Interview with Jagex CEO Makes us Giddy
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Fantikerz on
May 31, 2009 – 1:34 pm
Recently, Ddaanniiellh was nice enough to point out that the folks over at MMOHub scored yet another interview with Mark Gerhard, the current CEO of Jagex Ltd. Instead of regurgitating the [great] interview on this post, I’ll hash out the important stuff in a neat list. I still encourage you to read the whole thing if you have a few minutes though. Some of the points mentioned in the interview have already been revealed in the past before – but it’s always nice to review.
- MechScape is around 4 years in the making
- MechScape was created because they wanted to make changes to RuneScape – but it was already far into the fantasy genre to warrant any major changes
- The game was only meant to be a year long project, with the launch date somewhere in 2006
- Supposedly it’s done and currently in testing
- The developers are giddy (like us!) for the beta release
- Mark says the game shouldn’t be classified as a traditional sci-fi MMO
- There are four factions – one of them being mech
- MechScape still isn’t guaranteed to be the name of the game
- The game, whatever it’ll be called, will not be as hardcore as other MMOs *cough* EVE *cough* WoW *cough*
- Gameplay will be unique compared to other current MMOs
Once again, I reccomend you read the whole interview here to get a little grasp as to how they run their operation… it’s kind of interesting!
Once you’ve done that you can run over to the forum and discuss it here!
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