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    Default Andrew sells Jagex; has been sold to a US based company.

    Well it appears that Andrew has indeed sold Jagex and Runescape included to a company based in New York called 'US firm Insight Venture Partners'.

    I guess this explains the recent updates. Well, money is king.

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    Insight Venture Partners have a portfolio of lots of random stuff, doubt they care what occurs inside the game. I mean, these guys own part of twitter.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Deni_mulic View Post
    Insight Venture Partners have a portfolio of lots of random stuff, doubt they care what occurs inside the game. I mean, these guys own part of twitter.
    Man if you own part of twitter why would you ruin a game for a bunch of teenagers...God these corporate money whores.
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    I wonder how this will go :s
    lukas76 here cooking up another evil plan!

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    This will go into a F2P market style?

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    Aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahahaahha I can't get enough of this. Jagex needs money, and they are doing anything and everything they can in order to 'keep the game going', lol.

    He told Games Industry that more capital was needed, in order for Runescape to progress, but UK investors were 'painfully shy and risk adverse'.
    No, silly silly CEO, the reason why more capital is needed is because so many people are sick and fed up with the trashy updates which they provided, so they quit. They also somewhat brought this upon themselves by permanently banning a LOT of members(which may have been botted accounts, but still that was revenue coming into the company). I honestly hope the game turns around for the better... Maybe you'll be able to just buy gold soon enough.



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    runescapes probly ganan turn to shit now

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    Is that it? 75m?


    Seems a bit less

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    Quote Originally Posted by abu_jwka View Post
    Is that it? 75m?


    Seems a bit less
    If you read the article, you'll find that the company is actually worth a lot more, they just sold 75 million worth of shares over to the other company(which I forgot the name of already).



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    just 75m ? I don't think so .. lol jagex are doing almost this in 1 year .. lol
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    It looks like we have a new game to root for. Andrew wanted to keep RuneScape clean, and not sell gold since that would introduce a new audience into RuneScape. One he had seen taint other games, like WoW.

    If runescape goes down hill, we can assume this new game will be as runescape was previously.
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    Pretty sure andrew hasn't been part of Jagex for at least a year now.

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    Andrew may not have been a public part, but I believe he was head of directors until recently. He only just now gave up ownership.
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    They basically still own the game, they just needed money and so they brought in a VC (Venture Capitalist). Unless the 75M shares was more than 49% of shares.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kyle Undefined View Post
    They basically still own the game, they just needed money and so they brought in a VC (Venture Capitalist). Unless the 75M shares was more than 49% of shares.
    The company already owned %30 of Jagex before buying these extra shares. They are now the main shareholders holding more than %50 of the company

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    Ah, so they now own it, good fight. :/
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    Hm.. Question is if they are going to be 100% about the money. If they are, it's rather possible "Optimus" will never come to be and bots will come back to what they were. More bots = more "players" = more members = more $$.

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    Once a VC owns your company, it's always about the money.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jatex View Post
    Hm.. Question is if they are going to be 100% about the money. If they are, it's rather possible "Optimus" will never come to be and bots will come back to what they were. More bots = more "players" = more members = more $$.
    This. Game over.

    I think even the CEO realized that it'll never end, so he essentially rage quit.



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    maybe now they will unban our banned accounts so we could continue pay for membership and the spins because all they want is money.

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    Quote Originally Posted by zamserv View Post
    maybe now they will unban our banned accounts so we could continue pay for membership and the spins because all they want is money.
    Or, actually give us a chance to buy back a banned account.



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    I honestly can say that I saw this coming.


    Adding, what? $3 more to membership costs?

    Adding 14 days of FREE membership to newly created accounts?

    They're DESPERATE.

    They put so much money into destroying bots, but what they didn't know was, bots bring in more revenue (Membership) than anything else in the game!

    Let's hope everything turns out well with this new corp.

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    Not sure if anyone knows this, but they've also added video advertisements to free to play players. Every time you hop worlds.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 'Toxin View Post
    This. Game over.

    I think even the CEO realized that it'll never end, so he essentially rage quit.
    HAHAHA. Runescape CEO:


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    Quote Originally Posted by 'Toxin View Post
    Or, actually give us a chance to buy back a banned account.
    Ahahaha that would actually be quite funny unbanning a bunch of epic accounts, which they could then sell to the public? Oh gosh the possibilities of this venture would be endless for profit! "Selling Sparc Mac1, the original account that started Tim's legacy" only 500 USD... oh my this could be evil ^_^
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