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Hey i just stumbled across this from June 2014. Mark Gerhard resigned a couple of months later.

https://youtu.be/1T87NOAZTLs

Ex-Jagex-Boss Mark Gerhard talks about how RS became really skyrocketting popular after Construction came out in 2006 and had some rough time from 2007-2010 but then Jagex "fixed the game" . He also mentions how Jagex made 4 mobile games back in 2010 which all became #1 in the UK and US.

He also talks about how he wanted to make Jagex go from #1 UK largest independent developer of online games to the worlds largest one and advertised Transformers Universe which came out one month after this speech (July 2014) but was shut down in January 2015.

Maybe you find it interesting. :)

10-Apr-2016 11:55:48

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well he came in at a bad time. 2009, so he tried to turn runescape around but it seems he realized its a dying game and jumped ship with like half of the high ranking employees to create their own company.

10-Apr-2016 15:32:40

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Honestly, I think Jagex would just become more successful overall if they found other means of advertising alongside the communities that do still play their games stop (pardon my italian..) shit-talking them at every turn - not directing this at you, OP. I mean, most of us here have stuck around with RuneScape for what.. a decade-plus? And, how much money have you spent towards financially supporting the game, each? Alot, right? What other game can anyone say that they've been genuinely interested in for so long that they didn't grow up with?

Personally, it's hard to say why he truly left if there's a truth left unwritten.
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10-Apr-2016 18:11:33 - Last edited on 10-Apr-2016 18:12:12 by Nead

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Nead said :
Honestly, I think Jagex would just become more successful overall if they found other means of advertising alongside the communities that do still play their games stop (pardon my italian..) shit-talking them at every turn - not directing this at you, OP. I mean, most of us here have stuck around with RuneScape for what.. a decade-plus? And, how much money have you spent towards financially supporting the game, each? Alot, right? What other game can anyone say that they've been genuinely interested in for so long that they didn't grow up with?

Personally, it's hard to say why he truly left if there's a truth left unwritten.

the only game ive spent that much money on is warhammer 40k/fantasy, and thats a table top game....
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12-Apr-2016 00:30:50

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27-Apr-2016 17:11:56

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This circulated ages ago. He did not leave because of transformers being shut down. In fact he profited several million to himself alone before he left. He was a monopoly, he did exactly what he intended on doing. He came in, he brought microtransactions and plagued the game, he stayed around before things went too sour at a higher point of profit, then he left. It's nothing new or secret that he was not a gamer nor cared about gaming, he was a businessman.

I despised him from the beginning and I still do. He destroyed this game single handedly. Then he left it like you would a slut after a one night stand.

07-Aug-2016 14:19:24

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