We make Old School RuneScape, and we're all working from home. Ask us anything!

Have there been loads more people playing recently with all the quarintined people?

Big increase. It's great that we can help make so many people happy at this weird time!

Are you all working from home or "working" from home and playing runescape?

Yes

What’s your all time favorite track? RS is LOADED with bangers. Mudskipper Melody for me.

I love 'Riverside', it reminds me of Dragonball!

Where in Gielinor would each of you choose to stave off the apocalypse, and why?

I'd go to the Fisher Realm. Presumably it'd be safe from the apocalypse and you can grow food!

I always thought it was a great place. Any plans to expand on it?

There's nothing in the works, but I wouldn't mind a new opportunity to fill the game with more Monty Python gags!

Who is having the worst time working at home?

What can Jagex learn from this situation? What kind of tasks are really hard to do at home?

I can't say who is having the worst time, I'm hopeful we're all handling it well, we're constantly in touch!

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I'm personally enjoying it, I'm not having to commute for 2-3 hours each day!

Jagex have been nothing short of amazing at facilitating this for us, my work is basically unaffected so far.

What inspired you to recreate the old runescape? How did you start?

A lot of players weren't happy with some of RuneScape's changes, and that led to a huge community petition. Jagex then polled whether we should bring back an older version - the webpage is still live here! http://services.runescape.com/m=poll/rs2007-server

Who is your favourite ex-jmod and why is it mod wolf?

Mod Ayiza is still a close friend of mine.

I added this separately as not sure you would all be comfortable answering it.

How do you feel career prospects are at Jagex? It is no secret a large number of jmods have left especially with the low salary to skills the company seems to offer.

What would you try to say to someone working in London on a more "boring" but career orientated path in tech to convince them to move to Cambridge.

Runescript seems unappealing to pick up, salaries seem low and glassdoors paints a poor picture of management.

I've found great career prospects at Jagex. Staff turnover, especially in the games industry, is high and that's normal. What's different about Jagex is how public-facing we are, so you'd actually notice us leaving.

You don't need to move to Cambridge, you can juggle working remotely and commuting (presumably more so in the future).

I've no complaints about my salary, and I'd always recommend taking glassdoor reviews with a pinch of salt.

Who are your individual favourite content creators on youtube/twitch?

J1mmy, Gunschilli, and 25 buttholes immediately spring to mind!

Can I get a job? I’d love to move to London (USA citizen, will do anything to move), and I love RuneScape and it’s community.

Sr WebDev with 5 years experience in websites at scale. General programming 8 years.

Other than that, what keyboards do you use as a daily driver? I’m partial to the hhkb!

Take a look and see if anything catches your eye! We always want to make new friends :)

https://jobs.lever.co/jagex

Other than working from home, has Jagex implemented any additional precautions to protecting their employees?

Also, have you considered providing any additional educational information to your players / consumers to protect themselves such as with in game messages, announcements, etc?

Lots! We implemented self-quarantine guidelines a number of weeks back and we increased the level of cleaning around the studio.

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We'll continue to reiterate expert health advice, and our in-game news messaging links to this post: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/an-update-for-our-community?oldschool=1.

Do you guys think other games can successfully implement OS versions like RS did, with continuous content updates? Last year we saw wow classic, and a lot of OSRS was mentioned, but so far they didn't bring any new content.

I do think so, but it's worth noting that these types of classic versions (OSRS/WoW Classic) only really blossom when there's a level of disillusion with a game's playerbase. I guess the ideal scenario would be a level of consistency to keep the trust and love of a game's playerbase?

I've seen some WAR and SWG private servers thriving. I know LOTRO are doing great things with their staggered-release servers.

Do you guys have any update on the proposed clan changes yet?

We shared a bit of progress last week here: https://secure.runescape.com/m=news/gielinor-gazette-march-2020?oldschool=1#

Clans: The core engine work to introduce basic clan functionality is well underway. In fact, Mod Boko just managed to create the first Old School clan (by clan... it's just a clan profile right now, but it’s a start!). Once the core porting of the system is complete, content development will begin.