, it got better and from the 3rd month I was back up to full speed
That is the Best OSRS Gold site goal. The last 3 months have been a manifestation of the impact to productivity that working from home has had on the group, as people work around their home lives – in under perfect setups, handling childcare or homeschooling, the mental stresses of working where you live etc. I can speak to my experience, moving half way round the world for this work only 6 months past, to say how hard it is to get this done by home vs the studio.
In other words, sticking to the existing plans we had just would not work for us as developers or you as players – the gaps on those larger parts of articles would be far bigger than anyone would like to see. Instead, the team took the initiative and accommodated our strategy. What this new approach does is decrease the chance of significant gaps between additive material, with a goal of delivering on a monthly cadence as soon as we can. The team really are throwing themselves in this particular challenge and working amazingly hard to make that occur. Honestly, I am pretty enthusiastic about the strategies as a player.
This came across as very PR”The group are throwing themselves in this challenge”. We all know things have influenced. However, the explanation does not hold up for everything. At the interval that Archaeology and PVM heartbeat were getting ready for launch, there should have been other people working on something since the start of the year which many would have expected to be getting prepared for launch a month or two later archaeology, but there has not. For me and then working from home happened I got next to nothing done for your month due to technical problems.
However, it got better and from the 3rd month I was back up to full speed, maybe even more effective than working in the office since there wasn’t any annoying encounters and beurocracy taking up time. So after 3 months of working at home, there’s one upgrade almost ready. There is still something incorrect. Some individuals will get it worse than others because of family etc. But by this stage problems should be sorted out. Jagex should be supplying the essential equipment to employees if this really is a long term thing, to perform their job. When it comes to working from your home, the games and technology business ought to be one of the best suited sectors.
Adapting the approach to the decreased capacity sounds like this daily update item is temporary till you are able to work from the office again? Or can it be a permanent thing to handle workload? Which are”existing plans”? It might have been nice to know these before the plans were shelved. Are these gaps a 3/6/12 month gaps between? And by changing programs does this mean doing updates/expansions that are huge?
Honestly, I am fine with that if it did sound a little PR’y since they’re throwing themselves to be fair. A staff actively look to react and find opportunity in a situation that impacts production output is very uncommon in my own experience. It would have been simpler from a development perspective to stay the path and only accept the slower delivery cadence – and cheap OSRS gold many teams would pick that option and toss out the COVID excuse.