RuneScape Is About To Change Forever (OSRS)

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[@ColonelloRS]

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[@angelpandadaylane4924]

I'm not a fan of these changes, I think it was a huge mistake of letting go of the elders, middle aged genuises.. if anything jagex should hire me next.

[@Snezit1]

No I don't think I will

[@sirfan670]

I used the link it never works

[@justjunior5825]

Jagex about to be owned by a bunch of Real world traders

[@oplkfdhgk]

Nice pun.😃

[@Lubomir1]

lmfao

[@troyrussell177]

Have you seen the add that pitches bottng osrs like its business opportunity

[@baileysanders2082]

this comment is underrated

[@yadadspimp5352]

Maybe then i can get some real customer servixe and get my hacked mains perma ban lifted.

[@Globalx59]

increased development cost but the game came out 20 years ago the biggest update has been a free third party launcher

[@hokagejason4732]

Yeah a 3rd party client with no tangible changes in-game is the biggest "update". Not the new raids, quests, zones etc. that took months of development time, but the game client that changes nothing about the game it's self. Brilliant sir, truly one of the greatest minds of our generation.

[@Globalx59]

@@hokagejason4732 it would take less than "months" to develop a new zone for a AAA game like dark souls to make a new raid quests and zones, on a tard game like osrs making a new weapon and boss in ms paint probably takes a day

[@ellamint360]

@@Globalx59 lol tard game

[@haven6455]

@@Globalx59 i'd just like to point out that a lot of content from OSRS is copied if not practically CTRL Vd into OSRS from rs3. So the dev time for things like weapons and stuff should be minimal given it's already made elsewhere.

[@calmkat9032]

Jagex should be bought by its employees. Worker Co-op game dev companies are some of the best out there, for customers AND devs. The only issue is that the workers need money, which Jagex is not giving its employees enough to do that. Maybe a fan will buy a majority share and let them do their own thing, for the most part.

[@frankmundo4300]

I think it's worth 500million tho

[@00higgo]

This is not true and i would never play RS again if it becomes a shitty love in for sub par devs.

[@HoHhoch]

@@00higgo Not giving your devs what they need to succeed is exactly how you drive the talent away and get shit devs.

[@00higgo]

@@HoHhoch they didnt have talent to cultivate. Every company could pay more, true. But what dev is going to Jagex to work on a dead intellectual property that only exists for boomers who didn't like change? The RS community is one of the most stunted and expectant bases out there. The only reason anyone ever worked there was for jetski trips.

[@angelpandadaylane4924]

@@00higgo I won't play runescape again even if they bought me 3 cars, and a bike rack, including a appartment, and a work from home position overseas in usa instead of england, I still wouldn't be for it. Because lifes great things always pulls an uno skip me... I wish I had more luck with the good stuff..

[@jecal2855]

So that's why they gave us the golden party hat alt farm and the green Santa on treasure hunter

[@dwrecked9329]

Yep, that's what I was going to comment. Gph increased concurrent members by a ton, I'd imagine. Gsh pumped up the mtx sales. Both games also got the duel arena axed. Showing that illegal rmt is down by 40% or whatever is pretty big as the illegal rmt is people not buying bonds. Also, he talked about the increased membership prices. Having premier available 24/7 will definitely increase the average subscribed players. Many players who would have done some 3 month subs, will probably convert to premier since it's so much cheaper than monthly.

[@IamaFungi]

@@dwrecked9329 well said.

[@codyedits304]

@@dwrecked9329 what is premier?

[@CoDSucks]

@@dwrecked9329 Gph didn't bring in Concurrent players. It only brought back players Temporarily to get hat.

[@bradford342]

I pray this game doesn't become an IPO. Because then the goals of why the company exists changes. Jagex already has a bad rap now. Remember when EA and Activision went public. Investors become the priority not the players anymore. This is a dangerous double edged sword people should really consider before cheering for it. @Colonello

[@LegendsFall1991]

Players haven't been priority for almost 15 years lol.

[@Notesens]

You think player's are the priority for jagex? Lmfao. They're just riding the wave at this point. Im shocked the game is still as alive as it is. It's a very small active player base comparative to how many gamers are out there.

[@SENPAI.Popaii]

@@Notesens small player base?. oldschool alone has around 100k players. now compare that to halo infinite with it's couple of 100 millions invested in it with only around 7k active players. don't get me started on battlefield 2042 and it's 1k active players. allot of games usually keep a player base of around 10k or less after launch. you don't quit runescape, you only take breaks.😉

[@Genesis.Duriel]

Out of 100k howmany are bots? I know for a fact when I'm playing atleast 4 of them accounts logged on are bots. That's small scale btw

[@LegendsFall1991]

@@SENPAI.Popaii rs used to have 200k on any weekend. This game became nothing but a monetization for people, it is how streamers make their money from the game. Cashing accounts and selling items. Farmers hold the market as a whole.

[@GstarCurtis]

The only way Carlyle has made Jagex seem like good value, is by cutting everything and letting money flow in, because we are nostalgic idiots.

[@calebfairchild3247]

I understand the nostalgia argument, everyone says nostalgia this or that, but there are plenty of new players to OSRS and RS3 that never played back in the day, so it has much more than nostalgia going for it now.

[@CodingWithUnity]

@@calebfairchild3247 my roommate has never played before and is close to a quest cape

[@Tktosrs]

OSRS going public is TERRIBLE for the average player. All companies care about when they go public is squeezing as much money as they can to please shareholders and inflate their stock price. I hope this doesn’t happen keep RuneScape a privately owned company. If this thing goes public that will Accelerate the death of this game!!!

[@jimmy5516]

calling it now in 2 years membership is going to cost 20 dollars a month like with WoW. Except we get near nothing back in return like we are now.

[@Tktosrs]

@@jimmy5516 yep exactly that’s how they ruin games

[@evenfisher0188]

Shareholders tend to care more about long term investment than like carlyle

[@SelectKiko]

All we need to do is buy 51% of the company

[@LilacMonarch]

I really hope they don't, game companies that go public (or any company that goes public really) have consistenly turned into garbage. All they do is milk their customers and employees for all they're worth while giving practically nothing in return.

[@MarneusAndMilkyBlood]

Again with some killer research, appreciate your work on this, not something your usual runescape youtuber would know about or even attempt to talk about!

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you! :D

[@justchillin527]

Well said!

[@SynthGirl64]

Cool profile picture

[@MarneusAndMilkyBlood]

@@SynthGirl64 thanks fam

[@TheSjh2k]

I don't even play RS anymore but I'll always watch a video on the game that made my childhood

[@GodsAmongMortals]

Osrs is bussing man, try it out

[@LG-ro5le]

@@GodsAmongMortals its nothing like how rs was, community & content is way different, for the worse

[@lupusk9productions]

we all just need to band together and buy it from them

[@Psalm139Godslove]

Let's do it

[@jimmy5516]

@@Psalm139Godslove Lets start with you putting in some money into my bankaccount i will keep it all and make arrangements when we have enough. I promise i wont logout.

[@CopeAndSeeth]

@@jimmy5516 no me

[@Psalm139Godslove]

@@jimmy5516 or you can just buy some shares from the market when they become public

[@Chrissmills]

I still find it crazy they paid non RS streamers to play group Ironman instead of investing into account security. They literally could of just paid current streamers far less to stream it, and it would of had a much bigger impact on the game mode.

[@melting_grrl]

They payed Cr1tikal to play it and he was literally going to play it anyway lmao. Galaxy brain business decisions by Jiggleflox

[@LegendsFall1991]

Lol and their streamers have been continuously caught cheating with scripting

[@Notesens]

Why would they pay people that already stream the game? They're trying to target new audiences 4head

[@joey.leblanc]

I don't think an IPO would be good for the game tbh, but I wonder if it could become a meme stock lmao

[@andrewburget6692]

I'd love it. They can raise money so easily

[@joey.leblanc]

@@andrewburget6692 Yeah, but Jagex is already making record profits. If they have public shareholders to appeal to, I personally think it'll be more penny pinching and squeezing for profit. We'll see though, I'd love to see more investment in the team behind Oldschool and RS3, and maybe for the development of spinoffs or something like that.

[@eurosonly]

If a fake coin with an imprint of a Chinese dog on it did so can jagex studios. Anything is possible.

[@Carrottime]

Given you're an OSRS guy I wouldn't expect you to mention it but just a short while ago they also released a Grandmaster Quest in RS3, a first in 5 years.

[@NexGenHiphop20]

Jesus OSRS has gotten more GM quests than the main game, how does that even happen?

[@crystallineentity7698]

@@NexGenHiphop20 Nobody gives a shit about RS3 thats why, OSRS is basically the main game.

[@NexGenHiphop20]

@@crystallineentity7698 lmfao as an OSRS player I don't disagree with this statement

[@justinsnover3807]

@@crystallineentity7698 they want people to give a shit about rs3 though. I'm being bombarded with ads. Only ads I get from osrs is the prime partnerships or J1mmy's leagues song

[@Djme2]

@@crystallineentity7698 don't forget OSRS only exists because of people paying on RS3

[@GstarCurtis]

''Rising development cost'' pays shit salary, and get Year over Year profit records.

[@Kathrynerius]

This makes me incredibly surprised that customer service even responded to me in the first place. I asked them to look into an account I used to have 15 years ago, and they actually helped me get back into it. Everyone I've talked to says customer service is basically non-existent.

[@overdose8329]

They banned my 15 year old account for ‘botting’ after it got hacked somehow. Fuck jagex

[@jmf_au]

I gave them my login name, two previous passwords, credit card details from membership purchases, the two cities I lived in while playing, the year it was “hacked” (someone at school knew my password and changed it after they moved) and the city it was “hacked” from. Still no help.

[@overdose8329]

@@jmf_au I’ve never purchased membership. Always used GP

[@Rustyemu93]

very informative and well done video. amazing that 2020 was the best year ever that blows my mind. it really does suck to have a company that's only built on making profit run runescape so many storys of exactly whats happening to runescape out there, the likely scenario is not good for the average player or employee at jagex and thats kinda scary when you love a game like this for so long

[@Ryan_Manthe]

Plenty people were stuck at home especially Europe I suppose

[@PatRiot-]

Until gamers make an effort to own the games they play- the games will only continue to get watered down and change hands until RS is completely gutted and sold.

[@NameNoDisplay]

1:12 to skip ad

[@TmkNerd]

If i wasn't so adducted to runescape, I'd quit and never look back, But one doesn't simply quit runescape.

[@ironbucket5560]

at the shareholders meeting: ''I think OSRS needs a graphic and mechanical update. Also let's do the hitsplashes x10, because higher is better. Let's also add a skill, that is basically just raiding in dungeons. We can call it Dungeonairy, or something similar.''

[@spiritofnex]

If Jagex IPO's, I think it will make things worse. Public companies are required by law to make their investors money, regardless of the player base liking it or not. Always remember: Companies are not your friend, they only want to make money.

[@shaoshia]

Public companies are not required by law to make their investors money.... Do you really think that every public business that lost money during COVID broke the law?

[@bloodbarage]

@@shaoshia they probably did if they made money.

[@spiritofnex]

@@shaoshia That's acceptable and understandable, as it's not something anyone could predict. Companies are required by law to make their investors money, which means they need to make a good attempt at doing so. Companies will always go out of business if they don't pivot properly. When a company goes under, they sell off all their assets to repay the investors as much as possible.

[@shaoshia]

@@spiritofnex Companies are not required by law to make their investors money - which law are you referring to? Not every public company turns a profit every year and it's quite comical to think that our prison systems must be filled with C-suite employees of failed businesses. Every company wants to turn a profit and Jagex is no different. They have expenses they need to pay. This is true whether or not they IPO. If a company goes bankrupt, they sell off their assets to pay their debt holders. If Jagex IPOs, they are selling stock and not debt. Jagex stockholders would not get anything from Jagex going bankrupt.

[@jaymay7957]

Community should create a trust and buy jagex together

[@kaydencolleain1366]

It’d cost a fair bit each but definitely the best way to ensure its future

[@gmaulpker4765]

Revert back to when barrows was introduced

[@Aperson439]

Honestly regardless of who owns it id love to see more of what the company makes invested back into it. Thats what makes this membership price increase tilting is that its all almost certainly going to not be invested back into the game

[@TheSamboly]

We just had an ipo boom due to a red hot market. Massive amounts of stimulus checks ( money printing) so nearly every stock that would IPO woulda see gains an create a good opportunity for early shareholders to cash out. in the current environment with inflation and the fee raising interest rates it doesn't make sense to IPO even if you have amazing numbers from the previous quarter/year. especially if it's a small cap. thanks for the vid!

[@Born...]

We, the community should buy it out. lets start a go fund me or something

[@yumpears]

you keep referring to q1 as the start of 2022, in the uk January to March is actually q4 and the financial year starts in april, this is also different for places like Apache who run from July 1st to june 30th.when looking at investors and ipos you need to consider this

[@oblivionox2]

The Carlyle fiscal year ends on December 31st according to their website. But that doesn't mean they wouldn't go by the stock exchange year.

[@Lordrazrs]

The LSE has reporting requirements bi-annually, not quarterly

[@jared491]

If thats the case, they'll probably put it on the LSE beginning q3 especially with the membership price hike. Even bigger profits to show

[@asemov2707]

This is actually huge, Jagex entering IPO means: If you want RuneScape/Oldschool to be around for the next 15-20 years? You can put put own money down to: Vote on who makes decisions at Jagex How Jagex moves forward in publishing While you will not be influencing exactly what decisions are made for the game itself; you’ll be able to ensure the company doesn’t put certain people into positions of power. I myself will be tossing in my own money for this IPO as it’s the only IPO that even if inflated like every IPO since covid, it’s the only one I personally care about.

[@Notesens]

Factual. Just ensure your stocks come with voting rights. Some class of stocks dont.

[@scaper12123]

Lots of interesting information here! I'm not sure where else they could squeeze money from players if they went public to be honest, given they're already pushing MTX so hard in RS3.

[@justinhart2375]

What is mtx?

[@CuttinChris]

@@justinhart2375 micro transactions im guessing

[@TheFlyingslug]

I do recall reading that the prices of a lot of MTX-related stuff for RS3 is going to be increasing, too. As someone who usually purchases Premier membership and stays away from buying Treasure Hunter keys with real money, I'm personally not too bothered by the changes but I can understand why others would be.

[@seancorrigan_]

11:15 i made the cut on Reddit lmfao

[@PluckyInc]

So basically stuff like Leagues was Reverse-Balan Wonderworld'd where having a big year look even bigger is unneeded, so they pushed it into 2022 to make that year look good?

[@bobsaggett2245]

As a person who has played on and off since 2002. I find it very concerning for the community, like myself who has become accustomed to the 2007 layout and mechanics of the game. If they change one aspect of the game there will be a huge exodus of orginal players.

[@likmeanus1996]

The mechanics and lay-out won't change in any way lol. That is what oldschool RuneScape is about that is the whole concept. They can't change that, that is Just a stupid thing to say to begin with man come on think about it 😋

[@bobsaggett2245]

@@likmeanus1996 if jagex had not just sold the company to a multibillion dollar buisness who just flips ipos for profit and clear the whole team of orginal mods and customer service,Id agree and say yea neverrrr. What makes you think its not a possibility?

[@queenstixxzz]

@@bobsaggett2245 yeah....it only takes a few updates to completely change a game.... and its not like it hasn't happened before.

[@hokagejason4732]

@@bobsaggett2245 Jagex has been sold in the past, multiple times, and it's changed basically nothing each time. This guy's video is full of wild speculation, it's literally just begging for views. There's no reason to expect a huge staff rollover or any huge changes to the game or its development process.

[@queenstixxzz]

@@hokagejason4732 have you heard of eoc? I dont remember if that had to do with buying selling but it was a HUGE change.

[@edtazrael]

This will destroy the game. It's not about a game. It's about money. Money, money, money.

[@rp19888]

Jagex going public oh no. Sounds horrible idea. Shit gonna be milked to death even worse than now.

[@chimpmunkfu]

Lol when he said, “you can be an owner of RuneScape” I literally thought so they turning into an NFT. Forgot about the stock market 😂😂

[@nickclark18]

Seven investors left a meeting. One guy went home, and on his way home he got stopped by a "criminal" The investor rolled his eyes, sighed, took his wallet out of his pocket, and pulled out a GIANT was of cash, and tried to hand it to the criminal so he could go home. The "criminal" looked at the money, smacked it out of the investors hand, looked him in the eyes, and said "I loved that game, why'd you ruin it." And stabbed the investor in the heart with a dragon pickaxe.

[@jakobfel2]

I normally DESPISE when companies go public but considering the disaster that is Carlyle's ownership of Jagex, this could potentially be a good thing... though all this BS that they've been pulling lately wouldn't make the game or company look good to me if I were considering to invest in them. Profit is not the only important thing in a business and if a company is actively screwing over their customers like Jagex has been lately, that signals to me that there won't be enough customer loyalty to make an investment worth my time. EDIT: DUDE, imagine if Andrew or MMG bought a significant chunk of shares. Obviously, they wouldn't have a controlling interest (probably not even if they went in together) but man, that's a pipe dream that I would love to see happen.

[@uchihasflame1]

If I ever win lottery I'm buying Jagex we need more funding to start really bring the game up to snuff man.

[@bernardomotard]

You need at least 300 million to buy a majority stake in jagex.

[@uchihasflame1]

@@bernardomotard then if i win the lottery im gonna invest in their funding dont care lol i just a better game that i love this includes making a graphic overhaul to acutally make the game uniform in content instead of doing a quest to see 3 stages of a characters graphic model lol

[@horologie]

A lot of this information is accurate. And while it's easy to speculate what's happening, we simply don't know what will happen long term. The idea of Jagex going for an IPO makes sense, but it would likely take quite a bit of time before that happens. This takes a lot of preparation and usually will see the hire of a new CFO or financial VP to lead/carry out the filling for the IPO. This is common with many companies choosing to do this as it takes an incredible amount of experience to conduct. I think the long-term implication of Jagex being traded as a public company is dangerous as it relates to OSRS. RS3 already has a very mature microtransactions model in place that allows for additional revenue streams within the game. Jagex will be forced to maximize growth YoY to fulfill its duties as a viable business listed on the LSE as a public company. I see this as an issue because there are only so many areas within a game you can squeeze profit from before it starts to take a toll on the players... and we all are well aware of what happens to a gaming community when you violate its core principles. It wouldn't be a wise long-term choice for Jagex to take, but with board members to appease, this could be troublesome for the game and its players. But that is a more pessimistic view. There are also some silver linings here too. With the IPO, Jagex would have access to more capital and could add more value to the existing game if the board and those in charge of the overall product direction are savvy enough to do so without affecting the core player experience. Jagex may resort to trying to add new IPs to the portfolio and try to create other great games like Runescape. So at this point, it's a total toss-up as to what will happen. An IPO is scary, but it's inevitable if the company continues to grow and scale the way it has. At the end of the day, Jagex is a company whose purpose is to generate profits for its investors; whether it's private or public, it doesn't matter much. We've weathered the sales storm in the past, and I think the future still looks bright for the game. However, only time will tell. So remember to remain vocal and raise your opinions when unfavorable decisions are made from the top down. We have power as a community, and I believe that people who sit on the boards of gaming companies have learned what does and doesn't work with long-term player satisfaction. Jagex does have data to confirm and support what will happen if certain decisions are made.. and we all know what sorts of decisions have occurred in the past that caused players to rebel. This data is good and will support what happens in the future. In the end, I do expect to see RuneScape as a thriving game for many years to come.

[@HeyItsMax]

Do you have a enter key?

[@heavensplayer]

Adderall

[@horologie]

@@HeyItsMax Lol. I had just woken from a nap and just dumped my thoughts down and hit enter. I should've take a minute and parsed the thoughts out.. haha.

[@horologie]

@@heavensplayer I've actually never tried Adderall. But that is funny lol.

[@bjorn3152]

If they were to become Public, our reddit rampages could actually impact their decisions, however it'll also make them more likely to push MTX even more, kinda sad tbh. I'd be fine with it if they actually had proper content updates and player support but that still doesn't exist.

[@cheekyjebus5559]

"Rising development costs? More like rising dividend payouts." that person absolutely nailed it

[@Hananniee]

This feels like a loose loose, Carlyle are just doing a pump and dump scheme to maximize short term profit at the expense of the health of the game, that we know, but if they're doing it for an IPO then that's all the game is going to know for the rest of it's short lifespan, we're gonna follow in the footsteps of activision, ubisoft and ea where we the players don't matter and it's just about shitting out money, all we can hope for is Carlyle gets their money and sells it to someone who gives a shit about sticking around

[@andreimadalin6207]

Love your content, tranannie

[@AaronAMitchell]

I think you're looking into things a bit too much. The most apparent reason why employees are leaving is that the current owner The Caryale Group they're forced changes to both RS3 and OSRS. A lot of the employees are overworked, underpaid, and more than likely are frustrated at the fact that so many of us players hate the general direction of both games. If Jagex does happen to get bought out again. It's just going to be from an even wealthier company with more unfavorable changes being made.

[@Brurgh]

Time will tell if Jagex become an IPO but it looks like it could be likely given Carlyle's history and business model. Carlyle make money by making changes to the company to generate profits which inturn increases probability for investment. when the time is right they put it up as an IPO, thereby sell shares at a profit.

[@0nahole]

I think I stopped playing OSRS two years ago. Felt the game became more focused on Ironmen and temporary game modes (Leagues, Deadman). I keep trying to return, buy a bond, play for about 5 minutes, and log off to try again in the future.

[@ersteer]

Carlyle Group bought my company last year as well, and I'm sitting at work now honestly about to walk out lmao.

[@simonruth4211]

Imagine it was bough by actually gaming company they'd under stand for improvement & under the players. I wouldn't mind paying more money if their was updates and no roll backs all time and progress why keeping the old school game, well... Old school because that why people play it. Let's hope its not some company to exploit its players and do nothing for the game. Played this game for a good 20 years.

[@Bynbrooke]

I highly doubt Jagex goes the way of IPO. I think Carlyle will most likely just sell Jagex for a profit after stripping it down to bare bones cash cow.

[@mattarchambault2557]

if my favorite game changes drastically i quit

[@youtubeSuckssNow]

Listing it publicly seems like a horrible idea. As soon as a company goes public it is forced under any circumstances to make profits by any means necessary. Seriously is not a great idea for the game.

[@LegendsFall1991]

It's actually being Carlyle>MS for development of MV.

[@nobobonobo]

Can't wait to go all in jagex stock. $JGX to the moon

[@ColonelloRS]

To the mooooooooooooon!

[@smokeherbb9185]

Oh well... Jagex was already going down back in 2014

[@wtfisthis451]

this is a positive, with an ipo you get necessary funding to expand the company as a whole. This would create a free advertisement for the game. Currently there is only a few true gaming stock, like roblox. To clarify, not a gaming company, that is buying other gaming companies to put under as assets. Regarding the fiduciary requirement to make money for the shareholders, it depends on management. If they only care about short term gains, yes it can hurt the game, but if management is looking for long term growth, this can create a better game in the long run. The players would have a bigger voice then before, since its a public company. There were more single gaming companies public listed before, but now its only a few. To me this is necessary for the game to gain more players, since there is so much competition out there. The current player base is aging, no new younger audience. Don't you want a newer younger generation to experienced the game? To put it simple, the rise and fall and rise of runescape? A flux of new players, more youtube, social media creators for the game, sounds better? The wilderness is filled with players again?The players make this game possible, management would have to acknowledge the players sentiment, without the players there is no company. Its a coin flip, in the direction for runescape as a whole.

[@joost00719]

I hope you're right on this one. We absolutely need more new players.

[@Maddogs1]

They seriously don't need more funding, The company is making all-time record profits year on year, just over 50% of it goes to the shareholders. The issue the game currently has is a serious lack of content development. For the last two years, the amount of content that has been added to the game is under half that which was added in the years beforehand, and a majority of the 'new' content that actually came out was just alternate game modes.

[@Arrowchucka]

They probably want the capital to develop their planned ARPG, OSRS is essentially a cash cow for them at this point.

[@alecwhite-cheshire2942]

Damn your b roll and editing in these videos is insane! Thanks for the great content!

[@ColonelloRS]

Thank you so much!! :D

[@ikillstupidcomments]

Going public is about the only way JaGex could go further downhill. That's how you get the ever-increasing creep of predatory monetization and anti-player behavior. Actual good outcome would be being sold on to an individual or group that wants to just improve the game.

[@briandyck8828]

From the perspective of a software dev, cost of software devs is rising at an alarming rate my salary has doubled year over year for the last 2 years and it’s getting ridiculous to retain good talent because more companies are offering more money with remote/hybrid work so I do believe Jagex on rising dev cost.. to put it in perspective when I last applied they paid less than 1/2 of the job I took at the time.. which was a shame, I’ve loved this game since I was a 8/9 in 2005 and it would have been so cool to be able to work on it.. but when the difference is that vast between companies I had to choose what was best for my career at the time :/

[@primal9238]

Typical corporate greed. Make record profits? Not enough. Push more costs onto the consumer and treat your employees terribly. Remember money > people.

[@gamewithadam7235]

I'll be buying Jagex stock for sure.

[@llVIU]

I just love companies that care only about money and don't even play any games. The same companies that have the copy-paste description "we value commitment, dedication, we strive for great achievements, look at our awards that these no name companies gave us that we paid blah blah". corporate crap. This game was made by a few youngsters who loved video games. Not rich investers who only care about their own money.

[@zylle1993]

If they ever add more mtx or shit like that, i will not hesitate to quit instantly

[@rs_cruze]

We need a pristine ‘06 scape

[@donkhan1593]

That's never going to come back because we were the school kid generation that made the game at the time.

[@SgtPayneX]

Carlyle might do a complete IPO. They're a private equity firm so they generally hold private companies and use the IPO process to exit their investments.

[@tumblingdown8612]

I've never seen a gaming company going public result in better things in the game, they just worry about profit and appeasing shareholders more than the game and playerbase.

[@xJabro]

Inb4 you can buy double XP for a period of time

[@ripppking]

they literally killed their own game by doing everything possible to go against the community, not surprised at all in fact its sad

[@CBDREVIEWUK]

9:00 if you can research all this about an IPO research about current events all being planned out ahead of time apparently it ends in 2025.

[@Saules_Dievas]

We need Runescape on Oculus Quest2 VR. Imagine PKing in VR 🙉

[@jf126e6]

I simultaneously appreciate the hell out of this video and your breakdown of why and how things have been going through wierd and drastic changes... while also hating and praying that you're incorrect. While allowing themselves to stake as an IPO is just fact, they still maintain restrictive trading rights (unless, and if they have allowed I'll never touch the game again, there are non-standard international loopholes). I don't blame them for attempting to reestablish their brand name and utilize more modernly known and forward thinking companies... But OSRS is one of and arguably the most prominent LAST BASTIONS of hard-core game play available. They have already become (in my opinion, so no diss on disagreements) way too forgiving on death/trade mechanics as well as conforming to too many complaints about QoL that it's becoming cheesy outside of Ironman mode. You want to AFK while slowly auto casting/triggering then cool. Pay the price by doubling if not more the time it takes to complete a task. QoL updates like that are awesome because they don't recreate mechanics but simply offer options. Allowing too many safety fuctions is what enables bots to pull the kind of crap they do though. Not allowing more trade freedom (albeit they removed most hard restrictions and simply started flagging accounts) and passively forcing price regulations is stupid. Not having to lose jack **it when you die is an insult to the game. Newer players and even some older players might disagree with me, but skill and forethought meant so much more when you were realistically chancing at least half your bank value on a fight during a mid level quest... vs getting utterly owned in the wildy, and being able to throw out 20k and save everything with no sweat. If people like me on OSRS are one out of a hundred or more, then obviously you can't blame developers for focusing on pleasing and appeasing the most people possible. Discounting upper echelon crappy management, the more happy players then the better their jobs are. But I hope they don't take OSRS anymore than they already have in a similar direction to contemporary games.

[@FroggieGames]

Man.. I wish the RS3 community could get together and deal with the whales. The game content has slipped to the lowest quality I've ever seen and the only updates we get are stupid MTX outfits and lootboxes. Then the saddest part is all of these whales keep spending hundreds/thousands on the garbage and further reinforce the downward trend in content and quality. The worst part is if Carlyle destroys RS3, gf OSRS.

[@kyled00m]

So "start the new year on a clean slate" could mean "provide the love for the game to the players before we can't do it anymore"? Talk about legends.

[@aGoodBlunt]

Was watching a video on how you talked about discontinued items in a video from three months back, I have 3 and could talk to you about them

[@StraitandNarrow]

HC ironman with 1700 total, 99 agility, 99 mining, banned for RWT this week and they fired half their customer support team that didn't really exist anyway. great company lets IPO it.

[@templeOfChrist1994]

The new people that has been added to the list of Jagex Developers or the ones putting out ideas literally have no clue to what they are doing. They have no passion and no care about the game. All about wealth and looking good. I stopped playing and will never return to such a run down game. Thank you to the brothers who created this game to start with, it was such an enjoyable experience.

[@djandrewification]

Mechscape (stellar dawn) looks great! Can’t believe you got them as an advertisement

[@ihopcsx]

Greed is what owns runescape. It's been updated into the ground so I don't care. I got my mage cape. Life is complete.

[@mattmmilli8287]

Something about serious international finance discussions cut with RuneScape clips makes me giggle

[@ohnoitsu1]

That ending was really abrupt and confusing. Like an essay with an introduction and a body with the beginnings of an argument and then it just stopped lol

[@bradtorville5526]

New owner -- me? Not a chance in hell. I would never buy shares in anything, much less a gaming company.

[@death2hope]

This is how it starts. Take away polling and bang mtx!

[@Cam0wens]

If anyone decides to buy shares, just do so anywhere but robbinghood

[@SikMindedGaming]

I'd love to own a couple shares of Jagex just for nostalgic and sentimental reasons lol

[@lucun_]

I do want to point out that revenue does not mean that the company made a profit, so I wouldn't use the revenue metric but the profit one. Jagex also made record profits in that same news article, so screw Carlyle! If they do IPO, I hope that they don't retain majority share voting power. It would be really amazing if players could buy up a significant majority of voting power and literally control the company through shareholder player polls.

[@ChrisJourneyy]

So you mean to tell me jagex’s updates are the same As b0aty posting a KZbin video. Rent must be coming up.

[@Atmlifestyle]

Day off from work to play ohh lord

[@jessie1078]

Becoming an ipo just means that your responsibility is now entirely to your investors, and that responsibility resolves entirely around making them as much money as possible, and maintaining steady growth in perpetuity. And that strategy is great for earning money, but pretty shit for the product maintaining it's quality. They will cut corners and costs in any way they can to continue that growth quarter by quarter. Expect more layoffs, and more "updates" in tune with the membership price increase we just saw.

[@UIMcocodog]

1.2M current members. sooo rn the list of biggest subscription mmos would actuall go 1.FF14 2.OSRSS/RS3 3.WOW/WOW classic? damn son!

[@WutsMyNameProtPally]

companies restructure all the time, there is nothing wrong with that. I would throw this news into the good news bin, having jagex be profitable is an AMAZING thing, because it means it will be around for much longer. Just because a company is bought and sold or is profitable isnt a bad thing, it means more money will be put into development FURTHER down the road. These companies are not here for a quick cash grab they play the long game and when it comes to a video game company that is making/updating/maintaining an MMO in THIS game ecosphere is very impressive. Also an extra $1.50/month is NOTHING compared to other spending, a burger at mcdonalds costs more than that, more money for jagex means more content for us. Give it 6 months - 1 year and they will be looking for new fresh blood to pull into the company BECAUSE they have more money.

[@RyansThatGuy]

update day is usually thursday not wednesdays

[@justinlauck3011]

That supreme shirt was pretty funny, one of the rsps I played had a supreme shirt in it as a cosmetic

[@bencurtis777]

You don’t want RuneScape to become a public company

[@quoprimum9145]

Keep Jagex private - sell it to Mod Ash.

[@KriibusRS]

Absolutely banger video! Always love to watch your stuff, keep up the good work!

[@BLACKGHOST21100]

This all makes sense now. It's all about money!!

[@oplkfdhgk]

Always has been.😛

[@xJabro]

You already KNOW I'll be buying $12.49 worth of Jagex stock

[@martso9288]

How about we buy up Jamflex and make the game great once more.

[@kevincrusher2414]

An extra dollar... Wow... Imagine me coming back after10 years to find what was a 5 dollar membership now at 12. They can claim a rise in development costs all they want but it doesnt make it true. Low poly is quick to design and coding isnt rocket science. What do I know tho, only spent the last 5 + years feeding my family doing freelance game dev for indi studios. It should be illegal to raise the price of a game thatpeople are already invested in. That is like GM coming at you 5 years after you bought your car demanding more money for it. Microtransaction or DLC. Don't gatekeep entire accounts.

[@PrincipalityofZeon]

I would happily purchase stonks/shares, just to keep it alive and to fill the whole osrs map

[@peaceout9463]

Wow I hope they don't fuck up the game...its good how it is right now. I'm about to quit rs3 now

[@fueledproductions5501]

Idk what is wrong with KZbin, but it keeps saying I'm not subscribed and I know I've subbed atleast 5 times...