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Opinion: Update quality and QA

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Opinion: Update quality and QA

Opinion: Update quality and QA
Type Opinion
Videos 3 (first 2023-07-30, latest 2026-03-10)
Main source A Plea To Jagex (OSRS)

Opinion: Update quality and QA is an opinion topic that Gnomonkey covers in 3 videos between 2023-07-30 and 2026-03-10. This article is a stub: his statements are grouped by type, repeated ones merged.

Gnomonkey's opinion

  • Gnomonkey says QA over the past year or two has felt non-existent, with every update introducing a game-breaking bug, the most recent being Rainbow Text crashing players' clients.1
  • Gnomonkey says it is now easier to list updates that did not break something than ones that did, and asks at what point this stops being acceptable just because the game is old.2
  • Gnomonkey says he has lost faith in Jagex's reward design, arguing the devs with years of experience should be able to read feedback from the first blog and fix rewards.3
  • Gnomonkey argues Jagex should delay the delve boss if needed rather than release something that might be good enough, saying it should not be released and tweaked later knowing it will be bad.4
  • Gnomonkey says he accepts getting about one major hard update a year, but it should be refined and crafted.5
  • Gnomonkey says Old School has a poll system, and other games do not, because not listening to the community did not work out back in the day when players quit and Old School RuneScape arose.6
  • Gnomonkey says he does not want a bad taste left by an update that has glaring flaws, and that he wants Jagex to strive for perfection rather than just meeting a deadline.7
  • Gnomonkey argues Jagex releases updates with very little QA, with obvious bugs that minor testing would catch, such as impossible Yama contracts.8
  • Gnomonkey says he, who once begged for more updates, now wants Jagex to slow down and release fewer, higher-quality updates with extensive QA so they do not come out buggy and kill hardcores on release.9
  • Gnomonkey says he would prefer more updates that go back and fix old content, like the Summer Sweep, which he lists among his favourite updates of the year.10
  • Gnomonkey says the blog reads as if it comes from shareholders, not the developers, and that devs need more QA staff and support because they have fixed deadlines, so he is not blaming any particular mod.11

Events

  • Gnomonkey lists bugs including the Red X being patched out of the whole game by accident (which players rioted over), unlimited Inferno stamina for about a week, and Tombs of Amascut's thrall clickbox disappearing.12
  • A Hallowed Sepulchre bug let players at 1 HP wearing the Hallowed ring avoid all traps; it was in the game for a week, the record was beaten by over a full minute, no one was banned and the leaderboard was not reverted.13
  • Gnomonkey lists further bugs: Barbarian Assault Poisoning Healers broken for over two months, ranged accuracy broken when beta prayers were released, and a pathing bug that made players run in a boat arc when running diagonally.14
  • Gnomonkey also lists inventories being wiped at the Gauntlet, Hunter being broken on Tombs of Amascut's release, Tumeken's shadow accuracy bugged for months, the Osmumten's fang bugged for a couple of weeks, and Phosani's Nightmare unable to drop rare items for over 12 hours.2
  • Gnomonkey lists dropped projects: Jagex removed HD plug-in support, shut down Project Xanaris, and still has not added region support for places like Asia (Brazil was mentioned but is not yet in the game).15

Revision history

Date Video Change
2026-03-10 Membership Price Increased AGAIN (OSRS) Added: 5 statements (event, opinion)
2025-02-04 VOTE NO to Varlamore Part 3 (OSRS) Added: 5 statements (opinion)
2023-07-30 A Plea To Jagex (OSRS) Page created: 6 statements (event, opinion)
## See also

References

  1. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 13:45 ↩

  2. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 15:10 ↩↩

  3. VOTE NO to Varlamore Part 3 (OSRS), 2025-02-04. ▶ 12:15 ↩

  4. VOTE NO to Varlamore Part 3 (OSRS), 2025-02-04. ▶ 13:37 ↩

  5. VOTE NO to Varlamore Part 3 (OSRS), 2025-02-04. ▶ 14:39 ↩

  6. VOTE NO to Varlamore Part 3 (OSRS), 2025-02-04. ▶ 19:49 ↩

  7. VOTE NO to Varlamore Part 3 (OSRS), 2025-02-04. ▶ 22:50 ↩

  8. Membership Price Increased AGAIN (OSRS), 2026-03-10. ▶ 4:01 ↩

  9. Membership Price Increased AGAIN (OSRS), 2026-03-10. ▶ 15:42 ↩

  10. Membership Price Increased AGAIN (OSRS), 2026-03-10. ▶ 17:54 ↩

  11. Membership Price Increased AGAIN (OSRS), 2026-03-10. ▶ 22:48 ↩

  12. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 14:12 ↩

  13. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 14:24 ↩

  14. A Plea To Jagex (OSRS), 2023-07-30. ▶ 14:44 ↩

  15. Membership Price Increased AGAIN (OSRS), 2026-03-10. ▶ 21:25 ↩

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