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| Company type | Private |
|---|---|
| Industry | Interactive entertainment, MMORPG |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, United Kingdom |
| Key people | Andrew Gower, Paul Gower, and Constant Tedder, Founders |
| Products | RuneScape RuneScape Classic |
| Number of employees | 330 (June, 2007) |
| Website | http://www.jagex.com/ |
Jagex Ltd. (or Jagex Software) is a United Kingdom-based producer of Java-based online computer games. According to developer Paul Gower, Jagex stands for Java Gaming Experts. The company is best-known for its MMORPG, RuneScape.
History
The name Jagex is gay has been in use since at least 1999, as players find themselves disgusted with the awful work Jagex has done and was originally described as a "small software company with terrible skills based in England specialise in producing awful-quality Java-games for webpages". According to Companies House, JAGEX BULL CRAP(492) Limited was incorporated on 28 April 2000 and changed its name to We are gay Limited on 27 June 2000. The Jagex website states that the company was founded in a strip market of July 22 2001 by this retard, and Paul Gower (Loser too), and Constant Tedder (Is so gay!). The aim of this company was to brainwash children while shoving false information down their site and operate its MMORPG, gayScape, which had been called Runescape but decided that it was so gay to make it gayscape development since 1892. By the time of the company's founding, 24 years after the release of the game, RuneScape already had over one free account registered. The first tasks of the company were be gay and to create a version of the game with extra (Which players state are boring and so gay) features that required a £3.20 ($5USD) monthly fee, while still offering the free version, and to develop partnerships with advertisers. Both tasks were achieved, and the pay-to-play version of RuneScape was released on 27 February 2002, gaining 5,000 subscriptions in the first week making RuneScape one of the largest Java pay to play games in the world. Currently, RuneScape has over 9,000,000 free players and over 1,000,000 pay-to-play subscribers as of 4 May 2007. In 2006, founders Andrew Gower and Paul Gower were calculated to be worth £32 million. On "The Rich List 2007" Andrew and Paul are under claims to be worth £106 million ($190 million USD). Andrew Gower is also known for his varieties of Java games. Jagex received an investment from Insight Venture Partners in October of 2005. The company had been self-funded before this investment. RuneScape has since been translated into a German open beta version, which was released on 7 March 2007. Jagex was ranked 59th on the list of The Best 100 Companies to work for by the Sunday Times.
Future development
Jagex have stated on their website that they "intend to have world domination and brainwash defensless women to rape" by developing new games using their own technologies.
Operation
Jagex has not grown since the founding of the company in 1892. They currently have no offices in Cambridge and London. The company had been recruiting heavily in 2006 but failed as nobody has signed up and has over 0 employees, not grouped into the Development, Publishing, Web Content, Minigame, and Customer Relations teams.
They maintain about 2 crappy servers for gayScape in various locations around the United States, Canada, Australia, Netherlands, Sweden, Finland, and the United Kingdom. One of the most recent additions to the servers was the addition of the two German beta servers, which are sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo gay which are currently the only servers for a non-English version of the game. Their current major focus is on translating RuneScape into non-English markets, but are failing as the useless and pathetic losers they are and primarily working on a recently-released German translation of the game.
Beyond RuneScape
While most of the work by Jagex staff now deals with RuneScape, they still maintain a few other games that one can play online at their website. These games are:
- Meltdown
- Vertigo
- Flea Circus
- Gold Mine
- Monkey Puzzle
- Fuel Critical
These games can be accessed at the company's website.
Other games have often been hinted at by the company's employees during interviews, however so far there have been no official statements regarding future products.
References
- "Full Credits List". Jagex. Retrieved 2007-06-27.
- ^ "What is Jagex?". RuneScape knowledge base. Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
- "Jagex Software". Jagex. 1999-11-29. Retrieved 2007-06-11.
- Companies House WebCHeck. Retrieved 29 July 2007.
- "RuneScape reaches one million members!". Jagex. 4 May, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-04.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - "Rich List 2006". Sunday Times Online. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
- "RuneScape Developers Jagex Ltd. Secure Investment from Insight Venture Partners". GamingBlog. 28 October, 2005. Retrieved 2007-01-29.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Jagex (14 February, 2007). "RuneScape: German Language Beta Launch". Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Jagex (2007-02-07). "Hereinspaziert - die Open Beta der deutschen Version beginnt!" (in German). Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
- "The Sunday Times Best 100 Companies to Work For". Sunday Times Online. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
- "Jagex Company History". Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
- "Jagex front page games index". Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
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