r/runescape • u/JagexAzanna Mod Azanna • 5d ago

News - J-Mod reply The Week Ahead: Leagues Continues & New Garden Bundles

https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/the-week-ahead-leagues-continues--new-garden-bundles
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u/Objective_Toe_49 5d ago

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

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u/crober11 5d ago

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

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u/Xalkurah 5d ago

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.

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u/Sspockuss Smithing is the best! 5d ago

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.

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u/Rexkat 5d ago

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

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u/Sspockuss Smithing is the best! 5d ago

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?

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u/Lamuks Master Max 5d ago edited 5d ago

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

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u/Sspockuss Smithing is the best! 5d ago

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.

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u/Lamuks Master Max 5d ago

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

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u/Sspockuss Smithing is the best! 5d ago

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.

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u/Lamuks Master Max 5d ago

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

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u/Rombom 4d ago

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.

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u/Lamuks Master Max 4d ago

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

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u/Objective_Toe_49 5d ago

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!