![]() A membership service was offered since February 27th, 2002. Ever since the beginning of its release, RuneScape has been played in a web browser it requires no download. The game was released to general public on January 4th, 2001. RuneScape has achieved the second most played MMORPG games in the world, and the most popular free MMORPG in the world for two years in a row. RuneScape, a Java-based MMORPG created by Jagex Ltd is the cause of the company's popularity. While most of the work by Jagex staff now deals with RuneScape and War of Legends, they still maintain one classic game which can be played on their corporate website and many games that can be played in FunOrb. Jagex have stated on their website that they "intend to become a significant online operator in all the major gaming markets worldwide" Jagex also received an investment from Insight Venture Partners in October 2005. Andrew Gower is also known for his varieties of Java games. On "The Rich List 2007", Andrew and Paul are under claims to be worth £106 million ($190 million USD). In 2006, Andrew and Paul Gower were calculated to be worth £32 million. On, Jagex announced that RuneScape has over 9,000,000 free players and over 1,000,000 pay-to-play subscribers. 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. The first tasks of the company were to create a version of the game with extra features that required a £3.25 ($5 USD) monthly fee, while still offering the free version, and to develop partnerships with advertisers. 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 aim of this company was to operate its MMORPG, RuneScape, which had been in development since 1999. The Jagex website states that the company was founded in December 2001 by Andrew Gower, Paul Gower, and Constant Tedder. The name Jagex 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".Īccording to Companies House, Meaujo (492) Limited was incorporated on 28 April 2000, and changed its name to Jagex Limited on 27 June 2000. ![]()
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