Jagex CEO Mark Gerhard has always been pretty frank with the internal going-ons at his company, and in a recent interview with Develop, he answered the question as to why all of Jagex’s products that are not RuneScape have either failed to launch or failed to make a profit, and the answer is simple. The company has been treating its non-scape products more as hobby projects than real games. Gerhard believes that 8Realms, Jagex’s HTML MMORTS which shut down recently due to poor response, received precisely the attention it deserved from fans.
“I think to other projects, like 8Realms and things like that, I think that was one of the last hobby projects that we carried through, and obviously that was evident. Now it’s just working on the projects that matter.”
Jagex is currently working on several major projects, including the upcoming combat upgrade for RuneScape as well as the upcoming Transformers Universe MMO currently slated for beta in 2012.
(Source: Develop Interview)
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