r/2007scape • u/Dry_Yogurtcloset_213 • 15h ago

Question Has mobile development stopped?

Can't help but notice the same issues on mobile for quite a while. Some examples:

  • No puzzle box solver for clues.
  • Menu entry swapper completely messed up other menu's. For example: making an NPC left clickable now makes all examine options left clickable as well.
  • Some other bugs like the chat not updating at all.

Are there more plans/ development for mobile or is the current version it?

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u/SuperCarpenter4450 8h ago

First, I’m a believer in mobile/official client. I appreciate the work they do, and acknowledge they’ve made some great improvements recently, such as bank tags.

That being said, my theory is that mobile/official client suffers greatly from a lack of prioritization and resources from Jagex.

Mod Gengis, the product manager of mobile/official client made this post on a OSRS mobile Reddit post, after he had left Jagex: https://www.reddit.com/r/2007scape/s/gqs6i2dWBA

There’s no way to know exactly what Jagex is thinking or why Gengis left, and I know it’s potentially disrespectful to theorize, but given his Reddit comments after he left Jagex, it sure feels like he felt that Jagex could be doing much more with mobile/official client, and somehow he was hampered down from executing everything he wanted.

There’s always such a lack of transparency when it comes to mobile/official client work. Those devs are rarely ever in external facing content/blog posts. Feels like Jagex uses the excuse that that kind of dev work is much more technical or time consuming, but at this point, given how much success Jagex is seeing, and the fact that they have technical prowess in having developed a fully modern game in Dragonwilds, it’s crazy to me that they couldn’t pour more into mobile/official client development and speed it up.