Jagex comes in 22nd on the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 list

by William Dobson Sep 22nd 2009 at 3:00PM

Filed under: MMO industry, News items, Runescape, Free-to-play, Browser

With the hugely successful RuneScape in their stable, we've known that Jagex has been doing well for a long time now. They've already been recognized outside of the immediate gaming world on numerous occasions: Guiness World Records awarded RuneScape the title of the world's largest free-to-play MMO, and in 2008 the word RuneScape was typed into Yahoo! Search more than Lindsay Lohan and Naruto. The company's latest accolade comes via the Sunday Times Tech Track 100, where they were just ranked at number 22 on the list of the fastest growing private technology companies in the UK.

The Tech Track 100 report states that Jagex's sales have grown 84% a year for the last few years, from £5.2 million in 2005 to £32.3 million in 2008. This is the first time they've made it on to the list since the company was founded in 2001. Jagex CEO Mark Gerhardt made a statement about his company's achievement, sounding particularly proud (and rightly so): At Jagex we are passionate about the games we make and the technology we have created to develop and deliver our games; creating fun is just part of our DNA. Our values and passion have allowed us to grow one of the largest player communities in the world." The full Tech Track 100 list is available online in .pdf form.

[Via GamesIndustry.Biz]

Tags: browser, f2p, financial, free-to-play, jagex, mark-gerhardt, runescape, sales, sunday-times, tech-track-100

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

mrjamiep said on 3:34PM 9-22-2009

Jagex are great developers but TERRIBLE support providers & game managers.

d0c said on 3:13AM 9-23-2009

True but they are not the only mmo developers to be guilty of that.

If lack of support is your only complaint they must be amazing at everything else, personally I dont think support is all that important really in the grand scheme of things. Being the world's largest free-to-play MMO developers I think I could cut them some slack if they dont get back to me right away since they have one or two players to deal with before me.

kasapina said on 8:08AM 9-23-2009

I never really had problems with their support. I have used it three times, and always received a response within the reasonable 24h timeframe. But then my problems weren't urgent, and since I often read complaints about their support, there must be some truth to that.
There were 4 - 5 occassions I've used the support service of other games, and while most of them responded with a similiar speed to Jagex (maybe sometimes slower, but never more than a week), on one occassion they didn't even bother to answer.
Anyhow, runescape, as a game, is just great. I don't know why there are almost no articles about it here on massively.