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Opinion: Developer communication and polls

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Opinion: Developer communication and polls

Opinion: Developer communication and polls
Type Opinion
Videos 2 (first 2025-05-09, latest 2025-05-09)
Main source Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS)

Opinion: Developer communication and polls is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 2 videos on 2025-05-09. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Contents

Tips

  • Gnomonkey urges viewers to give constructive feedback to Jagex through comments, talking with mods and joining their Discords, but not to make personal attacks against Jmods, and calls Goblin an amazing community manager.1

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says tradable contracts will never be removed from the market once content releases, so unlike drop rates the system cannot be tweaked easily and should have been communicated and decided early.2
  • Gnomonkey says he had heard rumors of this plan, including that Arcane had mentioned it at Rinfest, but nothing was written down, and the initial blog should have covered it.3
  • Gnomonkey credits Mod Goblin for putting the info out and says mistakes were made all around.3
  • Gnomonkey asks why the fact that Yama contracts are tradable drops was not in any Yama blog, saying whether something is tradable is a big enough detail to belong in a poll.4
  • Gnomonkey says that because contracts are tied to the market, a bad system cannot easily be fixed after release without compensating players, removing items from banks and the Grand Exchange.5
  • Gnomonkey says Jagex's poll system exists to prevent major accidents that cannot be fixed, and lack of communication leads to bad decisions.6
  • Gnomonkey says that omitting that contracts are tradable and how they work in a duo likely would have affected people's yes/no votes on the boss, and that leaving it out feels scummy, like sneaking it in.7
  • Gnomonkey says there is a line between mystery, which is fine, and basic information the community should give input on, such as whether a drop is tradable, whether both duo players need one, and how many types exist.7
  • Gnomonkey wants Jagex to be transparent and let players vote on systems, especially those tied into the market where nothing can be fixed once something is on the Grand Exchange.8

Events

  • Mod Goblin said he had replied in Twitch chat believing the contract details had already been covered in a blog, called it a misstep, and said things are explained in more detail in the post for the following week.9

Revision history

Date Video Change
2025-05-09 Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS) Added: 8 statements (event, opinion, tip)
2025-05-09 Yama Contracts: Missed the Mark (OSRS) Page created: 3 statements (opinion)
## See also

References

  1. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 23:16 ↩

  2. Yama Contracts: Missed the Mark (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 18:54 ↩

  3. Yama Contracts: Missed the Mark (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 20:01 ↩↩

  4. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 15:56 ↩

  5. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 16:56 ↩

  6. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 17:54 ↩

  7. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 19:23 ↩↩

  8. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 21:59 ↩

  9. Problem with Yama Contracts and Awakeners' Orbs (OSRS), 2025-05-09. ▶ 14:59 ↩

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