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Impatience

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Sharp-shin said :

Eh? So according to this logic, if the ninja team did a quest for example, it'd be categorized as a patch note rather than an actual game update? That makes no sense; the update/patch defines itself, not who made it.

Uh? The ninja team doesn't make quests. Any and all changes to quests have in fact been classed as patch notes, though. So, yes?

If a member of the ninja team wanted to work on a quest, they'd be put into another team and said member would then be replaced by adding someone else to the ninja team.

Despite appearances, this is still a professional business, people don't just work on what they want at any time, they work on what their team is assigned. And yes, that makes perfect sense.

I can't make heads nor tails out of your last sentence btw.

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Some people not knowing some of the effects doesn't mean that the effects did not exist, and thus they are old content

Strawman. Maybe some people had all potential potion effects memorized, but that wasn't at all the point of my post. The means to view these effects in-game is completely new.

I agreed with everything else you said, I was just hoping to share some insight into why this addition wouldn't be considered as a patch note, if only by Jagex. Whether to listen or not is up to you.

02-Nov-2018 20:32:11 - Last edited on 02-Nov-2018 20:32:52 by Impatience

Steelweaver

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Jagex: "Hey, since we're making RuneScape a franchise, lets get some notable people into our game that can be the face! Like Sally, the rather large, rather ambiguous person who owns the elder artifact, the Needle!"

Also Jagex: "Nobody likes these signature heroes, lets kill them all off before we give them a single bit of backstory!"

Yeah, it be like that tho.
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02-Nov-2018 21:02:50

Cinderlynn
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Cinderlynn

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[quote id=294-295-392-66057125-22-343708313]Jagex: "Hey, since we're making RuneScape a franchise, lets get some notable people into our game that can be the face! Like Sally, the rather large, rather ambiguous person who owns the elder artifact, the Needle!" Also Jagex: "Nobody likes these signature heroes, lets kill them all off before we give them a single bit of backstory! What's the problem with the signature heroes it's not like they get significant stories of their ! I think the last one was xenia part in nomad's elegy! also I've looked at the concept art I'm fairly certain that gail in the concept art for the needle skips is Sally

02-Nov-2018 21:58:44 - Last edited on 02-Nov-2018 21:59:56 by Cinderlynn

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Cinderlynn

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Also xenia, ariane, and Ozan already have a backstory! Supposedly the no info on raptor was intentional to add to the mystery of him! Also until the wand story (centaur) is concluded Jagex is unlikely to kill Sir Owen (again)! And Ozan will probably be around till at least the end of the desert series! They technically did get rid of Linza but she's now part of the barrows game so also unlikely to be removed! technically as long as long as you've at least done heart of xenia is gone from game as is sir owen after death of chivalry at least for now! The Signature heroes don't actually get used that often in game so I don't understand your issue with them is I guess what I'm trying to say!

02-Nov-2018 22:03:50 - Last edited on 02-Nov-2018 22:30:32 by Cinderlynn

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Cinderlynn said :
Also xenia, ariane, and Ozan already have a backstory! Supposedly the no info on raptor was intentional to add to the mystery of him! Also until the wand story (centaur) is concluded Jagex is unlikely to kill Sir Owen (again)!

My point is that out of the seven signature heroes, two were "killed off" (Linza being turned into a wight and still not having a backstory and Xenia gets murdered by Ariane because she... went crazy? even though she apparently adventured with the Wise Old Man, Harrallak and Shanomi in the Warriors Guild, and even with Radimus Erkle and eventually founded the Warriors, Champions, and Legends Guilds with him) one is intentionally given no backstory just for the purpose of keeping him interesting (it does, admittedly!), and one is our own player character.
The other three, one gets tossed into the Desert quests (smartly and fittingly so, so far!), another gets one quest (kept at starter level and given terrible combat scaling) and postponed indefinitely, and the third gets a revamp of an old style quest, a semi-fleshed out backstory, never to be seen from again until she, for some reason, now has to kill the aforementioned Xenia, and promptly forgotten about again.

My point is that they're meant to be the poster children of RuneScape but they haven't interwoven their own stories into the main narrative(s) in any meaningful way.

And honestly, kinda hurts. I like them as characters.
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02-Nov-2018 22:30:58

Cinderlynn
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Killed xenia just because she went crazy? I don't think you read the quest's dialogue thoroughly! Not characters fault that people are more interested in the gods dragonkin then continuing the Sir Owen/centaur story! We got some of xenia's story in nomad's elegy! you answered your own question about the Raptor! Also you said no one like's the signature heroes yet you just said you like them as characters! on a partial xenia note I'd like to know more about what happened to Achiettes parents! and the scailing and novice quest was Jagex's idea during the rework to keep the quest open to everyone and not lock it behind other quests! The quest it replaced occurred in the 5th age (gods banished from Gielinor) the current one is set in the 6th age! Owen's story was fleshed out but except for his time with the knights none it affects the current game! I do agree that the Linza thing stinks though since she's a wight now not much can be done about it probably since except for isolated bits Jagex doesn't really want to do time travelling!

02-Nov-2018 22:41:17 - Last edited on 02-Nov-2018 23:05:26 by Cinderlynn

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