It’s been said that you’re focusing on games that align with RuneScape and the kinds of games that Jagex is known for, so what is the alignment in the deal with Snowcastle Games and the acquisition of Oregon’s Pipeworks and, more recently, SCUM developer Gamepires? We want to be the best in community-driven games. We’ve got our RuneScape series that does obviously very well - it has a great community that continues growing. We have lots of plans with our current RuneScape games and will do more - but we wanted to branch beyond that as well and use the skills and interests that we’ve got in this community space. Definitely not locked into MMORPGs, as our RuneScape games mean that we’ve
got that well covered. So it’s looking for opportunities where we can team up with people, have partnerships, or even make acquisitions, where the game ties in with those interests and strengths that we have. With SCUM from Gamepires it’s a big, multiplayer, very community-orientated, open world sandbox game, with simulation and shooter aspects in there as well. The team at Gamepires, they are super community- orientated and community driven. They listen, they care. They take the community’s ideas, suggestions and feedback and feed it right back into the games. I saw recently that they even polled their players about what they want the development priorities to be, what they should focus on next, asking what needs the highest priority in fixing or adding to the game. So, not just listening to the players, but being directly guided by them as well. For me, that’s the connection with RuneScape and our wider ambitions around building a very community-driven company . It’s not just a product, it’s how you make it and how you work with the community. That’s where they felt so close to us. As we started talking to those guys, we could see that, not only was it an awesome game with a lot of potential and a lot of proven success already, but the way they worked with their players was just totally up our street and matched our way of
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