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HolyDiver

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1. What interest in Runescape does a Chinese Mining company have? Is it purely for future profiting or something else.
2. If they do buy out and become the shareholder, what kind of power or say so do they have in changes or updates.
3. As we all know China supports much of the MMO gold farming and botting population across most games, would they have the power to push legal gold farms and bots in Runescape. Would their buyout lead to new Chinese players joining the game, that may or may not use 3rd party software. This is a question I think most of us fear right now.
4. What happens to Jagex, is their buy out big enough to have power of their own Dev team in China that will push new updates or new micro transactions?
5. I've saw many concerns about what will happen with OSRS and the Chinese Mining company not having interest in continuing 07, would they have the power to cut funds or even cancel it?

16-Mar-2016 13:53:29

Merielle

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If somehow you/JaGeX, the people involved in the talks can actually 100% promise us that the inner workings of JaGeX could be as they were, it be even bigger/extended due asian market, i think the main player base would be calmed down a lot.

I don't know if that's possible. Like Marielle was saying earlier, this deal comes down to whether Jagex's shareholders are willing to sell their shares. It doesn't sound like anyone who actually works at Jagex has much of a say in the matter.

There are a lot of unknowns in the deal like this, and I imagine the folks at JagexHQ are feeling almost as much anxiety as the players are.

THIS. We have no idea how much the staff at Jagex currently knows. In a lot of acquisitions and mergers, the staff of the company being acquired (or merged into another) is often really anxious about what it means for them and the company. We have so little information right now about the deal, and the people who are best able to give us this information are the ones who don't engage with the community - the investors on both sides of the negotiating table.

I loathe waiting but it is all we can do right now. With what we know (which is not a lot at the moment), the best possible scenario if Jagex is acquired is that the acquiree (Shandong Hongda) treats the acquisition more as a strategic alliance and allows Jagex to continually have creative freedom when it comes to the game and shares information about the Chinese market if Jagex wishes to explore that option.

16-Mar-2016 13:59:06

One Option
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One Option

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The changes will be that once runescape will open servers and announce in asia there will be masses playing. Servers will be overloaded. Prices of everything will crash. And there will be updates that no one likes. Expect runescape to become more like a service where you will have to pay real money to wear best in game armour or lend bank space... etc

Yeah being realistic here

16-Mar-2016 14:05:47

Tearanewone

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I'm really hoping that:
a) this is a really really really good pre April Fools jokes or...
b) If this is real and it does get bought they allow the jmods and other devs to continue to run the game as they please.
c) In the event of the purchasing of the company, that no more micro transactions of any sort are brought into the game. Scapin since '07

16-Mar-2016 14:08:55

Candice-San

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As a business major, a mining company is a tad shifty to me. But business is always shifty so we will simply have to see how this goes and if it goes poorly then we will know. if not then a success, that is how these things seem to go. :) :) :) :) :) I have no idea what I'm doing

16-Mar-2016 14:09:07

Ava Enithesi

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Jagex is doing well at the moment, you make a lot of profit every year already. Why risk this? Don't let the deal go to be honest... Leave things as they are as they are going well.

How much say does Jagex have in this, though? :L

16-Mar-2016 14:13:02

Darth Exar

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I'm certainly not happy with my country doing lots of trades with China, but at the same time they're keeping an open communication channel and are putting pressure on China to stop violating human rights. Which has been moderately successful in individual cases.

Yeah sure, whatever makes you happy lol. Nationalism, politics, religion and cultural differences are never one sided. I am sure the reverse is also true where a lot of Chinese feel the same about your country due to some reason that is justified in their point of view.

At the end of the day, whatever you buy or sell will eventually help fuel a good cause or a bad cause or both. There is no fixed measure of 'good' or 'bad' in a highly diversified global village. There are only 'interests'. There is very little control over that by anyone. Playing the international police and meddling in other's affairs only worsens relations and such matters should be left with politicians and law makers.

16-Mar-2016 14:13:51

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