Wyrom’s Apology for Rumor Woods 2026 Bugs

RUMOR WOODS: PM Wyrom left an apology for the Rumor Woods bugs. We’re not going to put words into his mouth by trying to summarize it. Here’s the full post:

Text of Discord Post follows:

PM Wyrom
Rumor Woods – Bugs
on 28 Apr 2026 at 12:21 PM
from the Official GemStoneIV Discord
on #event-announcements channel

I’d like to apologize for some of the bugs that got into the games over the course of Rumor Woods. We expanded our coverage of getting involved for staff, and we grew a bit bigger than expected. This caused our testing phase to get spread a bit thin. On top of that, we had some staff unavailable who are usually around to help spot some issues and a lot of engine/AWS migrations updates happening that impeded on our workflow.

A pain point with GemStone is trying something new or building out a system that hasn’t been done before. The game can be buckled and bent with some clever coding tricks, but sometimes we run into unforeseen issues. There are a lot of limitations with our systems, but we’ve been trying to bring a lot of new and refreshed content out there. This is also why for years any sort of development felt stagnant decades ago. We removed a lot of the guardrails that prevented us to push innovative things out for the game.

We’re working on getting everything resolved and remedying where we fell short this Rumor Woods so it doesn’t happen again.
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