Last week, the U.S. private equity investment firm The Carlyle Group (The Carlyle Group) acquired RuneScape developer Jagex. Jagex CEO Phil Mansell said the acquisition will expand the existing franchise.

"We plan to use RunScape and Old School RuneScape to do more things. Somewhere on the new platform, some of them are higher quality content on the two games and cheaper OSRS gold. There are new RuneScape games and third parties Distribution. "So there are a lot of things going on, and it is important for us that whoever (acquiring us) buys and truly believes in the growth opportunities we have," Mansell told GamesIndustry.biz.

RuneScape is the largest online role-playing game. According to the Guinness Book of World Records, it was released in January 2001 and has now become the world's largest and most updated free MMORPG. According to the report, the game won the role-playing game award of the Independent Game Developers Association Award in 2018, and its lifetime revenue exceeded $1 billion.

At the same time, the Old School RuneScape of the MMORPG released on February 22, 2013 has a larger player base and more RS gold. Following the release of Runescape 3 on Steam in October last year, it was announced that Old School will land on the platform in 2021. Both RuneScape and Old School RuneScape generate revenue through membership subscriptions, which allow free-to-play members to access the full paid content of the game.

Mansell said: "We have established mobile devices, we have a mobile version of MMO, but we have not yet fully realized this potential. In the next few years, I hope we will bring the game to players Yes, and did not consider Too many narrow platform differences, but how to ubiquitous between them."

"We have started to develop platforms other than mobile platforms, but we are not yet ready to announce the news. We have attracted nearly 300 million players, so we know that people have a certain degree of love for this game, and players have experienced it. Adventure, but not everyone plays MMORPG. There are many ways to achieve adventure and characters, and this is what we are exploring. We hope to release them in the next few years."