Jagex is an inspiration of hope in the MMO genre. Born out of a side project by Andrew Gower, Runescape has since gone on to become the most popular free to play MMO gracing our internets, crafting a membership system that not only gave an enormous amount of content for a low price, but also creating a free to play portion that not only continues to evolve, but offers a safe haven for men of questionable age to become the sexy seventeen year old girl looking for a relationship of questionable legality with a studly rich boyfriend, that they’ve always dreamed of being. In the past few years, Jagex became publisher for War of Legends, an Evony-style game, became their own mini-game developer (FunOrb), bought the Iphone game Undercroft, and
Now, for those of you keeping track, Jagex has been in development of Stellar Dawn, originally Mechscape, originally announced in 2008 for a 2009 release, followed by a 2010 release, with our latest news being a 2011 release. Considering these delays, I noted the absurdity that Jagex was working on a third MMO, an untitled fantasy title that is not Runescape 2. Granted, the FunOrb team hasn’t put out a new game since September 2010, so Jagex does have some resources that could be thrown onto a fourth mmo, right?
Yes, I said fourth MMO, if you hadn’t discerned such from the title. MCV is reporting that Jagex has entered into a deal with Hasbro to make Transformers into an MMO for release when? 2012, according to the report. Mark Gerhard was quoted saying:
“There is a huge appetite for an online Transformers game and we will utilise every bit of our development and publishing expertise to deliver a dynamic and action-packed game that Transformers fans will find irresistible.”
More on the Transformer MMO’s delay to 2014 when it comes…and assuming MMO Fallout is still online then.
MMO Fallout 