03-Nov-2009 - Golden Joystick Awards Thank You

from http://services.runescape.com/m=news/newsitem.ws?id=2409

 

Finally, the hangover from winning the UK Games Developer of the Year award at the Golden Joysticks on Friday is lifting, albeit slowly. :)

 

It wouldnt be right to celebrate this incredible, humbling achievement without expressing our sincerest thanks and appreciation to the entire Jagex community for helping make this landmark achievement a reality. We have never seen so many people simultaneously spit their champagne at each other as when Jagex was announced as the winner! It was truly a vision that will make me smile forever. =D

 

This award was indeed special as not only was there some really tough competition, but this is one of the only awards voted for by the players themselves rather than an industry old boys' club. This year, over 1.2 million votes were cast, ensuring a World Record in itself for the Golden Joystick Awards as the biggest ever player-voted competition, and I would like to believe that most of those votes came from you, our epically sized community, not to mention the small fact that you managed to crash their website four times with all your votes!

 

The Jagex development team have worked tirelessly over the last eight years, their only concern creating great content for our players and games that we wanted to play ourselves all totally under the radar of the traditional games industry and press. So while it is nice to be recognised so publicly by the industry (no doubt they will all be thinking about developing online games of their own), I would like to give everyone the assurance that our focus will remain on building great games for our community, and that well continue to work hard and do all we can to try to live up to this prestigious award.

 

So, once again, many thanks to you all! The credit goes to our much-loved players and we hope that our entire Jagex community will share in the success along with the team at Jagex. A big cheers to all the players!

 

Mod MMG & Andrew

That's a nice little speach. They love us, so maybe they'll improve customer support for us !! <_<

That's a nice little speach. They love us, so maybe they'll improve customer support for us !! <_<

 

 

I would prefer more game content. Never used the customer support (if any), ever.

That's a nice little speach. They love us, so maybe they'll improve customer support for us !! <_<

I would just love people like you if I was Jagex <3 So grateful <3<3

Congratulations once again, Jagex. :P

 

'Thanks for creating a great game.

No problem

LMFAO.

I found out before their win before they did?

 

I posted this awhile back, and I can't believe Jagex only found out today >_>

 

http://forum.tip.it/topic/249575-gj09-best-uk-dev-goes-to/page__fromsearch__1

You're Welcome. <3:

 

Requiem1160 - look at the runescape newspost for Oct 30.

LMFAO.

I found out before their win before they did?

 

I posted this awhile back, and I can't believe Jagex only found out today >_>

 

http://forum.tip.it/topic/249575-gj09-best-uk-dev-goes-to/page__fromsearch__1

They found out :P They just didn't thank us properly before now =)(well, they actually did, but I guess they felt like thanking us again xD)

Initial newspost

 

 

We have never seen so many people simultaneously spit their champagne at each other as when Jagex was announced as the winner

Haha, the images! :D

LMFAO.

I found out before their win before they did?

 

I posted this awhile back, and I can't believe Jagex only found out today >_>

 

http://forum.tip.it/topic/249575-gj09-best-uk-dev-goes-to/page__fromsearch__1

 

Pretty sure Jagex would have been informed by phone before it was even posted on that website :)

LMFAO.

I found out before their win before they did?

 

I posted this awhile back, and I can't believe Jagex only found out today >_>

 

http://forum.tip.it/topic/249575-gj09-best-uk-dev-goes-to/page__fromsearch__1

 

Right, because they don't need to prepare their speech before posting, and can post it right away.

 

Kudos to you tho, for (not) finding out they won before them!

So how much did they win? And where's the players' share of it, as we did most of the work for this victory.

LMFAO.

I found out before their win before they did?

 

I posted this awhile back, and I can't believe Jagex only found out today >_>

 

http://forum.tip.it/topic/249575-gj09-best-uk-dev-goes-to/page__fromsearch__1

 

Mod Poppy was in Mod Mmg's cc, before it was announced they won. She said "Woooot" and went on to say that they won developer of the year. So when they found out - we did, too.

 

So how much did they win? And where's the players' share of it, as we did most of the work for this victory.

 

They did the work, you voted for them for doing such great work.

It's weird to think that they're not part of the old boy's club already, this game's really old by relative standards.....but I guess nobody really expects much of them due to people dishing on their reputation.

 

Well, I guess they're part of the club. They'll never let them past the reception area, though. :D

 

Hopefully they do something right for once soon.

There's a player arranged celebration for this on RSOF Events if you wish to attend it's not for a week or so though :)

It's weird to think that they're not part of the old boy's club already, this game's really old by relative standards.....but I guess nobody really expects much of them due to people dishing on their reputation.

 

Well, I guess they're part of the club. They'll never let them past the reception area, though. :D

 

Hopefully they do something right for once soon.

Haha, I'm certain they'll get in eventually, but who really wants to be part of the 'old boys club' anyway? Jagex shows a talent for following the path less traveled.

We have never seen so many people simultaneously spit their champagne at each other as when Jagex was announced as the winner! It was truly a vision that will make me smile forever. =D

 

 

At least they're honest. :-P

 

Its nice of them to thanks us, as well.

Drunk people running our game. :blink:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

just kidding :P

Yeah, MMG came in the other night before posting the announcement, and thanked all of us for our contributions.

 

According to him, we overloaded their servers four times with all of our visits. Not bad, huh?

Drunk people running our game. :blink:

 

just kidding :P

They're British people!

 

Of course they're drunk! :P

Even though I did not vote (stupid registration! <_< ), grats to Jagex winning and thanks for the thanks! :D

Congratulations to Jagex. :smile: