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There's obviously a difference between "playing for free" vs "being a F2P player." - various games allow you to play the game without an upfront purchase price or recurring subscription and still allow players to purchase things within their game once. The six dollars or what have you for those coins or keys may help Jagex keep the lights on at the office for one month, and it may provide the player a nice cosmetic outfit, some xp, some gp, or even two weeks of membership, but it doesn't change the fact that Jagex would rather that player be subscribed, as that's where most of RS's generated income comes from. Assuming that person doesn't use the bond for membership, that person is still playing on a F2P server with its entailed restrictions, and Jagex is getting only one small payment from the player and nothing else assured. Putting that into perspective, Jagex probably made more money off of free players when there was an advertisement over the fixed game screen before resizable was released to the full community.
Thank you for backing up what I just told you with that quote!
Carlyle literally says "we bought Pipeworks to support the -growth- of Jagex!" Supporting a growing company, which would need to be healthy in order to actually achieve growth, is far different from diversifying your portfolio simply by necessity.
Does Jagex want money? Yes. Do they want more players? Yes. It comes to follow that if Jagex has more players - there's more -opportunity- to make more money. And for years, that's been the beauty of RuneScape's free-to-play model. It allowed players to have a fulfilling experience by only gating certain areas and paywalling few pieces of content within a still sizeable world to explore.
I know we argue semantics a lot. My definitely of being "free-to-play", is being able to access any portion of a game without a subscription and obtain a somewhat fulfilling experience (making it more than a simple demo.)
Thank you for backing up what I just told you with that quote!
Carlyle literally says "we bought Pipeworks to support the -growth- of Jagex!" Supporting a growing company, which would need to be healthy in order to actually achieve growth, is far different from diversifying your portfolio simply by necessity.
Does Jagex want money? Yes. Do they want more players? Yes. It comes to follow that if Jagex has more players - there's more -opportunity- to make more money. And for years, that's been the beauty of RuneScape's free-to-play model. It allowed players to have a fulfilling experience by only gating certain areas and paywalling few pieces of content within a still sizeable world to explore.
I know we argue semantics a lot. My definitely of being "free-to-play", is being able to access any portion of a game without a subscription and obtain a somewhat fulfilling experience (making it more than a simple demo.)
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28-Aug-2022 02:03:43
Free players and free to pay games are two different things. A free to play game obviously have not just free players, some payers have to support the game but it can but not must have subscriptions.
Carlyle Group clearly said they are diversifying Jagex's business and portfolio. Yes, they are growing Jagex, but Jagex is no longer just Runescape, and they are growing Jagex's business through Pipeworks and other projects. Of course, the still want Runescape to grow but they are not relying on Runescape alone to grow Jagex. What it means is if Runescape doesn't grow as far as Jagex's other products, in the future we may hear people referring to Jagex as the developer of Pipework Games instead of Runesape.
That's also why Runescape is looking for outside help too. They will have to get new and lapsed players to improve their growth rate, thus Fresh Start Worlds. Of course, they will also have to make sure Runesape deliver the kind of quality project like Archaeology that spearheaded their last financial report with Record Revenue.
The next 12 months will be interesting. Let's see if FSW delivers and RS3 has something as least as big as Archaeology coming up next year. If not, we may see something change to their $12.5 a month business model.
Carlyle Group clearly said they are diversifying Jagex's business and portfolio. Yes, they are growing Jagex, but Jagex is no longer just Runescape, and they are growing Jagex's business through Pipeworks and other projects. Of course, the still want Runescape to grow but they are not relying on Runescape alone to grow Jagex. What it means is if Runescape doesn't grow as far as Jagex's other products, in the future we may hear people referring to Jagex as the developer of Pipework Games instead of Runesape.
That's also why Runescape is looking for outside help too. They will have to get new and lapsed players to improve their growth rate, thus Fresh Start Worlds. Of course, they will also have to make sure Runesape deliver the kind of quality project like Archaeology that spearheaded their last financial report with Record Revenue.
The next 12 months will be interesting. Let's see if FSW delivers and RS3 has something as least as big as Archaeology coming up next year. If not, we may see something change to their $12.5 a month business model.
28-Aug-2022 03:19:44 - Last edited on 28-Aug-2022 03:20:15 by Dilbert2001
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