firepixel Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 "Currently, RuneScape has over 3,000,000 users, with approximately 700,000 pay-to-play subscribers as of June 11th, 2006. In 2006, founders Andrew Gower and Paul Gower were calculated to be worth ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã32 million." ------------------------------ My friend just sent me this on msn. I didnt ask where he got the information because.. well i dont think it's lying. This just shows how much of a game Runescape really is. Wow... every month it costs us 5 dollars. Thats $35,000,000 per month. Most of the money goes towards everything to make the game. What do you think about the success of Jagex? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adamskii Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 This information came out of the Times Rich list 2006 and is accurate. If I recall correctly they were something like joint 9th richest in the under 30 category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archer003 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 nothin compared to world of warcraft... that is small change top them Wow - Zuu - Lvl 55 Destructo Lock - Neptulon Rattus Jr - Skill totaler Nub ( Zuu's Back) Archer003 - 92 80 99 92hp Rsc trained Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 nothin compared to world of warcraft... that is small change top them but consider what runescape grew from in comparison to world of warcraft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miracleman58 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 ye w.o.w is alot more expensive and has more players 2 1593th to 99 Farming - July 08. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cazwise Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Another small fact is that it's actually JAGeX not JaGeX or whatever. How many runescape players does it take to change a lightbulb?50.1 to change the bulb and the other 49 to complain about how it was better before.THE MODS THERE ARE COMPLETE AND UTTER IDIOTS!So why are you here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psych0s1s Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 700k x 5 = 3.5 mil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lode Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 WoW is worthless, Blizzard only dared to enter the MMORPG market after they saw how succesful some good old MMORPGs were. WoW is only a few years old, that's NOTHING. I find it a shame that such a young game as WoW is now always used as comparision to any other MMORPG. Try to think of almost any other large MMORPG and it's older than WoW. You should compare todays MMORPGs to the classics, not to a game like WoW that was just thrown on the market because a way too large gaming company, breaking with it's history of much better games like StarCraft back before they were acquired by the money-happy Vivendy, saw money in it. Runescape: Lodev (Combat level been fixed at 101 for years now, Total level 1500+, playing since march 2002)Arenascape: Lode (Level 240+ Warlock) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
operationfl Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 700k x 5 = 3.5 mil Per month that is... They have staff, and pay for servers etc etc etc etc. -o- Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomdavies90 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 JaGeX=Java Gaming Experts in case anybody wonder and yeah they are pretty dam rich lol, its estimated that just the code for the game is also worth about 30 million...... Sig by me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wizard_1315 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 I think Runescape is the most accessible online game ever made. 4,6ÃÆââââ¬Ã¡Ãâì a month is a perfect price. World of Warcraft could get THOUSANDS more users if they lowered their mothly fee. 30ÃÆââââ¬Ã¡Ãâì/month + 50ÃÆââââ¬Ã¡Ãâì (shop price) is just insane!! And ppl say it's the best online game in the world?! NEVER! RUNESCAPE FOREVER! :D :D :D Every path you have trod, through wilderness and through war, has led to this road... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SwreeTak Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 wizard_1315 has absoultly right! :) ! RUNESCAPE FOREVER! Add me if you so wish: SwreeTak Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dexek Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 I've got to agree there. Runescape has the best bang for your buck, if you know what I mean. :) PoetryIndexed Picture 1Indexed Picture 2 Killed my maxed Zerker pure April 2010 Rebooting Runescape Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamerr Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 RuneScape isn't the best game around, it's the community and the will to grow in levels that makes it so good. I think you can't compare RuneScape with WoW, because it are diffirent games with an other pay system. Also, about the Gower thing, ofcourse he's rich. Want to be rich too? Find yourself something that everybody would want but doesn't excist yet. Hard eh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
boioboi Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 i agree with wizard also Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dread_rasta Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 you shouldn't compare rs wow. i mean that some of the profit goes to employees and i think jagex might be a smaller company so there's less people hogging on the money. Nodding DuckRange: 71/80|Strenght:70/70 |Currently starting at members| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
psych0s1s Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 700k x 5 = 3.5 mil Per month that is... They have staff, and pay for servers etc etc etc etc. firepixel said 35 mil a moth lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 This information came out of the Times Rich list 2006 and is accurate. If I recall correctly they were something like joint 9th richest in the under 30 category. For the record here's a link to the original topic http://forum.tip.it/viewtopic.php?t=445960 and a link to the young rich list. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/secti ... 90,00.html 10th equal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firepixel Posted July 25, 2006 Author Share Posted July 25, 2006 yah i missed out the . in 35m lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xevanx Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 JaGeX=Java Gaming Experts in case anybody wonder and yeah they are pretty dam rich lol, its estimated that just the code for the game is also worth about 30 million...... sorry youare also wrong. its JAGeX= Java Applet Gaming Experts. yup, there all for the money now. its really sickening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
00 Quanta Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 The Gower brothers are worth 27+ million or so, they're rich lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbarron2 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 each person takes up 2 gb in this game lets say. 3,000,000 players=6,000,000 gb my computer costed $400 for that much and yes i know rip off. 6,000,000X400=$2,400,000,000 two million dollars....with players alone... most free players at that. the needs the money to pay the bills. think about it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbarron2 Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 :ohnoes: :ohnoes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 each person takes up 2 gb in this game lets say. 3,000,000 players=6,000,000 gb my computer costed $400 for that much and yes i know rip off. 6,000,000X400=$2,400,000,000 two million dollars....with players alone... most free players at that. the needs the money to pay the bills. think about it Your figures are well off. First you calculated it out to $2.4 bil not mil. Also you said it costs $400 for 1GB storage space? Talk about expensive. Finally where did you get the idea that each person takes up 2GB? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synrax Posted July 25, 2006 Share Posted July 25, 2006 Simpler they are rich, Oh and i live 5 minutes walk from the home of Scotlands richest man! Oh yeah ... :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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