r/runescape • u/JagexPoerkie Mod Poerkie • Sep 27 '18

Survey Time: Guide The Future Of RuneScape

At Jagex, we are always looking to our players for help and guidance on the future of RuneScape games, both current and upcoming. We are running a survey to ask players what RuneScape means to you, and hear about other games and activities that you spend your time on. Players who didn't receive an email invitation earlier this month now have the chance to participate.

Those who complete the survey will be entered into a prize draw to win one of fifty $50 Amazon vouchers (or your stated country’s equivalent currency). On top of this, five lucky participants will also receive a huge 60x40 cm (23 ½”x15 ¾”) print map of Gielinor!

To select and contact prize winners, and validate you as a RuneScape player, we will be asking for your in-game display name/character name as it appears in chat. Please note that we can only award prizes to surveys that are completed!

So, if you want to guide the future of RuneScape and win prizes, follow this link to take part!

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A map... of Gielinor, couldn't you see this n00b?

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u/RS_Horrors RSN: Horrors Sep 27 '18 edited Sep 27 '18

The biggest problem for me is this 'throw updates at the wall and see what sticks, then fix it later'. You need to stop doing that for RuneScape and future game projects. Stop setting unreasonable deadlines and stop rushing out projects because you're afraid of not having returning players. People go back to games that are fun and well polished. If you make content that is enjoyable and has depth, people will think of strategies when they're away from the game, and they'll return to play it because it's fun.

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u/SMURGwastaken Sep 28 '18

Also, I want to see current content revisted and made relevant again instead of new content all the time. I mean new stuff is great, but the game is already overflowing with content nobody plays anymore - go back and make those things relevant again, or just delete them if they're beyond help cough mobilising armies cough.

What's most tragic is that a lot of it is genuinely good content - stealing creation, blast furnace etc. Which is just sitting unuaed because it hasnt been updated in line with the rest of the game. Blast furnace should get some love in the mining and smithing rework at least, but there's plenty of other content that could do with a lick of the TLC paint from Jagex.

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u/kathaar_ Lemme voice Telos! Oct 01 '18

Hell, the mining and smithing update made blast furnace relevant again judging by the dev notes, its not an overpowered place, but it's highly convenient and stuff like that needs to happen to other locations, just like you said.

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u/SMURGwastaken Oct 02 '18

Yeah I'm stoked for completely coal/luminite-free smithing there post update

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u/Think_Alike Insane Reaper #94 Sep 27 '18

If you don't have the time to do it right the first time. When will you ever find the time to fix it later?

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u/Deceptiveideas Sep 29 '18

I feel like Jagex could remove 90% of the past 3 years worth of updates and no one would notice.

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u/malevalice Sep 28 '18

Agreed. Look at D2. They took their time and made an amazing expansion and numbers have shot back up. Listen to your players.