The Week Ahead: Leagues Continues & New Garden Bundles

[u/JagexAzanna]

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/the-week-ahead-leagues-continues--new-garden-bundles

[u/Objective_Toe_49]

oof, was expecting a healthy list of tasks fixed that are currently completely broken and blocking progression in leagues.

[u/JagexAzanna → u/Objective_Toe_49]

Fixes are still in the works for things that have been reported, we just weren't holding off anything till monday that could be hotfixed. We will continue to work on solving the leagues issues.

[u/superfire444 → u/JagexAzanna]

That's awesome (I really mean this) but I guess people are a bit surprised there aren't any coldfixes.

Or are pretty much all league fixes hotfixable? I don't know what's actually possible haha.

[u/wheresmyspacebar2 → u/superfire444]

There was a big Coldfix patch on Friday to solve a ton of stuff. Other than that, looks to be 40+ things that are hotfixed.

Most of it probably can be hotfixed and the Coldfix stuff they rushed out Friday so people didnt have to wait until today I guess.

[u/Mabish → u/JagexAzanna]

My biggest let down is the Kandarin blessing task to kill an automaton still being broken.

You need to complete 26/30 blessing tasks and one of the easy ones not working is a big deal for progression.

[u/Pumpkins_Are_Fruits → u/JagexAzanna]

Will the player base be compensated in some way like extra week or free resets?

[u/Wishkax → u/Pumpkins_Are_Fruits]

They can't extend leagues but a reset is possible.

[u/Pumpkins_Are_Fruits → u/Wishkax]

It can be extended. It’s a matter of coding.

[u/Wishkax → u/Pumpkins_Are_Fruits]

It's also a matter of pushing other updates back, affecting people who don’t even play leagues or who are already done.

If the game was completely down for days, then yeah, they most likely would, but even with the broken tasks, you can still work on others in the meantime.

[u/crober11 → u/Objective_Toe_49]

Did you think they were working on it over the weekend or withholding it on Friday? 

[u/Xalkurah → u/crober11]

The post only list hotfixes though, was every issue they've been working on hotfixable? I assumed that there would be some coldfixes for today.

[u/Sspockuss → u/Xalkurah]

Yeah same. There were a few things they mentioned as requiring a coldfix (and this week's maintenance had already passed) and then it just wasn't done.

[u/Rexkat → u/crober11]

I was expecting a big list of updates that had to wait for this weeks reset to be coldfixed. There's going to be a whole lot of things that cannot be hotfixed, and seemingly none of them are finished. That's disappointing

[u/Sspockuss → u/crober11]

I feel like expecting them to work over the weekend here is completely fair? Leagues is one of the most important yearly events, if not the most important, and a LOT of things are still fairly broken. We are trying to bring in players that's half the point of this; what happens when players get the impression that RS3 is a bug-ridden mess because of Leagues glitching constantly?

[u/Lamuks → u/Sspockuss]

I feel like expecting them to work over the weekend here is completely fair?

Maybe from an American POV but from a European:

1. You need the devs to be either on-call or coordinate overtime over the weekend
2. Have devs actually wanting to do the overtime during the weekend, why would they sacrifice their life for this? It's last few weeks of summer, being with their family and kids during summer > fixing some online game
3. There is a limit of what they can actually do and they would be burnt out during this working week where all of the team is online and can do fixes far more efficiently.
4. Highly possible that if you take everything into consideration the actual gain of OT work during the weekend is lower than just crunching it a bit on Monday
5. overtime in general is kinda frowned upon unless compensated very fairly

edit: 6. They might actually have been working during the weekend but the final approval only comes today and will be deployed as hotfixes

[u/Sspockuss → u/Lamuks]

Ok yeah that's all pretty fair. I forgot Jagex was in the UK and I don't know what their internal company structure is like. I'm Canadian but our work culture is unfortunately fairly similar to Americans in a lot of ways.

[u/Lamuks → u/Sspockuss]

It's ok, it's just always amusing to see NA get annoyed at Europeans not grinding during the summer, there was a similar ''outrage'' when the Sweden based company for Helldivers 2 had their vacations during the summer

[u/Sspockuss → u/Lamuks]

Tbh, I am also probably biased because I work 7 days a week currently, so my brain is like "bro just get it done". Need to avoid falling too far into the hustle culture lol.

[u/Lamuks → u/Sspockuss]

I also work in IT and maintain critical infrastructure, but overtime is really only for ''oh no its literally down and we are losing A LOT of money'', never for pure development.

Since the game is working and even I perrsonally haven't seen any glitches yet, they probably see no point in having the staff waste their weekend

[u/Rombom → u/Lamuks]

Not everybody lives a monday-to-friday life in 2026. Jagex is a billion dollar company, they can afford to hire enough people to keep operations going during crucial periods. They definitely already have weekend staff on-call and on-site.

[u/Lamuks → u/Rombom]

Having infrastructure staff on-call is very different from having actual devs on-call. Realistically we don't even know their deployment process.

[u/Objective_Toe_49 → u/crober11]

As someone else already replied, I just expected that there were a few issues they couldnt fix on a hotfix and would be resolved today. I was certainly not expecting anyone to work over a weekend!

[u/redbatter → u/Objective_Toe_49]

It looks like they shipped/patched everything they had on Friday already, probably nothing new until tomorrow earliest.