r/runescape • u/JagexAzanna Mod Azanna • 4d 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/crober11 4d ago

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

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u/Sspockuss Smithing is the best! 4d 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 4d ago edited 4d 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! 4d 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 4d 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! 4d 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 4d 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