Uh... it didn't take away any game development at all. The development team isn't part of the Marketing / Community Management Teams. The only thing the developers did was show up to the actual event to take part in the insider sessions. Next time try not making stuff up. Exactly - they're still away from Jagex HQ, away from programming and making the game. Of all people Mercifull would know because he was actually there. Ya, developers were away from Jagex HQ. For one day. On a weekend. Are you guys trying to be braindead? Planning was done by the marketing and community management teams. I don't care if Hitler was there, programmers have nothing to do with RuneFest. The fact that we got content on the week of RuneFest should already show you this. Just got home a couple of hours ago, and finally got the time to look for some pics and videos. I was shocked to see all the griping and unhappiness about the participation by all workers from Jagex. The event was imo AWESOME. I can not describe the fantastic atmosphere of all the co-workers from Jagex pulling together to create and pull off this day. The very act of working together for a goal like this is fantastic team-building in itself. To grudge that one group or another from the staff should not participate because it would take precious mins and possibly days from their work to make the game is rediculous. It is also incredibly narrow-minded to assume that only programmers are important in producing new material. The programmers would get nowhere without the content developers, the graphics team, the audio...and much more. As to the complaining, I say "Just be quiet and quit complaining!" (I would say it in rougher language, but don't dare). Runefest for me was a chance to meet all sorts of workers at Jagex and really see what the company was like. It was also a chance to meet my friends from CoE irl...which was awesome! It was a chance to learn a lot, meet people, and have fun....enough said, I am more than satisfied with the whole thing (other than the food which was too expensive and bad quality imo). I like how you didn't understand the argument at all and raised completely irrelevant points. Maybe you didn't understand the part of my post here: To grudge that one group or another from the staff should not participate because it would take precious mins and possibly days from their work to make the game is rediculous. This actually is referring to how silly it is to not want workers to take time from developing game for an event like RuneFest. I admit most of my rant was possibly not to the point, but feelings were running strong after the amazing experience that RuneFest was. To make my point entirely clear: I do not believe that the time spent away from developing new content was excessive, and I do not feel that Jagex did any wrong in prioritizing the time employees spent on RuneFest. I hope you understand my point now.