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TL;DR: The new Lead CM introduces themselves and wants to hear from you about what we can do to help make the RuneScape community better.
As you read through this, please ask yourself: “what do I want the RuneScape Community to be like?”
Hi everyone, I'm the new Lead Community Manager: Mod Anvil. I joined Jagex in December and have spent my first few weeks observing, listening and generally supporting the teams. I briefly popped up a couple weeks ago, but it's high time I got properly stuck in, so here I am. Hello! :wave:
Some credentials first - RuneMetrics reliably informed me that I have spent well over 140 of my earth days absorbed in RuneScape.
That translates into a character with a total skill level of around 2380 and two skills that are currently each around 10k off achieving level 99 (is anyone up for a dual 99 party?). A lot of those days were spent during the early 2000's one-click-at-a-time, but I ended my break last year and have returned to the game as much in love with it as before.
While I have a good grasp of a lot of the game, there are still areas where I have much to explore and learn, both from the team but also from the community. Please forgive my occasional ignorance on a particularly complex skilling technique - I may need to ask for a bit of clarification every now and then if it comes up in discussion.
Apart from that, I've still got a few dozen quests to catch up on, and my knowledge of end-game PvMing is something I need to spend a lot of time with to get a good grasp of it. That, and the Invention skill...!
In the more professional world, I've arrived at Jagex after a decade spent community managing at Square Enix. That's a fancy way of saying I've had a lot of opportunities to make a lot of mistakes and hopefully learn from them. If you'd like to meet me in person or grill me on any topics:
Come say hello! (Just in case you can't make it: I'd like to do scheduled direct contact sessions like the above more often)
What follows is my own personal view on things, formed both as a player and as a JMod, but I would love to hear your spicy takes on what we should be looking to improve or change.
Overall, I know there already is a tremendous amount of work, discussion and engagement going on, and there is a genuine desire running throughout the Jagex team to involve the community more and more.
However, keeping track of what is happening or being said day to day, let alone week to week or month to month is quite hard and feels inconsistent. Quite often the community is being surprised with feedback requests or updates as they happen. At other times, community members have missed out on key discussions that happened somewhat "off-screen" (e.g. in a Twitch stream or a Discord chat).
That's problematic because:
Our new “Month Ahead” format is our team’s first attempt at rectifying that, but I have no doubt that we’ll be refining, improving and adding to that format over time, and it is likely a problem we have to keep reminding ourselves about. Let's see how it goes!
Beyond that, I have so many more THOUGHTS, but I don’t want to make this overly long, so here’s a quick list of things I’m thinking about (in no particular order):
Those are just some initial thought starters... Now it’s your turn! Let me know your thoughts on the RuneScape community and let's talk about them! You can do that in this Reddit gather thread.
Hopefully I'll get a chance to catch up with some of you in person in the coming days - and if not, have a lovely week and look forward to Mod Ryan and Breezy sharing the vision for RuneScape's game design in the coming days.