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So I've been looking into this and to keep things simple I think this would be a bad move for jagex... I understand that they want to open the game up to more and more players but selling to a Chinese mining company?? Even if they were the most profitable company in the world, they still know nothing about the gaming industry.

I am also slightly disappointed at the lack of coverage the old school team has given this, I can't see anything on the old school forums about this at all.
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16-Mar-2016 12:14:03

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They claimed the deal was done 20 hours ago, its yet to be finalised. The company has until April 30th to pay the $50 million deposit.

They jumped the gun, then made the article subscriber only. Just to rake in the cash.

Poor journalism.

And how does that negate any of what's being said so far about the respective companies? There is no denial of the fact that Jagex is very close to being sold off. Sure its rushed news but there are no sources proving otherwise. If Jagex actually was double minded on the whole deal, you would see more JMod posts on the matter. The willingness to sell off is a major reason for being tight lipped and waiting to make tongue in cheek statements.

16-Mar-2016 12:21:39

Tyriavis

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someone should start a petition against this acquisition, to see how much support in the community there really is against it. If the majority of players don't care then we need to just stop, but if the majority of players don't want it then Jagex should acknowledge that concern.

16-Mar-2016 12:30:48

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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. if it runs the same as ivp's investment did, we have 8 years to wait before any major changes are made to the game

Your statement would make sense if IVP had acquired a controlling interest of Jagex in 2005. If you'd done 10 seconds of research you would know that only happened 2012. if you'd done 10 seconds research you would have found it was 2010 when they got 55%,
the 35% they had from 2005 would still have given them some control over how things were ran

16-Mar-2016 12:38:34

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