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Mod Matthe

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Inb4 this is a large-scale April Fools joke lead-in.
I keep hearing about "mining" and stuff and I'm just too confused.

But if it is serious, good luck! Maybe all the JMods will get raises! :D

I can confirm that this is an official statement from us and that it is not an April Fools. I think we'd get in big trouble with the Financial Times and others if we were trying to prank people. :) Mod MattHe | Former Community Manager, now in Events & occasional Lore Monkey

16-Mar-2016 09:49:38

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I do hope that people realise that the only thing changing is the investors. So that means the only changes will be who gets the profits at the end of the day.

The staff at Jagex will still be running the game. This changes nothing.

Initially, no doubt. But you say this as if you know it for a fact. You don't. You know no more than any other player.

It's entirely possible and plausible that the new investors have business or family links with Chinese or Asian gaming companies (or are even right now forging a business relationship with one) with the intention of moving operations to their own neck of the woods.

It would make sense for them to do this, the running costs would be a lot cheaper than in the UK and, given that the potential Chinese/Asian market is so vast and so very culturally different than ours, they will certainly need a team locally based who are able to understand the cultural and language requirements of their main source of players.

It could be that these two operational centres will run in tandem, serving the needs of the target audiences they best understand. On the other hand, it may transpire that the Cambridge element is subsumed into the Eastern head office. Particularly if that area is generating more profit, which is entirely likely in due course.

Or it could, indeed be that nothing changes. However, you cannot state this with the air of finality you are using since you simply do not know.
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16-Mar-2016 09:52:21

The TomBomb
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Can you guys answer this.
IF the deal went through. Would Jagex stay in the UK or would the 'new' jagex be moved, to china? Basically what I'm asking is, do you guys have any idea what would have to the current staff of Jmods if the deal went through? If not, would that be one of the things put in the deal so we don't undergo a massive change that most of the players would not like.
I mean, you guys see what happens with the community on just the smallest changes, imagine what would happen if literally everything the community knows and loves was changed due to this deal. I just hope the deal has the community at heart.

16-Mar-2016 09:57:08

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What does this mean for the plans we have for our games and our fantastic community? Put simply, our plans, including the launch of NXT, Zeah, Chronicle: RuneScape Legends, God Wars Dungeon 2, and RuneScape: Idle Adventures, remain on track. It is business as usual across Gielinor!

Would it actually be business as usual AFTER that though?

16-Mar-2016 10:00:57

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What does this mean for the plans we have for our games and our fantastic community? Put simply, our plans, including the launch of NXT, Zeah, Chronicle: RuneScape Legends, God Wars Dungeon 2, and RuneScape: Idle Adventures, remain on track. It is business as usual across Gielinor!

Would it actually be business as usual AFTER that though?

To be fair, the cm and developer mods you would see on the forums more than likely can't answer this. And I swear I'm not going to let her know all the pain I have known

16-Mar-2016 10:19:52

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Can you guys answer this.
IF the deal went through. Would Jagex stay in the UK or would the 'new' jagex be moved, to china? Basically what I'm asking is, do you guys have any idea what would have to the current staff of Jmods if the deal went through?
The last buyout that I saw of a company, it still kept some of its basic operations, but a whole new product line was added, and the company's rules/policies were changed drastically. Their home base of operations (top level management) was move to the opposite end of that country aswell, but honestly who knows how it could turn out with Jagex.


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16-Mar-2016 10:26:59 - Last edited on 16-Mar-2016 10:28:53 by Raffle

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I do hope that people realise that the only thing changing is the investors. So that means the only changes will be who gets the profits at the end of the day.

The staff at Jagex will still be running the game. This changes nothing.

Right. Just like nothing changed after the IVP buyout. Except flooding the game with MTX and providing an "official" RWT channel. Once you go NXT, you never go back.

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16-Mar-2016 10:34:20

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I do hope that people realise that the only thing changing is the investors. So that means the only changes will be who gets the profits at the end of the day.

The staff at Jagex will still be running the game. This changes nothing.

Initially, no doubt. But you say this as if you know it for a fact. You don't. You know no more than any other.

Typically I am against speculative arguments, but this falls squarely in the finance/business world where speculation is a way of life more or less.

I will say that all of us know less then the company who is purchasing jagex, and I am really sure most of us (including myself) do not know the differences between what is important in a western operated business and what is important in a Chinese operates business.

I admit that I am using a western approach to try to analyze the situation and may be overlooking major economic, social, government, or other differences. However, with the many articles about the oversupply of steel, mixed with the fact that the purchasing company already has cash flow issues, which, are expected to get worse with the anticipated slow movement of steel, it just really looks like this company is purchasing jagex for its cash flow.

Such a unique situation would allow jagex to sell at a higher price and such a situation won't be around forever so I would imagine right now would probs be the best time for jagex investors to sell. And I swear I'm not going to let her know all the pain I have known

16-Mar-2016 10:37:30

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