fact we’ve made two relatively sizable acquisitions for the scale of our current company, shows that Carlyle Group totally back us, and not just with the current and news games that we’re making, but also the partnerships and acquisitions that we’re going through, is that we’ve got a really solid partner that totally bought into our vision and are happy for us to make these significant investments to push that forward.
What are the challenges that you see ahead for the industry but also for Jagex in particular? What we want to do is never take the RuneScape games for granted. They are the pillars on which we built the current company. Although Jagex now is bigger, more diversified - we’ve got more staff in different countries that are building a wider portfolio. We’re never going to take our games for granted. We’re going to continue to keep investing in growing those. We also don’t want to overreach. The partnerships that we make need to be disciplined, as in, not going for volume of games, not running before we can walk We don’t over stretch ourselves. We stay focused on
things we know where we can add value, and we’re not not moving into high-end AAA console, single player games. We’re not doing a hard pivot into VR or AR or blockchain. We’re really staying within the area that we know.
Obviously we’ve got to ask about RuneScape. How’s it doing? Absolutely brilliant. Our RuneScape games have more players and more revenue than ever, and the other
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thing I’m really pleased over the last year is that we’ve been able to build, not just a great roadmap for each of our two main RuneScape games at the moment, but also, we’re doing underlying investment in our technologies. I don’t want to preempt stuff that we’re doing research and development on at the moment, but we’re doing some really exciting things over the next few years. Making them even more community driven is probably as much as I’ll say, that I think will make people - not just gamers but the industry - really look at what we’re doing and say ‘Wow.’ Like, the RuneScape games have been around for so long, and they’ve done so well, but they can sort of be in people’s minds as what happened in the past, whereas there’s a real innovation, both in gameplay and technology that we’re looking at that I think will show that there’s a lot of ideas and freshness and relevance for the future.
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