1st - 7th October Player Support Stats

Hello!

Here in Player Support we want to be as transparent as possible, which is why we share our department stats with the community on a now weekly basis. 

We'll share everything from incoming tickets to player satisfaction scores, bot bans and more. 

• Player Contacts

  We received a total of 15,707 tickets and contacts this week, with the majority of contact regarding account help issues. This figure does not include abuse reports. Here's the breakdown:

   

  Work type	Volume
  Support tickets	2,228
  Account recovery appeals	4,663
  Offensive names	3,056
  Offence appeals	84
  Tweets	893
  Ban appeals received	4,783

   

  When we process an offensive name report, we either take no action, or remove it for being offensive or impersonating a staff member. Here's the breakdown of action we took:

   

  Action taken	Volume
  No action taken	2,748
  Offensive	308
  Staff impersonation	0

   

  We also take a variety of actions against offence appeals, depending on if the account was hijacked, or if the offence was issued correctly. Here's what we did for the 84 offence appeals we processed:

   

  Action taken	Volume
  Grant Appeal	41
  Deny Appeal	43
  Grant + Secure account	0

   

  With every contact we receive it's important we respond to you quickly, and we strive to reply to all players within 48 hours. Here's how we did this week:

   

  Time taken	% of contacts
  1 hour	22%
  12 hours	72%
  24 hours	87%
  48 hours	96%

   

  Resolving your issue in our first response is a key measure of success too - and while it won't always be possible, it's something we work hard to achieve. Here's the breakdown:

   

  # replies	% of contacts
  1	74%
  2	19%
  3+	7%

  As you can see we resolved around 3/4 of all issues in just one reply, but we continue to work hard to reduce the number of 3+ reply contacts. We review these contacts regularly, to see why the ticket required 3 or more responses from Jagex to resolve.

   

  Player satisfaction is also key to measuring how satisfied you are with the service we offer. At the end of every contact, we provide players the opportunity to fill out a quick survey about their experience.

   

  This week 82% of players were satisfied with the service they received, leaving 18% unsatisfied. We investigate all unsatisfied contacts to understand if there was anything we could have done differently, but we find the majority are from cases of banned or hijacked accounts. 

   

• Support Centre

  We also measure a lot of data about the Support Centre, including overall views, searches & our most viewed pages. Here's a snapshot of what this week had in store for us...

   

  - 100,984 visited the Support Centre looking for answers to their questions.

  - 7,661 players used the search feature to find what they were looking for.

   

  Here's the breakdown of the top views:

   

  Page	Views
  Account bans	15,291
  My account is locked	7,062
  OSRS Mobile FAQ	5,607

   

  ...and here's the searches:

   

  Term	Searches
  'hacked'	321
  'contact'	183
  'banned'	148

   

  We use this data to help make improvements to our Support Centre, and have dedicated Player Support Mods who specialise in optimising help articles and the overall experience. You can also use the thumbs up & down at the bottom of each article to let us know if you found the information helpful or not.

• Anti-Cheating Bans

  Keeping your game free of cheats is a top priority for the Investigations into the Community team (ICU), so here's how many accounts we've banned for cheating this week. Please remember - your reports are really useful, so please do flag suspected bots in game to us!

   

  Game	Temp Ban	Perm Ban
  RuneScape	620	13,859
  Old School	419	42,029
  Total	1,039	55,888

   

  Thank you for taking the time to check out this weeks Player Support stats - see you next week!