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These were games being made by Jagex’s former owners Fukong Interactive for the Chinese market. They were in early development at the time of that video.

The games actually looked good but Fukong had financial challenges (well documented). Long story short, we don’t have a relationship with them anymore and they don’t have the rights to make RuneScape games.

Love this!

It’s also a bit like how we jmods imagine ourselves in work meetings ;)

Doubters gonna doubt :)

Yes we have, it’s actually one of those ideas that resurfaces every year or so. We’d quite like to do it eventually. As others have mentioned in this thread, it’s a huge project which would probably either need massive code refractors or completely redefining the terms of f2p vs mems (or both!).

We’ve got some big structural projects that are more beneficial to happen first before we’d get serious about a ‘free/mems merge’ as we tend to call it, higher priority projects like mobile, bank rework and getting NXT to a place we can deprecate the java client.

One day, maybe?! Would be interesting to know the communities ideal for HOW such a world sharing would work best for you and what changes (simplifications ideally) could happen of free/mems differences.

We hear you, and have been discussing options along these lines. Nothing to confirm for a while but it’s fair to say we also want to get more attention on core improvements.

(Edit: and we’re always looking to take on more engine devs)

Its elsewhere in this thread: https://old.reddit.com/r/runescape/comments/9b1z62/can_we_please_get_a_response_to_the_recent/e51fk22/

There will be a response today on this. It should have come sooner, apologies.

I always keep the pulse; always reading even if not actively posting!

On the plus side, at least these complaints are about details in our RS ads rather than complaints of not doing advertising at all. A step in the right direction :)

I lurk rather than post! I'll read our forums, the subreddits, community convos on twitter* most days. I play most weekends.

I prefer not to post because I'm not involved in the day to day of RS or OS, and the teams can speak on the specifics of their work much better than I.

*I now use a different (personal) twitter account and my Jagex/RS one has been dormant for some time... but I've removed the outdated banner that was spotted today :P

We experiment with and prototype a lot of different game ideas. We have small teams, separate from our live games, dedicated to exploring new game ideas. Part of that is trying out different art styles, camera perspectives, that sort of thing.

My old AMA is still around here, but because I deleted and remade my account it just says [deleted] unfortunately.

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1iyvqt/hi_i_am_phil_mansell_runescapes_executive/

congrats! :)

Once in a while, indeed :) Thanks for the kind comments.