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 Post subject: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 10th, 2012, 12:13 am 
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http://massively.joystiq.com/2012/01/09 ... -jagex-a-us-company/

The article is fairly short, but essentially a US based company called "Insight Venture Partners," which previously owned 35% of the Jagex company, now owns 55% after a new deal made, giving them the majority of the Jagex ownership.

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PostPosted: January 10th, 2012, 12:13 am 
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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 10th, 2012, 7:01 am 
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From what I know that company had a 35% share since 2006 and they got 55% almost a year ago already. Stellardawncentral had a financial report on 2011 for Jagex.

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 10th, 2012, 12:14 pm 
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And this is why your game continues to go down the toilet. These people don't care about you, the game, Jagex or anything else. They care about the numbers and they'll keep whoring out the game and watering it down till they've got all they can. Then they'll buy up the next big thing and do the same.

Don't believe me? Look at the two founders: Jeff Horing and Jerry Murdoc.

Scum. Sub-human scum.

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 10th, 2012, 6:51 pm 
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holy hell. creepy, that is just creepy.

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 10th, 2012, 8:41 pm 
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Its a Murdock, not the guy who owns sky news and likes hacking people's phones. But yeah, its sad to see runescape die. I almost want to bribe Mod Mark (no, I'm pretty sure MM cares enough about RS to give it for free if he's not connected to it) for the complete RuneScape source and start an offshoot of runescape that is a private server that actually has good updates and is donation based. This will never happen though. Glad I let my subscription expire when I did, and when I did play f2p, I blocked all the ads.

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 10th, 2012, 10:21 pm 
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I believe it was inevitable that a US company would take over Jagex. American businesses like to do that kind of thing especially with something so popular and profitable.

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
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I'm pretty sure any business likes to do this sort of thing. From whatever country.

I also didn't realize it wasn't Rupert Murdock. I take it all back. Unless hes related. Is he related?

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CreepyPirate wrote:
I'm pretty sure any business likes to do this sort of thing. From whatever country.

I also didn't realize it wasn't Rupert Murdock. I take it all back. Unless hes related. Is he related?

American businesses are particularly good at it.

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 11th, 2012, 7:52 am 
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Does this mean that RuneFest 2012 will be in Chicago? [-o<

Just kidding. Hmmmm, not impressed with U.S. capitalism actually.

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 11th, 2012, 3:29 pm 
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Not sure what to say that hasn't already been said. Possibly scary though. It also does shed some light on why there has been a lot of push to encourage membership (f2p off hiscores, loyalty programme, 2x xp weekends, deals on membership)...

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 11th, 2012, 7:16 pm 
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Pretty much agree with everyone else, this isn't really helping anything. I don't play RuneScape much anymore because of the problems it's suffering.

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 12th, 2012, 6:08 pm 
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wow....

this could also by why runefest is possibly going to the us

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 12th, 2012, 6:14 pm 
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yeah will see what goes on

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 12th, 2012, 8:24 pm 
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Jamandy52 wrote:
this could also by why runefest is possibly going to the us


Actually it's going to the US because that was the location most voted for in the poll they had recently.

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 Post subject: Re: Jagex is now a US company
PostPosted: January 12th, 2012, 9:38 pm 
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Jamie wrote:
Jamandy52 wrote:
this could also by why runefest is possibly going to the us


Actually it's going to the US because that was the location most voted for in the poll they had recently.



Also, realistically, thats where most of the RS players are from so it makes sense to have it in the US.

Also, saying that since it is a US owned company now will kill the game, well, that is simply not true.

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