or for very long at all. It’s taken me a while to adjust myself, because my instinct is to talk a lot and often. I would also like to say that the time spent on Archaeology absolutely can be seen in game. I don’t want to overhype unnecessarily, but it’s got so much care in it.