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Barnabis
Oct Member 2015

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Based on Fukong selling off its assets. https://old.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/ajo4uv/parent_company_fukong_plans_to_sell_off_its/

It doesn't have to be all, but get yourself at least 60% back to owning the company.

This company was doing much better back when you owned it. Remember those Golden Joystick Awards you used to push for? Wouldn't it be nice to shoot for one that has 2020 on the bottom?

Hopefully it would rid us of the excessive MTX promotions that are killing off the RS3 population. Jagex 2019 New Year Resolution... MTX our customers until RS3 SERVER SHUTDOWN PARTY!
The RS3 Community is treated like :@ RUBBISH :@ due to constant TH promotions.

Don't buy keys on Treasure Hunter, if you do Jagex will only make more TH promotions :(

26-Jan-2019 17:53:17 - Last edited on 26-Jan-2019 17:54:21 by Barnabis

Barnabis
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Lauri El said :
Jagex would just milk the money for themselves

In all seriousness, Jagex did reinvest in the company a lot better than this. I'm sure TH will still be a pain in the ass but hopefully it will actually get toned down a bit now. FuKong was going down hill before they bought into Jagex and they were taking Jagex down hill with them.

If OSRS taught them one thing, it is that they end up choosing before more players or more MTX. You can't have both.

I'll go on record to say I'd invest $50 in RuneCoins if Jagex would actually own majority of the company again. At least 60%. It would be the first 'direct' MTX transaction I've made. The in-direct ones were me buying bonds for in-game GP. Jagex 2019 New Year Resolution... MTX our customers until RS3 SERVER SHUTDOWN PARTY!
The RS3 Community is treated like :@ RUBBISH :@ due to constant TH promotions.

Don't buy keys on Treasure Hunter, if you do Jagex will only make more TH promotions :(

28-Jan-2019 03:31:41 - Last edited on 28-Jan-2019 03:34:26 by Barnabis

Chee
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Barnabis said :
hopefully it will actually get toned down a bit now
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28-Jan-2019 06:17:51 - Last edited on 28-Jan-2019 06:18:09 by Chee

1st Uruk Hai
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I feel the need to reply to this topic.

I want to remind you that, while a game company, JaGeX is a business. Businesses need to make profits. MTX is the profit they need to survive and to re-invest into the game. The good thing, for businesses, about MTX is that it's a direct fund for investments in comparison to Membership, which, while everyone has a different pay-date, generates money over longer periods of time. My guess would be that most people pay per month for their membership.

JaGeX having a 60% share in the company doesn't neccesarily mean they will invest that profit they make into the game. People running JaGeX are human, after all. They wouldn't say no to a nice paycheck that easily. Doubt you would say no to a $1.000 bonus at the end of the year if your boss offered it to you.

Don't get me wrong, I do get the idea that you would like to see big investments into the game, it's engine, it's content, I feel the same way. It's just not as black and white as most of us players think.

You can't invest a million pounds into the game and "fingers crossed, hope it makes the game more profitable!".

I also need to remind you that under the wings of Fukong, JaGeX had it's best year EVER (2018). Seeing the release of OldSchool Mobile, which had the membership sales peak around Christmas.

I'm personally hoping RS Mobile will release soon, so we can also see the playerbase of RuneScape grow (hopefully significantly). Then hopefully this grow will cause more new content to be added to the game, because the new players need to be kept.

The most we can ask from JaGeX would be to make MTX less 'required'. Events where you can only get the required materials through MTX aren't any good. It's the money of the players and if they appreciate your content they will pay for it voluntarily, like membership. This doesn't have to be enforced, like the promo card where the second row of content could only be unlocked with RuneCoins foe example.
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28-Jan-2019 11:50:53

Alexraptor
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Jagex is a business is a BS argument to excuse microtransactions.

A good business prioritizes long term gains over short term gains, and the excessive amounts of MTX in RS3 is nothing but short-term gains and is slowly choking the game to death.
One need only looks to the dwindling active player count for the game, and the skyrocketing player count of OSRS which is virtually free from MTX. O_o :P :@ :O

29-Jan-2019 15:55:35

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