How much money do jagex make?

[DarkDude]

i'm curious here, but what kind of server would a game like runescape have to run off? like how many cpu's, how much ram, how much hardrive space?

 

 

 

 

 

I know, I'll load up Runescape as many times as possible and see how many times it takes for my computer to crash, then I'll tell you =P

[magemachine6]

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/richlist/person/0,,39448,00.html

[apcrump]

Is it just me or does anybody else know the name Paul Gower from somewhere else. I ahve heard that name before and the person was famous. I just can't place it.

[admiral_5]

dunno, but andrew makes 1.5 million pounds a year

 

 

 

share I tbed?

 

 

 

thats NOTHING compared to blizzard entertainment

[eckered]

so basicly theyve got a bazilion dollars?

 

 

 

imagine that all in singles...

 

 

 

theyve gotta have a huge wallet to fit all that >.<

[cotamatias]

RuneScape has over 9,000,000 free players as of and approximately 850,000 pay-to-play subscribers as of July 17, 2006. In 2006, founders Andrew Gower and Paul Gower were calculated to be worth ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã32 million ($60 million USD).

 

 

 

Don't mention it.

 

You crazy? They hardely make a lot of money. Look at full credits to see employee list. Take that from money, than the cost of the servers, that is huge.

[malo2]

9M f2pers? wow, runescape is growing faster than even I thought.

[coolguy98741]

a crap load lol. all the members x5 then all f2p ads. they do have to pay their mods and desing team but thats probly not alot

[hellbellz]

I bet they'd buy a real life p-hat with that money.. (JK) :P

[Viktorkrum77]

so basicly theyve got a bazilion dollars?

 

 

 

imagine that all in singles...

 

 

 

theyve gotta have a huge wallet to fit all that >.<

 

 

 

:roll: It's called a bank account. Heck, they may have a Swiss Bank Account J/K!!

[alwin_loser]

uhmm people, membership is between 5 and 10 dollars so 8 dollar, 8 dollar X 500.000= 4mil dollar, and advertisement, like 500.000 so 3.5mil, PER MONTH, so like 48 bil per year

[tylersk8shop]

LOL some of you dont know what your talking about....... Think about it if theres 1000 P2P in each world thats over $500,000 a month, However people play from different countries and continents so they would be on at different times, And when constructino came out all member worlds were full, so they added more (that proves over 2000 p2p players in each world) they would make 1 million dollars per month from members. But think about this, they had to add more worlds twice while construction was out due to all members worlds full, so they make easily over 1 million dollars a month. LOL just think if i would have added the advertisements......

 

 

 

I AM SO SMART S-M-R-T!!!!!!! :P

[Jimmy_Kak]

Well this is all the staff that they have, so thats a lot of their earnings used up. Didn't realise there was this many people working on runescape, lol its not just 2 brothers anymore.

 

 

 

Just look how big the customer support list is...

 

 

 

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Senior Content Designer

 

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Heads of Content

 

Christopher J

 

Henrique O

 

Mark O

 

 

 

Upload Manager

 

Ashleigh B

 

 

 

Content Team

 

Anthony W

 

Ben W

 

Chihiro Y

 

Chris L C

 

Doug H

 

Dylan C

 

Heiko J

 

Ian G

 

Isobel H

 

Gesine P

 

Graham B

 

Greg V

 

James B

 

John A

 

Liam P

 

Marion C

 

Matt H

 

Nancy J

 

Simon S

 

Tim C

 

Tytn H

 

Uwe B

 

 

 

Head of Mini Games

 

Mark F

 

 

 

Mini Games

 

Ben D

 

Peter T

 

Thomas D-R

 

 

 

Head of Graphics

 

Anthony A

 

 

 

Graphics Team

 

Dan B

 

Damian C

 

Darren B

 

Eoin McD

 

Guiseppe G

 

Hayo K

 

James W

 

Joe R

 

John S

 

Kavi M

 

Kristian F

 

Laura W

 

Linh N

 

Matthew M

 

Nick F

 

Neil R

 

Paul B

 

Rasmus K H

 

Richard B

 

Stephen R

 

Tom W

 

Wayne M

 

 

 

Music and Sounds

 

Ian T

 

Adam B

 

 

 

Tools Development

 

Graham R

 

Nick T

 

Stuart L

 

 

 

Head of Web Systems

 

Chris S

 

 

 

Web Systems Team

 

Carl C

 

Chris E

 

Duncan M

 

Francois K

 

Ian D

 

Jonathan L

 

Landon W

 

Michael G

 

Sebastian M

 

Tom P

 

 

 

Head of Quality Assurance

 

Imre J

 

 

 

Quality Assurance

 

Adam D

 

Alex P

 

Andrew C

 

Benjamin L

 

Francis B

 

Jennie T

 

John H

 

Kevin D

 

Martin I

 

Nick C

 

Nigel P

 

 

 

Head of Web Content

 

Rachel B

 

 

 

Web Content

 

David O

 

Emma V

 

Luke M

 

Robert K

 

Robert M

 

Samir A

 

Stephen R

 

 

 

Systems Admin

 

James B

 

Steven F

 

 

 

Office Support

 

Alex M

 

John H

 

 

 

Publishing Team

 

 

 

Commercial Director

 

Constant T

 

 

 

Commercial Assistant

 

Donna O

 

 

 

Operations Manager

 

Daniel C

 

 

 

Global Online Sales and Marketing Manager

 

Dante B

 

 

 

Team Development

 

Richard B

 

 

 

Human Resources

 

Carl W

 

Emma N

 

Francesco G

 

Rebekah T

 

Sarah D

 

Sarah-Jane A

 

Sophie C

 

 

 

Head of Customer Relations

 

Kelvin P

 

 

 

Customer Relations Assistant Manager

 

Jay A

 

 

 

Performance Coach

 

Rob S

 

 

 

Billing Support

 

Mark R

 

Robin M

 

Stuart C

 

 

 

Training and Development Team

 

Benjamin S

 

Tom M-J

 

 

 

Moderators Team Unit Leader

 

Andrew R

 

 

 

Moderators Team Shift Leaders

 

Melvin B

 

 

 

Moderators Team

 

Alex M

 

Barbara B

 

Craig B

 

Daniel C

 

Dave M

 

Emilee M

 

Ian H

 

Jonathan H

 

Matt H

 

Matthew K

 

Paul M

 

Peter I

 

Philip C

 

 

 

Investigation in the Community Unit Leader

 

Chris R

 

 

 

ICU Shift Leader

 

Farooq R

 

 

 

Investigation in the Community Unit

 

Adam D

 

Andrew D

 

Ashley H

 

Darren B

 

David I

 

David S

 

Raf S

 

Ross M

 

Saunders H

 

Simon J

 

Steven W

 

Tim T

 

Tom C

 

Warren S

 

 

 

Snapshot Ban Appeal Team Unit Leader

 

Daniel H

 

 

 

Snapshot and Ban Appeal Team

 

Andrew C

 

Andrew McI

 

Dan L

 

Daniel B

 

Dave B

 

David B

 

Jack L

 

Kaiyan A

 

Kevin B

 

Kris M

 

Lucy B

 

Matthew G

 

Michael F

 

Mohammed K

 

Nicholas H

 

Paul M

 

Peter F

 

Poppy B

 

Robert L

 

Ross R

 

Sarah B

 

Simon C

 

Sudeep B

 

Thomas M

 

Tom B

 

 

 

Customer Support Unit Leaders

 

Jeremy M

 

Matthew L

 

Phil T

 

 

 

Customer Support

 

Aaron R

 

Adam D

 

Adam W

 

Adam Z

 

Aidan L

 

Aisha A

 

Alex E

 

Alexander W

 

Andrew B

 

Andrew H

 

Andrew M

 

Andrew McM

 

Andrew W

 

Andy W

 

Anuradha J

 

Ashley D

 

Ben H

 

Ben W

 

Charles J

 

Chris G

 

Chris H

 

Chris H

 

Chris J

 

Christoph V

 

Claire H

 

Clarissa Q

 

Conor S

 

Darryl B

 

Dave P

 

David B

 

David V

 

Dean E

 

Edward A

 

Emmanuel A

 

Fillipos L

 

Florian P

 

Frank B

 

Fraser P

 

Gary W

 

Gillan M

 

Gordon H

 

Graeme N

 

Guy K

 

Guy V

 

Holgar G

 

Ian B

 

Ian W

 

Ingrid J

 

James H

 

James T

 

Jason P

 

Jay V

 

Jesse B

 

John S-H

 

Kaiyan A

 

Karen M

 

Ken L

 

Kevin B

 

Kieran McL

 

Kinjal S

 

Marcello Z

 

Mark H

 

Martin F

 

Matt B

 

Matthew P

 

Matthias P

 

Michael E

 

Micheal H

 

Michelle J

 

Musaab S

 

Neena P

 

Neil D

 

Neil M

 

Neil R

 

Nick A

 

Paul B

 

Patrick S

 

Phillip Y

 

Priya W

 

Raymond L

 

Rebecca O

 

Richard A

 

Richard W

 

Rick B

 

Rob W

 

Ross H-H

 

Ross M

 

Ryan McK

 

Sakib C

 

Samantha G

 

Samantha P

 

Sarah J

 

Simeon A

 

Simon B

 

Simon B

 

Simon B

 

Simon P

 

Soeren H

 

Stephan L

 

Stephen W

 

Steve A

 

Suraj A

 

Tara T

 

Tarquin U

 

Tim J

 

Tim P

 

Tobias B

 

Toby R

 

Tom H

 

Tom M

 

Tom T

 

Tony L

 

Usmaan S

 

Vicki M

 

Will K-W

 

William D

 

William D

 

Zachory A

 

 

 

 

 

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[mozy]

They turn over an awful lot of cash, but thier personal wealth is a different ball game.

 

 

 

These are only estimates.

 

 

 

500,000 members paying ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã3.20 a month. That is 1.6mil revenues a month.

 

 

 

So a year they hit revenue of 19.20mil. NOTE THAT THIS IS PRE TAX PROFIT!!!. Come back to this later.

 

 

 

Advertising is another form of revenue stream.

 

 

 

Approximatly 100 staff that work for jagex. As they are based in south england were wages are high, id expect them to average about ÃÆââ¬Å¡Ãâã20-25k pa

 

 

 

Wage bill would come to 2.25Mil a year Before employers NI. Explain later.

 

 

 

Marketing and It costs, to premote the game and ensure future requirements can be met. not sure about a figure for this but i work for a similar company which turns over the same about of money, and our It bil is around 200k a year and mareketing is roughly 150k

 

 

 

They have offices in Cambridge which they either rent or have bought. Energy prices are emense these days. electricity, gas.

 

 

 

150 servers around the world which have to be bought, cost to maintain and or rent premises for them.

 

 

 

Telephone bills and comunication costs add up.

 

 

 

The Uk governemt takes alot of profit as tax and also emoplyers have to pay more NI contributions that employee's

 

 

 

If id were to estimate a figure for actual profit, you are looking at about 5-6mil a year after tax and expenses. If miniclip own 21% then thats profits down 1mil.

 

 

 

So personally they would have about 2 mil ea in thier bank accounts thats only if they dont reinvest any money in the company.

 

 

 

they are only multi millionaires if they sold Jagex, which they will in the future.

 

 

 

Mozy