Best part of this post is it proves without a shadow of a doubt that advertising does not contribute much to the profits and therefore the running of the game. Great ammunition for f2p v p2p debates.

 

We already knew that. F2p runs on advert money and more or less breaks even.

 

 

 

It's always interesting to see these things, and I'm glad Jagex is still on the rise in terms of profits, even when they have done huge projects like RSHD and FunOrb, as well as a large increase in staff. Things are looking good.

Huh. Very interesting and slightly confusing.

I just thought of another chart which people might find interesting - Jagex's yearly charitable donations as a percentage of their annual turnover:

 

Those are some nice statistics, hopefully Jagex can keep it up.

 

 

 

and LOL f2p :thumbdown:

I had no idea jagex had so many employees now

 

 

 

 

 

(out of the loop)

 

 

 

This thread has convinced me to go to the darkside err p2p

 

 

 

:D

Best part of this post is it proves without a shadow of a doubt that advertising does not contribute much to the profits and therefore the running of the game. Great ammunition for f2p v p2p debates.

 

We already knew that. F2p runs on advert money and more or less breaks even.

 

 

 

It's always interesting to see these things, and I'm glad Jagex is still on the rise in terms of profits, even when they have done huge projects like RSHD and FunOrb, as well as a large increase in staff. Things are looking good.

 

 

 

The first argument f2p'rs make when they want more stuff is "I see adverts and that should pay for my updates!". This graph clearly shows it isn't the case. The wise amongst us have known for a long time that f2p'rs generate very little of Jagex's cash, it's the less wise that this can be used to show.

Its amazing that you can obtain all of this info, but its really amazing!

 

Anyone has access to all this information :)

The thing I don't understand about businessmen is they always sell off so much of their company to different share holders. If I started a company I'd want to keep 70% of the shares for myself.

 

 

 

I know 51% should be enough to ensure keeping the majority of the shares(51% because you might get cocky and only have 49% because no one else has anywhere near that much, but then someone comes along and buys up everyone elses shares and then you don't even control your own company any more!). But still, there should be more pride.. -.-

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

EDIT: First relevant post ftw!

 

 

 

Going public and allowing people to invest in your company means you have money coming from a different source other than yourself, them. When they buy stock, you get the money. The idea is they invest in a company they think will rise and become better, and eventually they'll be able to withdraw more money than they invested.

Who's Ian Gower? Their little brother who got left out of the picture haha?

Nice, I can see RuneScape makes a lot of profit :P

Who's Ian Gower? Their little brother who got left out of the picture haha?

 

I think it's dad/uncle.. im not shure, im probably not right.

Who's Ian Gower? Their little brother who got left out of the picture haha?

 

Rob Law (who made the Romeo and Juliet quest amongst other early contributions) once referred to Ian and Paul as part of Andrew's "team of brothers", but some old RuneScape fansites say Ian is his cousin. Ian did some early graphics for RuneScape and did some of the quest conversion for RuneScape 2.

Ian is the eldest of the Gower sons'.

Ian is the eldest of the Gower sons'.

 

Do you have a source?

Ian is the eldest of the Gower sons'.

 

Do you have a source?

 

I'm sure it was posted once in Classic days right from the start.

 

I could be wrong though.

This was a great post (one of few I read every reply to :P) I am just interested to see what the economic ripple caused by the US falling apart will do to their profits of the '08 - '09 season. In any case this is very interesting to see.