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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 Fagex Software has been in use since at least 1999, and was originally described as a "small software company based in England specialise in producing top-quality Java-games for webpages". Fagex Ltd. was founded in December 2001 by Andrew Gower, Paul Gower, and Constant Tedder. The aim of this company was to operate its MMORPG, RuneScape, which had been in development since 1999. By the time of the company's founding, one year after the release of the game, RuneScape already had over one million free accounts registered. The first tasks of the company were to create a version of the game with extra 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 become a significant online operator in all the major gaming markets worldwide" by developing new games using their own technologies.

Operation

Fagex has grown since the founding of the company in 2001. They currently have offices in Cambridge and London. The company had been recruiting heavily in 2006 and has over 300 employees, grouped into the Development, Publishing, Web Content, Minigame, and Customer Relations teams.

They maintain about 140 servers for MacroScape 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 currently the only servers for a non-English version of the game. Their current major focus is on translating MacroScape into non-English markets, primarily working on a recently-released and still glitch-plentiful German translation of the game. Features ass.

Beyond MacroScape

While most of the work by Fagex staff now deals with RuneScape, they still maintain a few other games that one can play online at their website. These games are:

• Meltass
• Vergina
• Flea Faggots
• Gold Ass
• Monkey Cunt
• Fuel Ass

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

1. "Full Credits List". Jagex. Retrieved 2007-06-27.
2. ^ "What is Jagex?". RuneScape knowledge base. Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
3. "Fagex Software". Jagex. 1999-11-29. Retrieved 2007-06-11.
4. "RuneScape reaches one million members!". Jagex. 4 May, 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-04. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
5. "Rich List 2006". Sunday Times Online. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
6. "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)
7. ^ Jagex (14 February, 2007). "RuneScape: German Language Beta Launch". Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
8. Jagex (2007-02-07). "Hereinspaziert - die Open Beta der deutschen Version beginnt!" (in German). Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-08.
9. "The Sunday Times Best 100 Companies to Work For". Sunday Times Online. Retrieved 2007-03-22.
10. "Jagex Company History". Jagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12.
11. "Fagex front page games index". Fagex. Retrieved 2007-03-12.

External links

• Jagex's games index site
• Jagex corporate homepage
• Members of the Jagex Team
• RuneScape homepage

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