I talked about the Runepass back in July and at the time I was hesitant to give any score to the feature given it was essentially in the state of a pilot program. While I noted that it did somewhat reduce the Dailyscape issue that plagued prior limited promotions, the pass just wasn’t worth it … Continue reading “Runefest 2018: Jagex Cans The RunePass”
Jagex this week announced that an employee has been fired and police have been brought in regarding “gross misuse of moderator privileges.” While the official post doesn’t go into much detail, reports from the Reddit forum indicate that the employee is Jed Sanderson, aka Mod Jed, and involves the now ex-staffer used his moderator status … Continue reading “Jagex Employee Fired, Police Called In Over Compromised User Accounts”
Jagex today announced the hiring of two industry names into executive positions, bringing on board Nick Beliaeff and Rob Cordero as Senior Vice President of Game Development and Vice President of Technology respectively. “Jagex continues to introduce senior talent to support our growth plans and our vision to become the home of living games. Both … Continue reading “Jagex Hires Industry Talents In Executive Positions”
Gamesindustry.biz is holding its Investment Summit in September, and RuneScape developer Jagex will be there to seek out new publishing opportunities. After announcing last year that the company is seeking to publish more independent titles, Jagex will join a list of publishers and investors including Nintendo, Sega, Fig, Humble Bundle, and others to give speeches, … Continue reading “Jagex Wants To Publish Your Indie Games”
Old School RuneScape is reeling from a massive bug that resulted in the servers being taken offline for a few hours and, in an unprecedented move, Jagex rolling characters back to pre-update. An unfortunate oversight in this week’s update allowed players to turn various items into fat stacks of cash upon death. As you can … Continue reading “This Week’s Update Killed Old School RuneScape’s Economy, So Jagex Rolled It Back”
This week’s RuneScape update is Runepass, a limited time event running from July 2 to July 15. Ocean’s Bounty gives players a set of daily tasks that can be completed to level up the pass and gain more rewards. The pass has two tiers, one for free and one that is purchased for 400 Runecoins (approximately … Continue reading “RuneScape: Jagex Unveils Ocean’s Bounty”
After seventeen years of existence, Jagex today made the surprising announcement that its flagship title RuneScape Classic will shut down over the next few months. Posted on the official website, Jagex’s explanation for the sunset is related to advancing technology making it more difficult to properly police the game of macros and for community safety. … Continue reading “Jagex To Shut Down RuneScape Classic”
It’s been eight years since Jagex ceased development of FunOrb, and the developer this week announced that the service will be coming to an end later this year. The decision, according to the announcement, comes down to changes in hardware and software leading to FunOrb’s library of games becoming increasingly difficult to access. Over the … Continue reading “Jagex Will Shut Down FunOrb In August”
Jagex late last week responded via Reddit to recent allegations against a member of the staff. According to posts on the Old School RuneScape Reddit forum, players have accused one of Jagex’s employees of leaking insider information and giving unfair assistance to members of a clan that they just happened to be a part of. … Continue reading “Jagex Will Evaluate Employee/Clan Relationships”
The Autumn Deadman tournament survivor has been disqualified after it was discovered that they were cheating. In a post on the official website, Jagex discussed criticism surrounding the latest Deadman final regarding certain disqualifications. What isn’t in question, however, is that the latest winner was cheating by using a bot farm to boost their account. … Continue reading “Jagex Disqualifies Deadman Winner Over Cheating”
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