RuneScape Passes 1 Million Subscribers 48
An anonymous reader writes "The online Java-based fantasy MMOG Runescape has reportedly surpassed 1 Million paying subscribers. Gamasutra has a Q&A article with the Jagex co-founder and lead developer Andrew Gower about the UK-based firm's success. 'Counting roughly 4.6 million who play the free version of the game, RuneScape has more than 5.6 million players, says Constant Tedder, managing director of Jagex. As such, it represents credible competition to the big kahuna, World of Warcraft, which has topped 8 million paying subscribers. Part of the secret, Tedder said in an interview, is that the game doesn't take itself so seriously. In one recent event, players could transform themselves into penguins and infiltrate the penguin army to see what they were up to in the penguin underworld. The game has been growing largely by word of mouth.'"
That reminds me... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:*THE* grind (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Outlaw Penguins (Score:1, Funny)
> players chopping down wood for money.
You know, the "I have a friend" line is one of the surest signs of denial.
Happy leveling. Let us know when you get that abysmal whip.
Re:*THE* grind (Score:1, Funny)
Runescape makes World of Grindcraft looks like a single player game with cheatcodes. If World of Grindcraft was designed by life-sucking vampires, then Runescape was designed by The Man himself.
In Runescape, there are currently 23 skills that can be levelled to a max of 99. Each skill takes so long to level that you think of each one in terms of what percentage of the remaining number of hours that you probably have left to live you will be spending. I am not joking.
I am a level 94 smith, and I will be spending approximately %.1666 of the remainder of my life to get to 99.