Jagex announces players rise in Runescape

Runescape is one of the oldest and most popular browser games in general and fought in 2007 with declining user numbers. Now, the company reported strong growth figures, which are due to new actions within the game.

Jagex today announced a sharp rise both in membership and active players of the game Runescape figurehead of the company. The increase by about 20 percent last month alone is attributed to the release of RuneScape retro combat mode and the initiative player to power began which earlier this year and actively participated in the player in the last seven months of the total decision-making process of new content have.

The community has modes to tune in more than sixty votes in the course of players to power with more than eight million votes cast not only challenging plans for the game but also about the smallest details of weekly updates. So the community of RuneScape has set the direction for the updates in 2014, which led to the development and publication of the recent Retro-combat mode - a system by which players can play RuneScape with a simpler combat system and traditional menus. In addition to this, the long-awaited and soon-coming expansion pack, The Lost City of the Elves, which was also developed in collaboration with the players of RuneScape, arouse interest both in the community and beyond it.

"Working with our community is one of the strengths of Jagex and this year we launched our philosophy with the initiative player to power to the next level. At first it was nerve wracking to give up control of our players, but the community has made great decisions and "incredibly responded positively to this opportunity, says Phil Mansell, Vice President of RuneScape. "The continued growth and the recent significant increase in active players and members shows how important it is for our players to shape their beloved game, and it can call their own."

"I'm incredibly proud of the team of RuneScape, his hard work and his great work," said Mark Gerhard adds the CEO of Jagex. "Of course I am also incredibly grateful for our great community, their loyalty and continued support. I realized long ago that RuneScape is not ours. It is one of the millions of avid players that make up this great community, and the team and I can appreciate just happy that we have the honor to offer them over the years our work and this game with us. "

Furthermore, says Gerhard: "Like all games suffered from RuneScape after peaking in 2007 amid falling player numbers. Since the beginning of 2011, however, we can observe the unprecedented development, as the game is growing again, what strangely started with our very first community consultation, through free trade and risky PvP was introduced again with the return of the wilderness. Since then experienced the game one success after another and it's great to see RuneScape continuously in the top 10 streamed on Twitch Games. In view of all this, I would like to take this opportunity to thank my team and all the players of our community for the ongoing success of RuneScape. Thank you! "

In 2014, also retro-servers were opened for OldSchool-RuneScape, which its first anniversary (and two million registrations) celebrate, and the fourth community event for was announced - the RuneFest that of October 11, 2014 Tobacco Dock London will take place.